Gay Marriage and Tax cut for the Rich - two Bush failures in two days. cool.
Posted by T2 at June 8, 2006 12:25 PMSooner or later the word taxes must numb the mind. It's later. The "death tax" AKA "the envy tax" is at the bottom of the barrel I think. Here's a few they can go after.
Why not remove the tax on church property. The clergy could get special IT breaks. The billions in gifts to God could be tax deduction for the gifters and there is no need for God's representatives to account for it. That will reduce taxes where it counts, the people who put Bush there to do the tax cutting. He owes it to them to cut their taxes. Along with all the other billion airs of course.
A constitutional amendment is in order here. The first amendment that forbids laws that establish religion is just too taxing. The tax laws must recognize religion and help establish it by giving the church tax breaks, all the way through zero and on to grants from the government.
We need God and God's representatives must not be taxed else we might forget how desperately we need them to tell us we need God. We need a constitutional amendment that reads, "go to your churches, temples, synagogues, mosques and pray." While you're there, "give until it hurts." Those who do not "give until it hurts" will be hurt as bad as possible in a place called hell.
Just a minute. What!
Church real estate is the only real estate that isn't taxed? You mean ministers get special income tax treatment? 40 billion a year goes to the Vatican? I did see Bush kneeling before the pope so that makes sense, some kind of foreign aid. Contributions to churches are tax deductible? Interest on car loans isn't deductible? The first amendment forbids all of that? It's a matter of Americanism, God and guns? It's always been that way?
Well, forget about cutting church taxes. What! He can increase the grants to churches form the nearly 5 billion last year alone? The sky's the limit? There's such a thing as negative taxes that can be applied to religion? Negative taxes - the tax payer collects rather than pay? A lot of that going on already isn't there?
I give up. We got the best government God could give us, bought and paid for by us through taxes. I'm getting a little tired of hearing that word, taxes but not before the constitution is upheld.
http://www.hoax-buster.org
Defunding PBS and NPR is next.
Traitors.
Posted by God Of War at June 8, 2006 12:47 PMRight on God of War;it'll be PBS and NPR; Internet use; cars; job; houses seized; Jeb Bush as President.....
Posted by Mal Feasance at June 8, 2006 02:17 PMI like your letter to Dianne Feinstein. I will use an amended version of it when I write to her.
Jonathan
Posted by at June 8, 2006 02:45 PMGood letter Duckman. You may your point quite clear.
Posted by Judith at June 8, 2006 03:45 PM41-57: Wonder where the other two votes are?
Who didn't vote on the cloture motion?
Posted by euzoius at June 8, 2006 03:50 PMThe house voted 260-151 to turn over the internet to corporate control. I watched on C-SPAN (sorry no up to date link available yet) as 43 beltway Democrats voted for the tlelcos. Not one so called moderate Republican broke ranks to vote for consumer protection. Shameful.
Posted by herbal tee at June 8, 2006 04:24 PM
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they've just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS—unbelievably, starting with programs like "Sesame Street."1
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years—threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism.2
Can you ask 3 friends to sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS again this year?
http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?id=7965-3876511-1VT_ZXB_mEhKkWamFe3X3g&t=2
Last year, over 1 million of us signed the petition, and Congress listened. We can do it again if you pass this message along to any friends, neighbors, or co-workers who count on NPR and PBS for news or children's programming.
This would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting. The Boston Globe reports the cuts "could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs." NPR's president expects rural public radio stations may be forced to shut down.
The lawmakers who proposed the cuts aren't just trying to save money in the budget—they're trying to decimate any news outlets willing to ask tough questions of those in power. Americans trust public broadcasting more than any corporate news media.3 This is an ideological attack on our free press.
President Bush's budget proposed cuts to NPR and PBS4, but Congress is going even further: slashing 23% of this year's public broadcasting budget—$115 million—and denying NPR and PBS any funding in two years. The cuts immediately terminate support for commercial-free children's shows like "Sesame Street," "Clifford," and "Maya and Miguel."
The House and Senate are deciding if public broadcasting will survive, and they need to hear from viewers like you. Ask 3 friends to sign the petition at:
Thank you for all you do.
–Noah, Eli, Adam G., Tom, Marika and the MoveOn.org Civic Action Team
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
P.S. You can learn more about the threat to public broadcasting from our
friends at Free Press at:
http://www.freepress.net/publicbroadcasting/
Posted by Judith at June 8, 2006 04:58 PMPlease sign the petition and pass it on to friends. Move-on will forward it to your Senators and Representatives for you.
Posted by Judith at June 8, 2006 05:10 PM