In This Edition - #19

RING….RING…..THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL.

POST OFFICE EXPERIENCE.

GOOD FRIDAY.

...BUT WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION ON BUG BOMBS

EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.”   ---- “EARNED?”

J.C. GETS IT RIGHT.

MORE OUTRAGES FROM YOUR WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.

RING….RING…..THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL.

You do realize, that after you add up......

Federal Income Tax

State Income Tax - where applicable

Sales Tax

Gas Tax - 33.5 cents a gallon

Taxes on luxury items

Property taxes - built into your rent payment or paid annually if you own.

Licensing and inspection for your automobile

Communications taxes

Licensing fees

Energy Taxes

Gift Taxes

Capital Gains

Transportation Taxes – built into the price of your plane tickets, etc.

Death Taxes

The list is endless.....

that the average person pays 40-48% of their total income to the government. Is this not enough? Our government can't sustain itself on 40+% of the income of every American? Is Bush's tax cut really extreme when you consider this? Why do the Democrats paint it as such?

POST OFFICE EXPERIENCE 

I sent off my pound of flesh to the IRS the other day.  I have to be very careful with those folks.  With all of my talk on taxes and abolishing the IRS, I’m sure they would absolutely LOVE to nail me to the wall.

Showing an abundance of caution I decided to mail my check certified, return receipt requested.  You can’t be too careful with an agency that has adopted a “we’re right, you’re wrong, pay up” attitude.

Oh boy.  Was I ever in for it.  I show up at a post office to mail my certified letter and, of course, there was a line.  No, not all the stations were open, and those that were open were staffed by people who looked like they couldn’t get out of their own way.  After a short wait it became clear that this process was going to take a minimum of 45 minutes.  So --- off I went to a local private mail station.  I paid him a buck to handle the matter for me and was in and out in 60 seconds.

That, my friends, is the difference between dealing with government and dealing with private businesses --- especially those with competition.

You want the government to handle your medical care?  You want the government to take care of your retirement?  Go stand in line at a post office. 

GOOD FRIDAY 

A reminder of democracy’s greatest moment in history.

Barabbas or Jesus?

Don’t you just love mob rule?  Hmmm. Perhaps our founding fathers were on to something..??..

...BUT WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION ON BUG BOMBS

It happened again.  Someone was fumigating an apartment with "bug bombs" in San Diego.  There were 18 of these bug bombs in the unit--but no one bothered to think what would happen when those flammable vapors reached the pilot light on, say, a gas-powered appliance.

The result?  A big boom.  The explosion ripped open the ceiling of the apartment, shattered windows, and tore cabinets from kitchen walls.  About $50,000 in damage.  Authorities say the residents were using way too many bug bombs.

The cockroaches are still there, by the way.

But it's an epidemic!  The same thing happened twice last week--in a New York apartment building and a house!  The residents used too many bug bombs and failed to shut off their appliances beforehand.

These bug bombs are dangerous!  They cause injury and could possibly kill someone!  We have to control these bug bombs!  Make the owners lock them up when they're not in use!  Ban them from homes and only authorize government-supervised exterminators to possess them!  We have to think of the children!  The children! 

Child locks on bug bombs!
Bug bomb buy-back programs. 

How long before a kid gets kicked out of school for drawing a picture of a bug bomb!

After all...it's the bug bombs that caused all this property damage...not  the people who misused them.

And wet streets cause rain.

And cameras cause pornography.

And cell phones cause traffic accidents.

 

EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.”   ---- “EARNED?”

If you make a visit to your friendly IRS office you might be lucky enough to pick up a nifty little refrigerator magnet for your kitchen!  At the top it says “The Tax Break for Hard-Working People.” In the center you have this message:

You work hard?  But you don’t earn a high income?  You may qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit.”

What the hell is this “earned” bit?  Is the federal government telling you that you have “earned” a right to some of the money that someone else worked for?

That’s what’s going on here.  This isn’t a tax “credit.”  It’s a transfer payment.  The federal government looks at your income and the size of your family and then decides how much money it is going to take from someone else and give to you.  It’s not a “tax break” as the clever little magnet says.  It’s a welfare payment.  Income redistribution. Plunder at work.

J.C. GETS IT RIGHT

     "The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. It taxes you when you make a phone call. It taxes you when you turn on a light. It taxes you when you sell a stock. It taxes you when you fill your car with gas. It taxes you when you ride a plane. It taxes you when you get married. Then it taxes you when you die. This is tax insanity and it must end."

Congressman J. C.Watts 

MORE OUTRAGES FROM YOUR WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

In Branchburg, New Jersey, we have a little girl who can’t hear well.  She uses sign language.  Little Danica Lesko has now been told that she cannot use her sign language on the bus. The Stony Brook Principal has determined that her use of sign language is causing a disturbance.  If she persists, she will be suspended for three days.

Now it’s the Telfair Elementary School in California’s San Fernando Valley.  There we have a student named Vincent Olivarez.   Vincent’s Aunt is a certified police weapons instructor. She took Vincent and her brother to the firing range for some safety instruction on guns.  She took a picture of Vincent shooting a revolver.  Vincent took the picture to school in his book bag.  A teacher found the picture and all hell broke loose.

First Vincent was interrogated by school officials.  Then his mom was called. She was told that Vincent was found with “extremely disturbing and offensive photographs” in his possession.  The police were going to be called if she didn’t come down right away.  When the story got out the school district officials quickly moved to calm things down by stepping away from the controversy.

Neil Boortz is a syndicated talk show host based in Atlanta Georgia. You can visit his website at http://www.boortz.com.