Archive for the ‘Taxes’ Category

We’ve seen this so many times with Democrats in government who don’t think they need to pay their taxes. There’s quite a list of Democrat legislators who seem to be immune from paying taxes and then add in Obama’s appointments the picture is very clear. Democrats in power want to tax the rest of us death yet don’t think the rules or laws apply to them because THEY WON! All you have to do is a search of tax cheats at Michelle Malkin’s site and list of ‘Corruptocrats‘ appears.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)introduced legislation that would prevent the hiring and force the firing of government employees and contracted private contractors with tax delinquencies. Funny thing though, the Democrats in the House aren’t interested and according to them, the legislation is ‘dead’.

From Kevin Williamson at National Review – Tiny Tims:

According to data from the IRS and the Office of Personnel Management, nearly 100,000 current federal employees are behind on their taxes. Not all of them are big offenders, but they are delinquent to the tune of nearly $1 billion — an average of about $10,000 each. If retirees collecting federal pensions and military personnel are included, the number is about 267,000, and they owe a total of about $3 billion.

Wonder why the Democrats don’t think Federal employees need to pay their income taxes? Could it be that most of them are Democrats and union members?

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The UN never gives up on their greed to tax globally so they will have billions of dollars at their disposal without transparency since you do know that the UN audits itself. Slick, the UN and the US Treasurer and the Federal Reserve are able to operate outside the scope of an external audit.

The UN’s dangerous plan for global taxation

The leaked December 23, 2009 Executive Board report of The WHO’s Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing cites a number of ideas for global taxes that could be imposed on UN member states that “could potentially raise very significant amounts of revenue”:
• A 10% tax on the arms trade, which might net about US$5 billion per annum
• A digital tax or “bit” tax: internet traffic is huge and likely to increase rapidly; this tax could yield tens of billions of US dollars from a broad base of users
• Brazil’s financial transaction tax: a tax on bank account transactions, set at 0.38% levied on paying bills online and major withdrawals, it was raising an estimated US $20 billion per year and funding some 87% of the Government’s key social protection programme, Bolsa Familia, before it was voted down.

By the way, they’re calling the digital or ‘bit’ tax an ‘indirect consumer tax’!

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Most people don’t understand or try to calculate what their withholding tax exemption should be to pay the least amount to the Federal Government.  This is going to come as sneaky and stealth tax courtesy of the Democrat run Congress. It’s always been something I don’t understand about people. You don’t use payroll withholding as a way to save money in the form of a refund check.

This story started out because of letter military retirees received:

NO ANNUAL COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT (COLA) WILL BE ADDED TO MILITARY RETIRED PAY IN 2010.

DUE TO RECENT LEGISLATION YOUR FEDERAL WITHHOLDING TAX HAS CHANGED.

Turns out this doesn’t just apply to military retiree pay, it applies to all taxpayers.  Another thing to note for military veterans who use the VA in lieu of insurance. The new healthcare legislation is not going to allow you to go without insurance, using the VA doesn’t qualify as insurance so you’ll either HAVE to buy insurance or be fined by Big Brother’s police arm, the IRS. Get ready to assume the position.

Remember, this is coming from the party of Democrat legislators who don’t think they need to pay income taxes. Can you say Charley Rangel, Chris Dodd, Tim “the tax cheat” Geithner, Tom Daschel and the list goes on for Democrat tax cheats. But they want YOU to pay.

Go get the details of the Withholding tax table changes at Big Government – Congress Tinkers with Withholding Tax Tables for 2010

The trick, when looking at the new withholding tax tables for 2010 as compared to post-stimulus 2009, buries an increase in federal withholding taxes–for all income categories–basically giving the government an interest-free loan until current year taxes are filed next year. Some would blame the increase in withholding on the Making Work Pay tax credit being spread out over 12 months as compared to 2009, which was only over 9 months, but this would be impossible as some middle class wage categories carry an increase in the withholding tax of over $200 per pay period.

