You have heard me before on the matter of the so-called "penny sales tax" fad that's sweepng South Carolina and probably many other states. It's in the news afresh in a foul-smelling way:
Inside the Penny Tax: What Went Wrong?
Like any county, parish or borough, Richland County has a professional, functioning procurement department with rules, procedures and protocol governed by law that ensures fairness and transparency.
Unlike any county, parish or borough, when the penny sales tax passed in 2012 thanks to the most controversial, mismanaged elections in living memory, County Council wrote an ordinance – No. 039-12HR – giving it project award authority on its own and allowing it to create a separate, independent Professional Development Team (PDT) to run the billion-dollar project.
Now the focus of a SLED investigation and allegations of corruption, misappropriation and fraud thanks to a Department of Revenue audit, the PDT team has operated since its inception out of sight and out of mind, playing by its own rules and overseeing its own procurement outside existing channels and without requiring the approval of the county legal department, sources inside the county tell The Nerve.
AN ENTITY UNTO ITSELF
Not only does the PDT operate outside the rules of the county government oversight, it operates literally outside the county building, in a separate location rented specifically for them, a snazzy brick building at 201 Arbor Lake Drive in the Fontaine Business Center well away from downtown.
According to the PDT contract, $560,878 was authorized as a “mobilization fee” to “locate, lease and set up office space” with a minimum of 20 individual offices to include...........
So the thing is implicated in some of the dirtiest politics out there -- in a county whose seat doubles as the state capitol city! Click the link to see one of the biggest, most mendacious images of the Lincoln head copper ever....... The most bizarre thing to me is that The Nerve, a project of the very hip South Carolina Policy Council, is going along with this "penny" nonsense.
It is NOT a penny tax. It is a SUBSTANTIAL HIKE if whatever tax already exists, by percentage! A true penny tax would only add one literal cent to the price of each unit of goods or services. If, say, the existing sales tax is 6%, adding a FURTHER PERCENT to the gouge is slightly over a SIXTEEN PERCENT surge in sales taxes -- 6 going into 100 about 16 times, in other words -- even if passed off as an accommodations tax.
God bless the Policy Council for the fantastic work it does exposing many levels of corruption. in the belly of the Palmetto beast. Anybody want to sav me the trouble of pointing out this anomaly to them?
Now this from SC's best "foreign" friend, Aaron Bolinger in rural Pennsylvania:
Tennessee and South Carolina Bills Would Open the Door to Armed Police Drones
Seems like a good time to write your state senator and representative. Don't know who they are? So easy to find out and a-c-t:
Find Your Legislators
What a HISTORY our politicians have of terrorizing and terrifying the innocent!
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror
Wish the news were better! What have y'all done this year to make it so? Action reports always welcome. Have a happy, healthy 2016, all.
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Friday, January 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
The government giveth, the government taketh away
"In addition, the glitch caused the IRS to issue another $19 million in refunds that should have been flagged as potentially fraudulent, inspectors found."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/mistake-issues-millions-tax/2015/12/21/id/706717/
IRS Mistakenly Issued $46 Million in Tax Refunds Due to Glitch
In our next story TheGreat One is vindcated all over again:
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article49933695.html
Feds working to put SC ‘Sovereign Citizens’ in prison for getting huge income tax refunds
Perhaps 10 years ago various people we knew discovered this process and ecstatically cashed in big. If any actually got to keep the money, it was precious few. Most get themselves in serious trouble, because when the IRS giveth back, it's often in a pharaonic sense (revisit book of Exodus).
If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Not always, but mostly.
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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/mistake-issues-millions-tax/2015/12/21/id/706717/
IRS Mistakenly Issued $46 Million in Tax Refunds Due to Glitch
In our next story TheGreat One is vindcated all over again:
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article49933695.html
Feds working to put SC ‘Sovereign Citizens’ in prison for getting huge income tax refunds
Perhaps 10 years ago various people we knew discovered this process and ecstatically cashed in big. If any actually got to keep the money, it was precious few. Most get themselves in serious trouble, because when the IRS giveth back, it's often in a pharaonic sense (revisit book of Exodus).
If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Not always, but mostly.
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
Some federal taxes actually get stalled
I think it was the great Michael Rivero that reported that Obamacare isn't expected to last two more years, it's so unpopular and all-fired disastrous. Yummy:
ObamaCare fear after tax freeze
ObamaCare advocates are growing fearful that several key taxes frozen in Wednesday’s budget deal will never go into effect.
The pair of budget deals negotiated by congressional leaders would halt or delay three ObamaCare taxes, forcing the president to make his biggest concession yet since his healthcare law was passed.
