The Fairest Tax

How about entirely restructuring taxes in the United States? No more income tax or withholding or estate taxes, but a national sales tax of fifteen percent on every item sold, with a third of the revenue going each to the locality in which the transaction took place, a third to the state, and the remainder to the Federal government. If the majority of Americans feel food and medicine should not be taxed, then exclude those necessities and raise the rate to twenty-one cents of every remaining dollar spent with it divided the same way. Keep tariffs on foreign goods in place and use that collection to bolster national defense. People would obviously lose the ability to deduct a portion of their mortgages and 1031 exchanges would be a thing of the past, but the new method of taxation would be far more fair than the Federal government collecting the massive amounts it does now and then using returning money to states and cities over them to leverage their policies. People could regulate their spending if they wanted to pay less in taxes, giving them more control of their lives and futures. I would say a small percentage at the Federal level could be set aside to pay existing Social Security obligations, with that being phased out entirely over time as people would have better means to save for their own retirements and with investment in stocks no longer taxed, even with profits from sales as capital gains, the pool of investors in US stocks would rise tremendously, as would US stocks. You could continue to tax foreign stock transactions to encourage America's economic resurgence, and in so doing, along with tariffs on goods from abroad, bring the manufacturing economy back home. This plan would be good for everyone except venal politicians, who profit from rent-seekers now, tax attorneys, and accountants.  If implemented, America would be great again soon. Note- if an enemy attacks our nation, the rate of the national consumption tax could be adjusted to fit the need or the Federal government could take ten percent while state and local government could survive on their five, six, or seven percent until the US wins the war. 

Just Control This

The DemocRATS in the US House of Representatives just passed an "assault weapons" ban with two turncoat Republican accomplices. Can these idiots possibly believe that folks with murder in their hearts will simply surrender their guns? You might as well pass a Camelot Law demanding perfect weather to solve the (phony) climate crisis. Maybe enough Senators will come to their senses to block this outrage, but I would not count on it. 

Opposite of Kosher

I heard that The New York Times published a column that asked if people were ready for cannibalism. This is just more anti-human garbage spewing from the Left. Jonathan Swift wrote about this in A Modest Proposal hundreds of years ago as a satire, but I bet those Manhattan madmen are dead serious about eating their neighbors.

The Kosher Kid

She tried to give me ham in Amsterdam// But I said,"No thank you mam"// In the Dakotas, when I was a little bit older// They brought out milk with my meat and I had to repeat// "Can't mix that"// I am not Ozzie and I won't eat a bat// Just wouldn't be Kosher// But I would love a slice of that brisket Rabbi Mosher

Faith in Medicine

My father was medically murdered by Vanderbilt Hospital in 2012. At that point, I lost trust in America's medical industry. I was not therefore shocked or surprised that COVID vaccines were not all that they were promoted to be, and that in fact, they were not as protective as they were billed and ultimately injured and even killed some people. Now, we hear that the basis of Alzheimer's treatment for nearly two decades seems to have been a manipulated study. Is it any wonder the new therapies developed based on this phony model have not helped or saved the patients, but only boosted the profits of the pharmaceutical companies?

Selling Their Souls

There are plenty of researchers who will tailor the results of their studies to "prove" the point of whoever is paying their grant. The science they uphold is utterly corrupt, and this includes their contentions about man-caused climate change. They are presenting a rationale to advance restrictions on people to advance the interests of their benefactors who wish to impose tyranny.

You Know Right

Joe Biden has sold his office for years. His brother and son Hunter are his bag men. Influence peddling is often a criminal offense. Do you think the Bidens will ever face any real penalties for their venality?

Do No Right

Joe Biden is determined to overturn what President Trump did. Donald Trump is not Satan, and all his actions were not wrong. If anyone is fouling up the United States, I would contend it is Biden and the cabal that installed him as their figurehead and is propping him up. Trump was not perfect, but corrupt old Joe is inflicting a disaster upon our nation.

An Ascendant Iran

If Iran can commit acts of terrorism around the globe, murder hundreds of Americans in Iraq, and direct Yemen's Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia before the Islamic Republic acquires nuclear weapons, what will it be able to do once it has the Bomb? The world acqiesces now to the mad Mullahs. Can you imagine how much more appeasement will take place under atomic extortion?

Contempt of Congress

One of my heroes, Steve Bannon, was just convicted of contempt of Congress. Between my Congressman Jim Cooper, a DemocRAT who is so unpopular that he is retiring, and the brilliant Bannon, I take Bannon everytime. Congress has about the same level of approval now as a root canal. Does his conviction diminish the principled populist Bannon? No, in my eyes, it proves he is no turncoat either to the legitimate President Trump or to our nation!

Open Season Invitation

Not long ago, a grocery employee struck America's Mayor, senior citizen, Republican Rudolph Giuliani. The assailant had his charges greatly reduced and Rudy, a former prosecuter himself, was threatened with prosecution for filing a false police report. Yesterday, the GOP candidate for governor of New York Lee Zeldin suffered and attack by an armed man who tried to stab him. For some reason, authorities in the Empire State released the attacker on his own recognizance. I wonder if the policial figures who were attacked had been DemocRATS, if the justice system would have been so lenient?

