As the son of a millworker who became the first in his family to attend college, Merkley knows that middle class families are worrying every day about the rising cost of gas prices and food prices and an economy that is on the brink. In the Oregon House, Merkley fought to cut taxes for hardworking Oregon families, ending the estate tax for family farms, fisheries, and timber farms; expanding the earned income tax credit for working people; and cutting taxes for families and businesses that invest in renewable energy. Jeff Merkley will work with Senator Barack Obama to provide real relief for middle class families. Merkley will support Obamas "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family cutting taxes for 95 percent of workers and their families.
Author: MerkleyForOregon
Keywords: Jeff Merkley Gordon Smith Oregon Tax Cuts
Added: October 6, 2008
Mary Hart interviews John and Cindy McCain "Entertainment Tonight" 7:36pm Interview JOHN MCCAIN: [Sarah Palin] the only one that did her income tax return at H&R Block. MH2 JM CBS 10-06-08 19.36 (JR#519)
Author: mediafactcheck
Keywords: McCain tracking
Added: October 6, 2008
Lost in the economic crisis, the lousy horserace numbers for McCain, and the personal attacks of the McCain camp is the ongoing health care crisis in the United States. With our current system, there remain 47 million without care and millions more who are underinsured. Cost issues exist alongside inequalities of care access. And now, with unemployment rising, the issue is becoming more acute. Paul Krugman: Conservative Republicans still hate Medicare, and would kill it if they could — in fact, they tried to gut it during the Clinton years (thats what the 1995 shutdown of the government was all about). But so far they havent been able to pull that off. So John McCain wants to destroy the health insurance of nonelderly Americans instead. But but Not good. Obama's idea is different. Today, he signed on to the Health Care for America Now principles, which do not endorse specific legislation, but are compatible with single payer and other approaches. From a press release: Today, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) signed the Health Care for America Now statement declaring that he is on the side of quality, affordable health care for all and opposed to leaving Americans on their own with unregulated health insurance. There's still plenty of room to argue about the best way to get there, but with a recession looming and people in danger of losing their jobs, this is not an issue that can be ignored any more. Expect it to be brought up in the town hall debate tomorrow - unlike the phoney stuff being brought up by McCain's campaign and his increasingly shrill VP candidate, who caters only to the shrinking Republican base, this is an issue that all Americans actually care about. "Health Care for America Now's goal this year is to get the next President and a majority of Congress committed to the principles of quality, affordable health care for all and opposed to policies that would tax our benefits at work and leave us on our own with the unregulated, bureaucratic private insurance industry," said Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager, Health Care for America Now. "With Senator Obama's signature, we are taking a major step towards getting the next President and Congress to make comprehensive health care reform a priority in 2009." John McCain's plan is anything but acceptable. Since it's all about saving money and nothing else, he proposes, according to the WSJ: McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts...Medicare, Medicaid Spending Would Be Reduced to Offset Proposed Tax Credit Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain's senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and the disabled. Medicare spending for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 is estimated at $457.5 billion. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/6/124346/441/758/621648 Those of us who analyze health policy and trends for a living have struggled to follow John McCain's health plan through its many seemingly-improvised changes. First he was taxing health benefits through both payroll and income tax. Then he said he only intended to apply income tax, which meant that his plan would create even larger deficits. Now he says there won't be deficits, because he's going to make up the cost of those tax credits by slashing Medicare and Medicaid. When a candidate suddenly, almost whimsically changes the way he proposes to handle $1.3 trillion - which is the amount of money his plan puts in play over the next ten years - it's time to get nervous. We already knew the McCain plan was going to cost most Americans money (in at least three different ways.) Now we know it could jeopardize their medical care when they get older, too. The end result of this off-the-cuff planning could change the way Americans receive, or don't receive, medical care in this country...at least three kinds of health "tax increases" (more accurately described as increased personal cost) under the McCain plan: a "slow bleed" for people who retain coverage as the tax credit falls behind inflation, a $,7000-plus spike for people who lose their coverage immediately, and an increase in out-of-pocket costs (and denials, etc.) for people who still have insurance. What do we get in return? According to that neutral study, three million uninsured would gain coverage - briefly. After five years the number of uncovered would go up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/mccains-erratic-health-st_b_132242.html
Author: AntiConformist911
Keywords: Healthcare Keith olbermann Barack Obama Sarah Palin lie anti john Mccain ad Joe Biden economy speech interview debate energy oil gas tax Iraq war president Ronald Reagan Rachel Maddow
Added: October 6, 2008
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Author: yellowpages
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YOUR TRAVEL BIZ Doesnt it just make sense to travel like an insider and get paid while having fun! The american dream! LETS GO TO WORK Build your team with experienced trainers, who are knowledgeable and will assist you with achieving goals you thought were not possible. Learn how to leverage your time. Creating Entrepreneurship From Home; Full-Time or Part-Time Publicly Traded Company With Stock Investment Options Receive Life And Health Benefits Immediately Company Training/Team Mentors Available Build Financial Fredom/Unlimited Income Earn Company Profit Sharing Bonuses Receive Substantial Tax Savings Travel Wholesale Versus Retail
