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Taxes - The Heritage FoundationTaxes - The Heritage Foundation President Obama has called for a huge tax increase to take effect on January 1, 2011. Instead of reducing spending, he proposes to raise taxes on a wide swath of taxpayers—including small businesses—despite the weak economic recovery. Congressional Democrats stand poised (immediately following the November elections) to endorse the President’s request and threaten to go much further. Proponents of letting the tax cuts expire—which would indeed be a tax hike—have offered a wide array of justifications for this wrongheaded policy. Heritage Foundation fiscal policy expert J. D. Foster wades through the myths and straw arguments to set the record straight. View Article - Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:29:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay discusses the merits of extending the Bush tax cuts, including cuts for the middle class. View Article - Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Bill Beach discusses whether a national tax holiday would encourage more lending. View Article - Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The Economic Freedom Act, proposed by Representative Jim Jordan, would terminate the ineffective Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and substitute a proven way to stimulate the economy: tax relief—from permanent repeal of the capital gains and death taxes to significant reductions in payroll taxes and the top corporate tax rate. Analysts at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA) conducted static and dynamic analyses of the act (H.R. 5029), finding that over the long term, dynamic economic effects would offset much of the cost of the tax relief. In the short term, the act would increase the deficit if it was not coupled with reductions in spending. This means a specific plan for spending cuts is imperative. The CDA analysts detail the economic and fiscal effects of the Economic Freedom Act’s spending and tax cuts. View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:30:00 -0400 Bill Beach discusses the possible outcomes of a flat tax. View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 J D Foster discusses the possibility of an American VAT. View Article - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Imagine you are one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top political strategists. The polls show your party needs a game-changer, something that will transform what looks like a losing political hand into a winner. “I know,” you shout, “let’s push for a large tax increase on the ‘fortunate few’ — the 2 or 3 percent of the population with so much money they won’t even miss a few thousand bucks. The other 97 or 98 percent will feel no pain, and we’ll be able to call ourselves deficit hawks when all those billions start rolling in.” View Article - Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 President Obama wants to drastically raise taxes in January View Article - Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:57:00 -0400 The CBPP's critique is based on faulty economic analysis and fundamental misrepresentations. View Article - Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0400 Liberals in Congress have a plan to raise your taxes after the elections this fall, something they must do to continue feeding the Obama Administration’s spending addiction. Watch for them to act after the midterm elections under the cover of the report from the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay returns to The Ed Show to discuss jobs and extending the Bush tax cuts. View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay discusses renewing the Bush tax cuts to support economic growth. View Article - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The death tax: What does it kill? Who does it affect? It affects hundreds of thousands of small-business owners across the country—as well as their employees and community residents who benefit from the senior and day care centers, playgrounds, charities, and learning centers that are built or supported by small-business owners. Like water and sunlight in an ecosystem, small businesses provide sustenance essential to building and preserving communities. So high is the death tax that a large portion of heirs to small companies cannot afford to pay it after the business founder dies, and see themselves forced to sell to giant corporations—which have no personal ties to the communities of their new acquisitions, and thus no incentive to commit to local institutions. What does the death tax kill? The best of American life and civil society itself. The death tax is simply antithetical to the core of the American dream. View Article - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:53:00 -0400 Millions of Americans face potential financial ruin because they bought homes they couldn't afford. Often, these homeowners were lured by initially low interest rates that provided the illusion of affordability. After a few years, these "teaser" rates reset upward, creating unaffordably high mortgage payments. View Article - Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Senator Jim DeMint cites Heritage research in his speech on preventing the renewal of the death tax. View Article - Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 2010 is the only year since 1916 in which heirs to an estate will not have to pay the dreaded death tax. Victory for small businesses? Not yet—due to a legal quirk, the death tax is scheduled to come back to life in 2011. Studies, statistics, and real life have shown again and again that the businesses and families burdened with the death tax often see themselves forced to cut back on benefits, investments, and employees. The death tax keeps new jobs from being created, hurting not just the affected businesses, but the economy as a whole. Because it is a tax on capital, the death tax destroys as many as 1.5 million jobs that the economy needs as it struggles to recover. Heritage Foundation tax policy expert Curtis Dubay details a replacement for the death tax, and explains why Congress must kill the death tax—now. View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:09:00 -0400 The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act would likely lead to the same conditions that caused the housing bubble of a few years ago. View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:00 -0400 Curtis Dubay discusses the expiration of the death tax and the threat of its return. View Article - Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 Brian Riedl discusses the federal budget and the Bush tax cuts. View Article - Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400 President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting these tax cuts expire is their answer. Yet the data flatly contradict this "tax cuts caused the deficits" narrative. Consider the three most persistent myths: View Article - Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400
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By Brian Miller
Sunday, June 14, 2009
www.meatandpotatoes.org
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 Happy Flag Day Folks! While this holiday gets little fanfare, it is steeped in a long history of celebration dating back to 1885. The growth of this holiday is one of great national pride and patriotism. Its humble beginnings, as in our founding documents themselves, started as local observations and declarations. The Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolutions moved to have it celebrated in all schools in Philadelphia in 1893. The state of New York began formal celebrations in 1894, and by 1916, it was being celebrated in over half of the states in the nation. It was formally proclaimed as a National Holiday in 1949 by an act of Congress.
