Gas prices are going up.

I am not sure if anyone noticed but gas prices are going up. They say by this summer gas prices will hit $4.00 a gallon. I hear that when you take in inflation it is still less then what was being paid in the 1970s. Well I don’t care about that! What I care about is that I am paying all most double then what I was paying a year ago. I keep on hearing about the big bad Oil Campiness so I went and did some research. I was surprised how many websites had this information.

Now let’s look at this for a moment. North Carolina has 30.15 cents in gas taxes (which is one of the highest in the nation). On top of that is a 18.4cents in federal taxes. Exxon reported that it only made 9.5cents on a gallon of gas. So the state made 20.65cents and the Feds made 9.1cents more then the Big Oil Company. But that is not all; you have to still include the 21% imbedded taxes that liberals won’t tell you about. I paid $3.19 a gallon for gas the day before yesterday. Now let us subtract: Those who like me went to government schools that means take away. 3.19 minus the imbedded taxes leaves 2.52 then minus the state and federal taxes leaves us with $2.03 now what the oil companies made which leaves us with $1.93. It cost about .54cents to refine crude oil that leaves $1.39 cents to transport and profit for the local gas station owner. So who is really gauging us? Looks like the government to me. Oh by the way the Democrats in the house want to raise the gas tax even more.

Now lets look at something else we have three grades and over 50 different blends of gas. Every time a refinery has to switch to make a new blend they have to recalibrate and that cost money. This also adds to the price of gas. So the way I look at it if the politicians were really concerned about us they would get rid of one grade and only have one standard blend and cut the tax rate on gas. They will not cut taxes because it gives them power to buy votes and they will not reduce the blends because they will not be able to blame the Oil Campiness any more for high gas prices.

So that leaves us we need to write our Congressmen and Senators and say enough. We need to let them know that if they continue we will vote them out next election and then make sure we do.

Dave

I keep on hearing that the war is costing too much or we are not doing enough for the poor or gas cost to much. Well let me ask a question. What could the government do with 20 Billion dollars? That’s a lot of money for sure. Well that’s how much pork the Democrats in congress slipped into the budget just before Christmas that were not part of the original budget. Of cause they did not tell us that. It went for things like $113,000 for rodent control in Alaska or a million for Idaho’s weed management. Some others are:

• $2,000,000 to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service,
• $1,000,000 to the Clinton School of Public Service,
• $200,000 to the Andre Agassi College Prepara­tory Academy,
• $500,000 for Our Piece of the Pie,
• $50,000 to Everybody Wins!,
• $400,000 to the Montana World Trade Center,
• $3,743,014 related to the Formosan subterra­nean termite,
• $1,500,000 to the AFL-CIO Working for Amer­ica Institute,
• $100,000 for signage and streetscape improve­ments in the Los Angeles Fashion District, and
• $100,000 to the Hunting and Fishing Museum of Pennsylvania.

The House and Senate appropriations bills currently contain 11,351 such projects.”

Now don’t get me wrong the Republicans were almost as bad when they held the power. The problem is that the Democrats said they would change the rules so this abuse would no longer happen that there was a culture of corruption. Well it looks like they did change things they brought even more corruption with them. Now think about this, what would happen if they had a President who thought like them?

Dave

http://idspeck.blogtownhall.com/

Reference:

Riedl, M (2007 Oct 30). The Democratic Congress's 2008 Budget: A Tax and Spending Spree. Retrieved March 20, 2008, Web site: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2081.cfm

(2008,). The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved March 20, 2008, Web site: http://www.heritage.org/

16 March 2008

Senator Dole

First I do want to thank you for your response to my letter and I do appreciate your concerns about the Fair Tax. But, I do believe your are concerns are not valid. So I will try to address them here.

            Let’s take your first concern the home tax deduction. If there was no income tax why would you need a tax deduction? I am a home owner and I did not buy my house because of the home tax deduction. I bought it because I wanted to own not rent my home. Now according to the IRS they state that 70% of home owners do not even use the home deduction. Now let’s take someone who is making $60,000 a year their take home pay is about $3,800.00 a month.(Fair Tax the Truth, Answering the Critics) By using the tax deduction they might be able to bring their take home pay up to about $4,000.00 a month. That’s only $200.00 a month more. Now if they were not paying income tax their take home pay would be about $1,200. a month more. Which do you think they would like more $200.00 or $1,200.00? And which would be a better benefit to them and help them buy a new home?

            Next let’s take your next concern chartable contributions. First thing I want to do is remind you that before there was a income tax deduction people like J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller were giving away millions. According to Giving USA and other organizations that track this stuff Americans give when they have more money, not according to how much of a tax deduction they get. Actually the better the economy the more Americans give. As Americans income goes up so do chartable contributions.

            So as I hope you can see that the very same reasons you say concern you are the very same reasons you should support the Fair Tax.

I would like to thank Congressman John Linder and Neil Boortz for their book Fair Tax The Truth: Answering the Critics for most of the information provided here.

David G. Speckhardt Sr.

Selma, NC

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To President George W. Bush

Sir:

I have supported you through all the ups and downs. Even today when many people do not want to admit that they voted for you I stand up and say yes I did and I still support him. Now don’t get me wrong I disagreed with you on some issues. But, we can’t agree on everything.

