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The Political Primary Season and the 2012 Election
There is one economic
truth of which many people seem unaware; all
taxes are ultimately paid by individuals.
Any tax levied on businesses and corporations is considered a cost of
doing business and is included in the
price of products and services and paid by the individuals who purchase those
products and services. Businesses
don’t pay taxes; they collect taxes from individuals (in the
price of their products and services) and send the money to the government.
In government,
business or small groups, whatever the venue, if you want to find where the
power resides, “follow the money”. It’s
the cynical “golden rule”: whoever has the gold, rules. Nowhere is this more
evident than in government. The power to
tax is the ultimate power of government; the power to control business,
commerce and individuals.
Karl Marx and
Frederich Engels in their Communist
Manifesto posited as the second of their steps to converting a free market,
capitalist system to a communist system the introduction of “a heavy,
progressive income tax”. In this
instance “progressive” means that the more income the greater the rate of
taxation. It is this disparity in tax
rates that allows socialist, redistributive government programs and encourages
“class warfare” that is ultimately intended to force the society toward
socialism/communism.
Both Republican and
Democrat parties resist the idea of eliminating the graduated income tax
system. Why the resistance to any effort to eliminate the Marxist income tax
and replace it with another system that is not intended to lead to
socialism/communism? There can be only one basic reason if you “follow the money”:
you must like the present system and its goal of installing socialism/communism
or at least like the way the money flows from that system giving government and
favored individuals power and wealth.
There are three
forces propelling the opposition to eliminating the Marxist system: 1.
Dedicated Marxists (socialists/communists), true believers who want the USA to
become a socialist country and 2. Those that are called “useful idiots” – those
who unknowingly follow the teachings of Marx because being for the “common man”
or the “poor” makes them feel superior when in fact Marxism is the greatest
oppressor of all political systems ever devised (That’s why they’re called
“idiots”) and 3. Politicians from both parties and their friends (contributors)
whose businesses or wealth benefits from the system (these people are thieves –
stealing from the national treasury).
Keep that in mind as
you observe the politics leading up to this year’s Presidential primaries and
the general election of the President and members of Congress. Watch for those who claim to be for changing
the system but propose leaving the income tax system in place and merely
changing the rates or advocating a “flat tax”. Take note of those people who
advocate taxing the “evil corporations”.
Corporations do not pay taxes – they just add the taxes to the cost of
their products or services and pass that cost on to their customers. All taxes are paid either directly or
indirectly by individuals. Any
politician who claims otherwise is either ignorant or a liar. Everything else
including oppressive regulations is based on the Marxist tax system. Eliminate that and the oppressive regulations
will go away once they cannot be used to game the system.
The present system
cannot be uninstalled rapidly; it would likely take 3 – 7 years but it does
offer a way to stop our slide into socialism.
Herman Cain, whose campaign has been suspended, showed one way to do
that with his 9-9-9 plan – a transition to eliminating the income tax and
installing a national retail sales tax to replace it – the “Fair Tax”, the most
researched tax reform in history (http://www.fairtax.org). So far no other candidate has proposed a
method of eliminating the Marxist system perhaps noting that Cain was not only
attacked and slandered by those who support the socialist agenda but by many in
his own party who oppose changing the system.
Very
little will change in the Federal government until the Marxist graduated income
tax system is eliminated.
If we continue to
elect leaders who are content to “tweak” the present system, then we shall have
the government and the economy we deserve.
In both the short term and long term it’s up to the USA voters in 2012.
From the beginning of historical time described in the Bible to the
present and into the future
The Hand of God Excerpts:
What is the Bible? It most certainly is neither a history of the
universe or even of this planet nor is it a history of the human race. If God inspired the writing of the Bible, He
chose to tell us very little about the origin of our universe and our
planet. He told us the earth was in a
state of devastation (“without form and void” – Genesis 1:2 KJV) before He
changed this world into habitable form for life. He then created the sun, the
moon, flora and fauna and last He created man.
In terms of origins, that’s essentially all the Bible tells us.
The first 10 chapters of the Bible
deal with this enigma with a brief description and little explanation. That a Creator exists, that He deals with
mankind, that He created mankind for a purpose, that He gave us laws and that
He influences or directs what happens to mankind are all matters of faith and
not science. The Bible makes no pretense
in the latter direction. Most of the 11th chapter of Genesis traces
the genealogy of Noah after the great flood to the time of a man called Abraham
and the rest of the Bible is devoted to his descendants. The only time other nations and people are
mentioned or described in the Bible is a result of their contact with Abraham’s
descendants.
Three major religions – Judaism,
Christianity and Islam – sprang from the events that transpired with
Abraham. The Bible is the prime source
for the religions of Judaism and Christianity and the writings included in the
canon were completed before the end of the 1st Century A.D. Islam originated in the 7th
Century A.D. Islam, which traces its origins to Abraham in its sacred writing
the Quran, is very much in the news today and most of the current friction and
armed conflict is a result of the actions of radical, militant adherents to
that religion. The conflict between the
Islamic nations and the nation of Israel and the nations of Western Civilization
can be traced to events that happened about 4,000 years ago. The current Middle Eastern conflicts are a
direct result of the Israelite claims to the land of Palestine and the Islamic
denial of that claim.
It is important to understand how
those conflicts impact our world today.
Along with other points, this paper examines their Biblical origins, how
they impact the whole world, show up in the headlines of our newspapers and
most likely hold the key to a great many events in our future. It is my belief that
the “hand of God” is behind those forces and that we can only understand what
will happen in our future by understanding how He has shaped the past. To get to the present, we must turn to the
past and examine how those forces have worked and find a correlation to the
present. Read more: The
Hand of God
One Generation Excerpts:
The Road to Ruin
The Tea Party Movement
can put us back on the right track in one generation
Communism has failed everywhere it
has been tried. In 1989 – just 20 years
ago – the fall of the Soviet Union with unprecedented speed of a major world
power should have made this clear. The
incorporation of markets and near free enterprise into the Chinese economy
while still maintaining authoritarian rule in government further emphasizes
this fact: Communism does not work.
Why is this important to the Tea
Party movement? If we are to take this
country back, that process cannot be left incomplete. There are political systems in place in this
country that cannot be changed overnight without tremendous upheaval and
suffering. Nevertheless, and no matter
how long it takes, those systems must be changed.
How did our country allow these
systems that assure eventual failure to be incorporated into our free-market,
capitalist system? It’s the anecdotal
analogy of the frog in the boiling water.
If you’re not familiar with it read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog.
It has taken over 100 years for these systems to be set in place but their
placement has been deliberate by those who are the “true believers” in communism
or socialism. They will only be removed
by a political movement willing to spend the time, money, effort and endurance
to get the job done.
The good news is that it won’t take
100 years – it will only take one generation that recognizes the problems and
is willing to stand up to the “progressive” movement that began with Marx and
Engels and is continued today by those who call themselves “progressives”.
Further good news is found in the
large number of women involved in the “Tea Party” movement. This support for the statement that the
change can be accomplished in one generation is quite involved but I’ve written
a paper explaining how one generation of women – who realize their God-given
role in shaping the next generation – can completely change a society and its
culture. Click here to read “The Truth about Men and Women”. Read more: One Generation