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Taxed Enough Already!

By Chuck Norris | November 09, 2010 | 17:28

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Now that we have new representatives, it's time to advance immediately on them and address the issue that can both rebuild our economy and relieve us of government oppression: tax reform.

As I began to point out in last week's article, Congress' plan to subsidize all its outrageous borrowing and spending will demand far more than the tax man's just collecting on expired Bush tax cuts. There are a host of other levies coming down the turnpike from Washington.

Who isn't already completely fed up with the feds' utter waste of our tax monies? Just a week ago, war analysts and government auditors reported that only 10 percent of U.S. taxpayers' money being poured into Afghanistan is actually being used to stabilize the country, with as much as $1 billion in aid ending up in the hands of the Taliban and other insurgency groups!

When a nation is in economic peril, who in their right minds spend tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars to fund a president's 10-day tour to India, Indonesia, China, Japan and South Korea? Couldn't we have sent any other ambassador, who wouldn't have required the accompaniment of such a massive security, political, corporate and media entourage?

So first, there's all that federal waste happening, which already has cost taxpayers exorbitant amounts. It has been estimated by watchdog organizations that the feds waste nearly $1 trillion every year.

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Second, as I itemized last week, the expiring Bush tax cuts are on the imminent horizon, which, if they were to expire, would cost Americans a minimum of $3.8 trillion over the next 10 years.

And then there are the inevitable taxes that are coming because of the feds' massive and compounding deficits and debts. Even if all the Bush tax cuts were repealed, the Congressional Budget Office concludes that the deficit would be nearly $1.1 trillion in 2011. The cumulative deficit from 2010 to 2019 under President Barack Obama's proposals would total $9.3 trillion. And the national debt in 2020 would top $24.5 trillion, exceeding the gross domestic product projection for 2019 of $22.8 trillion. And here's the kicker: By 2020, half of income tax revenue would go toward paying interest on that $24 trillion national debt.

That is why Washington is considering charging Americans an additional, European-style value-added tax — above and beyond sales tax — which is a form of consumption tax at each stage of an item's manufacturing or distribution, ultimately passed on to the consumer (even though the National Retail Federation just released a study saying a VAT "would result in the loss of 850,000 jobs in its first year, reduce the US gross domestic product for three years, and cut retail spending by $2.5 billion over its first decade," as summarized by CNBC).

And if Obamacare is not repealed, a host of other taxes are coming to your front door. Americans for Tax Reform has pulled from Obamacare legislation almost 20 taxes coming down the pike (with references to the location in the law and the dates the taxes begin, some in 2011) that will result in working families paying more than $500 billion in additional taxes.

And don't forget that entitlement spending already is growing at an alarming rate. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs alone constitute 56 percent of federal expenditures. And even CBS recently admitted that by 2020, roughly 93 cents of every dollar of federal revenue will be eaten up by major entitlement programs and payments on the national debt.

And we are going to pay for Obamacare how?

Should we feel any more confident that Washington bureaucrats are handling our tax monies when The Wall Street Journal recently reported that as of the end of last year, federal workers nationwide owed $1 billion in overdue taxes — with Capitol Hill employees owing $9.3 million, an average of $15,498 among those working in the House and $12,787 among those working in the Senate. They're like tax junkies on steroids!

America's Founders would have been horrified at the bloated federal bureaucracy we have now and the maze of taxes we have to navigate — sales taxes, income taxes, school taxes, fuel taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, bridge and road usage taxes (tolls), corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, utility taxes and even death taxes!

The debt and taxation frenzy we face today was among the great concerns to our Founders at the dawn of our republic. Thomas Jefferson said it best: "Considering the general tendency (of the federal government) to multiply offices and dependencies and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burden which the citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail ourselves of every occasion which presents itself for taking off the surcharge; that it may never be seen here that, after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, government shall itself consume the residue of what it was instituted to guard."

I'll say it again: Now that we have new representatives, it's time to advance immediately on them and address the issue that can both rebuild our economy and relieve us of government oppression: tax reform.

(In my next article, I will show how the U.S. can do away with the Internal Revenue Service and replace it with a far more inexpensive taxation system that is equitable for all.)

