Why Gingrich’s Tax Plan Beats Romney’s 

Newt’s flat tax would do a lot more to attract capital, spur growth and reduce compliance costs.

By ARTHUR B. LAFFER

Jobs and wealth are created by those who are taxed, not by those who do the taxing. Government, by its very nature, doesn’t create resources but redistributes resources. To minimize the damages taxes cause the economy, the best way for government to raise revenue is a broad-based, low-rate flat tax that provides people and businesses with the fewest incentives to avoid or otherwise not report taxable income, and the least number of places where they can escape taxation. On these counts it doesn’t get any better than Mr. Gingrich’s optional 15% flat tax for individuals and his 12.5% flat tax for business. Each of these taxes has been tried and tested and found to be enormously successful.

Hong Kong, where there has been a 15% flat income tax on individuals since 1947, is truly a shining city on the hill and one of the most prosperous cities in history. Ireland’s 12.5% flat business income tax propelled the Emerald Isle out of two and a half centuries of poverty. Mr. Romney’s tax proposals—including eliminating the death tax, reducing the corporate tax rate to 25%, and extending the current tax rates on personal income, interest, dividends and capital gains—would be an improvement over those of President Obama, but they don’t have the boldness or internal integrity of Mr. Gingrich’s personal and business flat taxes.

Imagine what would happen to international capital flows if the U.S. went from the second highest business tax country in the world to one of the lowest. Low taxes along with all of America’s other great attributes would precipitate a flood of new investment in this country as well as a quick repatriation of American funds held abroad. We would create more jobs than you could shake a stick at. And those jobs would be productive jobs, not make-work jobs like so many of Mr. Obama’s stimulus jobs.

Tax codes, in order to work well, require widespread voluntary compliance from taxpayers. And for taxpayers to voluntarily comply with a tax code they have to believe that it is both fair and efficient.

Fairness in taxation means that people and businesses in like circumstances have similar tax burdens. A flat tax, whether on business or individuals, achieves fairness in spades. A person who makes 10 times as much as another person should pay 10 times more in taxes. It is also patently obvious that it is unfair to tax some people’s income twice, three times or more after it has been earned, as is the case with the death tax.

The current administration’s notion of fairness—taxing high-income earners at high rates and not taxing other income earners at all—is totally unfair. It is also anathema to prosperity and ultimately leads to the situation we have in our nation today.

You will find the rest of the article here.

At least Newt is on the right track, as his plan is far superior to Romney’s as well as the idiotic one we have in place now, which is broken beyond all hope of repair.

The problem I have with a flat tax (aside from my derision at federal income taxes of any kind) is that congress will probably start screwing with it right out of the box, just like they did back in the mid 1980s, and before you know it we will be right back in the same boat a few years down the road.

A flat tax also leaves the hideous IRS intact, and as I see it, the goal of all freedom-loving true conservatives should be the total elimination of that most tyrannical of government agencies.

But there is a plan out there that is far and away better than either Romney’s or Newt’s.

It is called the Fair Tax, which not only does away with federal income taxes entirely, but will ultimately rid us of the IRS.

Now if we could just get Newt on board.

-Dave 

(h/t: boortz.com)

So quiet and lovely.

Except there’s a demon face hiding behind the sofa….

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Can you see it?

No?

Look again.

Look at the lower left of the picture.

Behind the cushion on the brown sofa.

This picture has gone viral via Twitter and Facebook. The origins of the picture are unclear. Was it a real person hiding behind the sofa or is it a Photoshop?

However it was made, once you’ve spotted it, it’s hard to look away or get the image out of your head.

Here’s another one. Can you see it?

Source: Daily Mail.

~Eowyn

While NWO Romney spouts populist platitudes about man-caused “climate change,”  Russia and China are quietly  working to achieve moon colonization.

Why colonize the moon?  Helium 3.  Helium 3 is essential to nuclear fusion. 

