Why vote no on State of Michigan Proposal 14-1= Fwd: Proposal 1 analysis #MIGOP #MIGOV

 

A friend, Kenneth A. has provide the best analysis and write up on Ballot Proposal 14-1 that will be on the August 5 Ballot.

Proposal 14-1

Legislative Plunder Progressive Style

Presented By Kenneth A. 

Proposal 14-1 is a proposition to expand the size of Local and State Government plain and 

simple. Expanding government comes at a severe cost to OUR liberty.

Proposal 14-1 carries quietly in the background its statutory partner Public Act 86 of 2014 which 

establishes a new level of Bureaucratic Socialism aptly named in § 7 as the "Local Community 

Stabilization Authority" and in § 9 the "The authority council".

The "Authority Council" is a gubernatorial commission composed of five appointed 

commissioners, who are the administrative managers of the "authority". 

The "Authority" is the "Local Community 

Stabilization Authority" sitting as an "Independent Metropolitan government" that will send out 

swarms of New Officers to eat out our Sustenance by imposing and collecting a six percent tax 

on everything we purchase, and own here in the lands of the Wolverine.

Proposal 14-1 is a deliberated political deception presented fraudulently by the Legislative 

Leadership in Lansing as a means to continue exacting the Personal Property Tax by authorizing 

a locally populated metropolitan authority to impose and collect annually forever more, a 6

percent tax on ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY.

"Sec. 3. (1) There is levied upon and there shall be collected from every person in this state a 

specific tax, including both the local community stabilization share and the state share, for the 

privilege of using, storing, or consuming tangible personal property in this state at a total 

combined rate equal to 6% of the price of the property or services specified in section 3a or 3b. 

The tax levied under this act applies to a person who acquires tangible personal property or 

services that are subject to the tax levied under this act for any tax-exempt use who subsequently 

converts the tangible personal property or service to a taxable use, including an interim taxable 

use. If tangible personal property or services are converted to a taxable use, the tax levied under 

this act shall be imposed without regard to any subsequent tax-exempt use. Penalties and interest 

shall be added to the tax if applicable as provided in this act. For the purpose of the proper 

administration of this act and to prevent the evasion of the tax, all of the following shall be 

presumed:"

Proposal 14-1 is stealth legislation pandered about under the false bravado of funding local 

services. Proposal 14-1 is a tax increase which is why by LAW it is on the Ballot. This fact 

contradicts the political advertisements appearing on local Television trumpeting this Proposal 

14-1 as good for local business. 

This Local Community Stabilization Authority may be established in compliance to Article VII § 

27 of the Michigan State Constitution of 1963.

Metropolitan governments and authorities:

§ 27: Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution the legislature may establish in 

metropolitan areas additional forms of government or authorities with powers, duties and 

jurisdictions as the legislature shall provide. Wherever possible, such additional forms of 

government or authorities shall be designed to perform multipurpose functions rather than a 

single function

Proposal 14-1 does not articulate in the "Ballot Language" that this is a TAX INCREASE, which 

is the key to this political deception presented to us by a Republican Led State Legislative 

Chamber sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome in Lansing.

This proposal is being introduced for one purpose, to enable local government to feast on our 

Private Wealth without restraint by imposing directly a 6 percent tax on OUR personal property 

purchased to operate OUR locally privately owned small businesses.

This local bureaucracy will send out swarms of new officers to eat out our Sustenance at six 

percent every year, unless we the Voters VOTE NO on Proposal 1 on August 5! 

Simply put this is Legislative Plunder, Progressive Style.

Let's send a message to the Progressive dominated legislative leadership in Lansing, NO NEW 

TAXING AUTHORITY. Vote NO on Proposal 14-1.

Read more on The American Republic   

http://theinhabitant.blogspot.com/2014/07/legislative-plunder-progressive-style.html 

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The IRS is not - repeat - not out of control | FairTax(R) Friday #FairTax #sgp #TCOT #10th

