Supreme Perspective

This week, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his upcoming retirement from the highest court in the land.  This will surely set off a too-long, and much-debated selection process for his replacement.

As cliche' as it is, this is the cost of elections.  I'd like to see Republican officials respect the separation of powers included in the Constitution, and confirm the President's appointee.  But, I'd also like to see these same Congressman vet this (surely "progressive" and half-mongoloid) appointee thoroughly and publically. 

Democrat Congress bones all of us

Hey, look, a graph:

Cash For Clunkers boned all of us

I steal from AmericanThinker.com. I like their graph of the day.

Cost to taxpayers for each extra car sold because of Cash for Clunkers: $20,000
Number of 'clunkers' turned in (and taken out of the market): 677,081
Price increase of used used cars since CfC: 13.7%
Change in car sales from July 2009 to February 2010: -0.6%

As you can see, when the government steps in to fix a problem, even if there isn't really a problem, everyone loses.

Subsidizing Everyone and Their Mothers

Project Prevention is a charity that uses donations to pay for drug addicts to get sterilized. According to their website they offer "cash incentives to women that are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol to use long-term or permanent birth control."

The reason I bring this up is not to argue whether Project Prevention is correct or not.  That is for you to decide.  I bring it up because they are now offering their services in England, which gives us an idea of what it will soon be like here with the new health care law.  See, since England has socialized health care, Project Prevention doesn't pay for the operation.  They pay drug addicts cash money to utilize public funds for their operation.

That is what will be happening in the United States soon.  I am willing to bet that most hardcore addicts in the US do not pay any taxes.  Soon, we will not only be paying for these people's health insurance, but with the help of charities like Project Prevention, we will be subsidizing operations while the non-tax paying addict makes money.  

Being a charity, Project Prevention also pays no taxes, the money the addicts make will not be taxed, and if you read my previous post you will know that the addict probably not only gets a paycheck from the government for welfare and foodstamps, but also makes money come tax time every year.  We are essentially subsidizing the person's entire life, while charities are encouraging them with cash to spend even more of our money.

So, like I said....you can choose whether the ideals behind Project Prevention are good or bad, but their methods cannot be justified by anyone.

Beware the Ides of March!

Tax day approaches, and though it is not on the traditional day of March 15th anymore, the extra month the government gives us doesn't really make a difference.  What is that saying about life...ah yes, "The only certain things in life are death and taxes."

Well, as it turns out, that is not true for quite a few Americans.  According to the Tax Research Center 47% of people will pay no taxes for 2009. In fact they state:

"The bottom 40 percent, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment."

This is ridiculous.  I know I got gouged for thousands of dollars in taxes even while being laid off for 4 months of the year.  Who are these people?  We essentially have a wealth redistribution system in which the top 10% of earners give money to the lower 50% with the big bad government acting as the middle man. These people are getting a paycheck for doing nothing.  They are being rewarded for underachieving while those who are successful are being punished in excess.

The US Tax code is roughly 17,000 pages.  Hell, the instructions on how to fill out your tax form are 305 pages long.  All those pages add up to a $12,600,000,000 budget for the IRS.  That is about $50 from every man woman and child in the country.  Well, actually, since most people don't pay any taxes the ones who do are charged extra to support the people who take their money.  Awesome.
 
You want a solution that will save taxpayers billions and restore economic freedom to all Americans?

Flat tax.

Flat tax!

FLAT TAX!