Reinke Faces Life

http://bostontea.us/

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The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.

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And entirely e based!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger93.html

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Consider another example of conservatives’ intentional violation of the principles they expound: public schooling. It would be difficult to find a better example of socialistic central planning – that is, anti-free-market activity – than public schooling. After all, when we use that term – “public” – we’re referring not to the “general public” but instead to the government. Public schooling is a government operation. Even worse, it’s a quasi-monopoly, a type of institution that economists have long recognized is anti-free enterprise.

Under public schooling, the government, either at the national, state, or local level, plans in a top-down, command-and-control manner, the educational decisions of multitudes of students. Attendance is mandatory, with criminal contempt charges hanging over the heads of recalcitrant parents. Students are taught government-approved doctrines by government-approved schoolteachers using government-approved textbooks following a government-approved curriculum.
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Why do we pay for gubamint skoolz, with all the attendant problems, when we don’t pay for kid’s sneakers, fod, medical care, etc. etc.

The State “delegates” to the parents all the mundane stuff and then brainwashes them into the State Religion (i.e., the government is “god”. Only the State can save you!)?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html?sub=AR

Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don’t Farm
By Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 2, 2006; Page A01

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EL CAMPO, Tex. — Even though Donald R. Matthews put his sprawling new residence in the heart of rice country, he is no farmer. He is a 67-year-old asphalt contractor who wanted to build a dream house for his wife of 40 years.

Yet under a federal agriculture program approved by Congress, his 18-acre suburban lot receives about $1,300 in annual “direct payments,” because years ago the land was used to grow rice.

Matthews is not alone. Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post.

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Yup, have to steal more money from honest taxpayers to pay welfare to “farmers” wink wink!

Here’s a novel suggestion. Abolish the Department of Agriculture. End all welfare by the Gubamint! Individual, Corporate , State, and Foreign Welfare.

http://www.njpp.org/com_salestax.html

Statement on Release of Sales Tax Report
June 21, 2006
By Jon Shure

>That (sales) tax has done a lot of good, especially for the higher education system in the early years

Just saying it doesn’t make it so. You don’t know if we have a entirely private system of education what would have happened.

>Governor Hughes wanted the tax after he failed to get the Legislature to support an income tax.

Now we have both!

>We don’t take in enough money to meet our needs

You mean that the State doesn’t STEAL enough to satisfy the wants of all the ROBBERS!

>left to those whose response would be to indiscriminately slash spending, regardless of need.

Whose determines needs! The marketplace is how to peaceful adjudicate the many needs of diverse people. The gubamint uses guns to pick winners and losers.

>This tax could be doing more for us.

Who’s “us”? Stealing more from the people who earn it and reward the people who don’t. Based on what moral principle do you justify this theft?

>cable TV

Telephone and cable are taxed to death.

>And the sales tax is riddled with inconsistency. … They unfairly shift the sales tax burden more to lower income people.
The tax is inefficient and ineffective. It is a theft. A mugging. It forces the marketplace to move underground. It burdens the entire economy with a drag on all production. It raises costs. Basat’s Law: Look for the hidden effects. If someone has to pay tax on detergent, then they can NOT satisfy other needs.

>The sales tax is often, and properly, derided for taking a larger share of a poor person’s income than a rich person’s.

Why is a rich person’s money less important than a poor person’s?

>we should consider a system of credits so low income people can get back the few hundred dollars a year

Oh, create more welfare entitlements. Great idea. Imprison more people in the virtual chains of welfare.

>This report lays out a range of options that could bring in as much as $6 billion a year in new revenue.

It’s not “revenue”; it’s booty. Ill-gotten gains. The proceeds of a crime.

>We can’t afford for the full revenue potential of the sales tax to go unrealized.

Sure we can. Reduce the sales tax to zero. Reduce the income tax to zero.

If the State provides “essential  services”, then the marketplace will supply them. People will have choices.

>But all the easy stuff has already been tried. That’s why we’re in this mess.

No, we haven’t tried freedom. This is the same Socialism that brought down the Soviet Union. It will bring us down just as surely.

> If New Jersey is to be a first-class state, it needs a modern, productive, fair tax system.

No, it needs freedom and liberty. End the sales tax. End the income tax. Free people to be all they can be!

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It’s sad to see Socialism being advocated as “freedom” and “first class status”.

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/07/get-it-done.html

CHANNEL SURFING
Channel Surfing by Hank Kalet, managing editor of the South Brunswick Post
Monday, July 03, 2006
Get it done
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No, the best we can hope for is that this a wake up call to the people of NJ that they are gettign weenied. Perhaps we can cut the expenses of State Government down to what we poor taxpayers can afford.