To find out more about Chuck Norris and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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It's easy to bash ObamaCare

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 5:37pm.

It's easy to bash ObamaCare when your health benefits are covered for life through SAG and MPIPHP.  

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So....

Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 6:06pm.

So you're saying that he doesn't know what he's talking about?

-Jon

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Give it 5 years under

Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 9:35pm.

Give it 5 years under Obamacare, maybe less, and all those SAG and MPIPHP benefits will be gone.  Surely you've seen the video that is the ultimate goal of Obama in his own words.

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MPI Health insurance is

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:10pm.

MPI Health insurance is covered by union residuals, and those don't go away.  Any suggestion that ObamaCare will grow even more powerful at this juncture makes a mockery of debate.  

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A mockery of debate---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:13pm.

Kind of like when the Democrats pushed through ObamaCare.

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Kinda like when the

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:17pm.

Kinda like when the Republicans pushed through the Bush Tax Cuts.  

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Yeah, Dead One---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:22pm.

Snark at something that was beneficial for citizens, and as a result, for the country.

You must be a liberal.

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Ya think?? Absolutely I'm a

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:51pm.

Ya think??

Absolutely I'm a liberal, have I ever denied that?  Much like your cynicism over ObamaCare makes you a conservative.  Can you really look at this list and say these are bad things?  If so, you might be a conservative.  

http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/IMMEDIATE_PROVISIONS.pdf

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Dead One---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:24pm.

The line "You must be a liberal" was for comedic effect.

Luckily for me, I don't have to make a living trying to be funny.

As regards Obamacare, I am a realist.

The plan, from start, to finish, is nothing more than an overpriced, actually horrendously  expensive,  piece of bureaucratic bullshit that causes infinitely more problems than it solves.

It is the purple-lipped ones attempt at more welfare, or as he puts it, spreading the wealth, for lazy, worthless individuals who absolutely will not take care of themselves.

Why should they bother, when they have fools like liberals insisting that responsible people pay the freight for them for the entire length of their parasitic existence.

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Union residuals not

Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:53pm.

Union residuals not withstanding, Obama's plan is to get a one payer system.  That would include  getting rid of MPI Health Insurance. 

Glad you have so much confidence in union residuals.  I'm only confident about death and taxes.

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And who in congress is going

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 1:16pm.

And who in congress is going to let that happen?

Also, MPI isn't an insurance carrier.  MPIPHP stands for the Motion Picture Industry Pension & Health Plan - we have group coverage through Blue Shield.  

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No, what I'm saying is he

Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 6:08pm.

No, what I'm saying is he knows exactly what he's talking about.  

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Sorta

Submitted by ripper58 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 6:51pm.

like Pelosi , Ried ,Dead Ted Kennedy telling us we need to pay more taxes while they sit on

their ill-gotten gains eh?

"I got pie" ...BHO 2011
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Love

Submitted by ripper58 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 6:52pm.

your blog Mr. Norris

"I got pie" ...BHO 2011
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We need to defund Obamacare

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 7:59pm.

We need to defund Obamacare and all stimulous and all foriegn aid.  If we do that we would have some surplus.  I think we should go ot a simple accounting method so all us dummies can understand it.  I understand I have so much revenue and I understand I can spend so much; so if my spending outpaces my revenue I am headed for bankruptcy.  Simple and concise.

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Defund foreign aid for the most part---

Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 9:17pm.

because there are countries receiving it, who, while benefitting from my payment of taxes, tie themselves in a knot while attempting to spit in Americas face while simultaneously trying to stab this country in the back.

MD 

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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And make all foreign aid

Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 9:33pm.

And make all foreign aid conditional.  Your citizens are entering the U.S. illegaly? No aid for you.  One terrorist from your country sent a bomb to the U.S.?  No aid for you. 

Kind of like the Soup Nazi, it's time we became the aid Nazi's.

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death tax is compound taxing

Submitted by breese59 on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 9:56am.

a person workes all their life and pays taxes ,if he lives below his means and saves his money ,investes some for his future and for his kids ,then the government steps in and says you must have made more than you needed so we want more .if you waist everything you make you get more deductions and then when you die the government leaves you alone

why do we punish people for making good choises ?

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