A Nod To The Gods

Why the rich pay the most in taxes, theoretically.

The people at the top have the most to lose if things fall apart which is another way of saying they have the greatest investment in the complex social arrangements paid for by taxes. At the other end of the social order, the people at the bottom have the least to lose. Being a peasant for one king is no different, in general, than being a peasant for some other king. The people in a typical American ghetto don’t care who is in charge, just as long as the EBT is charged on time. Keep reading…

waste not, want not
Wise use of one’s resources will keep one from poverty. For example, I just hate to throw out good food—waste not, want not. This proverbial saying was first recorded in 1772 but had an earlier, even more alliterative version, willful waste makes woeful want (1576).

Commissioner Koskinen will appear before the House Ways and Means Committee this morning, one week after the federal tax filing deadline, and he can expect to be asked why the IRS cut its own customer service budget and continues to spend money on other questionable activities.

The report notes that Koskinen reinstated bonuses weeks after his appointment, has allowed IRS employees to spend roughly 500,000 work hours on union activities, and failed to collect delinquent taxes owed by federal employees. The tax agency has also been strained by Obamacare. According to the report, the IRS has spent “over $1.2 billion on the President’s health care law to date, with a planned expenditure this year of an additional $500 million.”

How is this legal? Who gave approval? Why would they disarm the one group who has been trained to handle weapons? Do you think there is a more sinister reason for all of this?

Documents obtained by The Daily Caller and interviews with American veterans reveal a shocking government program: The Department of Veterans Affairs is disarming America’s veterans by getting them placed on the FBI’s criminal background-check list.

The VA sends veterans’ personal medical and financial information directly to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which can seize their guns in home raids.

Apparently this is a part of the Brady Act that has been twisted to include veterans who have their wives pay their bills or auto debit for payments…pure and simple bullshit.

“Some of the veterans we represent have been put on the list simply because they let their spouses pay the family bills or even have the bills paid automatically every month by the bank,” said Connelly, who flagged the documents provided to TheDC for this report. “There is a total lack of due process here, and it is never mentioned in the memo. The burden of proof is on the veterans and even if they succeed in getting the incompetency ruling reversed the VA is apparently not informing the DOJ of that so the veterans stay on the NICS list. Some veterans say that they send the info to the FBI that still refuses to move them from the list.” Keep Reading….

The VA has been proven to be corrupt, vets have died stuck on a secret waiting list, and now the VA is throwing vets to the alphabet agency wolves. The VA should be shut down and vets paid to go to regular doctors.

If you think the VA is a mess, wait until Obamacare kicks in full force. Your info could be sent to anyone they see fit.

If a pregnant woman is not responsible for the welfare of the child within her womb—the child she willingly helped create—then why should that pregnant woman be responsible for the welfare of a child she has never met? Or a middle-aged man halfway across the country who just lost a job? Or an old woman five states away who needs a hip replacement? Indeed, why should anyone be responsible for anybody’s welfare but their own?

And yet vast portions of the federal government are given over to forcing millions of people to guarantee the well-being of people they have never met, and whose needs (let alone lives) they had no role in creating.

Liberal talking points in 3…2…1

I really don’t know what to say, but this is hilarious and creepy at the same time.

found here….

It seems everyday we read stories of Obama underlings using government agencies to attack political adversaries. The optics would suggest that Obama or his immediate minions have a hand in some or all of the subversive actions, but it doesn’t really matter who did what because the administration can just make things go away as is the case in the Lois Lerner IRS scandal.

The Obama Administration’s latest gift to the former IRS tax-exempt chief came recently when U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen informed the House of Representatives that he would not file charges on its formal contempt citation against Ms. Lerner. This absolution, which shields Ms. Lerner from a grand jury probe, came on Mr. Machen’s final day on the job…

Ms. Lerner was caught red handed but received a “get out of jail free” card from Obama for being a good little foot soldier.

The House on May 7, 2014 held her in contempt of Congress and sent the citation to Mr. Machen.

The law clearly explains that the U.S. Attorney’s only “duty” “shall be” to “bring the matter before the grand jury for its action.” Mr. Machen instead sat on the contempt citation for 11 months, and on March 31 sent Speaker John Boehner a letter explaining he’d unilaterally decided not to investigate Ms. Lerner…

…the job of making these legal calls belonged to a grand jury—not Mr. Machen. Keep Reading…

This is not how the justice system in America is supposed to work yet Obama and his cohorts seem to get away with it all the time. Until impeachment proceedings are started against Obama he will consider himself above the law and these Chicago thug tactics will continue.
At some point the American people will finally have enough of these lawless actions and revert back to a previous form of justice that has its own optics of the American old west….and that won’t necessarily be a bad thing.

It’s alarming how easy it is for politicians to bypass the constitution at their leisure. I actually chalked up a victory for the GOP majority with the Corker bill forcing Obama to get congressional approval of the Iran deal. Not only was it not a victory, it was an agreement, and that is more infuriating than anything.

Precedent – The Debt Ceiling

McConnell and other GOP leaders hatched a plan under which Obama would appear to raise the debt unilaterally. Congress could then respond with a “resolution of disapproval.” As McConnell knew, either Democrats would defeat the resolution or Obama would veto it. That was $4 trillion ago. McConnell’s chicanery gave big-spending Republicans a windfall: They succeeded in extending our tapped-out country’s credit line but still managed to vote against the extension — i.e., they could tell the voters back home that they opposed something that actually could not have happened without their support.

As Corker, other Republican leaders, and the president well know, passage of a resolution of disapproval — even if assured in the House with its commanding Republican majority — could be blocked by the familiar, lockstep parliamentary maneuvering of just 40 Senate Democrats. More significantly, even if enacted in the Senate, the resolution would be vetoed by Obama. As with the resolutions of disapproval on debt increases, it is nearly inconceivable that Obama’s veto would be overridden. To summarize, the Constitution puts the onus on the president to find 67 Senate votes to approve an international agreement, making it virtually impossible to ratify an ill-advised deal. The Corker bill puts the onus on Congress to muster 67 votes to block an agreement.