Sunday, January 31, 2010
What date will the world end?
Is time travel possible?
Experiment
Osama bin Laden
A.C. Smithson
Taxes by J. Jet
J. Jet is an occasional contributor to this blog site. She contributes ever so sparingly and hopefully in the future she will grace us with more wisdom. She frequently utilizes musical lyrics in her writings.
I am fascinated by people who get a $200 tax refund and claim that they didn't pay any taxes this year. Obviously, they have never heard that there are only two things certain in life, death and taxes. While death has always been looked on as something to avoid, lately there are many people who seem to embrace the idea that taxes are good, and we need more of them. Of course, they intend that someone else will pay the taxes and they will reap the benefit.
Let me tell you how it will be
One for you nineteen for me
A quick glance at the W-2 you will receive in February (those of you who still have a job), will show that you had federal, state, and local taxes withheld (taken out of your pocket) throughout the year. This is money that you could've spent, saved, or given to charity. However, that is just a skim, the amount that the government takes directly off the top.
This is assume, ok, fantasize, that you buy a product that is made here in the United States. The people who work for that company pay taxes just like you. The company also pays federal taxes on its profits, along with many state and local taxes such as property and excise taxes. These taxes are part of the purchase price you pay.
If you drive a car I'll tax the street
If you try to sit I'll tax your seat
But let's not stop there, when a product is shipped, the trucking company and their employees pay federal, state, local taxes. Plus they pay the taxes on the fuel and tires they use. In addition, they paid taxes when they purchased the truck.
Now the products go to the store and guess what? By now I think you get the picture. The store employees pay taxes, the store pays taxes. But here's the news: all of those taxes are paid by you when you buy the product! Oh yeah baby, the buck stops at your front door.
If it gets too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk I'll tax your feet
Now our leaders want to do a little number called cap and trade. This will be an additional tax on all of the other taxes we will pay. And guess where that money will go? It will go not only to our wasteful government, but to the wasteful and corrupt governments of Third World countries. I hope that keeps you warm when you can't afford the price of heating your own home.
Cause I'm the tax man, Oh yeah I'm the Tax Man
J.Jet
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Perplexing Questions Rated P.G.
- Is time travel possible?
- What date will the world end?
- What is the meaning of life?
- Why can't I lose weight?
- Do women pee in the shower?
STAY TUNED!
A. C. Smithson
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Obama Goal
A.C. Smithson
Sunday, January 24, 2010
California Dog Rescue
Monday, January 18, 2010
Haiti
Thank you Mr. Obama
I have been critical of Obama for approximately two years. It's time I acknowledge and applaud his many accomplishments thus far.
Thank you for relocating the terrorist dogs from Gitmo to the US.
Thank you for giving rights granted US citizens to the terrorist.
Thank you for wasting half a billion dollars on the future terrorist detention and trials in Illinois and New York City.
Thank you for rescuing the Carter presidency. His presidency was the worst in the past 100 years. Your first year has secured that honor for you. Now he's only number two.
Thank you for your political correctness which allowed the Fort Hood massacre to occur.
Thank you for continuing to search old women in airports but refusing to profile young middle eastern men.
Thank you for tearing down our economy.
Thank you for telling us that if we waste $787 billion for a Democrat slush fund unemployment would not exceed 8%.
Thank you for spending $27,000 of taxpayer money on each vehicle sold under the cash for clunkers program.
Thank you for traveling the world apologizing for us.
Thank you for being the most intelligent President we have ever had. At least until the next Democrat is elected president.
Thank you for promising openness in government, but sparing us the details by plotting behind closed doors.
Thank you for promising honest government while setting new standards of corruption.
Thank you for attempting to change the freest and most prosperous nation on earth into a socialist utopia.
Thank you for attempting to change the best healthcare system in the world into one with less access, higher cost, and lower quality of care.
Thank you for supporting abortion in every form including partial-birth and the denial of medical attention in the event an infant survives a botched abortion attempt. Lord knows that 42 million dead babies is not near enough.