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive." - Walter Scott The IRS Is Not Out Of Control Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, provided an interesting perspective on last week's House Oversight hearing on the IRS targeting scandal. During the hearing, emails were presented showing that after seeing a draft copy of an IRS Inspector General report on the political targeting of non-profits, Lois Lerner told her co-workers to be "cautious" in their email communications because "Congress might be watching." She also asked the IRS IT department if the department's internal chat system was searchable.  Lerner's IT colleague, Maria Hooke, responded, "No, the IRS does not routinely save chat communications – unless employees intentionally take steps to preserve their conversations.  These chat communications are not saved – and this is critical – despite the fact that "the functionality exists within the software."  And how did Lerner respond?  "Perfect." I am reminded of something Lord Acton once said, "Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity." Or, as Jay Sekulow opined, "Some have said the IRS was out of control.  I'd say the opposite.  It was very much in control – doing exactly what it was intended to do with relative impunity, including setting up its own IT resources not to preserve records but to cover its tracks." The online dictionary defines conspiracy as "an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot, a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose, an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act." American citizens live in constant fear of the IRS wrecking havoc on their lives, seizing their assets and throwing them in prison – and all with impunity. Yet evidence now shows that Lois Lerner and certain colleagues at the IRS clearly conspired to punish select politically conservative individuals and non-profits; actions that are a clear violation of federal law. If this were an isolated incident one could make the case that Lerner and her cohorts could have been given appropriate reprimands and the IRS resumed normal business operations. But this is not an isolated case. Political targeting and retaliation by the IRS has been standard operating procedure since the agency's inception. It is part of the organizational and operational DNA. The Lerner case demands a special prosecutor. And America demands that the IRS be given a national pink slip. The FairTax® stands ready to fully replace the current income tax code. And it is the only tax replacement plan before Congress that gives the IRS their walking papers. If you agree, please send a note to your local newspaper and ask the editor to endorse the FairTax. If you are on Facebook, share this picture and tell your friends why you support the FairTax Plan. Tell them that under the FairTax they will never have to dread April 15 again, because their days of filing tax returns will be over. Most importantly, be sure and let them know the FairTax disbands, defunds and eliminates the IRS. Until next week,    Cindy Canevaro Executive Director Share The FairTax Picture Of The Week Share this image with your friends on Facebook! The FairTax Act In The Media The Solution to an Unethical IRS - Pagosa Daily Post According to a recent Fox News poll, an overwhelming majority (76 percent) of Americans think the Internal Revenue Service intentionally destroyed two years worth of emails. This latest scandal would seem to be the final straw in a long line of IRS abuses going back many administrations, both Democratic and Republican. Why do we tolerate this situation, when there is a simple alternative? The FairTax is a national sales tax that satisfies the principles of tax policy far better on every count than the current income tax: It's simpler, noninvasive, efficient, stable, visible, neutral, encourages economic growth, is broad-based, treats everyone equally and is constitutional In addition, the FairTax removes the need for an IRS. The tax would be collected by the states, with no concern for income. Twitter Basic Training Webinar "5 Steps to Promoting The FairTax®" When: 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific Why: Learn the basic uses of Twitter, how the social media website operates, and how to spread the FairTax message to the largest audience possible. In addition, learn how to reach members of Congress and "follow" what they are talking about. A Q&A will follow the presentation. Presenter: Don Scott is a professional trainer in software applications. Don and Randy Fisher will answer questions following the presentation. Randy Fischer is the social media director of the Florida FairTax Educational Association, chairman of the AFFT communications committee and serves on the new Board of Directors.  Join: Advance registration is required. Click here and watch for a confirmation from Citrix with a link to join us. If you have difficulty registering, contact Larry Walters at repeal_16@earthlink.net. "Understanding The FairTax®" Webinar  With July special topic: How you can help to pass the FairTax® When: Thursday, July 24, 2014 Time: 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific Where: At your personal computer, anywhere! Why: To provide an interactive forum for people who cannot get to local meetings to learn about the FairTax and to present special topics that are frequently misunderstood or not generally discussed. Who: Join district director and hostess, Barb Rudelic who will present Understanding the FairTax and our Special Topic. Join: To participate, register here and watch for the confirmation email. For more information contact Larry Walters at repeal_16@earthlink.net July 18, 2014 - Link    Featured Video: Lunch and Taxes: How is it collected?  Ways to Engage: - Contact Congress - Engage and get updates on Facebook - Follow us on Twitter - Donate to the cause - Find a local leader - Distribute handouts - Get FairTax gear - Join the webinar - Thank cosponsors - Send an e-card - Contact the media - Get FairTax graphics - Understand basics FairTax Fact: The FairTax is backed by $22 million in research as well as many top economists and volunteers across the nation! Featured Paper: FairTax, flat tax and income tax comparison chart FairTax Friday Archive The FairTax® Friday newsletter is copyrighted by Americans For Fair Taxation®. All articles may be reprinted with proper attribution to the newsletter and the author's article.       Americans For Fair Taxation,  P.O. 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Anesthetize: deprive of feeling or awareness | FairTax Friday