Hours after the deal was announced, White House spokesman Josh Earnest downplayed the biggest change – a delay of the Cadillac tax – as “minimal.” But supporters of the law say they’re worried that the delay of these taxes, until after Obama leaves office, will ultimately lead to their demise.....
Wicked pedia: "Informally, a Cadillac plan is any unusually expensive health insurance plan, usually arising in discussions of medical-cost control measures in the United States." Now that's pretty cheeky slang, isn't it!
More good news -- some crooked lawyers actually get put out of business by courts! Here's just one of the thousands of rich, strange tidbits at newsoftheweird.com:
In November, lawyer Michael Petersen of Appleton, Wisconsin, was ordered by county judge Philip Kirk (in a sentence for contempt of court) to inform every client he acquires in the following 12 months that Petersen is a "crook," "cheat," "thief" and "liar." Kirk concluded that Peterson had lied about a plea deal with the prosecutor and created phony documents for backup, leading a client to plead guilty to armed robbery when the prosecutor said there was never such a deal. According to the Appleton Post Crescent, Kirk (after dressing down Petersen in colorful language) told him, "I want you to have as much business as a pimp in a nursing home." [Appleton Post Crescent, 11-19-2015]
The "weird" or "odd" news category -- one joint that never stops jumpin'. Michael Rivero's What Really Happened broadcast, one of the greatest things in radio on the air or offline. Check it out!
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ObamaCare fear after tax freeze
ObamaCare advocates are growing fearful that several key taxes frozen in Wednesday’s budget deal will never go into effect.
The pair of budget deals negotiated by congressional leaders would halt or delay three ObamaCare taxes, forcing the president to make his biggest concession yet since his healthcare law was passed.
Hours after the deal was announced, White House spokesman Josh Earnest downplayed the biggest change – a delay of the Cadillac tax – as “minimal.” But supporters of the law say they’re worried that the delay of these taxes, until after Obama leaves office, will ultimately lead to their demise.....
Wicked pedia: "Informally, a Cadillac plan is any unusually expensive health insurance plan, usually arising in discussions of medical-cost control measures in the United States." Now that's pretty cheeky slang, isn't it!
More good news -- some crooked lawyers actually get put out of business by courts! Here's just one of the thousands of rich, strange tidbits at newsoftheweird.com:
In November, lawyer Michael Petersen of Appleton, Wisconsin, was ordered by county judge Philip Kirk (in a sentence for contempt of court) to inform every client he acquires in the following 12 months that Petersen is a "crook," "cheat," "thief" and "liar." Kirk concluded that Peterson had lied about a plea deal with the prosecutor and created phony documents for backup, leading a client to plead guilty to armed robbery when the prosecutor said there was never such a deal. According to the Appleton Post Crescent, Kirk (after dressing down Petersen in colorful language) told him, "I want you to have as much business as a pimp in a nursing home." [Appleton Post Crescent, 11-19-2015]
The "weird" or "odd" news category -- one joint that never stops jumpin'. Michael Rivero's What Really Happened broadcast, one of the greatest things in radio on the air or offline. Check it out!
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Sunday, December 13, 2015
War of stances between citizen and "city hall"
Our position is the reasonable demand for freedom, truth and justice -- notably from GOVERNMENT to US. Bureaucrats' position is that whatever they do is perfect and correct -- that anybody challenging them is mentally ill, a "danger to others and themselves"......
Man Arrested After Trying To Pay Taxes With $1 Bills
Our position is that taxes are multiple, five ten or 20 times as high as they should be, and that at and point of interchange, the System refuses to give us any respect much less a serious hearing. We're not learning ANY of the backstory on this particular matter, but you can rest assured there is one favoring the "little man".
Click the link -- it's quite rich. Links are clickable here now. Do some living!
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Man Arrested After Trying To Pay Taxes With $1 Bills
Our position is that taxes are multiple, five ten or 20 times as high as they should be, and that at and point of interchange, the System refuses to give us any respect much less a serious hearing. We're not learning ANY of the backstory on this particular matter, but you can rest assured there is one favoring the "little man".
Click the link -- it's quite rich. Links are clickable here now. Do some living!
