I’m sorry but… April 14, 2011
Posted by wooddickinson in Change, Hope, shared vision.Tags: Barack Obama, Business, change, Democratic Party (United States), Entrepreneur, Future, Home mortgage interest deduction, Internal Revenue Service, NPR, Sales tax, Small business, Startup company, Tax, Think, United States, Wood Dickinson
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I listened to the news today and that, along with the speech made on April 13th by Obama, leaves me feeling very pessimistic about this country. Once again the Democrats wage war on “wealthy” Americans. The problem as Obama sees it, we don’t tax enough and we can keep spending at the current rates as long as we justtax people more.
OK…tax those that own small businesses and tax those who invest in the economy and take the risk, monetarily, to help drive the economy (that ultimately creates jobs). Just have the Feds create more jobs instead. Let’s just ramp up the old class warfare argument. I have to ask, where is the bipartisan? When did it become a crime in the USA to make money? Don’t people who make money spend it? If they don’t then aren’t jobs lost and local economies hurt?
Call me stupid but I don’t see how raising taxes on anyone works. It promotes the idea that middle class people and poor people (especially those who are unmotivated to work) should get part of the success of hard-working Americans who have made a few bucks. I’m not talking about our billionaires in this country or even those with 10 million and up in assets. Does anyone really think a person who has saved up 2 or 3 million dollars through hard work are “the rich!”
Why oh why can’t we just for this one time seriously cut government spending. Roll it back to pre 9/11 levels. Defund all non-essential and repetitive programs. Yes, The National Endowment for the Arts and NPR are non essentials. I’m an artist, writer, filmmaker and I have never used any federal money. States can offer tax credits (again back to NOT paying taxes) to attract filmmakers.
I do believe that true solutions to problems are usually simpler than the solutions dreamed up and implemented. The same is true here. End the IRS, stop federal taxes both personal and corporate, institute a national sales tax and I bet you’d have more than enough money. I know, the problem is EVERYONE would pay tax now. This would hurt the poor. Right? Well they are being hurt now with state and local sales tax. Exempt food and other essential items. This way everyone pays even all the gray market workers. Even the criminals!
Taking away the deduction for giving to non-profits by really wealthy people will hurt all those agencies trying to help society. Giving is already down. Go ahead and remove an incentive. You might say the rich should give regardless the deduction. Do you? The government by its tax rules shape how we act. They want us to save they create IRAs and 401Ks. They don’t want us to buy a house, remove the mortgage deduction.
Just think about it. Republican or Democrat I don’t care. I’m an independent and I’m sick of the excuses.
Are you in control of you life? October 22, 2010
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Every day I hear on the radio, TV in advertisements and in news reporting that no one really knows what the future holds. This leaves a person wondering if they have any control over their lives at all. Now that new massive government programs are in place, companies have no idea how to handle things like health care.
The unknown is, can I afford to keep my company healthcare or do I just drop it forcing every one on the public program? How many jobs will this cost me?
It is more like how many jobs will it cost all of us. Being a consultant I meet with many organization from small mom and pop’s to Universities. I hear the very same story. I don’t know if I will have enough money? The individual, which is where business starts, feels scared so he doesn’t buy anything. I’ll pass on the lawn over-seeding this year or cut back in how many times I go out to eat and then watch the cost of those places. Little things a million times become big things. Small companies fail, cut backs happen, unemployment remains unchanged.
There are many things we can do to control our lives. Eat out less. Go to the movies less. Skip shopping trips. Skip vacations. On and on but at some point when we’ve done all we can do then you ask yourself, “Am I in control of my life?”
The stress level around me is way up. Miss a payment by a day and people call millions of times harassing you for the check that is in the mail. Patients has gone out the door and so has wisdom.
I feel that I can be in control of my life. I have to decide where I stand. Today American’s need to decide what the vision of the future is going to be. Big government control and a socialistic economy or a free economy with smaller government and less tax burden and over regulation.
The town I work in is Mission Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. They just don’t have enough money to do everything they want to so the government has instituted a driveway tax! You will be taxed by the linear feet of concrete or asphalt you have in your driveway. Maybe a $70 tax increase on every home but the kicker is when you get to the Target store they will have to pay about $65,000 in tax. Now I ask you where will Target get that money from? They project earnings and staff and order goods based on that projected revenue. Out of that revenue there needs to be a profit or Target as a company can’t grow and create more jobs.
The way I see it this tax will cost Mission at least 3 to 4 jobs just at Target. It will put a strain on the store which will cause the corporate office to decide if it is or isn’t worth having a store in Mission and BANG.
Go to my website and vote by clicking HERE. Somehow we DO need to be in control of our own lives.