From explainingthefuture.com:

Helium-3 Power Generation

Helium-3 may be the fuel for a new generation of clean, nuclear fusion power plants. Unfortunately, helium-3 is also exceptionally rare on the Earth. There is, however, thought to be an abundant supply of helium-3 on the surface of the Moon. Mining lunar helium-3 may also become a large part of our “solution” to Peak Oil, broader fossil fuel depletion, and climate change. For more information see the Helium-3 Power page.

From helium3game.com

• Helium 3 Space GameWorth $4 million dollars per kilo, Helium 3 produces no harmful by-products and as little as 100 tonnes could power the entire planet for a year. All you have to do is go get it. Helium 3 was first discovered during the Apollo missions of the 1970′s. It is emitted as a by-product of the sun’s own nuclear reactions and blown across the galaxy by solar winds. Lacking Earth’s protective magnetic field, the lunar soil has absorbed Helium 3 for millions and millions of years.Remember, a kilo of Helium 3 is potentially worth a cool $4 million.
  One million tonnes of Helium 3 lie beneath the lunar surface.
  You do the maths. Earn your fortune and save the Earth.

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Think the moon is important  now?  Hopefully the sheeple  will not be chuckling about moon colonization anymore.  Maybe that’s too much to hope for.

sage

H/t our Joseph!

~Eowyn

~Steve~                          H/T Richard

There appears to be no limits to how low morals can sink.

Two women were caught having lesbian sex in broad daylight in a public park frequented by children. The UK’s News Today reports, July 17, 2011, that “a horny lesbian couple” were arrested by police at 2:30 pm, after they were caught in flagrante in a public park in Northampton, UK.

Horrified parents fled from the popular park with their children as they witnessed the passionate pair getting up close and personal in an open-air afternoon sex session.

The women, both 25, and believed to be students, were spotted in a state of undress performing a sex act on The Racecourse, opposite St George’s Avenue, which is opposite the town’s university.

Racecourse park, Northampton

One eyewitness, who asked not to be named, said: “One girl was performing oral sex on the other. She had her leggings and knickers round her ankles with her legs over the other girl’s shoulders. When the police officers arrived, one of the girls cried her eyes out and the other just laughed.”

Mum-of-two Ruth Chapman, 35, was in the park with her children. She said: “I could not believe my eyes. You don’t expect to see something like that in the middle of the day and in such a public place. I didn’t hang around to see what happened. I didn’t want my children to see that.”

A man on a message board, username “vokey,” claimed to be one of the eyewitnesses who had reported the public sex act to the police. He wrote:

“I was one who reported this to the Police, i watched for an hour before making a decision.”

The lesbians were handed an official police caution and warned over their future conduct.

~Eowyn

DCG

The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.

Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists.  Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress—a probe launched by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups.

The rupture, which has not been publicly announced as it unfolded, is wrenching for some of those who’ve learned about it and admire both organizations.

“We’re kind of reeling,” said Patrick Hurd, who is CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia—recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen—and whose wife, Betsi, is a veteran of several Komen fundraising races and is currently battling breast cancer.  “It sounds almost trite, going through this with Betsi, but cancer doesn’t care if you’re pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative,” Hurd said. “Victims of cancer could care less about people’s politics.”

Planned Parenthood said the Komen grants totaled roughly $680,000 last year and $580,000 the year before, going to at least 19 of its affiliates for breast-cancer screening and other breast-health services.

Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cutoff results from the charity’s newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. According to Komen, this applies to Planned Parenthood because it’s the focus of an inquiry launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns,R-Fla., seeking to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has depicted Stearns’ probe as politically motivated and said she was dismayed that it had contributed to Komen’s decision to halt the grants to PPFA affiliates.  “It’s hard to understand how an organization with whom we share a mission of saving women’s lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying,” Richards told The Associated Press. “It’s really hurtful.”

Read the rest of the story here.

