http://www.firesociety.com FireSociety Forums - Domestic Fires - Taxes/Fiscal Policy Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:26:35 GMT admin@firesociety.com FireSociety 60 http://www.firesociety.com/images/home/mainlogo.gif http://www.firesociety.com http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/22779/The-Next-Great-Depression-looming-/?src=103 When taking in the BIG picture of our economy... there are many things that stick out in my mind. 1.  Vincente Fox stating 'we will be begging for the amero' http://www.texemarrs.com/112007/vicen... 2.  The Fed stopped providing our government with the M3 report (we now have NO idea how much $$ they are printing and flooding the market with...at interest) http://www.financialsense.com/editori... 3.  Almost a 60% increase in foreclosures reported http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/26/real_... 4 .  Food prices, gas prices rising, rising, rising http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html... 5. Feds have cut rates....over and over and over again http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/bus... Yet - our leaders...who have lied repeatedly about the war, the SPP, the NAU, ignored immigration, ignore the people - tell us... 'things are fine!" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22298219/ Even main stream media is reporting a Great Depression coming....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7h8NBQU3E Does anyone remember the economic question Ron Paul asked McCain during the Jan. debate?  The question McCain stumbled on and never even answered..yet, he basically rattled off 'advisors' that are in fact - part of the very group Ron Paul mentioned who CONTROL the markets--- in secret? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ1OB2... Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:03:56 GMT nickjr http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/22779/The-Next-Great-Depression-looming-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/27100/What-s-the-next-best-thing-to-the-FairTax-/?src=103   Electing Chuck Baldwin president!!!  Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:26:33 GMT Rayj00 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/27100/What-s-the-next-best-thing-to-the-FairTax-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26845/Was-solution-to-energy-crunch-offered-in-1995-/?src=103 Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 6/20/2008 7:50:00 AM var addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';   Could the current U.S. energy crisis have been averted? One member of the U.S. Senate believes a solution was offered, but rejected, in 1995.     Americans are facing the highest energy prices in the nation's history. But according to Senator Roger F. Wicker (R-Mississippi), the whole crisis could have been averted back in 1995. That was when Republicans sent then-President Bill Clinton a bill to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil exploration.   Clinton vetoed the bill, saying it would not help America's dependency on foreign oil because it would take ten years for the product to come on line. Fast-forward 13 years.   "If he had not vetoed that bill, we would be getting the same amount of crude oil from our own state of Alaska as we now have to import from Saudi Arabia today," points out Wicker, who is now supporting new legislation that would open ANWR for oil exploration.   "The information we have is that actually we could bring that all on line in six years," says the Mississippi lawmaker. "And while we certainly hate to have ... Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:58:19 GMT kmcheng http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26845/Was-solution-to-energy-crunch-offered-in-1995-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26641/China-to-drill-off-U.S.-coast/?src=103 Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 6/16/2008 7:30:00 AM var addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';   President Bush has been urged in a letter to do away with the moratorium on offshore drilling in the U.S.     The Institute for Energy Research sent the letter to President Bush urging him to exercise his authority to repeal the Executive Order banning energy production on America's outer continental shelf. The ban has been in effect since 1990. Congress also passes a similar ban on offshore drilling on a yearly basis.   Brian Kennedy is senior vice president for public affairs with the Institute for Energy Research. He argues the rationale behind his group's request that he believes would force Congress to take a longer view.   "We've gone ahead and asked the president to lead by ripping up the executive moratorium," Kennedy explains. "That would create a situation whereby the Congress would have to come up with a long-term strategy – not some annual ban that expires every year, but a long-term plan that would put some common sense and some flexibility into our offshore energy laws."   He wonders why the ban is still in place, seeing that China has plans to drill ... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:40:25 GMT kmcheng http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26641/China-to-drill-off-U.S.-coast/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26456/FYI--TRUE-FALSE--/?src=103 ? Part 1 In just one year.  Remember the election in 2006?   Thought you might like to read the following:     A little over one year ago:    1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;  2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;  3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.    Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:    1) Consumer confidence plummet; 2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.90 a gallon;  3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (more than a 10% increase);  4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);  5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;  6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.    America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!    Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President .   He has to work with what's handed to him.   Part 2: Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.     