Anti-Competitive Wireless Measures Buried in Payroll Tax

Why do we allow laws or more so proposed laws to be titled and mostly directed towards one area then tack on things about something completely different?

The Teaparty hates the middle class America

Why do we allow laws or more so proposed laws to be titled and mostly directed towards one area then tack on things about something completely different?

Have they tacked SOPA/PIPA on the bill yet, or are they going to wait until the 11th hour to quietly add it?

I think that if this idea was in place, it would significantly reduce the ability of legislators to sell their votes to special interests. And yes, I blame legislators for this, special interests seeking to bribe legislators to make laws for them would not exist if legislators were not selling their influence.

By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House now? He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

This article is stupid. We don't have inflation or high taxes. We have historically low taxes, and barely registering core inflation. Headline inflation fluctuates wildly, just as it did during the decade before the recession.

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom....'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

This article is stupid. We don't have inflation or high taxes. We have historically low taxes, and barely registering core inflation. Headline inflation fluctuates wildly, just as it did during the decade before the recession.

Sorry to disappoint you pnh, but headline inflation is not the same as core inflation. Headline inflation fluctuates wildly, and was actually *much* higher in the mid 2000s than it is now.

40% of the US populace is too poor to even quality for federal taxation. The tax levels on everyone else are still the lowest they've ever been. That includes corporations, which now only pay 3% of overall federal revenue, rather than the 30+% they paid in the 60s.

It things like this and lobbyists that seem to need to go.

We know they are PAID to push the companies agenda,
We know that said company may contribute to them for favorable actions.

Why allow it?

I agree completely. In some states this practice is illegal. Individual bills should be debated and voted on based solely on their own merits, not as riders to unrelated bills.

I think it was those things have higher approval ratings than congress (not disapproval), but regardless, congress sucks.

...and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. She is pretty though.