I had heard this mentioned on Steve Gill’s radio program and must have missed the posting at Ben Cunningham’s site. See, if the Fed’s suspend the gas tax well then Tennessee’s gas tax automatically increases to compensate for this.
No Gas Tax Holiday for YOU, Tennessee
67-3-206. Maintenance of funding under highway trust fund. […]

So, we took another trip down to Legislative Plaza. The last committee meeting for the Senate was Transportation and Senator Kilby’s (D) bill to expand Toll Roads across Tennessee was sent to the dead zone till it gets resurrected again next year I suppose.
We had an interesting experience of sitting in on […]

Looks like the taxers are at it again. Their endless greed to steal your hard earned money and control our lives always roils up at this time of year.
Today is the Senate Transportation Committee meeting on Toll Roads (LP 12 - 3:30pm)
Terry Frank tells us about a tax increase on coal which […]

I attended the Transportation Committee meeting today to hear the discussion and observe the vote on SB.3091 which is the expansion of toll road projects in Tennessee. There was no vote and not much discussion on this bill. I’m not sure if that was good or bad. Considering the pandering or should […]

From a commenter on my last posting on the Global Poverty Act , I found out there’s even more tucked into the UN Millenium Project besides a stealth tax which is a global tax to be collected and maintained by the United Nations Useless Nitwits.
From Cliff Kincaid at AIM:
This is how the Washington game of […]

NOTR at RofaSix brought to light a bill from Barack Obama which commits the US to paying a Global Tax to the United Nations Useless Nitwits.
AIM tells us about this bill and how it was rammed through the House and most recently the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (by Senator Joe Biden):
WASHINGTON, February 13, 2008 — […]

It takes some hard knocks to the heads of Republicans to “get” it that they need to stop spending and stop with the earmarks! House Republicans have a new website for Earmark Reform……Earmark Reform - Stop the Earmarks. Fix Washington.
The spending habits of Congress – and pork-barrel earmarks, in particular – have become the […]

Here’s more on the Merida Initiative from Michelle Malkin.
In December Mexican President Felipe Calderon said:
In an UNBELIEVABLE statement, Calderon reacted to the possibility that there might be some conditions on the donation as follows:“I cannot accept any submission or subordination…Give it to me. And give it to me without conditions!”
After that statement he went […]

1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.
Technorati Tags: 16th Amendment, Income Tax

This is serious stuff here. The state of California with Union backing is attempting to pass through a stealth internet tax.
From RedState - California & Unions Plotting to Tax iTunes, Emails, and World of Warcraft
Out in California, a new trend is starting that we can expect to sweep across the country pretty quickly. And […]

A US citizen who resides in Puerto Rico reports at Free Republic that Puerto Rico politicians are salivating at the possibility of this unexpected billion dollar handout. They are also lobbying (supposedly successfully too) Congress to not distribute the rebate to Puerto residents but to the Puerto Rican administration to be doled out by […]

I’m pretty disgusted with my own Tennessee senators at the moment. Hey Lamar - you suck you elitist condescending puke. And Corker? You have also fulfilled my prediction about you. Both of you have lost my vote forever and that means I don’t care WHO you are running against.
I’ve […]

Huckabee needs to come clean and admit he’s a big government, big spending, pro-amnesty for illegal alien Republican. This is called a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Conservative is not a label I’d attach to Mike Huckabee.From Club for Growth
In response to Huckabee’s interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace yesterday morning, the Club for […]

This is velly interesting. It appears that Farrakhan’s body guards and son who supervised the guards have never paid income tax on their wages. Farrakhan claims they are “volunteers”, these “volunteers are paid in cash each week with no tax reporting to the IRS.
It isn’t nice to fool the IRS!
Is Farrakhan’s […]

After I got past the initial news of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis my thoughts were this is what happens when you have a state that spends it’s highway funds on anything but roads and bridges.  Minnesota has a billion dollar light rail which runs at a deficit every year.  And like Congress they love […]

Tn Democrat Senators went beyond Bredesen’s requested 40 cent cigarette tax increase and added 2 cents.  All 16 Senators and Independent Mike Williams voted for the increase. 
I have to say I’m relieved no Republican Senators voted for this ridiculous increase when the state is sitting on an over collection of taxes in excess of […]

Past
State budget in fiscal year 2002: $17.5billion.
In the past five years expenditures have increased 57%.
Last year, the 2006 budget surplus was $900million.
$104 million dollars sits on deposit,unreturned to the tax payers, and unspent from the ‘05/’06 budget.
Present
Governor’s proposed state budget fiscal year2007: $27.48 billion.
2007 revenue growth over ‘06 is presently projected to be $401 […]

Imagine having the highest state income tax rate in the country.  The MN Dhimmicrat controlled Senate just passed a billion dollar tax increase with a state income tax rate of 9.7 percent.  It’s for the children you know!  Over 50% of the state budget goes to the schools but yet the schools are still screaming […]

In an email from Bobbie Patray of Tn. Eagle Forum:
WHERE YOUR STATE TAX DOLLAR COMES FROM: Sales Tax – 60 cents; Motor Vehicle – 2 cents; Gasoline Taxes – 7 cents; Income & Inheritance – 2 cents; Gross Receipts & Privilege – 5 cents; Franchise & Excise – 13 cents; Insurance & Banking – 4 […]

If you’ve heard about the Fair Tax and Flat Tax proposals but don’t really know much about them, here’s a summary comparison which explains in some detail the differences between them.
16th Amendment
FairTax - Proposes repeal.
Federal Income Tax - No change.
Flat Tax - No change.
Complexity
FairTax - Individuals do not file. Businesses need only to deal with […]

It’s about time this law was reversed. I’ll go even further than voters being able to use a translator in place of local government having to provide selected foreign language ballots. If you are a citizen of the U.S. learn English. If you can’t read, then you shouldn’t be voting. I […]

First, let me say that I am not happy with the spending habits of our Congressional Representatives and Senators. But what is really irritating me is how little honest reporting there is about it. All I hear not only from the Washington Post but from every other dominent media source out there is […]

Contrary to what you hear from the Democrat Talking Points whenever the subject of tax cuts comes up. Here’s the data from the Tax Foundation on just who benefited the most from the tax cuts:
Despite the charges of critics, the tax cuts enacted in 2001, 2003, and 2004 dramatically reduced the tax burden of […]

This is the model for what “Progressives” call benefiting all the people vs one person. Guess maybe those Ayn Rand books I read years ago had a major effect. I will say it again, people who call themselves “Progressives” are just using another word for Socialist. Plain and simple. They know […]