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Keywords: money travel ytb
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YOUR TRAVEL BIZ Doesnt it just make sense to travel like an insider and get paid while having fun! The american dream! LETS GO TO WORK Build your team with experienced trainers, who are knowledgeable and will assist you with achieving goals you thought were not possible. Learn how to leverage your time. Creating Entrepreneurship From Home; Full-Time or Part-Time Publicly Traded Company With Stock Investment Options Receive Life And Health Benefits Immediately Company Training/Team Mentors Available Build Financial Fredom/Unlimited Income Earn Company Profit Sharing Bonuses Receive Substantial Tax Savings Travel Wholesale Versus Retail
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Author: CheapAssPro
Keywords: Green shift carbon tax increase mcgunity premier seniors income trust splitting NDP Liberal Conservative Harper
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
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Added: October 6, 2008
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Author: collingtonstravel
Keywords: Money Travel Agent YTB
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Freedom? or Fascism? The Choice is yours. Aaron Russo began making a documentary inquiring into the legality of the federal income tax. His research took him on a journey through darkness, to unsettling revelations about the U.S. government and the people who control it. Russo discovered that not only is there no law requiring average American citizens to pay a federal income tax, but that the income tax itself is part of a larger, systematic plan to erode U.S. national sovereignty and the liberties of U.S. citizens. America: Freedom To Fascism reveals the true nature of the Federal Reserve System. It is a private for profit bank owned by a cabal of secretive financial elites who plan nothing less than to enslave the population of not only the United States but the world as well. Join Aaron Russo in his call to resist this encroaching tyranny and mobilize your fellow Americans in a last stand against the global banking cartel who see you as a chattel slave and intend to impose their neo-feudal nightmare vision on us all. America: Freed To Fascism is best seen in conjunction with The Money Masters http://tinyurl.com/4sc5nh Fiat Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution http://tinyurl.com/3juenw Money Banking And The Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3o42qu G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://tinyurl.com/3hzhek ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement http://tinyurl.com/55ojl4 The Capitalist Conspiracy http://tinyurl.com/4crpz3 See also: 31 Questions And Answers About the IRS http://tinyurl.com/e4xmv Links From The Movie: Aaron Russo's America Freedom TO Fascism website http://tinyurl.com/kwuvv The Law That Never Was http://tinyurl.com/earar We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education http://tinyurl.com/8wtsj Joe Banister's Freedom Above Fortune http://tinyurl.com/7kogh Alex Jones' Interview with Joe Banister http://tinyurl.com/28ugk6
Author: uxneey
Keywords: IRS Taxes Federal Money Banking Economics Globalism Constitution
Added: October 6, 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business. The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife. Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post. The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show. In separate filings, the state was billed about $25,000 for Palin's daughters' expenses and $19,000 for her husband's. Flights topped the list for the most expensive items, and the daughter whose bill was the highest was Piper, 7, whose flights cost nearly $11,000, while Willow, 14, claimed about $6,000 and Bristol, 17, accounted for about $3,400. One event was in New York City in October 2007, when Bristol accompanied the governor to Newsweek's third annual Women and Leadership Conference, toured the New York Stock Exchange and met local officials and business executives. The state paid for three nights in a $707-a-day hotel room. October 2007, when Willow flew to Juneau to join the Palin family on a tour of the Hub Juneau Christian Teen Center, where Palin and her family worship when they are in Juneau. The state gave the center $25,000, according to a May 2008 memo. Leighow noted that under state policy, all of the governor's children are entitled to per diem expenses, even her infant son. "The first family declined the per diem [for] the children," Leighow said. "The amount that they had declined was $4,461, as of August 5." The family also charged for flights around the state, including trips to Alaska events such as the start of the Iditarod dog-sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race, a contest that Todd Palin won. Meanwhile, Todd Palin spent $725 to fly to Edmonton, Alberta, for "information gathering and planning meeting with Northern Alberta Institute of Technology," according to an expense report. During the three-day trip, he charged the state $291 for his per diem. A notation said "costs paid by Dept. of Labor." He also billed the state $1,371 for a flight to Washington to attend a National Governors Association meeting with his wife. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/... Gov. Sarah Palin...she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency. Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages. Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials. Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records. Professionals were either forced out or fired, Mr. Deuser said. Ms. Palin ordered city employees not to talk to the press. And she used city money to buy a white Suburban...also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral. In addition to the trooper investigation, lawmakers in April accused her of improperly culling thousands of e-mail addresses from a state database for a mass mailing to rally support for a policy initiative. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/... She is the only current candidate yet to provide her personal joint income tax information, for which their are already questions. Thanks to AntiConformist911 for the outtake.
Author: rickpasorti
Keywords: Sarah palin lie Alaska State trooper firing investigation per diem travel gate corruption scandal Mccain
Added: October 6, 2008