Most other bloggers will expand, and duly so, on the history of our nation and the roots of its founding.
I have but one question today:
Will we remember November?
Do we have the national will to do what needs to be done, in the voting booth.
That, today, is the only way we will save our country now.
This country will succeed — or fail — by our own hands — in November.
BZ
Please watch this video. Please process these words. Please understand their implications both expressed and implied.
“He is not enforcing the Voting Rights Act, which he has sworn to do.”
“I thought he (Mr Obama) was a hustler. I think he still is.”
“The government is deciding what laws to enforce based on its political opportunities in the next election.”
“The next election will be very dangerous because all those ACORN voters will be still on the rolls all over the country and now we’re going to intimidated from challenging their false votes.”
“What I saw, for example, was this guy, King Shabir Shabaz, he’s the head of the Panther Party, he’s the one with the baton, and he said to me, and to the man I was with, he said, ‘Now you will see what it means to be ruled by the Black Man, cracker.’ “
“Voter intimidation; and the fundamental point to me is Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy did not die to have uniformed thugs blocking the doors of polling places with weapons. And for the first time in our lifetime, the national administration is protecting the abusers instead of the voters.”
— Bartle Bull, Civil Rights Attorney
Why?
“Because they want to maximize the vote. The New York Times reported, one week before that election, on October 27th, 2008, that ACORN had registered 1,300,000 voters — of which the Times said 35% were fraudulent. That’s over 400,000 ACORN voters. This was an effort to protect those illegal voters and you do that by intimidating the poll watchers who were challenging them, and that’s what happened.”
“There is a mandate, at the DOJ, that no voter intimidation, no voter rights case is going to be prosecuted from this point forward if the defendant is black and the victim is white.” -Megyn Kelly
Voting Rights Act (1965): Voter Intimidation:
SEC. 11. (a) No person acting under color of law shall fail or refuse to permit any person to vote who is entitled to vote under any provision of this Act or is otherwise qualified to vote, or willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, and report such person’s vote.
(b) No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or duties under section 3(a), 6, 8, 9, 10, or 12(e).
Thanks to Z for the heads-up on this video.
BZ
You’d best get prepared, America — that is to say, if you still have a job in six months.
From Americans for Tax Reform:
In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:
First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:
Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
– The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
– The 25% bracket rises to 28%
– The 28% bracket rises to 31%
– The 33% bracket rises to 36%
– The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.
The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
Second Wave: Obamacare
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:
The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The “Special Needs Kids Tax” This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise—the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired. The major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress’ failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.
Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be “depreciated.”
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability will no longer be there.
Mr Obama has been proven, again and again, to be Mr President Liar — recall, if you will, his quote reproduced above. And feel free to use that card, Mr & Mrs American Obama Voter, to exempt yourself from the coming massive tax hikes.
To those who voted for Barack Obama — how is Das HopenChange about to work out for you in reality, eh?
BZ
Yes. Mr Obama is quite that ignorant. He will continue to spend this nation into unrepentant doom. Rick Santelli makes an obvious point that is clearly beyond most GOWPs — Mr Obama and his entire cabinet and coterie included:
BZ