BIN LADEN DEAD?!

The news is all over the place now.  It is front page news at the New York Times even.  I for one am glad that he is finally dead.  The Times story says that he has been killed and so I await the details as the rest of America does. 

Forgive me if I hurl if our illustrious President attempts to somehow take any credit for his death.  We all know better than that right?  In fact, I am actually worried that Obama will tear up and announce funeral arrangements for a martyr.  He wont condone his actions of course, just admire his convictions and lament his lack of opportunities to sit down with such a great individual.  Hear that?  Its me throwing up!

Anyway, I for one am not the least bit broken up about that scum kicking the bucket.  In fact, I hope it was a long and drawn out death.  I would relish the idea of him having actually being caught 5 years ago and just now succumbing to the torture.  And that still would be too good for him. 

GOD BLESS THE USA AND THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY SO THAT THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND EVEN STRANGERS CAN ENJOY THE SAME FREEDOMS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME

IRS: Too much power enforcing tax codes that are reprehensible

After the 16th Amendment was ratified, an income tax was imposed starting in 1913 with rates ranging from 1 percent to 7 percent with the top rate applying only to incomes in excess of $500,000. By 1916 that top rate had risen to 15 percent, on income in excess of $2,000,000. The top rate exceeded 90 percent at its peak in the early 1950s. The first 1040 form -- instructions and all -- took up only four pages. Today there are some 4,000 pages of tax forms and instructions. American workers and business are forced to spend more than 5.4 billion man-hours every year figuring out their taxes. Since those hours could be put to a more productive use, and almost surely would be in the absence of today’s incomprehensible tax code, the result is a large dead-weight output loss of some $200 billion each year. ... The IRS now has more enforcement personnel than the EPA, BATF, OSHA, FDA, and DEA combined. With its 115,000-man workforce, it has the power to search the property and financial documents of American citizens without a search warrant and to seize property from American citizens without a trial. It routinely does both. Economist James L. Payne has written a most revealing analysis of the IRS, a 1993 book entitled Costly Returns. He arrives at a stunning conclusion, the total cost to collect our federal taxes, including the effects on the economy as a whole adds up to an amazing 65 percent of all the tax dollars received annually. The U.S. tax system, says Payne, has produced hundreds of thousands of victims of erroneous IRS penalties, liens, levies, and tax advice. In answering taxpayer questions, for example, the IRS telephone information service has in previous years given about one-third of all callers -- as many as 8.5 million Americans -- the wrong answers to their questions. A 1987 General Accounting Office study found that 47 percent of a random sample of IRS correspondence -- including demands for payments -- contained errors. Incredibly a GAO audit of the IRS in 1993 found widespread evidence of financial malfeasance and gross negligence at the agency. The IRS could not account for 64 percent of its congressional appropriation!
-- Dr. Lawrence W. Reed
(1953-) President of the Foundation for Economic Education
Source: Taxes and Tyranny, THE UNREPORTED NEWS, August 27, 1995.

Political Spin at its best!

Political spin at its best.

No Matter What Side You Are On.....This IS Funny! It just all depends on how you look at some things.. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree.. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor. The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows  in Montana territory:

On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'

So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle. 




This is What Reid's Staff sent back as their research:
"Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montanarailroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed."

NOW THAT's how it's done, Folks!   That's real POLITICAL SPIN

 
Harry Reid