World's Climate Crisis

For hundreds of generations, mankind dreamed of being able to live in comfort, in safety, and with ample supplies of food and clean drinking water, all which we in the First World developed the technology to create and produce, and all of which the climate change fanatics are willing to abandon. These zealots are warily or unwarily trying to set humanity back a thousand years. Anyone who adheres to climate change dogma hates human beings and the Lord that created us.

A Soft Touch

When a Third Worlder is constantly on the brink of starvation and struggling to survive, America offering a cradle to grave welfare state to anyone who sneaks in will obviously seem like paradise and attract many millions. The problem is the United States has no ability to pay for all the poor of our own, much less the impoverished of the entire globe. Usurper Joe has willingly become Uncle Sucker to the dole dwellers here and opened the Southern border to the parasites of the rest of the world. If you are from someplace else and want to come here, you will soon find we are failing just as much as wherever you are trying to leave.

Anarchy Is Worse

If ANTIFA and black bloc anarchists held more sway, life in America would be a nightmare. I know police here are not perfect, but I am for more law enforcement, not less, with more training, and the highest professional standards, along with ample opportunity for public scrutiny, because a great police force with great compensation for those risking their lives on our behalf would be proud to have the citizenry look over their shoulders, knowing they have nothing to hide.

Law and Disorder

In several of the horrible mass shootings, police have just waited outside, rather than confronting the killer. In the Walmart massacre in Texas, law enforcement killed the heroic citizen who stopped the actual gunman. I am for law and order because the alternative is chaos and anarchy but realize that in many instances the first responders lack sufficient training or leadership or initiative to deal with what they are forced to confront. We can never expect and will never have perfect policing, but what America has now must be improved for everyone's safety, including the officers themselves.

Abundant but Broke

Zimbabwe and Venezuela both have massive natural resources, yet because of mismanagement by and corruption of government, the citizens of these countries suffer and even starve. The same mentality that brought down oil-rich Caracas and destroyed the plenty of diamonds in the former Rhodesia is being imposed on America by a cabal that despises the Founding Ethos of our nation. The people of those countries beset with venal leaders have agonized while their dictators feasted. The United States has never experienced this until now, but those around the figurehead Biden never have to worry about their next tank of gas or if their refrigerator is full while everyday Americans who are working or want to work can not afford the fuel it takes to drive to their jobs or the unemployment office. America can't survive as a Venezuela writ large and if we as a nation perish, liberty around the world dies with us.

The Fire Extinguisher

President Trump, should he decide to run, and plenty of other actually conservative Republican politicians will dampen the fire of inflation when they oust the Biden cabal. They understand that you can never spend your way out of the Biden recession. They know the hole corrupt old Joe dug our nation into will never improve by digging even deeper and will cut Federal expenditures to restore prosperity.

The Nero Regime

If you are a normal working American (or one seeking gainful employment), the Biden cabal hates your guts. They maintain what is efffectively an open Southern border to keep wages for the natives depressed while bragging about the record number of guest workers they are bringing into the country. They are admitting a stream of unvetted foreigners and releasing felons from our jails and prisons (or not even prosecuting the undeniably guilty) who should remain incarcerated all over our nation, while planning to take away our heretofore legally owned firearms and prosecuting us for trying to defend ourselves. The only citizens Biden speaks up for are confused children who want to sexually mutilate themselves, many times over their own parents' objections, and women who want to slaughter their own babies right up to the moment of birth and perhaps a bit after that. The figurehead of this coup is a corrupt dunderhead whose mental faculties have obviously already failed him. If you don't want to see America burn, vote Republican and make sure the votes are accurately counted!

Chance at All

The DemocRATS may be leaving nothing to chance. They may well be heeding Stalin in the belief that only who counts the votes matters. Suddenly yeaterday, a poll that looks like an outlier appears saying DemocRATS and the GOP are running neck and neck (Siena/New York Times), when logic would dictate in the midst of this national disaster the party of Joe Biden would be smashed in November. This type of report may well be preparing the way for the upcoming steal. It remains to be seen if the People will tolerate it.

Chance of Winning

I have filled out shopper's surveys for more than three decades in the hopes of winning the sweepstakes or shopping spree associated with the contests. Over the course of time, I participated in many thousands of them and have won exactly nothing. I think there is a greater chance of the United States being locked down again for our "health" than me ever being selected for that prize drawing. In fact, to retain Congress, the DemocRATS stand a good chance of using a pandemic emergency to hold onto power, likely a reported surge in the virus or some other highly transmissable disease that stops in-person voting just before November with all the ballots having to be delivered and collected through the mail. I wonder how often millions of votes need to be stolen before the People decide they must employ other means to take back Freedom.

The Right Thing

Revolution is NOT inevitable. If politicians do what is right for their citizenry, even at this late moment, civil unrest could be staved off. People are not crying out for additional vaccines, masking, or lock downs, but demanding freedom. We can have peace on the streets if governments listen to the people.

