User talk:Kevron1228

I am uncertain where or how to begin to get my idea introduced and open to debate. For over the last six years, ever since I first encountered it, I have been (almost rabidly) opposed to the concept of a national sales tax as developed by the organization of FairTax.org, to replace all current Federal taxation methods.

I agree to the basic concept of a flat tax, but have always thought that the fairest way was to have the broadest base possible to be subject to taxation and that corporations and all other entities, that are not in themselves natural persons, should nevertheless have to pay the same rate as an individual.

Back in September 2004 I submitted a rebuttal of a proponent of the "FairTax.org" to my local newspaper, The Daily Southtown, and it was duly published by them less than a week after her article was published.

Then in early 2005 I submitted my idea to my two US Senators - Durbin and Obama - who both gave me polite "thanks but no thanks" while I also sent it to my Congressman (Jerry Weller, who never so much as gave me even an acknowledgement.) A few years later, I discovered that in April 2005 Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Phil.PA) introduced a bill very similar to my idea but he turned the concept upside down - from a "payee's tax" to a "payor's tax" on each level of production (what is that now in America? - most manufacturing is now overseas in China!) I do know he is a member of the Black Caucus in Congress, and so was then Senator Obama.

If I could somehow cut and paste these two newspaper clippings into your system I would do so - and now - as they are on one document in my desktop computer.

In comparison to FairTax.org wanting a 23% national sales tax on each new purchase, I propose a "gross receipts tax" of 1/4th of 1% levied on every cashflow payment for/to every person and entity doing business in the USA - with no exceptions, no exemptions, and no offsetting deductions permitted.

I am a retired Federal Savings Bank Examiner who personally viewed the S&L Debacle of the 1980-1990 era, only now to see a bigger mess created in the 2000-2008 era, by fee-driven mortgage bankers packaging subprime loans into pools and these being sold all over the world with a Triple-A credit rating that was never warranted - all leading as the last straw to break our backs and lead us to our current financial mess.

I will now try to paste this copy of my 2004 rebuttal document into this text - wish me luck!?

I could not paste it into this transmittal! How can I get it to you? 03:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)~

MY POLITICAL REFORM IDEAS FOR A THIRD PARTY
NATIONAL OPINION SURVEY FOR THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

I know this is a waste of time as all you really want is my $$$, but at age 70+ I surely do have lots of time –with a young mind in an old body!

1.	How would you describe your political views? ULTRA-PROGRESSIVE – impatient for sincerity and fed up with “Christian” hypocrites.

2.	How would you rate your last experience at the polls? GOOD

3.	In last 12 months, have you contacted or visited a public official at any level of government? YES

4.	How would you rate the following sources to find out about the news?

a.	Print Media		NOT OFTEN

b.	Television Media	OFTEN		MSNBC, CNBC – but definitely NOT Fox News distortions

c.	Radio Media		SOMEWHAT OFTEN – 99.9FM & 820AM – in Chicago south suburbs on Thursdays

d.	Internet Media		VERY OFTEN – I get a ton of e-mails on finances daily, on stock markets

5.	Do you think the country political parties are headed in the right or the wrong direction?

REPUBLICRATS – WRONG!!!!!;

DEMOPUBICANS – need to get free from $$$$ from big business and to represent the common people.

6.	What is the single biggest problem with elected officials in Washington DC today? They are under the influence of special interests – the costs of elections and the “revolving door” – they kiss the asses of big business for $$$$ and for future jobs, and of nut-cases for votes.

7.	What is the best way to limit impact of special interest money on political process? PUBLIC FINANCING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS.

8.	Do you support/oppose Supreme Court ruling giving corporations/unions SECRECY AND unlimited $$$$ rights to defeat candidates? STRONGLY OPPOSE – only individuals should be allowed to spend up to $1,000 each per candidate and NOT PAID TO ANY “PAC”!

9.	Would you support/oppose Congress reinstating limits on corporate/union spending on election campaigns? STRONGLY SUPPORT - ABOLISH CORP. $$$$$ FIRST AND MAKE UNIONS GET MEMBER OK & PUBLISH ALL CONTRIBUTIONS THEY MADE TO ANY CANDIDATE.