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Zach Wamp who is running in the Tn Republican Governor Primary is continually calling his credentials as a fiscal conservative, free market supporter and pro-US Constitutionalist. I’m finding that Wamp is more a political animal than any of the positive principled values noted above. This pro union, anti states rights push with H.R. 413 shows the farce of the Wamp Campaign. We do have the vote of Zach Wamp for H.R. 1586 to Impose an additional tax on bonuses received from certain TARP recipients. Apparently, Wamp has no problem in targeting specific individuals for a 90% tax on bonuses. This vote was especially interesting to me since I’d sat through a bloggers meet up with Zach Wamp just before this vote and he was espousing his free market principles and conservative values while also expressing his regret for voting for the TARP bill. Who can possibly believe what Zach Wamp has to say since he seems to have situational Conservative principles. That phenomenon also seems to apply to Tennessee’s Blue Dog Democrats. It all depends on whether they are in Tennessee meeting with their constituents or in D.C. having to cowtow to their exalted leader Speaker Nancy Pelousi.

I will note there are other Republicans sponsoring this bill: Judy Biggert (R-IL13),David Camp (R-MI4), Shelley Capitao (R-WV2), Geoff Davis (R-KY4),Charles Dent (R-PA15),Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL21),Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL25),John Duncan (R-TN2),Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO8),Elton Gallegly (R-CA24), Jim Gerlach (R-PA6), Samuel Graves (R-MO6), Duncan Hunter (R-CA52), Walter Jones (R-NC3), Peter King (R-NY3), Steven LaTourette (R-OH14), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ2), John McHugh (R-NY23), Tim Murphy (R-PA18), Thomas Petri (R-WI6), Todd Platts (R-PA19), Ted Poe (R-TX2), Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), Dave Reichert (R-WA8), Micahel Rogers (R-MI8), Thomas Rooney (R-FL16), Peter Roskam (R-IL6), Ileana Ros-Lehtinien (R-FL18), Paul Ryan (R-WI1), John Shimkus (R-IL19), John Sullivan (R-OK1), Lee Terry (R-NE2), Todd Tiahrt (R-OH12), Michael Turner (R-OH3), Don Young (R-AK).

Then of course we have to include other TN ‘Blue Dog Democrats’ in this list: Lincoln Davis (D-TN4), Bart Gordon (D-TN6).

So much for Republican and Tennessee Blue Dogs who cherish the US Constitution and our TN Right to Work laws.

H.R. 413 – PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE COOPERATION ACT OF 2009

Yet another misnamed, blatant attempt to payoff the labor unions for the vast amounts of money “donated” to corrupt labor friendly politicos. The bill would force municipalities and special districts to recognize and negotiate with a police or fire department union.

Forget states rights and any concept of home rule. Forget that the people who pay the bills, the local taxpayers, might like a say in how their money is spent. Forget that these public service employees already have a valid employment contract, willingly signed, and that in many cases the voters approve unionization if asked.

Nope, not enough according to the unions desperate for new members. We need a federal law because the people might not agree with us. Very democratic!

Hopefully this abomination will die in committee and we’ll see another payback quashed.

H.R. 413:Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2009

I had some other surprises in looking at the sponsors of this bill. I heard Rep Paul Ryan of WI give a rousing speech at CPAC 2009 espousing the US Constitution and Conservative principles. Then there’s Duncan Hunter who took over his father’s district, ran on Conservative principles and adhering to the US Constitution. Funny how nuanced that US Constitution must be!

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Rep Gordon, Cooper and Lincoln Davis must think it’s perfectly fine for a tax cheat to be in charge of a powerful House Ways and Means Committee. This committee just oversees the IRS and the federal tax code. It’s kind of like keeping the fox to guard the hen house.

Here’s the Resolution by Rep John Carter to remove Rep Charley Rangel from Chair of the Ways and Means Committee.

It isn’t like Rangel has done anything wrong? Culture of Corruption – Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY).

I can’t wait to hear one of these “Blue Dogs” tell us how fiscally responsible they are.

Here’s the Roll Call on the resolution vote.

I guess that Bart Gordon, Jim Cooper and Lincoln Davis think that tax laws and PAYING TAXES are just for us non-legislative peons. They think that keeping a tax cheat in charge of the committee that makes tax law is the right thing to do. Interesting morals these Blue Dogs have.

