West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:

Personal income tax rates will rise.
Higher taxes on marriage and family.
The return of the Death Tax.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors.

Second Wave: Obamacare

There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:

The “Medicine Cabinet Tax”
The “Special Needs Kids Tax”
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike.

Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes

When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise—the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired. The major items include:

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear.

Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses.

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed.

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Falcon:

Someone should inform our “Stretch the Meaning” president that the Statute of Liberty has nothing to do with immigration at all and wasn’t met to have anything to do with immigration.

She is called Lady Liberty and her light shines outward to signify liberty to the rest of the world. It has no meaning for immigrants other than being the first thing they would see steaming into New York Harbor many years ago. Now they can just swim or walk the Rio Grande and bingo their here without all the paperwork or English lessons. They have no ties to America and remain Mexicans until their dying day. America is just a place where they can earn money to return to Mexico and live later on. They have no desire to be Americans with few ever becoming Americans. Don’t ever believe Mexicans love America because they don’t and never will, their loyalty is to Mexico only.

Author John T. Cunningham wrote that "The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships passed under the statue. However, it was Lazarus's poem that permanently stamped on Miss Liberty the role of unofficial greeter of incoming immigrants.

The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works [1] conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty", the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal's construction [2] The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially Lazarus refused, but Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor [3].

Officially the statute has nothing to do with immigration although some immigrants thought she was the unofficial greeter for them.

Also, I think someone at the White House could look up what Nobama is going to speak about so he gets his teleprompter corrected prior to the speech. Maybe it was the job of the last guy he hired who forgot about his owing taxes on $40,000 of income he so conveniently forgot about. If so many White House aids fail to remember their taxes how could they possibly forget to give Nobama the heads up about his speeches.

Our government should remember what Lincoln said so many years ago and stop the foolishness of the past 40 years. We do have immigration laws on the books; so lets obey them.

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
-Abraham Lincoln

Falcon:

Representative Stark (D-CA) is a classic example of arrogance and stupidity of the Nobama Regime and its subjects.

This representative is the ultimate example for not having term limits. This guy has the nerve to indicate the border in Arizona is secure even though the Nobama regime has ceded part of the state to Mexican drug lords and wetback caravans by installing signs warning Americans not to enter because it’s too dangerous, and this is in Arizona. For 37 years this creep has been in congress ruining our country for current and future Americans alike.

This representative Stark exemplifies the oddball wacko’s who populate the state of California and have been instrumental in ruining that state for generations to come along with other states. Throw in the covey of witches Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and the cause of California’s fate and the country is plainly visible.

California is getting what it deserves but the covey of witches have also begun to ruin the entire United States with their ignorance and brain dead voting records.

Remember to vote them all out at the first reelection they run in, it’s the only hope of saving our country.

Sickofthem

Falcon:

Good read from the Washington Post: Kathleen Parker - Obama: Our first female president and it sounds good to me.

Sickofhim