10.	Do you believe partisan redistricting determines the result of too many Congressinal elections before any vote is cast? STRONGLY AGREE – we need a constitutional convention to abolish state lines, state’s rights, 50 sets of state laws and the U.S. Senate (billionaires country club) and instead to have one Congressional representative [who may serve during their lifetime no more than 2 terms of 8 years each - subject to recall or impeachment] for every 100,000 registered voters, and with each voting district being reapportioned every eight years into either a square or a rectangle to take in such 100,000 registered voters who voted in the last election – and with the POTUS serving one 8-year term, also subject to recall or impeachment. (Also one driver’s license and one Federal police force nationwide.)

11.	How likely are you to vote in the 2012 Presidential election? VERY LIKELY – even though most candidates offered to us as choices by major political parties offer very little choice of substance, concentrating only on trivial issues, and are therefore "UNINSPIRING" to say the least.

12.	Do you support/oppose laws requiring voters to show photo IDs before casting their ballots? SUPPORT – but $ costs born by government so this does not become a hidden “poll tax” on the poor – also abolish “drug wars” that are now being used to beef-up privatized prisons and to simultaneously disenfranchise the dumbest and poorest people from voting rights, for possession of pot or crack.

13.	Do you support/oppose laws allowing people to register to vote and cast ballot on same day at the polls? OPPOSE – again if we had one universal ID card/driver’s license nationwide, you should be able to use that to vote in any district on electronic machines that would automatically bring up a screen showing YOUR congressional district’s candidates. Also with a medical records RFID chip implant, you could be verified and scanned electronically so you only could vote once, even if you tried to go to another polling place again. 14.	WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ISSUES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU? Please rank with 1-12 with “1” being the most important to you:

1.	TAX FAIRNESS – See my editorial, rebutting Republicrat “FairTax.org” from September 2004!

2.	ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY – List the three steps of REAL 100% goals with calendar deadlines!

3.	CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM – Changes of districts, nomination by popular petition, terms and term limits, succession, recall.

4.	IMMIGRATION – Criminally prosecute/incarcerate corporate CEOs who exploit undocumented illegal immigrant labor.

5.	HEALTH CARE – Revise Obamacare to a $250,000 first dollar single-payer Medicare of all with private excess coverages.

6.	WARS IN IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN/LIBYA/YEMEN/SOMALIA – All be ended – like tomorrow – and bring troops home to work here.

7.	JOBS/ECONOMY – Rebuild industrial base we gave away; establish Canada and Latin America as our primary trading partners.

8.	VOTING RIGHTS – Decriminalize and pardon all for possession of pot or crack retroactively and reestablish lost voting rights.

9.	HOMELAND SECURITY – Abolish Federal executive privileges to wiretap and invade privacy and repeal much of the Patriot Act.

10.	REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS – Stay out of the bedroom activities of all consenting adults – decriminalize.

11.	EDUCATION – Restore programs cut by Republicants/Republicrants/Republicrats – with incentives to keep educated immigrants here.

12.	ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT – Abolish political patronage; eliminate “revolving door” of government and business; make ALL politicians, judges, staffs and immediate families DISCLOSE ALL financial interests and RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM arguing the merits of, and from voting on any issue that would impact such financial interests – either positively or negatively, with criminal sanctions.

1.	TAX FAIRNESS – In my editorial opinion, rebutting Republicrat “FairTax.org”, going back to September 2004, I wrote how the Federal Reserve then had a “brag” on its website that it processed an average of $3 trillion ($3,000,000,000,000) in payment transfers every business day. Similarly back then the IRS boasted how it collected some $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) in tax revenues for the Federal government that past year, from a myriad of sources - beyond just Federal income taxes alone. Back when I was still a Federal savings bank examiner, I had this idea and everybody looked at me like I was crazy. I thought and still think WAY outside the box. Who says we need a bunch of accountants and attorneys getting rich while they represent huge corporations and are quibbling with the IRS and with Congress over what should be “current taxable net income” before potential use of loss carry-forwards and loss carry-backs? And of what special write-offs should apply only to a particular client or a particular industry?