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
From NewsOfTheWeird.com an important, totally neglected aggregator
The federal government confiscated more property from citizens (through "civil asset forfeiture") in 2014 than burglars did, according to FBI figures publicized by the independent Institute for Justice (and that did not count state and local government seizures, which are not uniformly reported). None of the governments is bound by law to await convictions before exercising seizure rights. (Some of the seized assets must eventually be returned to private-party victims, but news reports abound of suddenly enriched police departments and other agencies being "gifted" with brand-new cars and other assets acquired from suspects never convicted of crimes.) [Washington Post, 11-23-2015]
Are We Safe? As News of the Weird chronicled in 2010 and 2011, Iraqi police (either corrupt or sincerely unsophisticated) continued to purchase worthless bomb "detectors" to use at checkpoints in Baghdad, instilling residents with a false sense of security, with the result that hundreds of people died in supposedly safe neighborhoods. Briton James McCormick, the most successful con man/seller, is serving a 10-year sentence for the "ADE 651" (which, somehow, Baghdad police continued to buy long after the U.S. had warned of the scam). Since then, more bogus detectors have been peddled to Thailand and other governments. In November 2015, London's The Independent, in a dispatch from the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh, reports that luxury hotels' security officers are now using similar bogus detectors to reassure tourists frightened by the recent terrorism-suspected Russian plane crash in Egypt. [The Independent, 11-10-2015]
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Are We Safe? As News of the Weird chronicled in 2010 and 2011, Iraqi police (either corrupt or sincerely unsophisticated) continued to purchase worthless bomb "detectors" to use at checkpoints in Baghdad, instilling residents with a false sense of security, with the result that hundreds of people died in supposedly safe neighborhoods. Briton James McCormick, the most successful con man/seller, is serving a 10-year sentence for the "ADE 651" (which, somehow, Baghdad police continued to buy long after the U.S. had warned of the scam). Since then, more bogus detectors have been peddled to Thailand and other governments. In November 2015, London's The Independent, in a dispatch from the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh, reports that luxury hotels' security officers are now using similar bogus detectors to reassure tourists frightened by the recent terrorism-suspected Russian plane crash in Egypt. [The Independent, 11-10-2015]
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Friday, December 4, 2015
MSN reveals itself as total axe-grinding re freedom breakthrough
To those in the laughably misnamed "mainstream" media, there is no such thing as a tax patriot or even a legitimate tax resister. Often called the propaganda arm of government, the cartel media have one goal -- to further the tyrannical "new world order" featuring total tax vampirism. No, if you have a disagreement with the IRS and believe (esp. if per the Constitution or Bible) you have a natural God-given right to the full fruit of your labors, YOU ARE A "CHEAT".
This is not just another tax headline, gang. It's an example of how great news can still happen every day, even as Amerika crumbles down to its last few atoms! If only you'd join us at freedom4um.com, you'll see where considerable good news including technological has been racked up recently.
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IRS loses hundreds of criminal agents as tax cheats take heart
This is not just another tax headline, gang. It's an example of how great news can still happen every day, even as Amerika crumbles down to its last few atoms! If only you'd join us at freedom4um.com, you'll see where considerable good news including technological has been racked up recently.
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IRS loses hundreds of criminal agents as tax cheats take heart
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Most unusual alternative to fiat "money"
Artisanal
Currency, a Refreshing and Totally Legal Way to Pay
Have you ever seen currency notes so
beautiful that you’d actually hesitate to spend them? Well, they’re
called ‘artisanal currency’, and they’re all the rage in
several parts of the world, including London, Amsterdam, and New
York. The concept is quite similar to artisanal coffee, cheese, or
chocolate that is handmade, not mass produced.
According to The New York Times, “these
are small-batch currencies designed by locals and lovingly handled by
millennials, who came of age during the rise of the Internet.”
Interestingly, this local currency is not meant to be a collectible,
but is legally accepted at cash-only community businesses so that the
money stays within the town or district.
London’s Brixton district, for
example, has its own artisanal currency designed by award-winning
artist Jeremy Deller. His £5 notes feature a “fuzzy, psychedelic
image of an androgynous face surrounded by rainbow clouds and
swirling etchings.” Deller said that he wanted to create “something
old-fashioned looking, something almost pre-currency.” And the
people of Brixton are quite pleased with their own special pound
notes. “I’d be more inclined to save money if it all looked like
that,” said Ewan Graham, a 31-year-old architect.......
Click for the rest of the article -- please! It's long, historical, current, exciting and profusely illustrated. (Have you noticed? Links are clickable here now.)
The "weird" or "odd" news category is often where you find the least weird, most promisingly normal and healthy news items, many of which are considered trash by the so-called mainstream media. I strongly urge keeping up with them notable oddee.com, newsoftheweird.com and nuttynewstoday.com . Mind you, it's also where you see the worst of human nature writ large -- which is also something I think we all need to do in our quest for the totality of timely truth.
To all who can answer why the last word in our title is in sarcasm quote marks, a special treat is in store.
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