It was suggested to me in a separate conversation that I am a tax protester who believes that paying any taxes at all is “not right.” I was surprised at this assertion. [...]
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There’s a core principle that is being missed here: People who can invest do so because they have enough money to make decisions with. They are not living hand-to-mouth, and can decide whether to invest in instrument A or B, something that provides income now or the future, something that has X tax effect or Y, something that is passive or creates new service/industry and new jobs, and whether to do any or all of this in the US or overseas. We have people all over the world, not just in the US, looking at us this way. Those people are the potential job creators.. [...] On Chiefio’s blog, he has just discussed political notions of “left” and “right” and compared attributes of communism, socialism, progressivism and the UN’s “Agenda 21.” One commenter there, from South America, suggested that one problem was the accumulation of too much wealth. This triggered a response from me, which I post here: [...] Here’s a calculator to determine the effect of the 999 plan. The page disclaims any affiliation with Cain. [...] A new tax plan may be simpler, more understandable, and this is very commendable on its own. But it is not possible that a new set of simple rules will have every person paying exactly what they already pay. That requires a huge amount of complex rules to accomplish. [...] The Lady Rowyn comments, on this post about the meaning of “welfare” in the Missiouri State Motto which they translate from Latin as “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.” [...] Interestingly, leftist media is pushing back on the claim that Buffet objects to the tax plan. Oh no, they say, the GOP is just misinterpreting what he said. [...] I’m amused that Warren Buffett thinks that President Obama’s “Buffet Rule” is a bad idea. [...] I’d written briefly about a move by the Obama administration to create a new protected class of people that can’t be discriminated against: unemployed people. [...] Imagine a team of skilled (private sector) management that becomes a new agency, a sort of SWAT team (Slash Waste Avoid Taxation) that moves from agency to agency, makes them efficient or shuts them down, and moves on to the rest. We have a large number of duplicate, triplicate, and more agencies that [...] |
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