Time of Revolution

The last time I can remember the world so broadly unstable was 1968. In particular areas, there has certainly been more upheaval since then, particularly the Arab Spring, but that was a largely localized phenomenon. What we are seeing now is worldwide with street demonstrations from Europe to Asia to Canada. We have just witnessed an assassination in Japan similar to the horrors that befell Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy back in the turbulent days of '68.

The International Insurrection

From the Netherlands to Sri Lanka, the people are rising up. This is not the Marxist dream come to life (nightmare), but common folk standing up against the imposition of socialist tyranny being imposed on them in the name of the Environment and in other places, against raw corruption. Who knows how this will end, as too often uprisings in the name of Freedom ultimately deliver the opposite?

Write Right Now

Folks are bloviating about gun control. They do not realize that those they really have to fear now are the same ones who will NEVER abide by firearms regulations. If someone is bent on robbing you with a pistol and willing to kill you if you resist or just don't comply fast enough, do you think they will turn in their weapons when a new law is passed requiring them to do so?

The Gut Feeling

Possession of guns is essentially banned to Japanese citizens, but that did not stop a Japanese forty-one year old from gunning down the former prime minister. People who eschew logic, but operate solely on emotion, witness mass casualty events and their knee-jerk reaction is to demand a ban on firearms. These same folks saw the Nice, France truck attack in 2016 that killed eighty-six, but did not say that we must forbid the use of motor vehicles. Those advocating overturning the Second Amendment to the US Constitution have no consistency and little sense.

Just Use Logic

Do gun control laws work? There are stringent firearm restrictions in Illinois already, but that did not stop the Highland Park massacre. Murder is illegal too, but sadly folks are murdered every day. There are four hundred plus million guns in private hands in America today, so I suspect people with evil intentions will always find whatever weapon they need to carry out their deadly plans. The best hope of stopping them might be a good guy in the vicinity with a gun of his/her own and the ability to use it.

Stop Mass Murder?

Unless you ban motorized vehicles, you will not stop multiple people being murdered in a single event. Around three thousand folks were deliberately killed by airplanes on September 11, 2001. Eighty folks were slaughtered by a jihadist driving a truck through a crowd in France. People in Israel sadly are run over by terrorists with some frequency. It is not the means of violence that need to be regulated, but the mentality of murder that authorities must seek to alter. From when Cain slew Abel, human beings have held life as less than precious, and until men change their hearts, it does not matter if guns are banned, cars are taken away, or any other measure taken to curb violence. It will not work. People will eliminate each other with whatever means at hand, including bats, tree limbs, stones, knives, and their bare hands.

Trump Supporter Shooter?

I saw an NBC report indicating the Chicago-area gunman had a couple of profile photos with Trump paraphernalia including one where he wrapped himself in a Trump flag. I think the shooter was a lunatic, whose political affiliations are irrelevant. Trump certainly would never condone and does not gain a thing from someone shooting up a Fourth of July parade. Even if the maniac declares he did it in some way to honor the Donald that does not transfer responsibility to Trump in the slightest.

Not Bargained For

When our forefathers threw off the English monarchy, they never could have guessed that an internationalist cabal would install a dementia patient as the leader of the nation they were creating. If they had seen corrupt and fading Joe Biden coming, they might have stuck with King George!

Need More Volunteers

It looks like the Ukraine may not be able to resist Putin after all. More and more territory is falling into Russia's hands and that of its proxies. All you folks with the Ukrainian flags on your social media profiles and especially in your yards ought to go join up. The Ukrainians will give you a gun and a few minutes of training and let you at those wicked Russkies.

New Welcome Signs

Some of the Leftist states can now put up highway signs emblazoned with "Abortion Next Hundred Miles". They can put ads online proclaiming you "can kill your baby right up until birth". Some of the really progressive locales may let you slaughter your newborn a few days in, kind of like sending back your pizza because the crust is not done to your liking, except doing this will ultimately send you someplace hotter than a pizza oven.

Admitting It Now

It all started for me back when the now departed Ernest "Fritz" Hollings bellowed in his Southern, stentorian way that there was "just too much consuming" going on around here. That old-time DemocRAT wanted Americans punished for and limited in their prosperity. He certainly was not the first, but was early in annunciating it out loud for the public to hear. DemocRATS have probably largely agreed with the underlying sentiment since at least the days of FDR, if not back to Wilson. The current crop and the cabal they have mismanaging the country is overt in declaring their socialist intentions, but use excuses like COVID and Putin to justify their economy-crippling actions. It is not a plausible rationale to harm one's own nation and people to fight a virus or thwart aggression thousands of miles from the Homeland, while more folks than ever are catching COVID and death tolls just keep rising. Putin seems to be getting richer while Americans endure higher prices on everything. Perhaps, the DemocRATS should start lying again and at least pretend they still favor the "little guy" over their billionaire donors and corporate and even foreign chronies.