Back then I had come up with the idea that to get rid of political bribery and graft, the politicians and the cadre’ of accountants and attorneys must be 100% neutered and powerless to dream up and approve special tax gimmicks for a privileged few. The KEY idea is one stemming out of bankruptcy laws – CASH IS KING! If you have no way to raise the cash to pay for your choices – you are broke!

True “conservatism” [that phonies like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann avoid] is that each person and entity should stand on their own and should be neither ‘incentivized’ or penalized by the government for their choices in how they spend their monies, nor for the sources of their cash revenue inflow streams. KEEP IT SIMPLE & SAFE = K.I.S.S. Back in the 1990s I thought that a tax on cash inflows of 2% to 3% may be needed to meet all GOVERNMENT needs. I instinctively felt that a higher rate would foster an underground economy. Imagine how I felt after I did the math calculation shown in my rebuttal and I had discovered the low percentage needed!

When I had these two simple truths admitted by two government sources, it was an easy solve! $3,000,000,000,000 x 250 business days = $750,000,000,000,000 [that’s right - $750 trillion] Let’s see – 1% of that is $7.5 trillion! Way too much! One half of that (which is a measly ½ of 1%) would be $3 – ¾ trillion and still way over the $2 trillion the IRS then bragged about collecting! Oh my God! One half of that (which is a measly ¼ of 1%) could yield almost $2 trillion (or $1 - 7/8 trillion - $1,875,000,000,000!) Hey – there must be at least $125 billion of fat and waste they could find and trim out of the Federal budgets? Now they admit to much more than that on TV!

Every entity that did any financial transactions here would pay the same rate on monies that would be required to be deposited through the USA banking system before leaving the country. Every Arab-OPEC transaction! Every Communist Chinese transaction on stuff we imported while we exported our manufacturing jobs to them and our people wallow in self-hatred, now on unemployment.

Everybody and everything! NO EXCEPTIONS! NO EXEMPTIONS! NO DEDUCTIONS! What is not to like about this? Want to sell some $300,000 of stocks on which you made a $200,000 profit? Pay ¼ of 1% on the $300,000 sales proceeds received – no need to worry whether you held it for one day or for 20 years. Say your Grandma died and left you $30 million? No more death tax! Pay ¼ of 1% on the $30-million – or $75,000! Hey you Republicans – what in the hell is bad or wrong about that? You want it tax-free?

Get over your silly idea of making corporations into Gods that you genuflect to as your masters – and the idea they should not have to pay any US Federal taxes because they create jobs – albeit no longer in the IOUSA, but instead in some shit-hole corner of the world.

Now after eight years of misfeasance and malfeasance by one George Walker Bush (“W”), including two unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (one being a fraud and a scam on the American people with fictional claims of weapons of mass destruction),

and after the unfunded “doughnut hole” Rx drug benefits approve by Bush’s Republicrat Congress, and after “W” was handed an operating surplus by Clinton that he turned into a GIGANTIC deficit with his side-kick – Cheney –proclaiming: “Deficits don’t matter”,

now it is likely that $2 trillion per year are a trifle – now we should require perhaps $3 or even $4 trillion in annual Federal revenues!

2.	ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY – our first imperative is to be 100% free

a.	from foreign countries by 2025, and

b.	from non-renewable fossil fuels of coal and oil, by 2050

c.	from pollution of both the atmosphere and all sources of potable water by 2075.

Enact laws with teeth, that provide 100% vigorous enforcement and that require not only civil, but also criminal penalties. White-collar premeditated crimes can generally be shown to cause the society at large more damage than do all sporadic impulsive crimes of anger/violence and as such they deserve not lesser but instead greater criminal penalties to be imposed on the perpetrators. 3.	CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM – NO CORPORATE $$$ OR DONATION OF GOODS, SERVICES OR PERSONNEL TO ANY CANDIDATES; change election cycles to every 8 years for Congress and President (but 2-stage: Congressional seats in 2014 and President separately in 2018) There must be free air time on radio and TV given to all qualified Congressional candidates in each congressional district who have obtained signatures of 10% of registered votes in that district within a 3-month window. Presidential candidates also get free air time and most derived from major parties selected by votes of then-seated Congressmen, with provision for Independents to be put on ballot if they have obtained signatures of at least 10% of registered voters in at least 25% of all Congressional districts on the census poll records, within a 6-month window. All office holders will be subject to recall by the people or to impeachment by Congress every 2 years within their 8 year terms. President may have one 8-year term; Congressmen have no more than two 8-year terms, regardless of locations of districts, or being consecutive/intermittent. There should be generation-skipping to end ALL family political dynasties; spouses and first-generation offspring may not succeed to same position of a former member of Congress, or to the Presidency.