What I would like to know is what happened to my Republican Party? I remember when the Republican Party stood for the common man. You know the little guy like me. When people would say ho no it’s only for the big business guy I would proudly stand up and defend my Republican Party. I would explain how if it were not for the big business we little guys would not have jobs. I would explain how under the Democrats the military was all but forgotten, except when they needed their votes. But, we in the military as a whole knew better. That’s why they never got our votes. But, today the Republicans or should I say the last 16 years they seem more like Democrats. Spend, spend and increase spending again seems to be their new way. What happened to a smaller government and accountability?

            So now that I have said this I want to inform you that I can no longer support the national party with my money. If and when the Republican Party returns to its principles I will again take another look but as for now I will be looking for a new home. Maybe the Liberation Party.

Thank You and God Bless

David G. Speckhardt Sr.

Selma, NC 27576

US Army Retired.

I retrieved this from my local news paper The Selma News in Selma North Carolina.

“Three retired Veterans who signed up to do a 1-year tour of duty in Iraq have returned with a new mission, "Resolve to Win". MAJ Dennis McCool, along with retired soldiers, LTC Marc Breslow and MAJ Carl Heerup, are marching from South Carolina to Washington DC.

The veterans say the reason is to support the troops and their mission by demonstrating resolve to do a difficult task. "Resolve to Win" hopes to create a dialogue about our National will to win. They firmly believe that you can not support the troops without supporting the mission.”

What I ask is this:

Where is the national news on this one? Why is this first time I have heard about this?  Whenever we see a protest against the war it makes national news but when people are trying to support the troop’s the national news media runs and hides. Oh sorry I forgot if it helps the war effort and George Bush it’s bad but if it hurts the war effort and George Bush its good. For some reason that just don’t sound right, you would think that supporting our troops should be number one regardless of where you stand. I did not agree with us going into Iraq, but we are there and we need to finish it. Other wise those brave young men and women that lost their lives would have died in vain. But, then I did serve for over 20 years in our military defending this great country of ours. So maybe I just look at things a little differently.

God Bless them.

God Bless our Troops

God Bless America

God Bless George Bush

David Speckhardt Sr.

The So Called Evil Rich

I myself am not rich, matter of fact you might consider me as middle, middle class. But, I am really getting sick and tired of the Socialist (that’s what they really are) on the left complaining about the evil rich. I keep on hearing how we need to tax the rich more. The problem is every time taxes are raised to punish the so called rich, my taxes go up. Every time we lower taxes on the so called evil rich my taxes go down. When the Bush tax cuts went into effect my taxes went down. According to the Democrats, this was not supposed to happen. So who are they the Socialist on the left really fooling? The people who have no idea how our economy really works. You know the ones who are not willing to accept responsibility for their own actions. The ones who believe the government should take care of them.

So let me give them some idea. First of all who supplies most of the jobs in this country? Think about it for a moment, it’s the so called evil rich. Matter of fact most jobs in this country are supplied by the Small Business Owner. Most of them are in the upper middle class. Every time taxes are raised on them (the evil rich), the less money they have to invest. If they have less money to invest they don’t expend, and if they don’t expend, then they can’t hire new people. I realize this might be a hard pill to swallow for those educated in government schools, but if you do not wake up soon, more jobs (and they are not yours, they belong to the company) will move over seas. How do we stop this movement? We lower taxes.

The best plan that I have found is in the Fair Tax. That’s right the Fair Tax. But that’s for another time.

Dave

http://speckhardt.blogspot.com/

Why I Support The Fair Tax.

First of all I ask how you would like to get 100% of your pay check and every month the government will send you a check based on your family size. That you will never have to file a tax return and you can say so long to the IRS. Next put into effect a system that would create a tax haven for US companies that will make the products we export over seas less expensive. This makes our products more competitive. Which in turn would bring more jobs to this country? Oh I can’t leave out the so called evil rich; you know the ones who supply the jobs, they will end up paying more in taxes. Does this sound good so far? If so please read on.

What I am talking about is a consumption tax. First of all this is not really a new tax, all it is doing is replacing the imbedded tax we now pay in everything we buy. Imbedded you say what imbedded tax are you talking about. Let me explain. All taxes now paid by companies are hidden in the products we buy every day. That amounts to about 22% of the cost we pay for everything we buy. Every time the government raises the tax on corporations they in turn add those taxes to the products they sell.

When the farmer sells his products to the manufactures he is taxed, when the manufactures sell the products to retailers they are taxed and when the retailer sells the products to us the consumer they are taxed again. All these taxes are added to and hidden in the price we pay for the final product. These are the imbedded taxes we pay.

Have you looked at the percentage of income tax and payroll tax you pay every year? The average American pays about 33 percent or 33 cents on every dollar. How much do you spend every year to have your taxes done? According to the Tax Foundation we spend about $300 billion a year to have our taxes done. That’s $300 Billion! Don’t you think that money is better in our pockets?

Have you thought about the people who don’t pay taxes now? You know the ones the illegal aliens, the drug dealers and other crooks. They will now be paying taxes. Think about it. Wow everybody pays.

David Speckhardt Sr.

Selma

Reference:

The Fair Tax Book

The Fair Tax the Truth

www.taxfoundation.org/

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