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Back in May of this year this massive tax hike was broached by Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and now Pelousi is talking about it. For those who don’t understand what a VAT would mean, think of it as a widget that is going to be produced for the market. At every point in the making of that widget a tax is added to it’s cost. Each hand that touches that widget adds taxes. If you want to add 20% to the cost of anything you buy then you’d love the Euro style VAT.  By the way, this doesn’t mean that ANY other taxes will be going away, it means the VAT will be in ADDITION to all the other taxes we pay.

Back in May I had posted on the new drive by the Democrats to shove a VAT down our throats:

There is nothing these Democrats controlling Congress and Obama will not do to kill the capitalist engine and destroy the US economy. To pay for all their wild spending and socialist mandates they finally have gone where they never dared to go in the past. A National Sales Tax or Value Added Tax (VAT).

Sen. Conrad broaching the VAT was just the opening salvo, now Pelousi is upping the ante.

From The Foundry:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined a growing liberal chorus calling for a massive tax hike through the implementation of a value added tax (VAT). A VAT is similar to a national sales tax. Businesses would pay it at each stage of the production process and consumers at the cash register. European countries have had VATs for years.

Francis Cianfrocca wrote about “Get Ready for the VAT” last May in Redstate:

My expectation was that Obama would wait till after the midterm election in November 2010, and then start sending out surrogates to float the idea of a VAT. After he himself was safely re-elected in 2012, he would come out and champion the idea himself and get it done.

It looks like we won’t have to wait that long. Already, the PR push has started. Eighteen months ahead of what I thought the schedule would be.

The push he’s referring to comes from a Washington Post story which I referenced in my May posting:

latest move by Democrats and Obama to push this new hobbling and crippling of the economy.
At a White House conference earlier this year on the government’s budget problems, a roomful of tax experts pleaded with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to consider a VAT. A recent flurry of books and papers on the subject is attracting genuine, if furtive, interest in Congress. And last month, after wrestling with the White House over the massive deficits projected under Obama’s policies, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee declared that a VAT should be part of the debate.

“There is a growing awareness of the need for fundamental tax reform,” Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said in an interview. “I think a VAT and a high-end income tax have got to be on the table.”

This is the plan folks, this will be what HAS to be done to save the country and it will need to be IMMEDIATELY. At least IMMEDIATELY after the Dems and Obama pass takeover of healthcare and the energy industry.

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It just gets no clearer than this, elected representatives of American taxpayers have no connection with reality. This increase in their spending on themselves is the clearest example of dis-associative behavior.

From Politico:

Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.

The measure includes a hodgepodge of new funding for lawmakers: a $500,000 pilot program for senators to send out postcards about their town hall meetings, $30,000 for receptions for foreign dignitaries and $4 million for consultants — with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) getting up to nine each and Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) getting up to three more.

There’s $15.8 million for salaries for the Senate Appropriations Committee — plus an extra $950,000 for the committee’s administrative expenses.

snip…..House Republicans protested the move, with 162 Republicans — including the subcommittee’s ranking member, Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt — last week voting against the bill last week, which was sent to the Senate on a 217-190 vote.

But the increase in funding has otherwise largely been a bipartisan affair. The Senate Appropriations Committee — where McConnell and 29 other appropriators sit — voted 30-0 in June to send the bill to the full Senate, which approved the bill in July by a 67-25 vote.

Senate Republicans are just as guilty as Senate Democrats!

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Oversight: As the Senate votes to de-fund Acorn, add pimping, tax evasion and human trafficking to voter fraud paid for with taxpayer dollars and you have an organized criminal enterprise. It’s time to investigate.

IBD Editorials: Acorn’s Cash For Hookers

Unfazed by it all, the office of New York freshman Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand put out a press release saying she found Acorn’s actions “reprehensible” but added, “The truth remains that thousands of New Yorkers who are facing foreclosure depend on charitable organizations like Acorn for assistance.” We are not making this up.

The fact is that this “charitable organization” helped precipitate the mortgage meltdown that shattered the economy. It was Acorn, under the cover of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), that intimidated banks through mob action into making risky loans in the name of “fairness” to people who could not afford them.