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein An•es•the•tize: Deprive Of Feeling Or Awareness Have you ever thought about winning a Powerball lottery? You know one of those multi-state ticket frenzies where the winning payout is so big your head explodes with visions of Tuscan villas, private jets and caviar-topped crostini's. These mega lottery games get even the most cynical of individuals whipped into a frenzy thinking they might beat the staggering odds to win the pot of gold. During House Oversight hearings, it was revealed that during the past five years, the federal government paid out "$100 billion in improper payments every year thanks to a combination of fraud, clerical errors and insufficient IRS enforcement." $500 billion over five years! You would think this news would have also generated a frenzy in the minds of the American people. After all, it was their hard earned tax dollars that were wasted! Sadly, most people didn't know the hearing existed. If they were aware, they may have heard through a major news outlet that it was simply a partisan witch-hunt. And what was the response of IRS Commission Koskinen? "This is an important issue to the IRS". Wow, thanks Commissioner.  America sleeps better at night knowing this is an important issue to the IRS. We are truly comforted knowing that the IRS will give the loss of $500 billion in taxpayer funds the same serious attention that has been given the IRS political targeting of non-profits and individuals, the destruction of Lois Lerner (and other IRS employee's) emails and instant messaging, and their disciplinary action of an IRS employee who grotesquely violated the federal Hatch Act to campaign on IRS call center phones for a partisan political candidate.  What we have here is a lot of kabuki dancing, a heaping pile of photo ops and a generous portion of canned ham talking points by members of Congress seeking 10 minutes of air-time for their next newsletter or social media post.  What we don't have is real, substantive action except by two federal judges who have just ordered the IRS to fess up, under oath, about what happened to Lerner's emails and hard drive. If you want real substantive change then please look closely at the 2014 candidates who want to represent you. If they say the support the FairTax, do they stand proud and can they defend it?  If not, ask them why. If they have not made their position on tax reform known press the issue. This candidate may well determine the future of HR 25, the FairTax Act, which is before Congress right now. HR 25 is the only tax replacement plan before Congress that defunds, disbands and eliminates the IRS.  It is also the only tax reform plan that transfers power from Congress to the people. The American people are beat down, seemingly anesthetized. When they are told that our government wasted $500 billion of their hard earned money, they don't even blink. Something is terribly wrong when this becomes the people's reaction.  If you elect representatives who perpetuate the continued use of the income tax code as a political and financial weapon, then you have just become part of the problem. Vow today that you will stand strong for the FairTax. Run, don't walk to candidate meetings. Make your voice heard. Make time for Congressional town halls. Ask critical questions and listen to Candidate answers. Canned ham responses are a sign of disrespect to you as a constituent.  Don't allow yourself to become any further sedated, any further complacent. America needs you. The FairTax needs you.  As Ronald Reagan once said, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." Until next week,    Cindy Canevaro Executive Director Share The FairTax Picture Of The Week John in Pueblo, CO decided something needed to change so he put up TWO billboards in his home town! Share this image with your friends on Facebook! The FairTax Act In The Media Urge Rep. Vern Buchanan to back FairTax bill, end IRS – Bradenton Herald The Florida Legislature says end the IRS! In a little noticed act at the end of this year's session, the Florida House and Senate called for an end to the U.S. income tax system. On May 22, Secretary of State Ken Detzner sent notice of that vote to President Obama, Vice President Biden (in his role as president of the Senate), House Speaker John Boehner, and all members of the Florida delegation. Our legislators said all forms of federal income taxes should be replaced with pending federal legislation known as the "FairTax" (H.R.25/S.122). If enacted, the FairTax would defund the IRS over a three-year period. It has 74 co-sponsors in the House and eight in the Senate, more than any other tax proposal. The corrupt, inefficient IRS would be gone. In its place, state agencies, most of them experienced in sales tax collection, would be paid to collect the new federal consumption tax from all businesses. The businesses, too, would be compensated for their paperwork in handling the new system… - David Leake "Understanding The FairTax" Webinar  With July Special Topic: How You Can Help (to pass the FairTax®) When: Thursday, July 24, 2014 Time: 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific Where: At your personal computer, anywhere! Why: To provide an interactive forum for people who cannot get to local meetings to learn about the FairTax and to present special topics that are frequently misunderstood or not generally discussed. Who: Join District Director & Hostess, Barb Rudelic who will present Understanding the FairTax and our Special Topic. Join: To participate, register here and watch for the confirmation email. For more information contact Larry Walters at repeal_16@earthlink.net July 11, 2014 - Link    Featured Video: House Floor Speech: The FairTax will bring jobs back to America  Ways to Engage: - Contact Congress - Engage and get updates on Facebook - Follow us on Twitter - Donate to the cause - Find a local leader - Distribute handouts - Get FairTax gear - Join the webinar - Thank cosponsors - Send an e-card - Contact the media - Get FairTax graphics - Understand basics FairTax Fact: The FairTax is non partisan legislation to replace federal income and payroll taxes with a progressive, national retail sales tax. Featured Paper: The Prebate Explained FairTax Friday Archive The FairTax® Friday newsletter is copyrighted by Americans For Fair Taxation®. All articles may be reprinted with proper attribution to the newsletter and the author's article.   |Contact Us     Americans For Fair Taxation,  P.O. 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How to provide the finishing blow too America= #MIGOP #Michigan #MI #tcot #sgp #NRC #DNC

Jeff Phillips~

Let me see if I have this right. The US Government intends to keep 120 illegal alien teenagers housed in Vassar, bringing new bus loads here every few weeks to replenish vacancies created by their ongoing efforts to place these kids with either relatives or foster care families--thereby displacing american kids in need of foster care.

