Our
“representatives” are receiving lots of “free speech” from sponsors
Most
corporations pay $0 taxes, yet the Supremes decided they can spend $ billions
to
influence elections because they have Constitutional “free speech” rights
like real people. Many firms obtain government contracts by lobbying our
“representatives” with “speech.” GE actually got a tax benefit of 4.1
billion to cover taxes for years. abcnews.go.com/ We will have to make up the loss of tax
revenue and pay refunds of $364
Billion to these same firms. Do you have $600,000
of “free speech” to get heard?
Why would Washington care what we middle-class want?
Avoid paying
corporate refunds: http://www.amazon.com/Most-U-S-Corporations-Pay-No-Taxes/dp/1514274116
Our own government
is shipping our jobs overseas
Defense Dept. granted
a staggering 307,123 waivers and exceptions to the Buy American Act over the
last 8 years, and spent
over $176.8 billion of taxpayers’ dollars on goods manufactured by foreign
companies. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) proposed requiring DoD
to buy American goods and stop using waivers.
Do foreign firms
give DoD a little “free speech” to get the orders?
Our “representatives” have stopped IRS from collecting more
$19 million per audit
Top IRS auditors, paid about $150,000, each find
on average $19 million of corporate unpaid taxes yearly. If corporations
didn’t control Congress, wouldn’t they want to triple the number to find $19 million per auditor every year?
That is one way to reduce the deficit but our “reps” REDUCED auditor positions.
This increases the likelihood we will pay more. Actually IRS goes after those
making less
than $25,000 more than those making over $200,000. Corporations actually
pay average of 12% not the legal 39% rate by using over 500 loopholes in the
IRS code.
Use the code to pay less too: http://www.amazon.com/Most-Corporations-Pay-No-Taxes-ebook/dp/B00ZCMKTV6
Is an annuity a “super bond” for income in retirement?
The Wall Street Journal called income annuities
“super bonds.” Wade Pfau,
retirement expert, calls them “actuarial bonds.” He said “income annuities have
the potential to improve
retirement outcomes over what is possible with bond funds.” Many retirees
balk at their illiquidity, complex terms and high fees, however.
Know your annuity alternatives: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Annuity-Strategy-Income/dp/1497532019
Reverse mortgage: Warning to banks
Regulators told banks: “It is important that advertisements
do not downplay the terms and risks of reverse mortgages or confuse prospective
borrowers.” After viewing the ads, consumers were confused about reverse
mortgages being loans, and they were left with false impressions that they
are a government benefit or that they would ensure consumers could stay in
their homes for the rest of their lives. Today, the CFPB is also issuing an
advisory that warns consumers that many reverse mortgage ads do not tell the
full story.
“As older consumers consider reverse mortgage loans to tap
into their home equity, they need to be careful of those late night TV ads [Law
& Order guy] that seem too good to be true,” said CFPB Director Richard
Cordray.
There are better alternatives: http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201409_cfpb_guide_reverse_mortgage.pdf
Does your pension take back overpayments each month?
AARP
says IRS does NOT require pension plans to recoup
accidental overpayment.
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GOP crazies
House GOP introduced a plan to repeal ObamaCare (ACA) and replace it with high-risk health pools
and tax credits that would undermine the employer-sponsored health care system
in place today. Employers could just keep the healthy. Severely-ill would be
segregated and subject to Congress de-funding every year as food stamps are
now.
But health insurers won’t accept “tax credits” as
money.
KS will NOT lay off 7,000 workers to give wealthy bigger tax
refunds
GOP court sides with Christie: Violate the 2011 law—screw
the unions
NJ Supremes said that state constitutional provisions
calling for an annual budget process trump a 2011 law requiring pension contributions
from the state. "The decision unfairly requires public workers to uphold their end of the law's
bargain — increased weekly deductions from their paychecks to fund their
future pensions — while allowing the State to slip from its binding commitment
to make commensurate contributions," Judge Albin wrote. "Thus, public
workers continue to pay into a system on its
way to insolvency."
Last year, a budget with tax hikes passed but Christie vetoed
it and reduced pension contributions. He paid $ millions for Bridgegate scandal
and gave EXXON $9 Billion waiver instead. Runs all over US on our dime.