Thank you for lacking humility and class, always blaming others. (It's Bush's fault) Whatever!
Thank you for supporting the legalization of more illegal aliens in order to create a larger class of people dependent on the taxpayer for support.
Thank you for proving that a community agitator with no experience can get nothing right.
Thank you for continuing to blame it on racism whenever you screw something up.
Thank you for being the type of corrupt politician which in the future this nation should never again vote for.
Thank you for promoting class hatred and charging the banks a punishment fee which they will pass along to the customers with higher ATM fees and interest rates. (Can you say TAX)
Thank you for working, supporting, defending, and financing the corrupt ACORN organization.
But most of all..........
Thank you for being you.
A. C. SmithsonMassachusetts Senate Race
Monday, January 11, 2010
Simplistic Journalist
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Global Warming Hoax
Notable Comments
- "Only a mediocre person is always at his best."- W. Somerset Maugham
- "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."- Herbert Spencer
- "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."- Thomas Sowell
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."- Milton Friedman
- " No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."- Mark Twain
Wealth Redistribution
Healthcare update
Friday, January 1, 2010
Founder's wisdom
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnished the means by which we suffer. "-- Thomas Paine
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that they are is not a force of law and public justice to protect, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "thou shalt not covet" and "thou shalt not steal" were not commandments of heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." -- John Adams
Founders Wisdom
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -- Thomas Paine.
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." -John AdamsThe entitlement gravy train
Roughly 2/3 of the federal budget is dedicated to one type of entitlement program or another. Farm subsidies, education, welfare, food stamps, WIC program, Medicare, Medicaid, chips program, various forms of corporate welfare, Social Security. The list is almost inexhaustible.
The vast majority of Americans really don't see a problem with this. My point is this, the Constitution does not allow for any of this. The Constitution, if you will, are the rules which govern the operation of our nation. If we just pick and choose which rules we would care to follow and disregard those we don't like, are we not experiencing a form of anarchy.
Many politicians and poorly educated citizens will quote for the general welfare of the citizens or to promote the general welfare. This is not the intent of the founding fathers. The promotion of the general welfare was extremely specific and limited. Its interpretation has been bastardized in order to accomplish social and political ends that the statist desires.
James Madison should know something about the Constitution as he is widely considered to be its author. "The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose power are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." -- James Madison. Another founding father seemed to agree "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated." -- Thomas Jefferson.
The Ysleta School District in which I reside passed a bond election approximately 4 years ago. They sent out their little propaganda newsletter explaining how the money was wisely spent. Approximate 50% of the funds which were touted as indispensable to a quality education were utilized in the following matters: field houses with boys and girls locker rooms, bus drop-off points, and tennis courts. I'm sure with these wise investments resulted in students TAKS scores shooting through the roof. They'll probably all graduate either Harvard or Yale. I often think of the people that voted in favor of this bond issue and wonder how many of them pay taxes at all. "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic" -- Benjamin Franklin
Don't get me wrong I'm in favor of assisting the truly needy and those in need of a helping hand. State and local jurisdictions can initiate whatever programs they and their electorate see fit. If the multitude of programs make the city or state unbearable to live in the citizen can always relocate. Examples of this would be California, New Jersey, and Detroit. If a person reaches into their pocket and takes out money to help someone that is a very admirable and no doubt a laudable act. Now on the other hand say for instance I observe an elderly man lying in the gutter. His destitute, hungry, and in need of medical attention. Across the street I observe a clearly well-to-do female standing on the corner. I approach her and tell her to give me $500. I warn her that I have a gun. I then collect the elderly man and take him to feed him and have medical attention provided. My question is that a crime? Yes, under duress these funds were stolen. This clearly was a despicable and detestable act. About 300 million Americans do not see it that way. The federal government acting in an unconstitutional manner on a daily basis, steals citizens monies using duress.
Three additional thoughts from our founding fathers: "to take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily a first principle of association, the guaranteed to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." -- Thomas Jefferson. "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." -- Benjamin Franklin. "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."--John Adams
A. C. Smithson