Eventually these 16 and 17 year old kids will start turning 18. Once that happens then you'll have just as many of them showing up in a new bus load each month as you have turning 18 each month. Once they are 18 years old, under the "Gang of Eight" bill in the US Senate they would be allowed to take positions of employment with a special refugee status exempting the employer from paying for their ObamaCare and/or its $3000/year penalty that is otherwise charged to employers that fail to provide insurance to American citizen employees. Ted Cruz explains how this $3000/year penalty is more like $5000/year in net effect to one's bottom line after other taxes/costs are figured in.

So tax payers spend $100,000 per American citzen to provide their K-12 education before graduating ~94 of them per year into the workforce in Vassar, meanwhile we will end up with ~100+ illegal alien teenagers turning 18 every month or two in the same community, each of which will have first dibs on US employment since employers will have to pay an additional ~$5000/year to hire a US Citizen that has received a US education vs an illegal alien who is only just beginning to learn English, if at all.

And that my friends is your liberal definition of "equality".

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Time to pound sand | Special Edition FairTax(R) Friday #tcot #sgp #FairTax #MIGOP #RGA #DGA #NGA

"Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change." - Wynton Marsalis July 4, 2014 - Share on     Time To Pound Sand Today America celebrates her 238th birthday. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence whose 56 signers were not professional politicians but ordinary citizens of the day. Yes, these were simple people including farmers, business owners, lawyers, ministers and physicians and what today we would call grassroots leaders.  People like you and me. The youngest was 26 and the oldest was 70. Imagine 56 citizens crafting a document as profound as the Declaration without the benefit of the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or a host of political hacks churning out canned ham political spin. For 238 years, historians have analyzed the lives, motivations and contributions of these 56 patriots.  Notwithstanding their incredible vision and articulation, what has always captivated me most about their achievement was how they overcame what must have been overwhelming fear in the face of adversity. Their unflinching belief against taxation without representation seemingly provided the needed fortitude to confidently confront the Crown and its worldwide empire. Today we find ourselves once again confronting a ruling class that imposes taxation without representation through the federal income tax code. Included in this system is an IRS enforcement arm that, as in 1776, strikes fear in the heart of every American citizen. In 1776, the colonists had to make a choice. Continue status quo or tell the British to pound sand. Their courageous decision quite literally changed the course of history. In 2014, American citizens again have to make a choice. They can allow the continued proliferation of a tax code that has now surpassed 74,000 pages and is rapidly eating away the very economic fiber of this nation. Or, they can tell the ruling class "pound sand" and engage in the campaign to enact H.R. 25, "The FairTax Act of 2013". H.R. 25 is in essence, the citizen's Declaration of Taxation Independence. It is the only tax replacement plan before Congress that sets forth a fair, simple and transparent form of taxation driven by the citizenry and not by the ruling class of Washington.  By its very nature, the FairTax embodies the principles envisioned and codified in the original Declaration of Independence. Declaration signer and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said, "The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy."  The FairTax Plan rights the wrongs of the income tax code by providing a tax code that treats every citizen the same – no exemptions, no loopholes for anyone – no prejudice or oppression.  William Burroughs stated this eloquently on the FairTax.org Facebook page yesterday when he said, "The only way to finance government in a free society is by the voluntary choice of taxpayers, and no better way to enact it than by a sales tax. End the income tax, a free people do not have to scurry around proving to bureaucrats how they earned their money." If you are not actively supporting the FairTax, we invite you to become a part of what is arguably, the largest grassroots tax reform movement in America. Take one minute to send a message to your Representative and become a part of the greatest tax revolution of our lifetime.  And on this July 4, Happy Birthday America! Until next week,   Cindy Canevaro Executive Director Update email preferences  | Contact Us     Americans For Fair Taxation,  P.O. Box 274878  Houston, Texas 77227-7487 1-800-FAIRTAX (324-7829) Paid for by Americans For Fair Taxation Americans For Fair Taxation is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. One provision in the  74,000+ pages of the federal tax code makes investments in your non-profit FairTax organization non-deductible. If you would like to send a check or credit card contribution by mail please download and print our contribution form here.

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If everyone knew all there is to know, they would not do half the things they do, including myself, therefore I must foregive them, including myself.