It came up in my favorite discussion forum and I had to take the soapbox:
As you see from the link in red, there are countries that have none.
It's a small list, but it includes four European nations ranging from very poor to ultra-rich, and that closes the case. "The Middle East is becoming known as a zero tax region" -- can you believe it? We must if we're ever to breathe free again!
Property taxes, like the direct taxing of wages, are a form of cannibalism.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Taxes in the news (partly shocking)
Sometimes the IRS is just degenerate:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/23/woman-convenience-store-owner-irs-agent-choked-sexually-abused/
WOMAN CONVENIENCE STORE OWNER: IRS AGENT CHOKED AND SEXUALLY ABUSED ME
Yeah, that story's a little strange, but since the agent confessed it seems there's no doubt who's at fault. Now showbiz:
Actress Melissa Gilbert (a star of TV's "Little House on the Prairie"), 51, announced in August that she would run for Congress from Michigan's 8th Congressional District -- even though she is currently on the hook to the IRS and California for back taxes totaling $470,000. Gilbert, a former president of the Screen Actors Guild and member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, promised that she (and her actor-husband) would pay off her tax bill -- by the year 2024. [Detroit Free Press, 8-12-2015]
Oh, great -- she's a Dummacrat and a bit of a trollop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Gilbert#2016_congressional_election
Don't forget, starring in Little House on the Prairie was also the main claim to fame of Karen Grassle who played the wife and mother in the heroic anti-IRS film Harry's War.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/23/woman-convenience-store-owner-irs-agent-choked-sexually-abused/
WOMAN CONVENIENCE STORE OWNER: IRS AGENT CHOKED AND SEXUALLY ABUSED ME
Yeah, that story's a little strange, but since the agent confessed it seems there's no doubt who's at fault. Now showbiz:
Actress Melissa Gilbert (a star of TV's "Little House on the Prairie"), 51, announced in August that she would run for Congress from Michigan's 8th Congressional District -- even though she is currently on the hook to the IRS and California for back taxes totaling $470,000. Gilbert, a former president of the Screen Actors Guild and member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, promised that she (and her actor-husband) would pay off her tax bill -- by the year 2024. [Detroit Free Press, 8-12-2015]
Oh, great -- she's a Dummacrat and a bit of a trollop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Gilbert#2016_congressional_election
Don't forget, starring in Little House on the Prairie was also the main claim to fame of Karen Grassle who played the wife and mother in the heroic anti-IRS film Harry's War.
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Saturday, October 10, 2015
It's truth, not hyperbole to call the IRS a farce
Albeit a farce that's cannibalizing the ameriKan economy. and ruining many citizens' lives through fraud, bluff and coercion.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/irs-report-tax-preparers-tax-returns/2015/10/09/id/695526/?ns_mail_uid=59739026&ns_mail_job=1639218_10102015&s=al&dkt_nbr=d77bfubl
Report: IRS Allowed Thousands of Felons to Prepare Tax Returns
Now this is a killer story. You've heard many times of prisoners running hugely lucrative scams -- tax and otherwise -- but hiring TWENTY THOUSAND of them as tax preparers? The article doesn't say they're people presently incarcerated but mentions "prisoners", and either way it's just staggering. Unstated, unanswered essence of the story: how did this happen? Either some IRS bureau deliberately hired felons, or word got around the felon community that it was an easy hire. Something like that--!??!!
Pay your fair share, now. Helps feed and clothe those cruelly cut off from society. Probably gets them cigs, booze and nooky too!
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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/irs-report-tax-preparers-tax-returns/2015/10/09/id/695526/?ns_mail_uid=59739026&ns_mail_job=1639218_10102015&s=al&dkt_nbr=d77bfubl
Report: IRS Allowed Thousands of Felons to Prepare Tax Returns
Now this is a killer story. You've heard many times of prisoners running hugely lucrative scams -- tax and otherwise -- but hiring TWENTY THOUSAND of them as tax preparers? The article doesn't say they're people presently incarcerated but mentions "prisoners", and either way it's just staggering. Unstated, unanswered essence of the story: how did this happen? Either some IRS bureau deliberately hired felons, or word got around the felon community that it was an easy hire. Something like that--!??!!
Pay your fair share, now. Helps feed and clothe those cruelly cut off from society. Probably gets them cigs, booze and nooky too!
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Corporations keep their money offshore, support the regime that concocted FATCA
We've heard this matter before, but this is probably the most devastating writeup of it yet. The page may switch to a noisy advertisement, but just right-click the back arrow to get back to it.