The tactics, taken straight from the pages of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” were used by Acorn as early as 1991, when it took over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA.

I’m not sure people new to the story of ACORN are aware of it’s involvement in the housing bubble. ACORN, like it’s sister organization SEIU, uses thug tactics (with political backing from members of Congress) to force banks into giving mortgages to people who normally wouldn’t qualify for a mortgage. These low income mortgages for zero down and adjustable rates were predictable in their failure.

It was the Baltimore ACORN officials who broke into foreclosured homes saying it was their right! Big Govenment has another explosive video of the San Bernadino ACORN promoting prostitution, child prostitution, human trafficking of illegal underage girls, tax fraud and MURDER.

So what does Wade Rathke (ACORN co-founder) do? He attacks Fox News for reporting the story and calls out “McCarthyism” on Fox News, the rightwing and Republicans. Typical Alinksy tactics to attack the messenger when you’ve been caught! As an added note, this is the same guy who embezzled over a million dollars from ACORN. He’s now the head of the SEIU!

And the ‘mainstream’ media is still silent.

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ACORN is like the mythological creature Hydra.

A serpent said to have 7 to 9 heads. Greek Mythology says 9 with the middle head being immortal. Hercules fought the Hydra with a club. Each time he’d knocked off a head 2 more would grow back. Finally, he used a torch to burn off the new heads and buried the immortal head under a rock.

The bill passed in the Senate yesterday to defund ACORN Housing is a beginning. ACORN Housing is the taxpayer funding spigot for CCI(this is the entity of ACORN that launders and funnels taxpayer funds) and many of the ACORN heads. But as with most criminal organizations another ‘head’ will grow to replace the ACORN taxpayer funding source. ACORN has a history of underpaying it’s employees and not paying it’s payroll taxes, yet Obama and his campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN and 15 states have found ACORN guilty of voter registration fraud.

Between all the videos of ACORN promoting and supporting prostitution, child prostitution rings and tax fraud the so-called mainstream media (ABC,NBC,CBS,NY Times,LA Times,Wall Street Journal,CNN,MSNBC) still aren’t covering the story.

With all of this corruption there were still 7 Senators who want to continue to fund a a prostituting, tax evading crime syndicate with taxpayer dollars.

These 6 Democrat Senators and 1 Socialist Independent Senator think it’s a good thing your tax dollars continue to support ACORN:

Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)The only conclusion one can reach by this vote, these Senators are in collusion with the corruption of ACORN.

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Does this push by all these socialist loving bureaucrats ever end? I think not and Obama and his cohorts are right in there leading the pack.

CATO reports on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) is working to form a Global Tax Cartel. The meeting was in Mexico City last week and a colleague of Richard W Rahn (author of this article)was scheduled to also attend this meeting. When he arrived at the hotel it turns out the bureaucrats with OECD managed to have his reservation cancelled. Hmm. Guess they really didn’t want someone of NOT like mind to attend the meeting. All this bullying to prevent a watch dog from reporting on this global reach to gain access to your personal information.

Bowing to the Global Tax Bullies

by Richard W. Rahn

snip…However, as with many domestic and international government organizations, the OECD’s actions are often contrary to its words. In order to create a global tax cartel, the OECD needs to have tax information shared among nations — which means that the citizen of any country that signs on to this scheme may have his or her tax information shared with other member jurisdictions.

snip…The OECD has managed to get 87 jurisdictions to sign on to its global “tax standard.” The high-tax countries are using the OECD to threaten low-tax jurisdictions to sign this agreement. It is worth noting that the tax bullies at the OECD and at other international organizations, such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, who demand that others pay higher taxes, enjoy tax-free personal income courtesy of the world’s taxpayers.

snip…Yet some democratic and free jurisdictions have been listed as noncooperating by the OECD. According to the OECD, the U.S. should be sharing tax information with nondemocratic and/or corrupt countries on its list. Worse yet, the Obama administration is supporting the OECD in this wholesale violation of basic rights.

This is nothing but bad news which gets worse, OECD supports double taxation on savings and investment and if all the totalitarian thugs sign on to this there will be no place for people to go. Read the rest of the story.

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