The 5th paragraph was somehow rearranged, but it's all there. I hope everyone enjoys the article, I meant every word.---Morgan

Welcome aboard brother! Glad to have you here.

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Thank you Jason I really like this site!

I would like to see you look into how international big business and big money interests advance their goals for much greater globalization. That is one area you missed.

Good article, Jingoist. It's well written. I admire good writing talent. I'm not certain yet about the change in the tax system. I have read about several variations on that and haven't made up my mind which would be best. The thing that worries me is when people want to buy high priced items, and the amount of sales taxes may prevent them from doing that. I agree that a flat tax would work on normal day to day purchases. But, what about large purchases?

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Hey JINGOIST...I mirror most of those same thoughts. Add in the "Bread and Circus" routine that a number of Americans have fallen into and you can see how easy it would be to take over a Van Winkle citizenry. Most don't concede that we are in a holy war. Couple that with the tsunami of ILLEGAL ALIENS from all over the world coming to America, and one can see the collision course with our own demise that we are headed for down a super highway to oblivion. Tighten the seat belts. Strap the kids in. An F-5 tornado looms on the horizon.

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I'll check into it John. I was thinking about global warming or gas prices next.---Morgan

Allen6207 said: Good article, Jingoist. It's well written. I admire good writing talent. I'm not certain yet about the change in the tax system. I have read about several variations on that and haven't made up my mind which would be best. The thing that worries me is when people want to buy high priced items, and the amount of sales taxes may prevent them from doing that. I agree that a flat tax would work on normal day to day purchases. But, what about large purchases?

Allen that's a good question about big ticket items because everyone else asks the same question. There's approx. a 23% embedded tax built into the price of everything we buy right now. It's a little less than that for small, simple items and a little more for large, complicated items. The embedded tax represents the federal taxes on manufacturing parts, labor, transportation etc..The FairTax would replace those embedded taxes with a 23% tax. On all NEW goods and services. So it wouldn't raise the price of big ticket items. Those prices may even go down by a small amount. Thanks for the kind words----Morgan

I'm with you JHK, people had better wake up on a number of issues. They seemed to come out of their slumber after 9-11, but too many are back to Oprah and Springer.----Morgan

Yea, buddy. Where are all the flags now?

On "Gore-able Warming": The Mayans, The Hopi Indian calendar, Edgar Cayce, and Nostrodomus all predict a climate shift in 2012. It won't be as quick as in the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, but 171 have occured, that man knows of. "I think "Gore-able Warming is a farce. There is already a thread for that on this website. Peruse this site. It's actually a fontal of good info.

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Your article is very informative and interesting to ponder. I agree the Fair Tax Act represents the best, current proposal to replace the production based disaster of income taxation. The Fair Tax Act would start addressing the challenge faced on the funding side and then we can start attacking the problems on the spending side and bringing our Federal level government under control with an aim at returning it to its proper role. The border fence is, in my opinion, a short-term aid in the immigration problem. We must also attack the Federal policies which create dangling carrots for any who dare break our laws and enter the country through illegal methods. I'm also in agreement we must be willing to confront aggression against us. I do favor the advice of George Washington and other founders when it comes to foreign affairs. We should trade freely while not getting entangled in the internal affairs of other countries. Thanks for some good points to ponder and for stirring the brain juices. That is a main goal of our new web community at http://hearmythunder.org  I would like your permission to repost this article at our community, 'Hear My Thunder' and await your approval.  Gary

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Hey you want to get the attention of Congress in general and the government in particular? EVERY AMERICAN STOP PAYING TAXES!! They couldn't prosecute all 200 million of us, could they? Just a thought.

 

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Well stated, Jingoist.  I would add one more front in the war on America, political correctness.  We must push back the damage done by the weakening politics of PC.  I include a quote from The New Totalitarians by British historian Roland Huntford about Sweden in the early 1970s.

"The customary Swedish for housewife is husmor, which is honourable; it was replaced by the neologism hemmafru, literally 'the-wife-who-stays-at-home', which is derogatory. Within a few months, mass media were able to kill the old and substitute the new term. By the end of 1969, it was almost impossible in everyday conversation to mention the state of housewife without appearing to condemn or to sneer. Swedish has been changed under the eyes and ears of the Swedes. Husmor had been discredited; the only way out was to use hemmafru ironically. Connected with this semantic shift, there was a change in feeling. Women who, a year or so before, had been satisfied, and possibly proud, to stay at home, began to feel the pressure to go out to work. The substitution of one word for the other had been accomplished by insistent propaganda in the mass media, so that it was as if a resolute conditioning campaign had been carried out. Very few were able to recognize the indoctrination in the linguistic manipulation; in the real sense of the word, the population had been brain-washed." 

Stand guard against this crap, Americans.

About taxes, I fear, and rightfully so, that the Congress will spend every cent they collect.  During times like these of economic prosperity, high amounts of tax are collected, yet, less spending is necessary, by definition. Only a reduced safety net is required, and infrastructure repair is inconvenient, but a great way to make work during slow times. Therefore, dollars collected in busy times should be saved till recessions.

Can spending control be included in a flat tax ?     