Www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML Taxes under Clinton 1999                              Taxes under Bush 2008   Single making 30K - tax $8,400             Single making 30K - ... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:29:12 GMT p. hunt http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26456/FYI--TRUE-FALSE--/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/24062/April-15---I-don-t-know-about-you--but-I-usually-pay-/?src=103   The time has come to institute the FairTax!!! What is the FairTax plan? The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue replacement, and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment. This nonpartisan legislation (HR 25/S 1025) abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities. The IRS is disbanded and defunded. The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend on new goods or services, not on what we earn. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system. Call your representatives today and ask them to support the FairTax!     Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:55:47 GMT Rayj00 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/24062/April-15---I-don-t-know-about-you--but-I-usually-pay-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26068/Amid-economic-slowdown--signs-of-new-world-order/?src=103 By Mark Trumbull Mon Jun 2, 5:00 AM ET The world economy is cooling this year thanks to a slowdown in the United States, but something new is playing out: This slowdown is serving to amplify a shift in financial power toward Asia and developing nations. Countries such as China and India are now big enough to help guide the global economy. In the past, a sharp downshift in the US and Europe would decisively slow the rate of global growth. This time, emerging markets appear poised to grow collectively by 6.7 percent this year, according to recent forecasts by the International Monetary Fund . As a result, the IMF sees world gross domestic product (GDP) growing 3.7 percent, even though the US might experience a recession. The US economy remains the world's mightiest. But even for Americans, this new economic order has immediate implications: • Policymakers at the Federal Reserve must worry about upward price pressures for food and fuel – driven largely by rising demand in developing nations. That problem calls for tighter monetary policy, while the domestic consumer slump calls for the opposite policy. •Demand for US exports from these new markets is providing a helpful cushion ... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:18:42 GMT kmcheng http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26068/Amid-economic-slowdown--signs-of-new-world-order/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25971/Many-consumers-spend-rebates-on-cost-of-living/?src=103 By DAVE CARPENTER, AP Business Writer CHICAGO - Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the federal rebates they'd be getting this spring and early summer. Or maybe — shh, don't tell the president — they'd pay off a credit card or set the rebate aside for a big purchase in the future, notwithstanding Washington's intentions that they pump it immediately into the flagging economy. "It's not often you get a windfall like that that you can just stash away for something you need later," said Sara Jackson, 29, a graphic designer in Chattanooga, Tenn. But reality has interfered, in the form of ever-climbing food bills and $4-a-gallon gasoline. Day-to-day living costs have sopped up the checks for many other early recipients and spoiled their rebate fantasies. Government figures released Friday showed consumer spending inched up just 0.2 percent in April, despite widespread anticipation of the stimulus payments sent out starting late in the month. Based on a small but broadly diverse group of consumers who tracked their rebate spending in detail for The Associated Press, there was no mass rush to the malls for shopping sprees after the ... Fri, 30 May 2008 16:49:06 GMT kmcheng http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25971/Many-consumers-spend-rebates-on-cost-of-living/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25901/Has-anyone-done-this-/?src=103 I was wondering if anyone has thought about, or actually refused to pay any portion of their state taxes such as school debt, or other taxes that go towards illegal immigrants? I have been seriously considering going down to the county clerk when my prop taxes come and tell them "there must be some mistake?" "How can you charge me for aiding and abetting illegal immigrants when it's against the law?". Has this been done by anyone here? Are there any published cases like this? Or am I just thinking too simply? Thu, 29 May 2008 05:36:33 GMT Nightowl http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25901/Has-anyone-done-this-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25215/Fed-bail-out-of-troubled-homeowners-cautioned/?src=103 Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 5/9/2008 10:30:00 AM var addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';   An economic policy expert with the Heritage Foundation is warning against a federal government bailout of troubled homeowners who bought more than they could afford.      Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has recently suggested that the government should do more to prevent home foreclosures that threaten credit markets and the economy. And in a speech at Columbia School of Business in New York, he once again called for cutting the principal of some customers' loans to prevent foreclosure, but also stressed "the need to avoid programs that give borrowers who can make their payments an incentive to default."   J.D. Foster of the  Heritage Foundation  notes the federal government is already acting in concert with borrowers, lenders and servicers to the tune of 200,000 reworked mortgages a month. "The prominent bill moving through Congress now ..., according to the congressional budget office, ... would only contribute to the refinancing of 500,000 mortgages over the next four years," says Foster.   But he points out that the private sector has also managed to rework 500,000 mortgages, and the current legislation would rework the same amount – but it ... Sat, 10 May 2008 03:15:17 GMT kmcheng http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25215/Fed-bail-out-of-troubled-homeowners-cautioned/?src=103