July 09, 2010

@GovMikeHuckabee Hits Back at @Davidfrum |Great Exchange on FairTax, stemcell, etc /my comment

Huckabee Hits Back
at Frum

July 9th, 2010 at 11:59 am FrumForum Editors | 36 Comments |

Midweek, I published a piece on the potential strengths and weaknesses of a second Huckabee candidacy for president. Yesterday, Gov. Huckabee responded with a vigorous emailed defense against three of the questions I raised. With the governor's permission, his rebuttal is posted in full below.
- David Frum



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my comment:
 
Bruce Bartlett has come out supporting the conservative nationalists we have,, the DC GOP.  David Frum here has stirred his articles in support of these nationalists who own the nicname RINO. Some have come back to the Constitution, but not all.  The reason these good ole boys want to keep the tax system we have is to control for benefit of lobby funds into their cesspool.
 
The flat tax being pushed by these had Armey and his freedom Works taking FairTax down to hide the fact that Fairtax is not only the preferred tax system, but is the number one priority of the Teaparty Patriots.
 
Governor Huckabee has been very gracious to Mitt, by not defining his character which ... The Romneys of the world do not want FairTax cause it will hurt their empires they set up when they got Reagan to open up free trade and leave the Federal tax burden on the USA manufacturer with the tax built into the production cost thus giving a 23% handicap to imports.
 
Thank you David for this Forum and exchange you have honored us with Governor Huckabee, Michael~
 
George


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Dretroit Examiner-Video: Obama 'Science' czar admits Cap-and-Trade is about socialism

Video: 'Science' czar admits Cap-and-Trade is about socialism
July 9, 2:45 PMConservative ExaminerRobert Moon
 
Obama's illegal anti-science czar, John Holdren, is now officially on the record admitting that Obama's cap-and-tax economic suicide plan (devised by major Obama campaign donors like BP) is about nothing more than "spreading the wealth around."
Holdren insists that it really won't annihilate our already teetering economy like everyone says (see here)...it'll just take mountains of wealth away from our economy and give it to those of developing countries (i.e., global redistribution of wealth).
 
link here to video
 
my comment:
 
Are we to the point that enough want socialism that going forward with this tyranny will be done without hesitation?  If so, God Help US~
 


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Fairtax Friday | National & Local FairTax Efforts Strengthen Each Other * Webinare on Jul 22nd




 
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National and Local FairTax Efforts Strengthen Each Other

A Message from Ken Hoagland

WOW! and THANK YOU!  FairTaxers from coast to coast answered our "SOS" call for contributions with generosity and understanding, pulling the FairTax national campaign out of a dangerous funding slump as grassroots FairTax supporters—and the entire nation—watched the Gulf Oil spill disaster with horror.

More than 2,000 FairTax supporters who had never before invested in the FairTax campaign gave donations for the first time and thousands more heard and answered our plea to help us retire April 15th related expenses that had gone unmet when grassroots funding unexpectedly came to an almost complete standstill after the Gulf oil spill.

While the work of the national campaign is going forward, thanks to loyal and supportive FairTaxers, the work of advancing the FairTax issue is also continuing in hometowns across the nation. Thank you to all.

Jim Bennett of New Jersey talked with people at a July 4th gathering. Others held FairTax TV show viewing parties. Mike McLean with more than 6,000 miles already accomplished is riding his custom $40,000 Harley motorcycle across the country with stops at FairTax events. Barry Hinckley of Massachusetts is arranging high level Congressional meetings. Foster Freiss of Wyoming has made possible a FairTax presentation at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. At county fairs and political gatherings across the country, at post offices every April 15th and at meetings, rallies and in everyday one-on-one conversations, FairTax volunteers are bringing our message of hope and a better government and future to their fellow citizens.

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Fairtax TV Show a Hit!

Thousands of Americans tuned into the first ever national FairTax TV show on July 4th and many new supporters called 1-800-FairTax to either join our ranks or ask for additional information. "We all know that when people learn about the issue, they like it," said Ken Hoagland. "This was one more way to bring the FairTax message to living rooms across the country and it worked!" said Hoagland.

The TV show featured talk show Hall of Famer, Neal Boortz as well as former Congressional leader, Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan's eldest son, Michael Reagan and was hosted by Hoagland and "man on the street", Paul Bartlau.

