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- Newt Gingrich’s ‘mind boggling’ tax plan
- Reid: “Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns” Because They “Don’t Exist”
- Overkill on Internet piracy
- Artificial Sweetener Disease; a new breed of sickness
- Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States as Big Government Claims Ownership Over Our Water
- Ron Paul Holds Crucial Card in GOP Race
- Top NH Tea Party leader endorses Romney
| Newt Gingrich’s ‘mind boggling’ tax plan Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:29 PM PST
Every Republican presidential hopeful has a plan to cut taxes. But one candidate’s plan has been described as so aggressive that it would blow a hole in the federal budget, lead to huge deficits and give the richest Americans a gigantic tax break. That candidate is current frontrunner Newt Gingrich. According a new analysis, Gingrich’s tax plan would reduce government revenue by a staggering $1.3 trillion — or 35% — in 2015, the first year the plan could be fully implemented. “It’s mind boggling. It’s a very large tax cut,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, which performed the analysis. Gingrich wants to add to the current tax code by putting an optional 15% flat tax on income in place, with a $12,000 per-person deduction. And Gingrich would like to eliminate the estate and capital gains taxes. To read more, visit: http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/12/news/economy/newt_gingrich_taxes/ |
| Reid: “Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns” Because They “Don’t Exist” Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST From: RealClearPolitics.com Reid: “The Republicans say the richest of the rich in our country, even those who make millions every year, shouldn't contribute more to get our economy back on track. They call our plan, time after time, a tax on job creators, and I say so-called "job creators." Because I say that, Mr. President, every shred of evidence contradicts this red herring. For example, there have been many outlets, but I'll concentrate on one. National Public Radio went looking for one of these fictitious millionaire job creators. A reporter reached out to the business groups and a tax lobby in the Republican Congress hoping to interview one of these millionaires. Days ticked by with no luck. Many of our job creators are like unicorns, they’re impossible to find and don’t exist. That's because only a tiny fraction of people making more than a million dollars, probably less than one percent, are actually small business owners and only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction is a traditional job creator.” To read more, visit: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/12/reid_millionaire_job_creators_are_like_unicorns_because_they_dont_exist.html |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST By: Jennifer Rubin, WashingtonPost.com Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been denounced by critics for setting up " 'walled gardens patrolled by government censors.' Or derided as imparting 'major features' of 'China's Great Firewall' to America. And accused of being 'potentially politically repressive.' " He contends, "This is not serious criticism. The proposition that efforts to enforce the Copyright Act on the Internet amount to some sort of censorship, let alone Chinese-level censorship, is not merely fanciful. It trivializes the pain inflicted by actual censorship that occurs in repressive states throughout the world. Chinese dissidents do not yearn for freedom in order to download pirated movies." I don't quarrel with his assertion that it is hysterical to regard enforcement of libel and copyright infringement on the Internet as the beginning of a totalitarian state. But he misses the real point of sober-minded critics: The bill is unnecessarily overbroad and a formula for a host of undesirable and unintended consequences. ABC News reported last month on the overbroad nature of the remedies that would be available: Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, said the bills would overdo it — giving copyright holders and government the power to cut off Web sites unreasonably. They could be shut down, and search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo could be stopped from linking to them. Harvard law professor and Supreme Court advocate Laurence Tribe (whom I don't always agree with but who takes the Bill of Rights quite seriously and was instrumental in developing the jurisprudence that confirmed the Second Amendment is an individual right) has submitted a memo detailing the multiple ways in which SOPA runs afoul of the First Amendment. For example, "SOPA provides that a complaining party can file a notice alleging that it is harmed by the activities occurring on the site 'or portion thereof .' Conceivably, an entire website containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement. Such an approach would create severe practical problems for sites with substantial user-generated content, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and for blogs that allow users to post videos, photos, and other materials."And likewise: "The notice-and-termination procedure of Section 103(a) runs afoul of the 'prior restraint' doctrine, because it delegates to a private party the power to suppress speech without prior notice and a judicial hearing. This provision of the bill would give complaining parties the power to stop online advertisers and credit card processors from doing business with a website,merely by filing a unilateral notice accusing the site of being 'dedicated to theft of U.S. property' — even if no court has actually found any infringement. The immunity provisions in the bill create an overwhelming incentive for advertisers and payment processors to comply with such a request immediately upon receipt." To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/overkill-on-internet-piracy/2011/12/11/gIQA9TK6nO_blog.html |
