Health Care and the IRS
(calm down everyone, try this out for size.......)
April 2010
Dear mysterious "M'
("M" is the High School friend-
reconnected through 
who's trying to reign me
in).
."M" I need to go over all these pages
one by one. You've hinted as much. Unfortunately, I also need to rewrite the one page we worked on together- this one! Just the word "IRS" in the page heading (my choice) is a magnet, a bad
one Any one looking..... well to be honest, the 
friend requests..... aren't going so well
lately. I need to straighten his page out and assure people too, if they vote for me, no parts of this radical idea below will ever see the light of day. It's just GRIST FOR THE MILL so to speak. We'll talk later.
Definitions of hyperbole on the Web:
1) Hyperbole ( , from ancient Greek
"?pe?ß???", meaning excess or exaggeration) is a figure of speech in
which statements are exaggerated. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to
create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.
2) Hyperbole A bold, deliberate overstatement, eg, "I'd
give my right arm for a piece of pizza." Not intended to be taken
literally, it is used as a means of emphasizing the truth of a statement. ..
3) Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. For example, I'm
so hungry I could eat a horse.
4) Hyperbole: Stein for Congress's Big Idea-Eliminate Cash- "We're all issued a National
Debit Card" like I said- Hyperbole....scroll down.
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"M" With that said, the weather is just beautiful today, I'm getting myself outside the "cave" i.e.,computer-laundry room-campaign headquarters. Monday is a day off, the chores will get ignored again I'm sure. I'll probably work an hour or less. The pull of the local library will be too much, I'll wind up doing more research on incumbents-2nd district.
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5/26/2010
I’m for Single Payer. Single Payer, is basically, the government replacing the Insurance Industry. Maybe, at least one Republican would have signed on Obamacare, 2 months ago, had parts of this outline below been on the table. Yeah, sure when pigs fly, anyway…. but "What If" early this year
!) Congress voted to pass Single Payer...because
2) Democrats, as thanks, negotiated with Republicans, the elimination of at least 3 cabinet level agencies, and the elimination of a few dozen other programs. If the programs had some wonderful oversight responsibility we just couldn't live without-- hiring 1000 new attorney’s at the Justice Department is the cheaper-more effective alternative than redundant departments with no desire or power to oversee anything. The Securities and Exchange Commission, and some agency I never heard of before last week- Minerals and Mines- are two good examples. Dept of Education is an example of a Cabinet Agency that needs cutting.
What if? We start with a clean piece of paper and.....PUT ALL THE CARDS ON THE TABLE
3) ELIMINATE THE NATIONAL INCOME TAX for everyone except the very rich, say those making in excess of $500,000 or with a net worth of some figure to be determined. NO INCOME TAX for everyone but the very rich.
4) ELIMINATE ALL STATE INCOME & SALES TAX.
5). INSTITUTE A REGRESSIVE NATIONAL SALES TAX. No tax on food or medicines, but on everything else, , everyone pays!
1. States receive a percentage of collected taxes based on a formula, to be worked out later, but
based on the percentage states collect from their residents now.
a) Consumers would be forced to conserve and budget. The less you spend, the less you're
taxed. .
b) The poor will have a double incentive to raise their income. Yes a sales tax is regressive, but
the progressive nature of the Income Tax is now eliminated so work, work, save, save. You're
not being taxed at a progressively higher rate anymore. The regressive nature of the Value
Added Tax, in turn, means that everyone is contributing to the "free" health care, any time they
purchase anything, quieting the rest of us complaining about the poor currently paying nothing
towards their health care.
6) ELIMINATE CASH... yes, you read correctly ELIMINATE ALL CASH
We are all issued a national debit card
All deposits and withdrawals are made directly to bank accounts.
Direct deposit, direct bill payments, direct purchases. Right now, even with 94,000 IRS
employees, the IRS can’t collect around $345, 000 billion in taxes because of unclaimed income
(cash). Let's re-cap because right about now, I’m losing supporters by the droves! We’ve cut the
budget (20% sounds like a nice round figure), we’ve eliminated the IRS for all except the very rich
we've eliminated state income taxes and sales taxes (if they didn’t have one in the first place, it's
probably more than made up for by higher gasoline taxes or something similar. (what about
Alaska? Details, details, details.....) and in exchange we instituted a National Sales Tax.
But ("what if') lo and behold, by some strange miracle the economy is now booming??? The tax system would be fairer (not perfect), the burden spread, the size of government would be less (or no deal) and the economy would in fact boom. When the economy booms- tax revenue goes through the roof...................and since we're already on the road to throwing entrenched incumbents out, the new legislators know what to do with SURPLUSES!
But, I’M NOT DONE!! ... If I'm writing the legislation, you knew it had to have an "undocumented- illegal alien" angle to it.
7) AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS CURRENTLY HERE.
20 million “undocumented workers” now enter the American workforce- legally - just like that!
8) Revise the 14th Amendment granting automatic citizenship to children born of illegal immigrants....going forward....no child here now is denied anything. That's fair, who could argue?
There you have it. Something for everyone...and when the economy booms, "Big Brother" will know every purchase you make, and everywhere you've been. I'm for it!
