by TD of The Right Track
A quick and dirty search through Google News for articles, news, and editorials revealed no less than 14 pieces written in the last month regarding the FairTax. Fully 1/3 of those were editorials agreeing with the need for the FairTax.
A sampling:
From the Denver Daily News, an editorial titled “FairTax, not flat tax, needed to fix nation’s taxation woes“:
Dear editor,
The IRS needs to be eliminated and replaced with the FairTax, not the flat tax, as suggested by columnist Aaron Harber in Monday’s Denver Daily News.
The flat tax changes absolutely nothing — the IRS, tax code, regulations, 16th Amendment, corporate taxation and payroll taxes (the way Social Security is funded) stay exactly the same under the flat tax.
At best, the flat tax is temporary, the wrong direction to move towards simplification.
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “The Fairer Tax“:
The Fair Tax (FairTax.org) will make our true tax burden — most of which is concealed in the price of goods and services — visible to all and is a necessary first step toward smaller and less-intrusive government.
We cannot allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.
So first, let’s replace the current complex and dishonest system of taxation with a fair and transparent system that will allow the people to choose how much government they can afford in full knowledge of how much it really costs.
The Raleigh/Durham News & Observer has an editorial headlined “Total Replacement“:
Our tax code has grown steadily more complex, unwieldy, expensive and out of control ever since its overhaul in 1986. The IRS is increasingly unable to cope with the tax code, and puts much of its resources to uses unrelated to raising revenue and contrary to the wishes of the Founders.
Like Icarus flying ever closer to the sun, the tax system appears to be headed for self-destruction. It is far beyond any fix and is losing respect and credibility. The only reasonable solution is to finally and completely scrap it and replace it. I support the revenue-neutral FairTax plan. (http://www.fairtax.org/ 1-800-FairTax).
This is just a sampling of what people are saying all across the country. Truly a grassroots effort, it takes people willing to step up and show public support for the FairTax to convince politicians that it’s in their best interest to support the bills.
One way to show public support is to write an editorial to your local paper, no matter how large or small. Use the FairTax category that may appear on this participant blog, visit http://www.fairtax.org/, or read the FairTax book by Boortz and Linder to learn more. Get your facts straight, then write your editorial and submit it. Many papers now have a way to submit online or via e-mail.
However you decide to do it, your public support for the FairTax is vital.
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Daniel Ocean at the United Nations could not escape the caption contest of this week, the 15th of September. Please take a second to fill in the astute commentary that Batman should utter since the Boy Wonder is missing! I will select the winner and let you Monday who supplied the best caption. Remember, there are no prizes, you are playing for your honor.
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The United Nations needs more men like Ambassador John Bolton. Your humble pundit is preparing to join the ranks of fellow bloggers who are pledging their support and aid to ensure that this man is confirmed.
As we have all unfortunately have become accustomed to, the Democrats do nothing more than take a strident stance against President Bush at nearly every step of the way in the GWOT. Let us all stand up against them as they try to tarnish and demagogue a man such as Ambassador Bolton.
Sign-up today to stand with each of us.
From BlogginforBolton.com,
Nearly five years after 9/11, we are well into an epic, generational struggle. A struggle that pits freedom against tyranny … hope against fear … democracy against Islamic radicalism. The men and women of our Armed Forces are fighting with heroic resolve … and they deserve to be supported in their mission by diplomats willing to call evil by its name, able to rally our friends and allies behind the global expansion of freedom and democracy, and unafraid to passionately pursue reform of our dysfunctional international institutions.
That’s why we need John Bolton’s leadership at the United Nations. Unfortunately, his recess appointment expires in January of 2007 … so we must act now to confirm him permanently.
This month Senate Republicans will do everything they can to break Democrat obstruction and give John Bolton the fair up-or-down vote that he was denied last year. But we need your help to turn up the heat on the Democrats by flooding their offices with your calls in support of Ambassador Bolton and the President’s agenda for reforming the waste and incompetence of the United Nations.
So call as many Senators as you are able … check off the offices that you’ve called and then click below to register your calls… forward this website to your friends, family, and co-workers so we can keep up the momentum … and return to the site to see the climbing numbers of calls placed in support of John Bolton.
And click here to download a Blogging for Bolton web button and place it on your blog or website to show your support for John Bolton, a man who isn’t afraid to proudly defend America, our foreign policy and our allies in the War on Terror.
I just love the assumption made in the very first sentence of this story.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defying U.S. President George W. Bush, a Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill lawmakers said would protect the rights of foreign terrorism suspects and repair a U.S. image damaged by harsh treatment of detainees.