FairTax supporters provided the funds for broadcast time and private investors provided funds for the production and editing costs. "We are grateful that so many FairTax grassroots supporters helped us put this on the air and we will be doing this again," said Hoagland.

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Grass Roots Call to write the White House Continues

FairTaxers and their fellow tax protestors sent tens of thousands of e-mails to President Obama in the last week asking him to help Gulf Coast residents whose lives have been upended by the Gulf oil spill now in its 11th week. While the White House has not yet responded Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio added his voice to the effort and Misssissippi Governor Haley Barbour's noticed our call to action and expressed gratitude and support.

"The magnitude off this disaster requires us to bend IRS rules instead of kicking these people after they have just been hit by a truck," said Hoagland. "The President can call the IRS and tell them to forgo tax bills to people who have used too-small and too-late BP checks just putting food on the table, "he said.

More than 270,000 Online Tax Revolt marchers (see: onlinetaxrevolt.com) "made camp" in New Orleans in support of Gulf oil victims whose relief checks will be taxed by the IRS if the White House or Congress do not intercede.

"We all work for needed tax reform and upending the IRS and the broken income tax system," Hoagland said. "Let's not lose sight of the fact that it is hurting people right now and let's join together to do what we can to help them".

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Freedom Ride Update - Around The Nation

After a few days in NC for maintenance on the FairTax Bike, (logging 6,300 in June!) we departed for a beautiful ride through Tennessee and the Cumberland Gap on our way to meet the Kentucky and Ohio riders in Lexington, Kentucky. Robin Pierce, KY Sons Of Liberty Riders President, his son, and two of the Ohio SOLR rode with us to the Ohio line, and then up to Dayton.

On Saturday we held a combined event with the Ohio SOLR and Steve Curtis, the Ohio FairTax State Director, at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, where Frank Poinsett, a FairTax supporter, has been on maintenance staff for many years. Frank's work to rebuild and remember our impressive history of just a couple generations ago left us in amazement at a citizenry that stood up when called. On July 4th, the Ohio and Indiana SOLR bikers rode to Lawrence Park outside of Indianapolis for a traditional 4th of July parade and picnic. At the end of the day, we rode with Will and Beth Huston of the Indiana SOLR to the Illinois State line, said our thanks, and continued to Champaign, Illinois for the night. We were fortunate to happen upon one of the best fireworks displays we have seen in a while, despite hearing that many smaller cities had to cut back this year.

For the rest of the week, we're moving through Miami, OK where Miki Booth has organized a meet and greet with supporters and candidates for Congress at the Route 66 Motorcycle Museum. Houston will be our destination Saturday for "The Dam Tax Revolt" at The Dam Ice House with AFFT FairTax volunteers, Texas SOLR, and other local invited guests.

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FairTax National "Webinar" Schedule for July 22

WHAT: Understanding the FairTax webinar for July 2010

SPECIAL TOPIC: The FT impact on the housing industry.

WHEN: Thursday July 22, 2010

TIME: 8 – 8:45pm Eastern Time 7 – 7:45pm Central, 6 – 6:45 Mountain, 5 – 5:45 Pacific

WHERE: Your home, your Personal Computer

WHY: To provide an interactive forum for people who cannot get to local meetings to learn about the FairTax and to present Special Topics that are frequently misunderstood or not generally discussed.

Join Marc Manieri, Americans for Fair Taxation Community Coordinator in the Greater Orlando, Florida Area. Into our second year now, Marc's webinars draw national participation from seasoned FairTax supporters as well as those just getting started as a supporter. We help build the knowledge base of those on the front lines as well as those wanting to know what the FairTax is about. We educate candidates and sitting Congressional Representatives on the merits of the FairTax.

The PowerPoint presentations are available from Marc. When you get your email after the webinar just 'Reply' and it will be sent to you.

To participate it is necessary to pre-register at this web link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/259690458

You will receive a confirmation email with instructions for signing in at the time of the Webinar. For additional information contact Larry Walters at repeal_16@earthlink.net.

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In The News

National Debt Hits Highest Level Since World War II
From Politics Daily
Christopher Weber
Correspondent

The national debt will make up 62 percent of the U.S. economy by the end of the year, the highest percentage since the end of World War II, according to a report released Wednesday by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf broke down the numbers in a blog post, explaining that the dramatic jump in debt stems partly from lower tax revenues and increased federal spending "related to the recent severe recession and turmoil in financial markets."