http://www.newsforage.com/2015/10/the-500-largest-american-companies-hold.html
The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S. taxes if they repatriated the funds
The lengthy title nicely accents the grandiosity of the subject. FATCA is of course the fedgov's Marxist grab at money ameriKans sensibly want to stash offshore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act
We've heard much about how corporations most be viewed as person in our Orwellian age, but note that they're barely mentioned in this article. It's reference to "United States persons (including those living outside the U.S.)" clearly refers to the individuals Washington hates for seeking serious self-preservation, whether expatriating or not. Communist Manifesto:
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
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http://www.newsforage.com/2015/10/the-500-largest-american-companies-hold.html
The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S. taxes if they repatriated the funds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act
We've heard much about how corporations most be viewed as person in our Orwellian age, but note that they're barely mentioned in this article. It's reference to "United States persons (including those living outside the U.S.)" clearly refers to the individuals Washington hates for seeking serious self-preservation, whether expatriating or not. Communist Manifesto:
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
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Sunday, September 20, 2015
A famous, simple perception test explains the herd instinct
Just came across this:
http://yournation.org/which-line-is-the-longest-find-out-why-so-many-got-this-question-wrong/
Which Line Is The Longest? Find Out Why So Many Got This Question Wrong
What a commentary on the nature of our species, supposedly the most intelligent and with-it on The Planet! It goes right along with this famously damning study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
If it seems at times I'm trying to condemn humanity wholesale, I'm really just trying to point out the basic realities about us that most people would rather not hear about. There can be no overcoming of these very bad traits without recognizing and facing them. But are people capable of learning from history, much less deep collective self-examination? More from the article:
The experiments began in July 1961, in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University,[3] three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular question at that particular time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?"[4] The experiments have been repeated many times in the following years with consistent results within differing societies, although not with the same percentages around the globe.
As you can see in our era just 26 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the answer is looking dismal -- the U.S. government is working overtime to revive and epitomize communism and the worst aspects of Nazism. They're killing millions of foreigners who haven't done us any harm (and never could) and killing our freedom and prosperity (there's that phrase again) in the name of saving these things, insanely and irrationally using the wars as their excuse.
Even as experiments in the Milgram mold continue, my reluctant judgment is to agree with H.L. Mencken's extremely jaundiced, disgusted view of people, ameriKans most of all. look him up online for some of the most devastating and even funniest assessments of it all!
My motto used to be "humor vincit omnia" -- "humor conquers all" in Latinglish. Not so much anymore......
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http://yournation.org/which-line-is-the-longest-find-out-why-so-many-got-this-question-wrong/
Which Line Is The Longest? Find Out Why So Many Got This Question Wrong
What a commentary on the nature of our species, supposedly the most intelligent and with-it on The Planet! It goes right along with this famously damning study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
If it seems at times I'm trying to condemn humanity wholesale, I'm really just trying to point out the basic realities about us that most people would rather not hear about. There can be no overcoming of these very bad traits without recognizing and facing them. But are people capable of learning from history, much less deep collective self-examination? More from the article:
The experiments began in July 1961, in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University,[3] three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular question at that particular time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?"[4] The experiments have been repeated many times in the following years with consistent results within differing societies, although not with the same percentages around the globe.
As you can see in our era just 26 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the answer is looking dismal -- the U.S. government is working overtime to revive and epitomize communism and the worst aspects of Nazism. They're killing millions of foreigners who haven't done us any harm (and never could) and killing our freedom and prosperity (there's that phrase again) in the name of saving these things, insanely and irrationally using the wars as their excuse.
Even as experiments in the Milgram mold continue, my reluctant judgment is to agree with H.L. Mencken's extremely jaundiced, disgusted view of people, ameriKans most of all. look him up online for some of the most devastating and even funniest assessments of it all!
My motto used to be "humor vincit omnia" -- "humor conquers all" in Latinglish. Not so much anymore......
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Friday, September 4, 2015
All God's children got wheels
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." The ways such Bible verses apply to life today are many and ironic. "Knowledge shall be increased" -- does that refer to the massive development of artificial intelligence, perhaps, or to the way people are waking up to the reality of the political racket?
With the number of passenger vehicles rivaling the number of people in this country and private enterprise carrying people into space, it's not hard to imagine what "run to and fro" refers to today. And one of the most tragicomic applications is how those smartening up about temporal realities are relocating.
http://www.infowars.com/taxpayers-fleeing-democrat-run-states-for-republican-ones/
TAXPAYERS FLEEING DEMOCRAT-RUN STATES FOR REPUBLICAN ONES
Americans escaping high taxes and welfare states
We've discussed the thousands of people who are leaving amerika for freer, less schizoid locations. This new form of expatriation (well, the states are supposed to be countries!) is a further indictment of the "evil and wicked government" at all levels that Dr. Clarkson used to deplore in inimitable ironic tones.
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With the number of passenger vehicles rivaling the number of people in this country and private enterprise carrying people into space, it's not hard to imagine what "run to and fro" refers to today. And one of the most tragicomic applications is how those smartening up about temporal realities are relocating.
http://www.infowars.com/taxpayers-fleeing-democrat-run-states-for-republican-ones/
TAXPAYERS FLEEING DEMOCRAT-RUN STATES FOR REPUBLICAN ONES
Americans escaping high taxes and welfare states
We've discussed the thousands of people who are leaving amerika for freer, less schizoid locations. This new form of expatriation (well, the states are supposed to be countries!) is a further indictment of the "evil and wicked government" at all levels that Dr. Clarkson used to deplore in inimitable ironic tones.
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Fun and games with county lines now
Merely another day, another headline in the politicians' hexing of South Carolina:
http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=181495&Disp=2#C2
State Agency Reviewing County Lines – Minus Public Input
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http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=181495&Disp=2#C2
State Agency Reviewing County Lines – Minus Public Input
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