| Artificial Sweetener Disease; a new breed of sickness Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:16 PM PST By: S. D. Wells, NaturalNews.com Artificial Sweetener Disease (ASD) is sweeping across America, affecting tens of thousands of consumers, and Western medicine calls it anything but what it really is, so that doctors can prescribe expensive pharmaceuticals and set up “check up” appointments for the following weeks. Call it recurring headaches, unbearable migraines, depression, anxiety, muscle pain, arthritis flare ups, buzzing or ringing in the ears, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease, inflammation, even acid reflux, but don’t call it ASD, or the patient may stop consuming synthetic sweeteners, and then not schedule more doctor visits. The symptoms of ASD can change overnight, depending on how much chemical sweetener you consume, and which ones. Some combinations are especially toxic. Consumers can go from a migraine headache to vomiting or from vision problems to an upset stomach. Many people experience central nervous system disorders, cramping, nervous twitches and abnormal reflexes. It all started when Ronald Reagan took office in 1980. He immediately fired the head of the FDA, under advisement from Donald Rumsfeld (CEO of Searle Pharmaceutical at the time), and hired Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., who auspiciously approved aspartame. It was the decade of the diet craze, and Rumsfeld and his constituents made a fortune off the artificial sweetener which had been banned for decades due to laboratory testing results proving it was carcinogenic. The same FDA tainted approval process gave way to sucralose in 1991, and then sorbitol in 2003. Gulf War Syndrome mainly ASD It is not a coincidence that a wave of fibromyalgia cases hit the American troops during the Gulf War. Studies revealed that drinking diet sodas in the 120 degree heat lead to serious health repercussions. It was cleverly chalked up under the umbrella term “Gulf War Syndrome,” but the same problems are occurring for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan now. It is also no coincidence that 4 out of 5 fibromyalgia cases affect women, who are more likely to eat diet foods and consume diet drinks than men. Nearly all chewing gum and breath mints are loaded with artificial sweeteners. To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/034378_artificial_sweetener_disease_ASD_aspartame.html |
| Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States as Big Government Claims Ownership Over Our Water Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:53 PM PST
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials,that rain belongs to someone else. As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use. Check out this YouTube video of a news report out of Salt Lake City, Utah, about the issue. It's illegal in Utah to divert rainwater without a valid water right, and Mark Miller of Mark Miller Toyota, found this out the hard way. After constructing a large rainwater collection system at his new dealership to use for washing new cars, Miller found out that the project was actually an "unlawful diversion of rainwater." Even though it makes logical conservation sense to collect rainwater for this type of use since rain is scarce in Utah, it's still considered a violation of water rights which apparently belong exclusively to Utah's various government bodies. "Utah's the second driest state in the nation. Our laws probably ought to catch up with that," explained Miller in response to the state's ridiculous rainwater collection ban. To read more, visit: http://majortrend.tv/6189/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states-as-big-government-claims-ownership-over-our-water/ |
| Ron Paul Holds Crucial Card in GOP Race Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:35 PM PST By Gerald F. Seib, The Wall Street Journal Ron Paul is the wild card in the Republican presidential deck—and that makes him one of the most important cards of all right now. It was possible earlier this year to write off the libertarian Texas congressman as an eccentric simply looking, as he did four years ago, for a place on a debate stage to proclaim his gospel of small government and hard money. But now Mr. Paul appears to be the man who could shape the outcome of the Iowa caucuses, which could go a long way toward shaping the overall race. Nationally, Mr. Paul’s support runs a modest 10% or so in most polls, putting him well behind front-runners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. But in Iowa, four polls in the past two weeks or so have put him at an average of 18%—high enough to compete for second place. Indeed, to watch Saturday night’s Iowa debate, and hear the audience reaction to Rep. Paul, was to sense how well he is striking chords with voters. A strong Paul performance in Iowa would go a long way toward determining not just the outcome of the Jan. 3 caucuses there, but the path of the crucial phase of the race that immediately follows Iowa. Here’s why. If Mr. Paul does well in Iowa, he could so muddy the waters that there is no clear winner. An inconclusive outcome would be a boon for Mr. Romney, who hasn’t done all that well in Iowa, and who is counting much more heavily on winning the New Hampshire primary a week later. A murky Iowa result would reduce any momentum the upstart Mr. Gingrich might enjoy heading into New Hampshire. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204336104577094384060886756.html |
| Top NH Tea Party leader endorses Romney Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:29 PM PST By JOHN DiSTASO, UnionLeader.com MANCHESTER — Leading state Tea Party activist and long-time "ax-the-tax" advocate Tom Thomson has chosen Mitt Romney as his presidential candidate. Thomson, honorary chairman of the conservative Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire advocacy group and co-organizer of three annual April 15 Tea Party AFP-Tea Party rallies at the New Hampshire State House, endorsed the former Massachusetts governor at today at Madison Lumber Mill in West Ossipee. A son of the anti-tax patriarch former Gov. Meldrim Thomson Jr., Thomson pre-dates the Tea Party as an outspoken fiscal conservative, but in recent years has become a Tea Party leader. "I was a Tea Party activist before it was cool," Thomson said. "And as a Tea Party person, I believe the best avenue to the White House is through Mitt Romney." Thomson has been collecting presidential candidates’ signatures on his "My Pledge to the American People," whose goals include cutting spending, taxes, fees and regulations, reducing the national debt and cutting the size of government. To read more, visit: http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111212/NEWS0605/712129995 |
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