Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cartoons

This cartoon hit home the fact that liberals and conservatives will never be able to come together because they see the world so differently. It is very depressing to think that any amount of education will not change peoples views of how to deal with the problems of the economy.This next cartoon shows how ridiculous the subsidies on the green jobs has become. When will people see that green jobs have never been cost effective. When the idea about green jobs came about during the Carter years, there were studies done that showed they were not cost efficient. So when the government stepped in to help out it made it look like green jobs were going to be the future. But if you really start looking around, you will find abandoned wind farms and solar farms from years ago because the government money ran out. Then you fast forward to today and you hear about Solyndra and other green job companies that have gone bankrupt after using millions of tax dollars to help jump start them.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

My thoughts on the extension of the Payroll Tax

My letter to Representative Jim Matheson - who is a democrat

The extension of the Payroll tax cut is more of a problem then a help. The payroll tax money goes into the Social Security fund. Right?! So we have been putting less money into the Social Security fund all these months with this payroll tax cut and now we want to extend it and also cut what the employer is taxed?! That sounds so dumb. The democrats are hurting the seniors. Can't you all think of something different to help create jobs? You are robbing Peter (Seniors - less money into the security fund) to pay Paul (working person who can't buy much from the payroll tax cut anyway). Let us get back to paying our payroll tax, like we used to so it can go back into the Social Security fund and instead work on getting government regulations repealed (like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank bill-if you haven't noticed yet, they have raised fees and premiums) and create a flat tax OR a consumption tax so that everyone, and I mean everyone, will contribute to this great nation. That should start creating new jobs because the employers will know what the rules of the game are (Don't we all need to live by rules?) and create jobs so that it bring more money into the economy. What is so wrong with this idea? I just don't understand why democrats won't do these things? Why do you have to create such uncertainty? And by the way, we all knew that the super committee was going to fail! So lets get to the hard stuff (reform Social Security since we are ruining it even faster with the payroll tax cut, and reform the tax system to an easier one, reform Medicare and Medicade, too much regulation again) and make the hard changes. None of this "Oh.. let's extend the payroll tax cut" That is so lame!