One of the biggest challenges to keeping a manageable debt level remains soaring health care costs, specifically those related to Medicare, according to Elmendorf.

"CBO projects that if current laws do not change, federal spending on major mandatory health care programs will grow from roughly 5 percent of GDP today to about 10 percent in 2035 and will continue to increase thereafter," he wrote.

Elmendorf outlined what he considered to be the most significant "negative impacts" that an out of control national debt would have on the overall economy:

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Are middle class tax increases on the way?
From "Wallet Pop"
Kelly Phillips Erb
Jun 28th 2010

In 1988, then presidential candidate George H. W. Bush uttered the now (in)famous phrase, "Read my lips: no new taxes" at the Republican National Convention. The pledge was considered to be one of the keys to Bush's success in winning the presidency that year. Two years later, the pledge came back to haunt President Bush when he raised taxes as part of a budget agreement; it is considered one of the reasons for Bush's failure to win a second term in 1992. Making promises, something that politicians do all of the time, is tricky business, especially at the top.

President Obama is hoping that history isn't bound to repeat itself. Twenty years after Bush's speech, then presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged not to raise taxes on the middle class. However, as spending continues to skyrocket and tax revenues plummet, there is considerable concern among Democrats in Congress that it might not be possible to keep that promise.

This week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) became the first high-ranking Democrat in Congress to signal that the party might not permanently extend President George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class. Hoyer wouldn't go so far as to say that tax increases were on the table but suggested that any extension of middle class tax breaks would likely be short term, perhaps as short as one year. Those tax breaks were passed during President Bush's first term and have not been renewed since; they are scheduled to expire at the end of 2010.

It has been largely assumed that the Democrat-controlled Congress would extend tax cuts for the middle class and allow those breaks for the upper class (families making more than $250,000 per year) to expire. In recent months, however, Congress has failed to push any tax relief measures through Congress amid concerns about the ballooning debt. For most of the 1990s, the deficit remained relatively flat, making those tax cuts under President Bush appealing. However, as spending increased and revenues decreased, the debt nearly doubled under President Bush, going from about $5.5 trillion when he took office to $11 trillion when he left. The debt currently sits at $13 trillion. To put that into perspective, if you spent $1 every second, it would take more than 414,000 years to spend $13 trillion.

That assumption became even more cloudy this week when Sen. Hoyer remarked that "raising revenue is part of the deficit solution." Republicans immediately zeroed in on Hoyer's comments, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying, "It's now official. Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are starting to signal their intention to raise taxes on the middle class."

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Hoyer's comments are indicative "that he supports raising taxes on the middle class to pay for more government spending."

Despite the public bickering, Sen. Hoyer's comments echo what many in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, have been saying privately for weeks. Realistically, tax cuts are most attractive from a vote-getting perspective. From a fiscal perspective, the amount of tax revenue being collected isn't enough to support the amount of spending. This dilemma has been at the forefront of Congress' failure to pass any of a number of versions of H.R. 4213 (originally referred to as the Tax Extenders Bill), which has been in Congress since December of last year.

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Did You Know?
Two of the largest economies in the world rely almost solely on sales taxes: Florida and Texas. Many civilizations in history have relied solely on transaction-based consumption taxes: A percentage of a grain shipment in exchange for a safe harbor. Even a cursory study of history shows that nation/states that relied on consumption taxes flourished and prospered, supported democracies/republics, had expanding economies, and high levels of civil rights for their citizens. The exact opposite is true for empires that relied on income/poll/head taxes. These taxes were used to support despots, eventually collapsed the economies in which they were applied, and sundered civil rights.

The sales tax is a familiar tax, being a major source of revenue in 45 states and the District of Columbia. It is true, however, that no post-industrial nation, until now, has ever repealed its income tax and replaced it with a federal retail sales tax. However, England did repeal its detested income tax upon the defeat of Napoleon and enjoyed the fastest, longest expansion of its economy in its long history. An expansion that ended only with the -- you guessed it -- re-imposition of an income tax.

No other country has a system of government like ours, and no other country has led the world in so many fields as ours. It was France and Germany that forced the imposition of a VAT in addition to income taxes across the European Community. Shall we follow France's lead?
 
