The Exercise of Vital Powers

The Georgia General Assembly is considering repealing the sales tax exemptions for groceries and allow residents to deduct the sales tax on their annual income tax filing.

This is the most absurd plan imaginable. To claim your deduction you would have to keep all your grocery receipts, and you would not see that money refunded till you filed your taxes the next year.

The Sponsor of the bill, Chuck Sims (R-Ambrose) says people would be able to deduct the cost of the sales tax by saving their receipts and documenting how much they’ve paid in taxes or by taking a standard deduction based on family size. You can be sure that no one is going to be able to keep up with fifty-two weeks of grocery receipts, which leaves the standard deduction. And that will be less than the actual taxes paid by people.

This bill is a tax on the poor at a time when food prices are high and will be going higher. Proponents rationalize that it will bring in money from non-residents who purchase groceries in GA but who do not file state income tax returns. However this tax will be paid by every single person who grocery shops and those who pay income taxes in Georgia will have to wait a year to get their ‘deduction.’

Fax your legislator and tell them to oppose raising taxes on the poor!

The Georgia legislature is poised to vote on the JOBS Act, a responsible stimulus bill that enables businesses to focus resources on hiring unemployed Georgians.

We need you to contact your state representative today and urge adoption of the JOBS Act. Also known as House Bills 481 & 482, the Act features:

• Tax incentives for companies hiring unemployed workers,
• A repeal of the inventory tax, and
• A gradual phase out of the corporate income tax.

This Act will encourage Georgia business to hire and other businesses to open in Georgia. This is the kind of stimulus legislation Georgians can support! The time is right and the time is now to get this legislation through the House.

Fax Your Legislator Today

LOL:

I’m still torn over whether the Bush administration’s post-war efforts over there are just ass-covering to make up for the war and lack of WMD, or if they really truly believed they could send a bunch of Heritage Foundation interns to run Baghdad, and a liberal society would magically arise from the rubble, sand, and centuries of ethnic violence and bloody factionalism. –The Agitator

Will probably come from the “barbarian tribes of the east” just like last time.

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Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos - making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. Watch out, Americans - a generation from now, your kid is going to fetch coffee for a Chinese boss.

I love the bio lines in the WSJ

Holy Shit. Who’da thunk it? The Federal Government starts passing out two trillion dollars and all of a sudden everyone is screaming for more and more.

Stupid Fucking Politicians. I spit on them.

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Protect Our Information Networks

As president, Barack Obama will lead an effort, working with private industry, the research community and our citizens, to build a trustworthy and accountable cyber infrastructure that is resilient, protects America’s competitive advantage, and advances our national and homeland security.

Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cyber Security: Barack Obama will declare the cyber infrastructure a strategic asset and will establish the position of national cyber advisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyber policy.

Initiate a Safe Computing R&D Effort and Harden our Nation’s Cyber Infrastructure: Barack Obama will support an initiative to develop next-generation secure computers and networking for national security applications. He will work with industry and academia to develop and deploy a new generation of secure hardware and software for our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure.

Protect the IT Infrastructure That Keeps America’s Economy Safe: The public and private infrastructure that keeps America running is increasingly brought online to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Barack Obama will work with the private sector to establish tough new standards for cyber security and physical resilience for critical infrastructure.

Because government management and oversight is what made the Internet what it is today.

Amusing

Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages

Stocks fall 500 points on postelection nerves.