NAACP Now is the time to drop partisan politics, America needs you!
Hello,
Please take the time to print this email. Take it with you and read it at your leisure.
My name is Gary Vincent O’Malley. I am an old Democrat of 61 years. I am a Vietnam Combat Veteran. I write to you because I owned several small businesses for over 30 years. I have been homeless. I have gone to college at the age of 50 and am now working in the computer science industry.
I’ve been to the penthouse and I’ve been to the outhouse.
I thought that your organization would like to know about a grass roots movement that is made to order for those that want America to be strong and prosperous realizing that this is what gives us the means to help others.
There is a movement that has been ten years in the making. It currently has over 50 representatives in the Congress that are co-sponsors. This movement is being stifled by our Democratic representatives. The Democrats are presenting it as a “Republican” measure and I’m sure that you will be told the same.
I am a registered Democrat and this movement is supported by many liberal minded Democrats.
The stifling of this bill is an example of how our Democratic leadership uses class warfare rhetoric to divide this country needlessly. Political advertisements in various parts of the country that are run by the Democratic Party depicts any opponent that is for this bill as a person that would allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. They use it now, even with the current Bush tax cuts which benefited my middle class family by $1200 dollars a year. It benefited a poor family, which are my neighbors, by more.
It doesn’t bother me in the least that a person who possibly pays 4 times more in taxes gets 4 times more back. For the Democratic Party or any other organization that holds this up as a straw dog, loses my respect and my attention. These are spurious arguments meant to divide to keep the base they currently enjoy. It is more about power and ‘bragging rights’ than about America and strengthening her.
I’ve always been more attracted to a unifying argument more than a divisive one and most people are. This is one of the reasons I loved Dr. King. It wasn’t the Black Panthers that helped end segregation. It was the work of Dr. King and others like him. It isn’t divisiveness that forms allies. As I child growing up in the 50’s and 60’s I was beaten several times by segregationists in Virginia. I was raised Pentecostal. My Uncle was a preacher and ministered to black and white alike. He went into prisons and saw no color under God’s gaze. I’ve stood up to tyranny and I recognize it when I see it.
Taxes:
Don’t get me wrong. I actually want to pay taxes. They are necessary. Many benefit from the taxes collected, including me. We have our roads, our entitlements and our defense against intruders to think about.
For a moment let us forget Party affiliation. Can we?
Americans for Fair Taxation was formed 10 years ago by both liberal and conservative citizens. They took the responses of a survey directed at our current tax system. After over a year of research eight important and respected economist from Boston College, Rice University, Stanford and MIT to name a few, formed the Fair Tax bill now before Congress.
This bill will eventually pass, if not this session then the next or the next. The only question is, “Is your organization willing to ally itself with grass roots movements that will completely un-tax those that live at or below the poverty level? Will it support a bill that allows the middle class to realize a 23% raise in moneys kept? Will it support a movement that guarantees the rich will pay their fair share because there are no deductions, exclusions or exemptions? Will it support a bill that will increase America’s GNP by 13%? How is this important to an organization that supports the poor? Believe it or not, the better America does, the better able she is to meet her entitlement obligations.
What’s the catch? The catch is that some people will pay more in taxes than now. These will be the upper middle class and the rich. They will still be better off because they too keep their entire paycheck. This legislation will wipe out 60% of the lobbyists in Washington D.C. that diligently work at lessening the impact of a congressionally led taxation of success. This is done all in the name of “defending the poor and the working man”. While saddling businesses with this punitive tax code, they complain that American corporations don’t hire as many as they should. They complain that they are outsourcing and not hiring Americans. No one ever brings up the fact that outsourcing is done to be relieved of the burden of being taxed for every employee a corporation hires. The same holds true for businesses hiring illegal aliens. There are no payroll withholding taxes with those types of employees. Corporations are depicted as greedy for doing this. Let’s understand that this is often a matter of survival. If these corporations are to survive and still hire thousands of Americans, they must outsource. Our taxation policies dictate this environment more than anything else. Most old Democrats are tiring of this rhetoric to punish the rich and this oversight about the circumstances brought on by punitive taxation. Most people know that America has spawned success for people of every race. We have made mistakes. But those mistakes have been and will be overcome.
