Taxation
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When this section of our website was organized in October 2008 the United States of American had a national debt in excess of eleven trillion dollars. The topics included below address provisions in our Federal Income Tax Law, which either favor selective groups, who in reality do not need tax relief like ordinary American citizens, or socially engineered provisions which hamper economic growth and the individual ordinary citizens accumulation of wealth in either savings, investment, retirement accounts and may actually restrict returning to our nation as a whole either time, talent or contributions.
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National Debt Elimination: The basic business model of being in business to produce a profit requires retuning to incentives and
changes rather than the prevailing measure of just stock value.
Basic Financial Knowledge:
The men who undertook to write our constitution were principally concerned in this work of peaceful
enterprise were not philosophers, but men of business and property and the holders of public securities.
Hedge Funds and Derivatives:
Derivatives and hedge funds morphed into financial instruments world wide, which bore no resemblance to secure financial
instruments.
A Word On Executive Compensation:
A commentator asked what is there not to be liked about a stock option when they are granted in unlimited amounts
with no expense and then can claim a tax deduction?
Separation of Facts From Opinions:
Today in our blog sphere and in the main stream press, information is gathered from very few
divergent sources and is merely paraphrased and injected with opinion not CLEARLY stated.
Constitutional Convention-Line Item Veto:
The framers devised the legislative process in Article I Section 7 of the
Constitution granting the president the power to “return” or veto bills, and the Congress the ability to override that veto.
Home Ownership Is not For Everyone-An Opinion:
Politics aside and after reading what I have written below, you too
may conclude that if the United States of America is to even have a chance of remaining viable as a nation for another 10 years, the Federal Income Tax System in place today must be abandoned.
Understanding the 95% of USA Taxpayers Get A Tax Cut Quote: Below is how we arrive at 95% of tax payers, which also gives the adjusted gross income range.
Federal Income Tax Code: From a beginning in 1913 through 2008 the road from concept to enactment is followed and some references to
follow the process.
Tools For Research and Development: Legislative Process: Welcome to the digital age, where online tools
enable all netzins to trace bills which originate in either the House of Representatives or the Senate from an idea to codification. We are developing a tool section which shall surely change
with time and empower each of us with more direct oversight over the legislative process at the Federal level.
Henry George's Single Tax Theory: Not only does Henry George's single tax theory speak eloquently of redress for workers and
a dwindling middle class, but postulates a modern approach to tax simplification and abolishment of the sixteenth amendment. In favor of all mankind, not just the rich and poor.
The Three R's: Words or phrases take on new meanings from when first introduced by later generations who bend "original thought" or even in their own
time exercise subversion, so let us examine education within the context of our own life and times.
Stark Warnings, An Omen, Will Happen?: The warnings or omens or what will happen which Obama has entered into the public record for all of us to hear
and heed!
Mother of All Wars: Within the context of a broader subjective analysis, we might all agree that "war in and of itself" will always
bring "unintended consequences" and more often than not circumstances, groups and other considerations either alter, drive or temper at least in the United States of America, policies and actions toward "war."
We Have Simply Lost Our Moral Compass: Recalling admonitions of my father speaks "volumes" about current events in 2009 specifically and prior events in general, which serve as a foundation for my article titled "We Have Simply Lost Our Moral Compass."
Highway Trust Fund Debate: The short fall in our
highway trust fund was addressed with stop gap funding in 2008 and has a provision for further stop gap funding in the current stimulus plan before congress. Now to debate permanent funding alternatives.