4.    IMMIGRATION – THE ONLY PERSONS IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS WITHIN THE LAST 500 YEARS ARE THE RED MEN! We are all the offspring of immigrants who fled from oppression or sought opportunities closed to them in Europe or Asia, or who were brought here against their will from Africa by profiteering tribal chiefs, in collusion with Arabs and Europeans in the slave trade of the 1600-1800 era. As such we have no right or entitlement to denigrate or pervert or exploit for profit the opportunities of others who peacefully wish to adopt our system and our desire for a better life for themselves and their families. Instead of getting upset with poor Mexicans who sneak across the border in order to try to provide more capital to feed themselves and their families, we should penalize the CEO’s of major corporations who hypocritically prey upon this labor source that cannot defend itself, or protest mistreatment. Americans should decry all forms of labor exploitation that create a “race to the bottom”! The sanctions to be taken against corporate CEOs must be not just civil fines paid by the corporations as a slap on the wrist, but criminal prosecution. “The buck stops here” said Harry S. Truman – at the top.

5.	HEALTH CARE – “Obamacare” as pre-negotiated by him with the big drug companies and the insurance companies and as passed by the hypocrite committees then headed by Max Baucus (D-Montana) and Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) is a farce and a joke and a nightmare crazy-quilt compromise. We then needed and still need a single-payer “Family Medicare” system for all under 65, covering perhaps the first $250,000 per person per year with nationwide base rates that are the same as the individual’s share.

The national base rate should be the same for all, whether you are 18 or 64 and adjustable downwards, based on an annual mandatory physical exam that will provide rewards and incentives to adopt and to maintain a healthy lifestyle! (Ex: 10% to 20% discount if weight/height ratio is within a healthy pattern; 20-30% discount for non-smokers; 30%-40% discount for no addictions to alcohol or drugs; with a maximum combined discount of 60%.) BUT … there should not be any penalty or rate-up for inherited DNA gene-markers that indicate your predisposition to any debilitating diseases. You cannot help it as to what you inherited from your parents; you can help what you do to keep your mind and body healthy!

Then the health insurance companies can offer a series of 10 preapproved plans and rates for you to choose from, for the excess coverage over the annual $250,000 that the government nationwide “Family Medicare” plan would offer!

AND… they cannot deny coverage based on ANY preexisting conditions - REAL COMPETITION  … as the only thing they can monkey with is the discount they offer, based on positive life-style counseling.

Along with that there should be a system of centralized computer health records for every American, and an RFID chip implant in the nape of the neck so you can be identified even in the bleakest of emergency conditions! Now the religious right gooney-birds will decry this as BIG BROTHER and Orwellian “1984” some 30-40 years after the fact, with a mix of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? 6.	WARS IN IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN/LIBYA/YEMEN/SOMALIA – End these wars – NOW! Stop pissing away our treasury!

7.	JOBS/ECONOMY – The various unions were not visionary at all but completely myopic and blew it completely right after World War II when they still had the most membership and power. Back then they should have insisted on such legislation being passed by a Democratic Congress that would then forbid American companies from outsourcing jobs to any other nation-location that does not allow full collective-bargaining rights to its citizens and workers that are 100% equal to those in the USA.

AND… also adopt laws that forbid the importing of finished or unfinished goods or services from any such nation that does not provide comparable bargaining rights. After the 30+ years of outsourcing, since the regime of the union-buster (Ronald Wilson Reagan), it is now an uphill-battle to reestablish such demands –  as we are now the world’s biggest debtors, and our GDP is a diminishing percentage of world-wide outputs.