I ask you to open your Internet Explorer and go to http://www.fairtax.org/ .
I know that the NAACP could and should endorse this bill and begin to work hand in hand with its 50 sponsors to help pass this important legislation.
Bill HR25 for the House and S25 for the Senate is the Fair Tax proposal. In short it completely un-taxes the poor because it repeals all paycheck withholding taxes and if a person is at or below the poverty level their effective tax rate is 0%. That’s right, poor people, up to the poverty level are untaxed. They receive a pre-bate check at the beginning of each month based on the size of their family. They then have a stipend that will offset the entire 23% tax at the retail level. People that are less well off get their whole paycheck. In fact you and I get our whole paycheck too. Everyone does. There is nothing to file? No American is forced to divulge anything to the government other than the size of their family with social security numbers of each family dependent. We don’t file that again until there is a change in our status as a family unit.
There will be no 2.1 million word tax code that the IRS can’t even figure out, much less you and me. There is also the repeal of all Social Security taxes. It also releases all investments and savings from taxation. Capital Gains taxes will be repealed. This last point is what Democrats hang their hat on. It is sacrilegious to allow corporate America to be released from this burden. To even suggest such a thing means that this person must be a Republican. This mentality has to stop so our country can reach its full potential. American Corporations are put under tremendous financial pressure because of the Employment Tax, Capital Gains taxes, and depreciation expenses.
These are the very things that have allowed our tax code to grow into a 2.1 million word monstrosity that is too complicated to comply with and because of that complication is too easy to cheat. Last year there was a 40% non-compliance rate reported by the IRS. This high non-compliance rate greatly increases our taxes, the ones that are in compliance. This politics of envy, where the rich are to be punished for being successful are the very policies that keep minority businesses down and contribute to a high failure rate.
What is taxed?
This tax is based entirely upon consumption. It is completely fair because it is the only proposal that is truly progressive and the rich will not be able to hire lobbyists to complicate the tax code. As a person earns more they will purchase more. The middle class will benefit too, because a couple with children would be taxed at a rate far below that that they now are taxed. The rate would be between 10% and 17% regardless of what your Democratic leadership has told you. Go to http://www.fairtax.org/ and find out for yourself. Download the documentation. Take it home, sit in bed and read it over. Even if you are sitting on the john, put it in your magazine holder and read it there. Look at the bill that is written. Verify if what I say is correct. Take the time.
Self Employment taxes will be repealed. We all know how important it is for small businesses to be successful. If they were freed from the compliance cost of the present tax code, if they were not taxed on investments, if they had no matching funds taxes to pay when they hire employees, their chance for survival is greatly enhanced. If this simple fact enhances the success of major corporations, it will work miracles for the small business. The rich would pay the highest rate, and since this tax has no exemptions, deductions and exclusions, they will pay the full 23% tax on all goods they purchase retail.
I ask you to go to your small business owners and those that live below, at and above the poverty level and ask them if they would like to have their whole paycheck throughout the year when they need it the most for meeting bills. Ask them if they would like a 23% raise that they can keep all of. Ask your minority businesses if they would like to not pay their Self Employment taxes, payroll withholding taxes and the employment matching funds tax. Ask them if they would like to be released from all the cost it takes to comply with those taxes.
In fact go to the NAACP controller and ask him or her how much easier their job would be if this bill were passed. Educate your membership as to this proposal. After they have this proposal explained to them, take a survey.
Go to http://www.fairtax.org/ and investigate. The NAACP and the people that support it need your help. Convince those representatives that are not for this bill that we need transparency and fairness in our taxation. The only way to get that is through simplicity. This is the most simple tax code that is offered and it is the most fair to everyone because it places the decision on how much everyone is taxed in our hands not the IRS’s. It all depends on how much you spend, not how much you earn.