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CasaWood said: Your article is very informative and interesting to ponder. I agree the Fair Tax Act represents the best, current proposal to replace the production based disaster of income taxation. The Fair Tax Act would start addressing the challenge faced on the funding side and then we can start attacking the problems on the spending side and bringing our Federal level government under control with an aim at returning it to its proper role. The border fence is, in my opinion, a short-term aid in the immigration problem. We must also attack the Federal policies which create dangling carrots for any who dare break our laws and enter the country through illegal methods. I'm also in agreement we must be willing to confront aggression against us. I do favor the advice of George Washington and other founders when it comes to foreign affairs. We should trade freely while not getting entangled in the internal affairs of other countries. Thanks for some good points to ponder and for stirring the brain juices. That is a main goal of our new web community at http://hearmythunder.org  I would like your permission to repost this article at our community, 'Hear My Thunder' and await your approval.  Gary

Gary I'd be honored if you posted this article at your fine blog. I agree that the FairTax is the best way to go tax wise. Thanks.---Morgan

 

 

JHK I like your spunk about thst tax thing but DON'T try it man! The IRS reads these sites too. :-)-----Morgan

Amador said: Well stated, Jingoist.  I would add one more front in the war on America, political correctness.  We must push back the damage done by the weakening politics of PC.  I include a quote from The New Totalitarians by British historian Roland Huntford about Sweden in the early 1970s. "The customary Swedish for housewife is husmor, which is honourable; it was replaced by the neologism hemmafru, literally 'the-wife-who-stays-at-home', which is derogatory. Within a few months, mass media were able to kill the old and substitute the new term. By the end of 1969, it was almost impossible in everyday conversation to mention the state of housewife without appearing to condemn or to sneer. Swedish has been changed under the eyes and ears of the Swedes. Husmor had been discredited; the only way out was to use hemmafru ironically. Connected with this semantic shift, there was a change in feeling. Women who, a year or so before, had been satisfied, and possibly proud, to stay at home, began to feel the pressure to go out to work. The substitution of one word for the other had been accomplished by insistent propaganda in the mass media, so that it was as if a resolute conditioning campaign had been carried out. Very few were able to recognize the indoctrination in the linguistic manipulation; in the real sense of the word, the population had been brain-washed."  Stand guard against this crap, Americans. About taxes, I fear, and rightfully so, that the Congress will spend every cent they collect.  During times like these of economic prosperity, high amounts of tax are collected, yet, less spending is necessary, by definition. Only a reduced safety net is required, and infrastructure repair is inconvenient, but a great way to make work during slow times. Therefore, dollars collected in busy times should be saved till recessions. Can spending control be included in a flat tax ?     

Amador I'm with you completely where political correctness is concerned. I view it as a form of bullying and cultural Marxism. I liked the Swedes I grew up with in Minnesota, good hockey players! Why have they let their country go so far down the socialist toilet?-----You're right about Congress and spending, they CAN'T leave it alone. Maybe the Republicans have learned their lesson with the spanking they got at the polls last time.----SPENDING is a political issue, politicians will spend into a damn deficit! The most important thing we can do is limit the amount that they take from us. The Fairtax is the best way to do that. The "Flat Tax" is what we had after Reagan fixed the system, and look what we have now. They couldn't keep their hands off of it. If there was a way to get the flat tax set at 19 or 20% as an Amendment to the Constitution, that would be the next best thing to the FairTax, but the pols would NEVER do it. So the FairTax is the way to go.----Morgan

jingoist - well written, well organized and painfully true. Thank you! I fear that this country will erupt into violence if our elected officials do not enforce the laws we elected them to enforce. I have sadly come to the conclusion that GW Bush is first and foremost a globalist and not a patriotic American. God , I love this country, I will do whatever is needed to protect her. For all of you service men and women and veterans--please go back and refresh yourselves on the oath we all took on entering the service. OUR PRIMARY DUTY IS TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. We are to obey the orders of the President--it does not cover, because it was never considered to be possible , that the President would be one of the threats to the Constitution. misterbill

Misterbill this President sure does have his strengths AND his weaknesses. Sometimes it seems as though he sold us a bill of goods. Having said that, can you imagine what hurt we'd be in with a President Gore? Who's your guy in the upcoming election?----Morgan

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Jingoist--well written, painfully true. I fear America is heading toward an eruption of violence. Our officials do not enforce our laws when broken by illegal immigrants, then turn around and make a mockery of the law while prosecuting Border Agents for doing their jobs.

Morgan--at this time I favor Fred Thompson. I, at one point, was a Newt Gingrich fan. I loved his 11 points to straighten out America, however, he hung too far back. He seemed to go in a vsibility slump. Then he went along withn the Global Warming theory which was areversal of his previous position, then faded from sight. Fred's staements sound very much what I liked about Newt. We need a kick-ass man or woman in the job.

You are too kind to GW. He COMPLETELY fell from favor with me in his insidious globalization plots. He wants to be Padrone Jorge in the New World Order. I am very alert to dangers to America. I  am one who still be.lieves Nafta has cost us far more than we ever got out of it. We, under Bush a, as of the past few days, now have Mexican trucks with free reign in America. Our disease control efforts are now under the control of the UN. (The world's most corrupt, ineffective body.)

I stand for the sovereignty and Constitution of the USA.