WE MUST FIND WAYS TO DEVELOP JOBS HERE, AND TO PLACE HIGH TARIFFS ON NON-ESSENTIAL GOODS NOW BEING IMPORTED FROM “SLAVE-LABOR” NATIONS. To do this we must become 100% energy-independent from imports, and especially from the OPEC nations we have enriched previously, and rebuild our internal manufacturing base in a manner that is environmentally safe to our air and water and does not expose workers to undue risks.

As part of our plan to put America first, we must reemphasize the Monroe Doctrine – but also add a reverse spin and twist to it – to make all of the Americas in the Western hemisphere our primary center of interest and tell much of the rest of the world politely to go to hell, and to stay the hell out of here - our primary trading partners, that we should build up, should be all of Latin America besides Canada.

8.	VOTING RIGHTS – How many are presently in jail, especially among the black and brown groups, because they were convicted – rightly or wrongly – on mere possession of a small amount of either crack or pot, while nobody goes after the rich white suburban kids or the drug kingpins properly [because these octopus tentacles of corruption are likely to reach high up into places of political power?]

Now it is being made worse in states like Arizona where they have privatized prisons, turning this function over to for-profit corporations [which then are now getting tailor-made laws passed to provide excuses to jail even more minorities – especially now Mexicans – to increase their profits.] It appears to me this has a huge side effect benefiting the Republicrats – disenfranchising the poor Mexicans and Afro-americans from voting – as they know well the probability of these uneducated minority unskilled workers of voting for any Republican is next to nil.

9.	HOMELAND SECURITY – Much of the Patriot Act was blindly adopted wrongly in a wave of national hysteria and needs to be revoked. Obama’s failure to do so, and to use new devious terrorist prisons in Somalia shows he has seemingly been “Brainwashed by Bullies inside the Beltway”.

10.	REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS – Why do many of the Republicrats campaigning for office want to tell everybody how to conduct their sex lives when they themselves are among many of the biggest hypocrites out there? They want to deprive people of choices they do not understand because their prejudices are rooted in archaic religious taboos and traditions stemming from Semitic-Judaic roots. I do not understand these alternative lifestyle choices [gay, bisexual, polygamous or polyandrous] myself but I do not feel threatened by them.

The biggest hypocrisy is to demand that babies be born, that are then unwanted and unloved by their parents or by anyone else, and are then shunted around and treated like nothing more than an income-stream by for-profit foster parenting couples. Make sure they are born - but then not give a shit about what happens to them. We need new annual crops of desensitized robotons to fill the ranks of our military?

Did you ever read how Joseph Stalin in the late 1940s and early 1950s tried to cross-breed Russian peasant women with apes to try to get subhuman trainable troops for his future armies? [This is no joke – it happened!] Overbreeding produces more kids than an economy can employ, you ask for a dictator to seize military opportunism to fix the problem of underutilized chafing young male testosterone. This is the plight in the younger Arab world, and also the result in China of the 30+ year policy of one child per couple – where baby girls were killed as a boy was preferred. Look for the surplus younger male population of China to create an upsurge in Chinese militarism as they prosper!

11.	EDUCATION – Stop privatizing higher education! Before allowing foreign students to come here to learn and then to return home, provide education, training and research opportunities for our own brightest and best. Education should carry no tuition costs to those who maintain a solid 3.75 average on a 4.0 scale in subjects in their major and a solid 3.25 in all other subjects taken. 12. 	ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT – At first I thought the 11 above would resolve ethics problems. Then I remembered the Nixon White House – where three young and very bright Republicans with names of Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Paul O’Neill apparently used not only their intellect but probably their political connections to eventually rise to CEO jobs – later to return to high level political appointments in the Gerald Ford, and/or George H.W. Bush (Dad) or George W. Bush (Son) administrations. And then there is the Clarence Thomas appointment to the US Supreme Court, compounded by appointments of Scalia, Roberts and ???

Kevron1228 04:58, 26 July 2011 (UTC) Kevron1228 05:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)