Isn’t it time we drop the ‘punish the rich’ mentality and realize that we all want to be well off with healthy kids going to good schools and not look at our paycheck and see 23% of it gone through no choice of our own. We can stop trying to explain to our kids that we encourage savings but punish them by taxing it. We encourage businesses to hire employees but punish the self employed and American corporations for hiring by levying a tax on every new employee that is hired legally.
The explanation is at http://www.fairtax.org/ . People used to say women would never vote. People used to say that the Civil Rights Act would never pass, nor would segregation end in the South. It can be done. There is a 2.1 million word tax code that needs to be thrown out just as were the Jim Crow laws. There is a tax code that intrudes into every American’s life, black, white, red, yellow or brown. The color of your skin could be purple; our government still intrudes and is oppressive through its taxation policies.
The government is staggered by the 180 million points of compliance, where it could have less that 1 million. The apparatus is already in place to collect taxes at the retail level because most states already have a sales tax in place.
Aren’t we tired of the class warfare? Isn’t it getting old? Isn’t there a better way to motivate people than spawning distrust and hatred toward each other? What works and was important in the Sixties has gone; there are other things to overcome now too. There are other things that the NAACP could sponsor that would be good for every American. You will be respected and supported by a much broader base than you currently have. I urge you to see the future and be a dynamic part of it, not an organization that sat on the sidelines while it happened.
Please forward this to the appropriate people. Remember this is a Fair Tax not a Flat Tax because it is truly progressive. The more you spend, the more you pay. Shouldn’t it always be your choice how much you spend of your hard earned income? Isn’t it time we got back that choice. It’s been so long that we haven’t. We have again, as we did 200 years ago, taxation without representation. It was important enough then to over throw a tyrannical rule. Those that were in power then and wished to stay that way were against our revolution.
Now we must join together again, to inform our representatives that we demand transparency. We demand no more smoke and mirrors. The American citizen, every American citizen, deserves to keep their entire paycheck at the end of a pay period. Especially those that struggle every month to make ends, they need relief now.
I thank you for reading this and I’m looking forward to starting a dialogue with someone in your organization.
But before anything else go to http://www.fairtax.org . Grin……
Regards,
Tillerman
Please take the time to print this email. Take it with you and read it at your leisure.
My name is Gary Vincent O’Malley. I am an old Democrat of 61 years. I am a Vietnam Combat Veteran. I write to you because I owned several small businesses for over 30 years. I have been homeless. I have gone to college at the age of 50 and am now working in the computer science industry.
I’ve been to the penthouse and I’ve been to the outhouse.
I thought that your organization would like to know about a grass roots movement that is made to order for those that want America to be strong and prosperous realizing that this is what gives us the means to help others.
There is a movement that has been ten years in the making. It currently has over 50 representatives in the Congress that are co-sponsors. This movement is being stifled by our Democratic representatives. The Democrats are presenting it as a “Republican” measure and I’m sure that you will be told the same.
I am a registered Democrat and this movement is supported by many liberal minded Democrats.
The stifling of this bill is an example of how our Democratic leadership uses class warfare rhetoric to divide this country needlessly. Political advertisements in various parts of the country that are run by the Democratic Party depicts any opponent that is for this bill as a person that would allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. They use it now, even with the current Bush tax cuts which benefited my middle class family by $1200 dollars a year. It benefited a poor family, which are my neighbors, by more.
It doesn’t bother me in the least that a person who possibly pays 4 times more in taxes gets 4 times more back. For the Democratic Party or any other organization that holds this up as a straw dog, loses my respect and my attention. These are spurious arguments meant to divide to keep the base they currently enjoy. It is more about power and ‘bragging rights’ than about America and strengthening her.
I’ve always been more attracted to a unifying argument more than a divisive one and most people are. This is one of the reasons I loved Dr. King. It wasn’t the Black Panthers that helped end segregation. It was the work of Dr. King and others like him. It isn’t divisiveness that forms allies. As I child growing up in the 50’s and 60’s I was beaten several times by segregationists in Virginia. I was raised Pentecostal. My Uncle was a preacher and ministered to black and white alike. He went into prisons and saw no color under God’s gaze. I’ve stood up to tyranny and I recognize it when I see it.