I reall do not see the bias here, but many are clammoring throughout the blogosphere that the judge has made an inappropriate statement. I just don’t see it. Saddam was probably misunderstood and we do not know the full story. (as your humble pundit now jumps into moving traffic)
From CBS NEWS,
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial said Thursday that he did not believe the former Iraqi leader was a dictator.
Judge Abdullah al-Amiri made his remark in a friendly chat with Saddam during court proceedings — a day after the prosecution asked him to step down, alleging bias toward the defendants.
Meanwhile, the sectarian violence continued Thursday, as car bombs and drive-by shootings on Thursday killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens of others in a series of attacks around central Iraq.
“Some believe the battle for Baghdad is already under way and no one seems to be able to stop the killing,” reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.
Michael Wiley….a myth, or just plain “good as ever?”
Thanks “Chris.”
PORT RICHEY - Michael Wiley has broken traffic laws across Pasco County for the past 22 years, even though he has no arms. Now he faces a charge of domestic battery.
Wiley was once convicted of kicking a state trooper with his good leg. This time, he is accused of striking his wife with his head.
On July 8, he and his wife of 17 years, Wendy, had a quarrel over a license tag at their home on San Miguel Drive, according to a sheriff’s incident report. When Wendy tried to leave, witnesses said, Wiley shoved himself into her, colliding with her headfirst and causing her to knock over a lamp.
Then his daughter’s 24-year-old boyfriend, Scotty Richards, stepped in.
“Since Michael has no arms or left leg, Scotty was attempting to hold him by his waist and shoulder,” said a report by Pasco sheriff’s Deputy Bradford Seltman. “Michael struggled with Scotty and fell back against the wall, causing a large hole behind the entry/exit door. Scotty held Michael on the floor until he calmed down.”
The State Attorney’s office filed the battery charge, a first-degree misdemeanor, on Monday. Wiley is still awaiting trial on drug charges and habitually driving with a revoked license. Division Director Mike Halkitis has said he will push for the maximum sentence of five years.
Wiley did not answer a reporter’s call to his cell phone, and his voice mailbox was full. He lost the limbs after an accident involving an electrical transformer when he was 13. But he hasn’t stopped moving.
This is how his mother, Spring Hill resident Susan Wiley, has explained his behavior in this past:
“He’s proving to the world he’s as good as ever.”
Times staff writer Jamal Thalji contributed to this report.
So, which is it? Contrary to what was plastered all over the blogosphere this afternoon, Air America claims that they are not going belly-up.
From NewsMax,
Air America Radio, the network that features such liberal mouthpieces as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, is denying reports that it will declare bankruptcy.
The Web site ThinkProgress.org, citing “three independent sources,” started a buzz on the Internet by claiming that Air America is expected to file for bankruptcy on Friday.
The Drudge Report headlined ThinkProgress.org’s story Wednesday afternoon and word spread throughout the blogs about a possible bankruptcy at the network.
But just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Air America spokesperson Jamie Horn told Eric Deggans, media critic for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, in an e-mail: “If Air America had filed for bankruptcy every time someone rumored it to be doing so, we would have ceased to exist long ago. It may be frustrating to some that this hasn’t happened. No decision has been taken to make any filing of any kind. We are not sure of the source of these rumors.”
Hat Tip - Wizbang!
Iraq is nothing more than a fledgling democracy, but now the infant is already seeing signs of what may be judicial activism.
It seems as though the Butcher of Baghdad is having his way with the Judge in his trial. I am curious to see how this will turn out for it does seem as though every single time I catch a glimpse in the news, or read a passsing story, that Saddam is exploding with yet another outburst.
From C-BS News,
The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial is accusing the presiding judge of being biased and is demanding that he step down. As that demand was made – two more bombs hit Baghdad, and around town, 65 bodies were found – killed in ways that are usually associated with the work of ethnically-motivated death squads.
At the trial of the former Iraqi president, prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon loudly accused judge Abdullah al-Amiri of being biased toward the deposed leader and his co-defendants, allowing them to use the courtroom as “a political forum.”
Saddam has made one outburst after another at his trials and Tuesday thundered against “agents of Iran and Zionism,” vowing to “crush your heads” after listening to Kurdish witnesses tell of the horrors committed by the fallen regime two decades ago.
Al-Faroon alleged that al-Amiri was giving Saddam the time to make “political” statements that were irrelevant to the proceedings.
“For instance yesterday, instead of taking legal action (against Saddam), you asked his permission to talk,” al-Faroon said. (MORE)
Remember this?
