Posted on 12 July 2009. Tags: Big Brother, civil disobedience, compensation, congress, consequences, consumers, corporate taxes, currency debasement, deficit spending, depession, domestic, Economics, effective tax burden, embedded taxes, employee, entitlements, excise taxes, fair tax, federal, federal reserve, feudalism, fixed income, foreign, freedom, frguality, gold, government spending, income taxes, inflation, inflation risk, inflation tax, international socialism, labor market, labor productivity, liberty, lifestyle, local, marginal productivity, Medicare, monetary policy, monetizing debt, money supply, net wealth transfer, payroll taxes, philosophical implications, Politics, progressive taxation, property taxes, purchasing power, recession, regulations, regulatory burden, Retirement, revolt, Rob Viglione, sales tax, Savings, securities, serfdom, shareholders, slavery, social security, socialism, southern california, speculation, state, stimulus, tariffs, taxation, transfer taxes, treasuries, Treasury, U.S. dollar, Uncle Sam, unemployment, USD, wages
This article is dedicated to the growing segment of American society that is awakening to the ideas that we are increasingly overworked and overtaxed. My goal is to determine an effective tax burden on the average middle-class American. I will leave it to the reader to judge relative severity of the burden as measured against associated “benefits” to which he is “entitled” from the system. Continue Reading
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Posted on 22 February 2009. Tags: agenda, allegations of torture, banking, bankrupt, barack obama, bonds, British detainee, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, broke, budget crisis, C.I.A. custody, california, Central Command, Central Intelligence Agency, Citi, Citigroup, Clinton implores Chinese to buy U.S. debt, construction, debt, democrats, Economics, equity stake in bank, europe, executive compensation, Executive Order 13502, fiscal issues, global New Deal, Green growth, Hillary Clinton, human rights, IMF, Internal Revenue Service, International Monetary Fund, IRS, Larry Kudlow, military leaving Iraq, moral hazard, mortgage bailout, nationalize banks, Nazi Germany, never charged with a crime, New York University, Nouriel Roubini, NYU, Obama ratings fall, offshore banking, Orwellian double-speak, payoff, payroll taxes, political pillage, Politics, pro-union, promote efficiency, promoting bad behavior, reform, refuse to be bullied by U.S., rehab, republicans, responsibility to world, Rick Santelli, Rob Viglione, sanctions on tax havens, secrecy, Secretary of State, shock tactics, social security, socialism, sparks revolt on trading floor, Spending, spending addicts, spending problem, Stern Business School, stop enabling, swiss banking, Switzerland, tax, taxation, taxes, temporary receivership, top Libertarian, treasuries, undeclared accounts, unfunded liability, union kickbacks, union mandates, USCENTCOM, voting authority, war in iraq, Wayne Root, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, withdrawal, worst attacks on media, zombie banks
British PM calls for “Global New Deal,” Obama kicks back favors to unions, Swiss stand strong against U.S. bullying, Clinton implores China to continue buying U.S. junk assets, top Libertarian explains California’s budget problems, Rick Santelli sparks revolt over mortgage bailout, military preparing for Iraq exit, top economist rationalizes bank seizures, EU clamping down on financial industry, C.I.A. finally releases U.K. citizen after 7 yrs without formal charges and allegations of torture, Obama’s ratings fall, government to take big ownership stake in Citi, U.S. troops in Pakistan, and Social Security hits Obama’s reform agenda…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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