According to Ron Paul, the Libertarian-Republican-Libertarian, corporate taxes pay 70% of the income received by the feds and we individual taxpayers pay 30%. As you have seen elsewhere here, we really pay all the taxes -- taxes are a part of the cost basis of companies, and that cost is factored into every product consumers buy. Further, it is basically a user tax, which hits lower income people the most.Since we are footing the bill, perhaps we should be honest about this whole mess and pay the rest directly, removing the corporate tax completely, since we pay it anyway. Companies would be free to re-invest and expand, creating jobs. But if you are like me, you suddenly realize you are going really see what you are paying to the government, and you will be fuming at the thought that your visible tax bill will be three times higher. This is exactly what Congress does not want you to see, for then your demands (certainly mine) for a smaller government is going to so much louder. Right now, Congress poses companies and corporations as bad guys, the ones not paying enough, which is just a backdoor blame game to get more out of OUR wallets. Mind you, we really are paying it anyway, and if it were visible, Congress would have no place to hide. This ball-and-cups game Congress plays is a big factor in driving companies offshore -- they can be more profitable even if workers are paid the same.
The government is too big, period. The government is costing us our hard-earned money at an extremely high rate, costing jobs, costing small business owners and large corporations, and shows no desire to squelch its appetite. We need to cut the size of the federal government in half, if not by two-thirds, to a more affordable level for US, the American taxpayers.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Thomas Jefferson
BTW, checkout FairTax.org. Read through it, use its calculator to see how it might impact your household, read about the prebate management. If it works for you, let your Congressmen know (HR 25, S 1025)!
Regarding The Bailout...
Rep. Culberson:
Thank you for representing me and standing against this socialistic bill.
Regarding FEMA...
It is just a big handout anyway. Why should the hard workers of Albany, NY or Kalamazoo, MI contribute, via federal taxation, to recovery efforts here in the Gulf Coast? Why should we on the Gulf Coast pay for the recovery of flooding in Iowa? Why not have each state, which has its own set of natural disaster phenomena, escrow emergency relief money of its own? The amount FEMA "gives" is not full home replacement (Katrina victims got an average of $2300, I recall), and each state and its officials are more adept at handling the local issues than some outsider from DC.
One more note....
EVERY American needs to visit this site, review the Constitution regularly, and compare how your Congressional team is doing with respect to it. The Constitution is there for YOUR protection, regardless of your political label:
http://www.usconstitution.net
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Thomas Jefferson
BTW, checkout FairTax.org. Read through it, use its calculator to see how it might impact your household, read about the prebate management. If it works for you, let your Congressmen know (HR 25, S 1025)!
Regarding The Bailout...
To my Senators:
I oppose the economic recovery bill, the idea of it as well as the details because the very idea of it smacks at everything American, it does not allow the market and business to make adjustment, and every other industry that has experienced contraction has done so at the cost of stronger companies buying up weaker companies and their marketshare. The auto industry at one time had American Motors, Nash Motors, Desoto, Hudson, and many others. The oil industry had Skelley, Gulf, Arco, Sinclair and many others. Competition weaned them out, and Congress did not permit the same natural processes to take place in the lending and financial industry. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I oppose the economic recovery bill, the idea of it as well as the details because the very idea of it smacks at everything American, it does not allow the market and business to make adjustment, and every other industry that has experienced contraction has done so at the cost of stronger companies buying up weaker companies and their marketshare. The auto industry at one time had American Motors, Nash Motors, Desoto, Hudson, and many others. The oil industry had Skelley, Gulf, Arco, Sinclair and many others. Competition weaned them out, and Congress did not permit the same natural processes to take place in the lending and financial industry. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rep. Culberson:
Thank you for representing me and standing against this socialistic bill.
Regarding FEMA...
It is just a big handout anyway. Why should the hard workers of Albany, NY or Kalamazoo, MI contribute, via federal taxation, to recovery efforts here in the Gulf Coast? Why should we on the Gulf Coast pay for the recovery of flooding in Iowa? Why not have each state, which has its own set of natural disaster phenomena, escrow emergency relief money of its own? The amount FEMA "gives" is not full home replacement (Katrina victims got an average of $2300, I recall), and each state and its officials are more adept at handling the local issues than some outsider from DC.
One more note....
EVERY American needs to visit this site, review the Constitution regularly, and compare how your Congressional team is doing with respect to it. The Constitution is there for YOUR protection, regardless of your political label:
http://www.usconstitution.net