Taxes:
Don’t get me wrong. I actually want to pay taxes. They are necessary. Many benefit from the taxes collected, including me. We have our roads, our entitlements and our defense against intruders to think about.
For a moment let us forget Party affiliation. Can we?
Americans for Fair Taxation was formed 10 years ago by both liberal and conservative citizens. They took the responses of a survey directed at our current tax system. After over a year of research eight important and respected economist from Boston College, Rice University, Stanford and MIT to name a few, formed the Fair Tax bill now before Congress.
This bill will eventually pass, if not this session then the next or the next. The only question is, “Is your organization willing to ally itself with grass roots movements that will completely un-tax those that live at or below the poverty level? Will it support a bill that allows the middle class to realize a 23% raise in moneys kept? Will it support a movement that guarantees the rich will pay their fair share because there are no deductions, exclusions or exemptions? Will it support a bill that will increase America’s GNP by 13%? How is this important to an organization that supports the poor? Believe it or not, the better America does, the better able she is to meet her entitlement obligations.
What’s the catch? The catch is that some people will pay more in taxes than now. These will be the upper middle class and the rich. They will still be better off because they too keep their entire paycheck. This legislation will wipe out 60% of the lobbyists in Washington D.C. that diligently work at lessening the impact of a congressionally led taxation of success. This is done all in the name of “defending the poor and the working man”. While saddling businesses with this punitive tax code, they complain that American corporations don’t hire as many as they should. They complain that they are outsourcing and not hiring Americans. No one ever brings up the fact that outsourcing is done to be relieved of the burden of being taxed for every employee a corporation hires. The same holds true for businesses hiring illegal aliens. There are no payroll withholding taxes with those types of employees. Corporations are depicted as greedy for doing this. Let’s understand that this is often a matter of survival. If these corporations are to survive and still hire thousands of Americans, they must outsource. Our taxation policies dictate this environment more than anything else. Most old Democrats are tiring of this rhetoric to punish the rich and this oversight about the circumstances brought on by punitive taxation. Most people know that America has spawned success for people of every race. We have made mistakes. But those mistakes have been and will be overcome.
I ask you to open your Internet Explorer and go to http://www.fairtax.org/ .
I know that the NAACP could and should endorse this bill and begin to work hand in hand with its 50 sponsors to help pass this important legislation.
Bill HR25 for the House and S25 for the Senate is the Fair Tax proposal. In short it completely un-taxes the poor because it repeals all paycheck withholding taxes and if a person is at or below the poverty level their effective tax rate is 0%. That’s right, poor people, up to the poverty level are untaxed. They receive a pre-bate check at the beginning of each month based on the size of their family. They then have a stipend that will offset the entire 23% tax at the retail level. People that are less well off get their whole paycheck. In fact you and I get our whole paycheck too. Everyone does. There is nothing to file? No American is forced to divulge anything to the government other than the size of their family with social security numbers of each family dependent. We don’t file that again until there is a change in our status as a family unit.
There will be no 2.1 million word tax code that the IRS can’t even figure out, much less you and me. There is also the repeal of all Social Security taxes. It also releases all investments and savings from taxation. Capital Gains taxes will be repealed. This last point is what Democrats hang their hat on. It is sacrilegious to allow corporate America to be released from this burden. To even suggest such a thing means that this person must be a Republican. This mentality has to stop so our country can reach its full potential. American Corporations are put under tremendous financial pressure because of the Employment Tax, Capital Gains taxes, and depreciation expenses.
These are the very things that have allowed our tax code to grow into a 2.1 million word monstrosity that is too complicated to comply with and because of that complication is too easy to cheat. Last year there was a 40% non-compliance rate reported by the IRS. This high non-compliance rate greatly increases our taxes, the ones that are in compliance. This politics of envy, where the rich are to be punished for being successful are the very policies that keep minority businesses down and contribute to a high failure rate.
What is taxed?
