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President Obama’s main focus last night was to shove down our throats about how a government-run healthcare system will solve all of our country’s problems.  Not even all the evidence  in the world that shows government-run healthcare is a mess is going to dissuade people who think that there is something out there called “free health care.”

The only thing government cares about is control, not your health.  When are people going to get it through their small pea brains that government doesn’t actually care about it’s people?  If government really cared, don’t you think they would have read the stimulus package and found that little bonus deal in there for AIG?

Also in response to last nights address, the president of the European Union, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, slammed President Barack Obama’s plans to have the U.S. spend its way out of recession as “a road to hell.”

Topolanek told the European Parliament on Wednesday that Obama’s massive stimulus package and banking bailout “will undermine the liquidity of the global financial market.”

But there is some good news from Washington.  Democrats in the House have decided that they will not include controversial global warming initiatives in Barack Obama’s budget. You may remember that by including it in the budget, reconciliation would ensure that Senate Democrats could pass the budget (and therefore global warming legislation) with a simple majority vote.  I betch Nancy Pelosi has her panties in a wad about his one.  Her fellow Democratic goons won’t let her have her precious global warming initiatives in the budget bill. Special budget procedures WILL however be used to remake the healthcare system.  At least we are starting to get some common sense on this global warming scam.

I don’t know how healthcare could fix the economy when that will require major spending, but I do have one thing that does not require spending and it will get rid of income tax and the IRS.  What do you think about that?

Have you ever heard of the Fair Tax?

What is the FairTax plan?

The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality, and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment.

The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 296) is nonpartisan legislation. It abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax  administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities.

The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend on new goods or services, not on what we earn. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system.

The FairTax:

• Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks
• Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions
• Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities
• Allows American products to compete fairly
• Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy
• Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding
• Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation
• Abolishes the IRS

VISIT WWW.FAIRTAX.ORG