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Abolish the IRS now
The IRS has proven, time and again, that not only cannot it be trusted in any fashion, that it spends with profligacy, that it is not accountable, that it — itself — does not have to provide any receipts for the wastrel-like and over-the-top parties it hosts for its own employees. The arrogance of the IRS is now legion, with no end in sight.
Just this week, most recently, the IRS frakked up by exposing THOUSANDS of social security numbers to the internet for roughly 24 hours.
Repeated: insanity with no consequences whatsoever. The IRS is proving, time and again and again that it needs to be shuttered and those oppressive employees cast to the four winds to find REAL work.
I say: abolish the IRS now. Eliminate the IRS code, its thousands and thousands of pages that few — including the IRS — cannot consistently interpret.
Bring in a flat tax. Set a percentile. Create a one page form. ___% of your gross wages = send it in. Period.
The most logical and the most fair. No exceptions, no exemptions. For no one or any thing.
Ted Cruz is about to become my favorite politician — if there can actually be such a thing — via this article from The Washington Post:
Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’
Hours before the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing on political targeting at the Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) had a simple solution to the agency’s problems — get rid of it altogether.
“I think we ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax where the average American can fill out taxes on postcard,” he explained in a Fox News interview over the weekend. “Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, home mortgage and how much you owe. It ought to be a simple one-page postcard, and take the agents, the bureaucracy out of Washington and limit the power of government.”
And the “necessity” for another 14,000 blood-sucking IRS agents would be null and void.
Simple and elegant.
BZ
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July 4th
I’m at work today, but in celebration of this day, I recommend reading the information at these links:
The Declaration of Independence.
The US Constitution.
The Bill of Rights.
The Federalist Papers.
When in doubt, always, always go back to the basics.
God bless America, the last and best supporter of freedom on the planet and, as always, an experiment in progress.
Today’s government, unfortunately, confiscates your rights and then sells them back to you via taxes and blood. The greatest threat to this country and its American Taxpayer is not Islam or Right Wing radicals and soldiers — as the federal government would have you believe. It is that government itself.
BZ
The US Senate: looking out for your best interests regarding border security
And the US Senate has determined that your best interests are not served by having a border fence along our southern border with Mexico.
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn’t want to delay granting illegal immigrants legal status while the fence was being built.
The 54-39 vote to reject the fence shows the core of the immigration deal is holding. The vote broke mostly along party lines, though five Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the bill’s authors, voted against the fence, and two Democrats voted for it.
Please note that: Marco Rubio voted against the fence.
Republicans had offered the fence as a way to build the confidence of voters skeptical that the government will enforce its laws, but opponents said building more fencing is costly, would take too long, and shouldn’t be dictated by Washington.
“I think we should leave that to the best judgment of the Border Patrol,” said Sen. John McCain, one of the eight senators who wrote the immigration bill.
John McCain, a POW from the Vietnam era, has served his country well whilst in the military. I believe he does not serve his country now, though he “represents” the state of Arizona, obviously a border state with Mexico. This is a conflict that I cannot conjur or condone. Mr McCain has served his time and needs to leave politics immediately. Which, of course, he will not.
Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, proposed the border fence amendment, which would have prevented the administration from granting any illegal immigrants legal status under the bill until at least 350 miles of double-tier fencing has been erected, and would withhold full citizenship rights until 700 total miles have been built.
Correct. Thune proffered a logical amendment in which he required the government to do something actively and up front. I concur. I don’t trust the federal government. They have given us many years of execrable performance (mostly the lack thereof) to justify this tanking of trust.
This was a bit of my personal “make or break” point, and the federal government has broken things once again. They are men and women who are primarily interested in serving their own best interests of self, and the American Taxpayers can predominantly go straight to Hell.
Minutes after the border fence, senators also voted to weaken current law that requires the government to have biometric checks such as fingerprints or eye-scans for every visitor to the U.S. — a recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
Read that again: weaken CURRENT law. A “recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.”
Then the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) weighs in:
CBO: Immigration bill only stops 25 percent of illegal immigration
The Senate immigration bill will be a major boost to the federal budget but does relatively little to clamp down on illegal immigration — cutting the future flow by only about 25 percent — according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bill, released Tuesday afternoon.
Under the bill, which legalizes illegal immigrants and invites in foreign workers, immigration will total 10.4 million more people over the next decade and 16.2 million by 2033.
So: another “feel good” bill which is predicated, again, on naught but emotions, leaving facts and reality kicked to the curb?
Apparently so.
With a caveat to John Boehner via Politico.com:
Dana Rohrabacher warns John Boehner on speakership
By REBECCA ELLIOTT | 6/18/13 7:27 AM EDT
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) says Speaker John Boehner should be ousted if he rams through an immigration bill without majority Republican support.
“If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though the majority of the Republicans in the House—and that’s if they do—oppose whatever it is that’s coming to a vote, he should be removed as Speaker,” Rohrabacher said on World Net Daily radio on Monday.
On the other hand, does anyone think that, suddenly, magically, the GOP will somehow find a pair of testicles and/or a spine recently discarded from a person missing both these essential items?
I don’t.
BZ
Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance
Again, the Obama Administration — which “promised” to be the most transparent in history — is proving itself the complete opposite: the most OPAQUE in history and the most strident in keeping information from the electorate.
From MotherJones (Of all places!):
Government lawyers are trying to keep buried a classified court finding that a domestic spying program went too far.
| Fri Jun. 7, 2013 12:22 PM PDT
In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.
The violations and abrogations of our Constitution and Bill of Rights go on and on and on, one abortion after the other, and still you have to dig and scrape and pry and unearth to discover what’s going on in your very own back yard, your very own country!
Further, the American Media Maggots, like thousands of domestic cats, do their very best to paw the sand over the daily piles of steaming shit created and served up by Mr Obama in DC. They’re happy to do it. Overjoyed.
Then they become packed and bristling with umbrage and scarlet outrage when the obvious is pointed out: their mouths and faces are coated with years of old and cracked DC shit along with the fresh strands of fecal materials dripping from their very teeth.
Never before have I seen an American press so willing to become such abject coprophages for Washington DC. It is beyond disgusting. And never have I been so disillusioned by the American electorate for installing this pseudo-black American Destroyer not once, but twice — mostly because they want more Free Cheese.
This is detestable. Beyond shameless. I lack further abominable words at this point.
I say — and this administration proves me correct — that if you thought the political damage stemming from Washington is bad, just wait another week.
It gets worse.
Keep pushing, Mr Obama. I don’t think America will like what’s just over the horizon.
Gird thy loins, America. Be prepared.
BZ