I’d like to know exactly what kind of breast-health services Planned Parenthood offers.  Doctors performing a breast exam? A woman can easily obtain that at a local city/county low-income health facility.  And beyond that, she should be doing her own self-breast exam each month. 

As for breast-cancer screening?  Last year I called the Seattle Planned Parenthood to inquire about getting a mammogram.  Guess what?  They don’t offer mammograms at any facilities throughout the Pacific Northwest.  It was revealed they don’t do mammograms at any of their facilities.  So what are the breast-cancer screenings they do offer?

Planned Parenthood on the defensive, claiming the loss of breast-health care services for women.  Yet the most important one – a mammogram – they don’t even offer.  And of course, they result to the “bullying” mantra.  I’d say Planned Parenthood is the bully for using our taxpayer dollars for their abortion mills and killing thousands of innocent babies.

DCG

Newt and Wife #2, Marianne, in happier times

Newt enjoyed a surge of popularity immediately after he chastised the newsman at a GOP debate for asking him about Wife No. 2 Marianne’s claim that Newt had wanted an open marriage so that he could continue his 6-year adulterous affair with self-professed lifelong Catholic, Callista Bisek (who later became Wife No. 3).

But that surge was short lived. Either that, or the surge of popularity is confined only to men.

The AP reports, Jan. 30, 2012, that although there was relatively little gender difference in Republican voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, exit polling data of yesterday’s GOP primary election in Florida show that women — Republican, not Democratic, women — abandoned Gingrich in droves, which helped fuel Mitt Romney’s win.

While Florida men narrowly preferred Romney, the message from women is striking:

Women voted for Romney (over Gingrich) 52% to 28% – and this held true across every category of education and income.

The exit poll data suggest that many women’s votes were influenced more by a personal distaste for Gingrich than by liking Romney. Asked their views of Gingrich as a person, men said they generally viewed him favorably by 62% to 34%, but women were about evenly divided. Among all voters on Tuesday, 55% expressed favorable views of Newt personally, compared to 77% who said the same about Mitt.

Don’t say I hadn’t warned you about Newt’s high unfavorability ratings! See my post, “Newt wins South Carolina but is widely disliked.”

Newt with Wife #1, Jackie, his former hi-school math teacher whom he later dumped for Marianne

Exit polls also found that:

• Hispanics, who comprised about 1 in 7 GOP primary voters yesterday, preferred Mitt, 54% to 29%.

• Older voters (65 or older) preferred Mitt, 51% to 34%.

• Those most worried about the economy, around 6 in 10 Florida GOP voters, preferred Mitt 52% to 30%.

• Those concerned about electability — the nearly half of Florida voters yesterday who said they most wanted a candidate who can beat Obama this November — preferred Mitt 58% to 33%.

• Mitt enjoyed a slight advantage among higher-income voters, although he won among every income category overall.

• Newt had a small 4-3 margin over Mitt only among voters who identify themselves as very conservative and strong supporters of the Tea Party.  Mitt had a decisive edge among everyone else.

~Eowyn

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I call this my Buffy Rose because the pot is the resting place of Buffy, my sparrow and my first bird.

I had rescued her as a fledgling from a parking lot. I was coming out of a gym and noticed that a little bird on the ground didn’t fly away as I walked past.

So I crouched down and extended my hand to her.

She pecked my finger!

She was asking for my help. If I had left her there, she would not survive the night.

Buffy lived with me for three years. Early one morning, as I was bringing fresh water and seed to the birds (I had acquired a canary and a lovebird after Buffy), I noticed she was not well. She was dying.

I took her from her condo and held her in my hands, stroking her little head and thanking her for all the joy she brought me and for introducing me to the wondrous world of birds. She died within minutes, as I held her. She had hung on through the night until morn so she could say goodbye.

Buffy Rose is almost as pretty as Buffy….

For previous “a rose a day” roses, go here.

~Eowyn