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Taxes - The Heritage FoundationTaxes - The Heritage Foundation A powerful lesson of recent months is that gimmickry makes good bumper stickers but lousy economic stimulus. View Article - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:42:00 -0400 Proponents of raising taxes have offered many straw man arguments and myths to support their case. View Article - Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 -0400 As we celebrate Labor Day, let’s remember what makes this holiday possible in the first place: American workers. For the most part that means small business. View Article - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 The CEO of Intel has joined the ranks of those labeling big government as the cause of our economic slump, not the solution. View Article - Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400 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 In many respects, Dan L. Duncan was the embodiment of the American dream, the self-made man incarnate. He transformed $10,000 and two propane trucks into a natural gas empire and a personal net worth of $9 billion—making him the richest person in Houston, and the 74th wealthiest individual in the world. View Article - Wed, 18 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
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The Separation of Education and State |
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Brian Miller
Sunday, September 27, 2009
www.meatandpotatoes.org
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The separation of Church and State is a debate that has and will continue to rage on for years to come. While the coining of the phrase is nowhere to be found in the constitution, the concept has been ingrained in to our nation’s psyche. The concept is this:
| "Government has no place to tell or display in any form a system of beliefs the will be perceived as Government ordered, endorsed or supported." |
While our education system has done its best to turn down the amount of "religion" in the classroom, they have dramatically turned up the amount of "ideology". What is the difference between religion and ideology within the context of education? Let's look at the definition of each word:
| re-li-gion [ri-lij-uhn] |
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| A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects |
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| i-de-ol-o-gy [ahy-de-ol-uh-jee] |
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| The body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides a person or persons, class, sect or large group |
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Why look to the dictionary for the meaning of a word? Because words have meaning, and the President doesn’t like it when you try to actually use the definition of words, like “tax” for example.
 We have watched our children in school being subjected to a number of ideologies: There’s the “Global Warming” religion, the “Fascist" religion, and most recently children being forced to chant messages about their anointed president. History books distributed on a national scale have literally rewritten a false history to promote such ideologies. Scientific theories have been suppressed that go against such ideologies. The teaching of civics and the actual role of government has been changed to again play to these ideologies. All while their parents wait in fear to see what beliefs that completely contradict their family values will be brought home next.
It’s time to take a stand, and shout for a Separation of Education and State! You heard me right, and it is our president that has inspired me to think this through. He was right when he said “it’s time to stop with the failed policies of the past”. And considering our president promised to reach across the isle for the good of this country, here are a few points worth noting that can appeal to both the right and the left:
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| Computer Based Homeschooling Can Save the Planet! |
| According to the American School Bus Council 2008 data, there are about 480,000 school busses in this country using 1,714 gallons of fuel per bus per year. If half the students were home schooled, it would reduce the need for 50% of the busses, and we would reduce gas and diesel use by 411.6 million gallons per year! |
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| Buy eliminating the 90,000+ public school buildings we will save $8 billion dollars per year, and reduce the carbon footprint of our country by nearly 25%; based on data from the EPA.gov website. |
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| The amount of land these schools occupy is, on average, 10 acres per school. Think of that 9 million acres of land that could be returned to it’s natural state or used for agriculture. This would be the equivalent of adding more land than all of Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon combined! |
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It’s Still the Economics Stupid |
| With the exception of federal and state health care programs, education is the largest expenditure of taxes, when you combine property, local, state and federal tax receipts. If public school education were to be eliminated, nearly a full 20% of taxes will no longer need to be collected, and can remain in your pocket! |
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| While over 90% of school districts in this country are operating at a loss, 95% of private and charter schools are operating at a profit, paying their teachers more and producing higher GPA’s and graduation rates. |
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| Computer based curriculums are able to be updated, and have corrections to errors in text done in a matter minutes without the changing out of hundreds of millions of text books that normally takes years. |
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The very structure of public schools today were put in place nearly 100 years ago, and while the entire world has changed, it has remained the same dysfunctional juggernaut far too long. There are entire books on obsolete subjects that we have seen come and go in just the last 50 years, and our national public education system is just another example of one whose time has passed.
Where in the U.S. Constitution is there a provision for a department of education? Where in the U.S. Constitution did the states grant the new federal government the responsibility to education? I challenge you to find this specific enumeration; the complete text is here on this site.
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| 1 - There is no liberal bias in the media |
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| 2 - Separation of Church and State |
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| 3 - Banning partial birth abortions is an assault on a woman's right to choose |
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| 4 - The Outsourcing of American Jobs |
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| 5 - The Creation of Green Jobs |
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| 6 - Same Sex Marriage |
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| 7 - Rasing Taxes Equals more government funds |
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| 8 - The Supreme Court should keep International Courts in mind |
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| 9 - America must be humble to the international community |
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| 10 - Government Knows Best |
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