The Sales Tax was put in with the promise that it would lower property taxes. Despite the warnings of the liberty, anti-tax, and  smart people, the voters of NK believed the politicians. Now we have an ever increasing tax burden, and no relief in sight.

How about cutting the sales tax, the boondoggles, and the property taxes.

Will everyone’s ox get gored … yes!

Will everyone “hurt” … yes!

Will the waste be eliminated … yes!

Will the corruption stop … yes!

Will we all be better off … absolutely yes!

You can’t tax your way to freedom!
No, the Southern NJ Democrats are afraid of the “tax increase” label. The Guv has higher ambitions so he won’t be here next election. The Republicans are eunchs. The Northern NJ Democrats have no shame because they know that they “control” their voters. The Guv and the Northern Dems feel they can get away with the equivalent of highway robbery.

When the tax revolt happens, I’ll be in the front lines!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060702/D8IK5LHO1.html

Atlantic City Casinos Ordered to Close
Jul 2, 7:45 PM (ET)
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Atlantic City’s casinos were ordered to close Wednesday, the latest casualty of a state government shutdown that entered its second day Sunday after the Legislature failed to adopt a budget by its July 1 deadline.

The head of the Casino Control Commission ordered gaming in Atlantic City to cease at 8 a.m. Wednesday – the day after the July Fourth holiday – if New Jersey fails to enact a budget by then.
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Readers here know that I have no love for the various things we call “government”. I use the word “gubamint” to describe all of the activities that the original limited government of the dead old white guys has taken over.

Now if you were a businessperson and had a problem, then the last person you’d want to feel the pain would be your customers. Not so with the gubamint of the People’s Republik of New Jersey!

Casinos, who are big campaign contributors, they get a relaxed close down schedule. Motor Vechicle  Commission, that services real people, shuts down right away.

Far as I am concerned, they can stay shut forever. A plague on all their houses.

Did they turn off the power in the Governor’s mansion? Did the stop fueling the governor’s car? Why does the Governor have a car I pay for any way? Nice perk! Maybe he should have to walk to work.

Argh!

Now here in the People’s Republic of New Jersey, we get another unique feeling. We get to pay for services that we are not receiving. It’s great. Gubamint is usually forcing us to pay for services that we don’t want, can’t use, or hurt us. Now they are forcing us to pay despite being “shutdown”! I love it. Imagine if I still had to pay for coffee that I was getting from the local snappy 7-11-like market which recently closed down. In the real world, if you don’t have happy customers, if you don’t provide goods or services, then you don’t get paid. Ah, Ah, AHHH, silly taxpayer, you still have to PAY! Arghhh!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers43.html

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Details of how Katrina and Leviathan’s victims wasted our taxes have emerged over the last fortnight as yet another Congressional investigation muddles along. You’ll be pleased to learn that the Feds help themselves to your income so that your fellow citizens can attend football games, party at Hooters restaurants, quaff Dom Perignon champagne, watch such classic videos as Girls Gone Wild, and cavort on the endless beaches of Hawaii and the Caribbean.

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Was anyone surprised?

I’ve ranted before about what makes effective and efficient charity. And having the gubamint involved in any way ensures, guarantees, predicts problems! Look for the waste, poor performance, and unintended consequences.

Compare the difference between private charity and what went on!

http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/compassion/olasky.html

We used to know, in our gut, that government isn’t the right tool for the task. Helping people required a deft touch; not the heavy handed iron fist.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13782.htm

… is more than a bunch of fools. Jon Stewart has an excellent point: no weapons, no plans, and clueless.

Hmm, is this the equivalent of Clinton’s aspirin factory?

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/06/23/spelling.obit.ap/

Television producer Aaron Spelling dies
Saturday, June 24, 2006 Posted: 0308 GMT (1108 HKT)

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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty" to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place," died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83.
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I think that the dead old white guys had this vision for the American Experiment. You can be what you want to be. In the pressure cooker of true poverty, diamonds emerge. It's a shame that the Republican and Democrat Socialists don't see the beauty of dreams fulfilled. Of obstacles over come. Of doing it yourself. No Nanny Government will make it all ok as long as you eat the gruel being served. And Father State will be you daddy telling you what you can and can't do. It's for the children. Like the human race wouldn't have survived without the Government. Remember governments kill their citizens should they dare to be free. AND, the government "kindness" just kills you a little slower. I wasn't a big fan of 90210 and its ilk. Didn't believe in the "beautiful" and "rich" people! Everyone I know has flaws. Even me. (Shocked?) But in reading about what he had to overcome to be Tori's Dad, I am impressed. Perhaps to have the drive to succeed greatly one needs the poverty, the discrimination, and the angst? Don't know that but do know that the man accomplished things.