Will the Supremes take away your health-care plan?
GOP-leaning Supremes repeal ObamaCare and 9.6 million will
go back to No Care
If the Supremes OK the case against states using ObamaCare
federal sign up site, 9.6 millions will go back to No Care in 34 states.
ObamaCare is now being used by prisons and jails and has changed even UT GOP
into accepting ObamaCare for health plans.
Clerk’s religion will now decide if you get married or not
NC Senate Bill 2, would allow magistrates and registers
of deeds to refuse to participate in the marriage of any couple whose union
violates their “sincerely held religious” beliefs. “SB2 would create a
very dangerous precedent,” Meno said. “This is a law that could be used against
interracial couples, couples of different religions, divorced couples,
virtually anybody.”
GOP-approved religious discrimination takes us back to
witch-burning days
Cars losing value faster than expected—bargains?
2013 Rogue SV, 2011 BMW 328i, 2012 Lexus ES 350, 2012 BMW
528i, 2012 Nissan Leaf SL electric.
This may be your opportunity to pick up a bargain since most models have no
mechanical problems and have been ‘tested’ for 3 years. http://www.cheatsheet.com/automobiles/6-used-cars-that-are-losing-value-surprisingly-fast.html/?a=viewall
Retirees fail to have enough to live on for a reason
Usually there is a reason that we don’t
have a comfortable retirement. Advisors cite these money pits: divorce,
second home, dependent children, business start-up, health care, extravagance,
and elder fraud.
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additional training before purchasing an asset
Pope to ‘try’ bishops that shield child rapists and
molesters
Pope Francis has taken the biggest step yet to crack down on
bishops
who cover up for priests who rape and molest children, creating a new
tribunal section inside the Vatican
to hear cases of bishops accused of failing to protect their flock. Some
multiple rapes.
What about a real jury trial for conspiracy to hide felons—rape of child is an A felony?
SCAMS Why
are we still paying $700 Billion a year for
WWII deployments? That is 27
cents of each dollar in taxes—the largest part of our money—and we
aren’t even at war. We could pay off our debts and fix our schools,
roads and bridges!
We are paying for 164,253 of our active-duty armed personnel
to be in 150 countries around the world. We have about 50,000 in Japan Germany
We are building another
military base for Japan at Henoko. Air Force Gen. Ronald Fogelman admitted
that the Marines “serve no military function there. They don’t
need to be in Okinawa to meet any time line in any war plan.”
Are we preparing for WWII again? There are 1,208,083[1] armed
personnel in the United States .
Our taxes pay for about HALF of the WORLD’s military expenditures every
year. We have wasted $398.6 billion so far on the F-35 program—they can’t
fly safely.
We just can’t afford to pay for everyone else’s defenses
anymore.
The War
on Terror requires special forces attacks on top terrorists at their
homes like Obama’s
al-Amr May14 Abu kill. Iraq proved
converting a nation to Western-style republic doesn’t work. The
troops we trained ran away, left our stuff—more costs. Former
Saddam army now ISIS. We are wasting
$4 billion a year on Afgan
tribal rivalries; paying ransom to Al Qaeda; supporting corruption with our
money.
This is how Vietnam
started—Kennedy sent 400
‘advisors’ to train soldiers, May 1961
Obama is poised to send hundreds more American military
advisers to a new base (where did
that come from) in a strategic Iraqi region to help devise a counterattack
against marauding Islamic State militants. Remember the “fierce mountain men
known as the Montagnards?” We just never learn—we trained them before and
they ran!
Now Vietnam
is a trading partner. Let’s just skip the killing part and let Baghdadi have Baghdad .
This is a tribal war and we can’t fight it for them.
This is their homeland NOT ours. We have enough oil now.
Army general
says futile to send '150,000 soldiers' to defend unreformed Iraq
Gen. Orierno, 6 yr Iraq
vet, said that even sending 150,000 US
troops to the country - roughly the number of soldiers during the 2007-08
"surge" – would be wasted
without a major reorientation by Iraq 's
Shiite leaders.
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