This tax is based entirely upon consumption. It is completely fair because it is the only proposal that is truly progressive and the rich will not be able to hire lobbyists to complicate the tax code. As a person earns more they will purchase more. The middle class will benefit too, because a couple with children would be taxed at a rate far below that that they now are taxed. The rate would be between 10% and 17% regardless of what your Democratic leadership has told you. Go to http://www.fairtax.org/ and find out for yourself. Download the documentation. Take it home, sit in bed and read it over. Even if you are sitting on the john, put it in your magazine holder and read it there. Look at the bill that is written. Verify if what I say is correct. Take the time.
Self Employment taxes will be repealed. We all know how important it is for small businesses to be successful. If they were freed from the compliance cost of the present tax code, if they were not taxed on investments, if they had no matching funds taxes to pay when they hire employees, their chance for survival is greatly enhanced. If this simple fact enhances the success of major corporations, it will work miracles for the small business. The rich would pay the highest rate, and since this tax has no exemptions, deductions and exclusions, they will pay the full 23% tax on all goods they purchase retail.
I ask you to go to your small business owners and those that live below, at and above the poverty level and ask them if they would like to have their whole paycheck throughout the year when they need it the most for meeting bills. Ask them if they would like a 23% raise that they can keep all of. Ask your minority businesses if they would like to not pay their Self Employment taxes, payroll withholding taxes and the employment matching funds tax. Ask them if they would like to be released from all the cost it takes to comply with those taxes.
In fact go to the NAACP controller and ask him or her how much easier their job would be if this bill were passed. Educate your membership as to this proposal. After they have this proposal explained to them, take a survey.
Go to http://www.fairtax.org/ and investigate. The NAACP and the people that support it need your help. Convince those representatives that are not for this bill that we need transparency and fairness in our taxation. The only way to get that is through simplicity. This is the most simple tax code that is offered and it is the most fair to everyone because it places the decision on how much everyone is taxed in our hands not the IRS’s. It all depends on how much you spend, not how much you earn.
Isn’t it time we drop the ‘punish the rich’ mentality and realize that we all want to be well off with healthy kids going to good schools and not look at our paycheck and see 23% of it gone through no choice of our own. We can stop trying to explain to our kids that we encourage savings but punish them by taxing it. We encourage businesses to hire employees but punish the self employed and American corporations for hiring by levying a tax on every new employee that is hired legally.
The explanation is at http://www.fairtax.org/ . People used to say women would never vote. People used to say that the Civil Rights Act would never pass, nor would segregation end in the South. It can be done. There is a 2.1 million word tax code that needs to be thrown out just as were the Jim Crow laws. There is a tax code that intrudes into every American’s life, black, white, red, yellow or brown. The color of your skin could be purple; our government still intrudes and is oppressive through its taxation policies.
The government is staggered by the 180 million points of compliance, where it could have less that 1 million. The apparatus is already in place to collect taxes at the retail level because most states already have a sales tax in place.
Aren’t we tired of the class warfare? Isn’t it getting old? Isn’t there a better way to motivate people than spawning distrust and hatred toward each other? What works and was important in the Sixties has gone; there are other things to overcome now too. There are other things that the NAACP could sponsor that would be good for every American. You will be respected and supported by a much broader base than you currently have. I urge you to see the future and be a dynamic part of it, not an organization that sat on the sidelines while it happened.
Please forward this to the appropriate people. Remember this is a Fair Tax not a Flat Tax because it is truly progressive. The more you spend, the more you pay. Shouldn’t it always be your choice how much you spend of your hard earned income? Isn’t it time we got back that choice. It’s been so long that we haven’t. We have again, as we did 200 years ago, taxation without representation. It was important enough then to over throw a tyrannical rule. Those that were in power then and wished to stay that way were against our revolution.
Now we must join together again, to inform our representatives that we demand transparency. We demand no more smoke and mirrors. The American citizen, every American citizen, deserves to keep their entire paycheck at the end of a pay period. Especially those that struggle every month to make ends, they need relief now.
I thank you for reading this and I’m looking forward to starting a dialogue with someone in your organization.
But before anything else go to http://www.fairtax.org . Grin……
Regards,
Tillerman
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