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#Michigan Candidates! Join Us July 18 for 'FairTax Summit' at Lansing Com. College


 


 
Michigan FairTax Association
 
Truth in Taxation
 
MI FairTax Assn Hosts Candidate Summit
July 4, 2010
 

Sunday, July 18 at Lansing Community College

  11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Lansing, MI

Open to All FairTax Candidates, Campaigns, Supporters & ANYONE Who Wants to learn More About the FairTax
 

Seating is Very Limited!  RSVP Right Now!
Congressman Pete Hoekstra to Keynote Event!
 
Dear R. George,
 
The Michigan FairTax Association is hosting a MI FairTax Candidates Summit, co-sponsored by Americans for Prosperity - MI, that will be held on Sunday, July 18 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. 
 
It will be held in Lansing at the Lansing Community College and the details will be forthcoming soon. 
 
 
Congressman Pete Hoekstra
Pete Hoekstra, Candidate for Governor
           
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
   
Former Senator Mike Gravel, D-AK
Senator Mike Gravel, D-AK
 
Pete Hoekstra, so far the only candidate for governor that is actively advocating for the MI FairTax, will kick off the event with a presentation at 11:30 AM.   
 
Mike Huckabee, R-AR and Mike Gravel, D-AK to Address Attendees!
 
We are excited to have TWO 2008 Presidential Candidates address the MI FairTax Summit conferees!  Mike Huckabee and Mike Gravel, Republican and Democrat respectively, will both address the summit by video.

The summit will provide great training to candidates and their    supporters on how to best advocate for the MI FairTax and the national FairTax, Q & A sessions and seminars, critical do's and don'ts, debate practice and pointers, working with the media, and some good one-liners and quotable sound bites.  Attendees will learn how to capitalize on the fact that FairTax candidates are the only ones with the key answer to Michigan's economic problems and out of control government.  

 
Learn How and Why the FairTax is a Winning Campaign Strategy!

The summit will provide a great opportunity to learn from other candidates what has worked for them and to coordinate campaign efforts with candidates of neighboring districts for maximum benefit.  Candidates will learn how to be proactive on the FairTax proposals and how this will benefit their campaigns.

The MI FairTax - A Winning Campaign Strategy
WIN with the MI FairTax!
This is a must-attend event for all candidates and campaign staff who believe, at the least, that the MI FairTax Constitutional amendment should be placed on the ballot for Michigan voters to have the opportunity to vote on the issue; and that the National FairTax should be brought to the floor of the U.S. House and Senate for an up or down vote by our elected representatives in Congress.  
 
All candidates - and their supporters - that want to learn more about the proposals, their impact on the economy and citizen control of government are encouraged to attend. 
 
If you are unsure whether you should be a FairTax advocate or not, then this is also must-attend event for you, too!
 
Lunch is Included

The objective of the Summit is to arm candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to optimally help win their campaigns for office; and to help all candidates educate the public on these very popular issues.  What we have found is that the more people learn about the FairTax proposals the more they like them.  Many candidates running on the FairTax proposals across the state will serve to educate voters statewide, thereby increasing the likelihood of victory for FairTax candidates.
 
Primary campaigns are a great opportunity to prepare the public on the FairTax issues for the general election.  Primary races with more than one FairTax candidate and FairTax candidates in neighboring districts are ideal as the discussion by more than one candidate adds to the acceptance of the proposal by the public and will help to get FairTax candidates elected in the primary and general elections.  
 
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
 
The more that voters are aware of the proposals the greater is the likelihood that attacks on FairTax candidates, in which the proposals are misrepresented as a basis for the attacks, will backfire on the attackers.  In fact, when the public is sufficiently aware of the proposals only a fool will try such an attack.  Being on the offensive will deny non FairTax candidates the opportunity to play on our field at all.
 
Only $20 for this Power-Packed Summit!    

Time is tight and space is very limited so I recommend that you RSVP immediately and prepay by credit card or PayPal
 
OR to pay at the door contact Mindy immediately to save your seats at mindy.fernandes@mifairtax.org.  Registration will open at 11:00 AM and lunch will be provided. 
 
RSVP by July 14 and SAVE $5 (pay just $15!) 
 
The cost is only $15 if reserved by July 14 and $20 at the door.  Bring members of the
Dunn Campaign Team, too!
 
More details will be provided soon.  I look forward to seeing you at the Summit.

Roger Buchholtz
MI FairTax President
269 345-0950
 
Michigan FairTax Association | PO Box 703 | Sterling heights | MI | 48311


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