Even our President, whom had been ribbed for not following the protocol of placing one's hand over their heart during it’s display in conjunction with our national anthem, managed to squeak out a statement today acknowledging the holiday. In true Obama style, the statement was both hypocritical, out of touch with tradition, and made a point to “change the norm” when such change is not required.
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WASHINGTON -- Today is Flag Day, and President Obama says Americans should be proud of Old Glory by flying it wherever possible.
He's made the customary proclamation recognizing Flag Day, but is also extending the observance by declaring the upcoming days as National Flag Week.
The president has ordered flags displayed on all federal buildings during the week and is urging Americans to fly the Star and Stripes at their homes and other suitable places.
Obama is also calling on Americans to observe the period from Flag Day through Independence Day as a celebration of the nation's heritage, and by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at public gatherings. |
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In response, I would like to make the following points:
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May I point out to you that all federal buildings have been required to have the flag on display, and have done so as long as I can remember? In fact, most government offices, like my local BMV has always displayed a photo of the President of the United States in addition to the flag. My BMV however, located in an abandoned over unionized grocery store, which will also be home to a new government sponsored “Community Works Center”, this year, created a full shrine on the wall for the president, compete with multiple Obama photos, Obama dolls, Obama figures, Obama seals and more Obama fan
paraphernalia. Perhaps they built this Obama shrine with funds raised for the sale of their old flag? That might be a problem now.
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To extend Flag Day to Flag Week is a joke. Most people I know who fly the flag, do so all the time, not just one day a year. To order such a thing is completely redundant, and an insult to those of us whom so strongly believe in our country. Perhaps in the social circles of “Community Organizers” this is not the case, but most people see themselves as citizens of the United States above any trite flavor of the month cause.
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Obama has called on the reciting of the pledge of Pledge of Allegiance at all public gatherings? Really, you mean like we used to do in school? The same pledge his party has done all they can to remove for it’s use of the phrase “One Nation, under God”. Shocking, considering he has referred to us as a Muslim nation. According to his administrations, organizations such as the local 9/12 chapter that I am part of, are considered to be a “Domestic Terrorists” for meeting and performing such acts.
While Obama's statement should hold value to me, it only enrages me, because as usual, he is not saying what he believes. A disingenuous president is the worst kind. Nothing is scarier then a leader who claims one thing to the populous to sooth them and put them to sleep, while behind closed doors works to do just the opposite. We see this in leaders today, in North Korea, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, and seeing here in the United States does nothing but erode away at the credibility of the office itself. I would have rather he said nothing at all.
Take a moment today and look up at the stars and stripes. Remember that it is still made up of the 13 stripes representing those original colonies. Remember that it still contains 50 stars representing the 50 States that make up this republic. This flag is so unique; it boldly conveys our unique system of government, and way of life. Each of us, together, make up these United States of America, we are not after all just America. Most flags of other nations contain circles and crests of the government, even the United Nations flag is symbolically contained in leaves representing the concept of peace. In our flag, no stripe or star is larger than the other, all are equal, and grant their power to the whole, rather than being ruled by it. This is the message of our flag that should be remembered. Think of this as you place your hand on your heart, in remembrance of all who fought and died for it. Give thanks to them, give thanks to God and pray with me, for this great country, and for each citizen that makes it up. God Bless the America!
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