Reinke Faces Life

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016523.html

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LENO: sales tax, flat tax, the English have this big value added tax …

RON PAUL: I’m for a flat tax … real flat … like zero!

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Ron Paul: there’s probably a risk I could win!

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He got a quick eight minutes at the end of the show. And the old geezer got his points across. Clearly, Leno was not amused and brought out all the Left’s tired arguments — without taxes there’s be no roads — without taxes the gooferment wouldn’t have enough to spend — without … — and when he ran out of ammo, cause Ron was mischievously hitting the out of the park, he asked his age. 72! (Regan was older.)

He, any press is good press. In this case, he did well.

I’d suggest a look at the eight minute video.

(I was a bad boy and stayed up past my bedtime to watch it live. Go Ron Paul!)

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Ron Paul TV Ad: #2 for New Hampshire

Go, Ron, go! Clear concise and right on target. Opinions?

I’d be interested to hear if you disagree.

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Great Ron Paul video

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Restore the Republic!

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What Hillary Would Do As President?
AND How Much More It Will Cost You
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>

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TAXES

Hillary makes no secret of her intention to roll back Bush’s tax cuts on the ‘wealthy.’ But her definition of ‘rich’ is sufficiently inclusive so as to encompass everyone with a family or household income over $200,000 a year. Clearly she would include the following in the tax cuts she will repeal (or allow to sunset):

o She’d raise the top bracket of the federal income tax, restoring it to 39.6% from its current 35% level.

o She’d increase the capital gains tax, restoring it to 20% – or maybe even go higher. My bet is that she will increase it to 30% or even eliminate special treatment for capital gains altogether, taxing gains as ordinary income (at 40%).

o Hillary will almost certainly roll back much- if not all- of the estate tax reductions of recent years, lowering dramatically the size of estates subject to the levy.

o She’d restore the tax on dividends to 30% from its current 15%.

But her agenda will doubtless go further. She will be much more radical in raising taxes than Bush was in cutting them.

SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES

One of her most important steps will probably be to raise Social Security (FICA) taxes. She won’t raise the rate since that would impact her liberal base. Instead, she’ll raise the threshold of income that subject to taxation, now limited to the first $97, 500 of income.

At a recent candidate forum in Iowa, Hillary played it cute. First, she told the audience that she had nothing ‘on the table’ about Social Security taxes. Then, after the meeting, she privately told Todd Bowman, a schoolteacher who was in the audience, that she would consider imposing FICA taxes on all those who earn more than $200,000. She told Bowman that she would probably keep the current threshold at $100,000, skip the next hundred thousand of income, and then tax all income over $200,000 for Social Security.

So, look forward to some big changes there.

(Of course, she will not remove the cap on benefits, just on taxes).

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Remember history students, it was the smoot hawley tariff that caused the Great Depression and FDR had to get American into WW2 to get us out of it.

That’s the consistent model: Gooferment creates the problem and then rushes in to “save” us from it.

Personally, I think ONLY Ron Paul beats her.

If it even looks like she’s winning, look for a Stock Market crash that will make all prior look like bumps. And, if she is elected and follows the tax plan that Dick Morris is predicting (which isn’t farfetched for a socialist like Hillary!), then you’ll see a real Depression.

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http://www.mises.org/story/2752

Anatomy of the Ron Paul Nation
By Cyd Malone
Posted on 10/18/2007

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So I sobered up and came back down to earth. In the early stages of the party, before the names and conversations blurred with fun, I spoke to a gentleman from New Jersey — Jason was his name — more of my age and far more sober minded. We both agreed that Ron Paul’s chances of becoming president are slim to none, forget what the Vegas odds makers say. Recognizing him as a Four Figure fellow, I asked him why then did he hand over so much money to Mr. Paul’s campaign.

He thought about it and gave me the answer to the same question I’d been asking of myself: “I’m buying hope,” he shrugged.

As Carl Menger would agree, hope has a price, too. Water can be more costly than a diamond under the right circumstances, and so can hope. Yet, despite a wife who deserves diamond earrings but instead gave them away to the longest of long shots, despite the fact that when I mentioned his name at a business dinner a week prior every single person at the table knew who Ron Paul was, and despite the large chunk of cash I handed over to buy it, I will admit I still don’t have a lot of hope.

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ME2! I’m buying hope. If Ron Paul doesn’t win, then the situation is hopeless. The sheep are unsalvageable. The takers have outvoted us producers. We’ll next need a George Washington.

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http://purelypolitical.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/13/1022861-the-nhs-wins-when-its-patients-die-telegraph?email=html

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Were it not for bad nursing, bad medical attention and bad administration, none of these patients need have died. Indeed, they would not have contracted C. difficile at all unless they had gone into hospital. So, after 150 years’ advance of education, technology, prosperity and science, we have lost what Florence Nightingale taught.

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Here’s a real life anecdote of gooferment healthcare!

We have “our” own VA, British National healthcare, Canadian Nation heathcare that serve as warning signs. Now our current semi-socialistic healthcare system admittedly has problems!

But those problems come from the gooferment involvement in the marketplace. It’s time to try a dose of “freedom”.

End the dole and allow people to be responsible for their own healthcare without gooferment interference.

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http://vtcommons.org/node/924

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Dear fellow Americans –

Instead of a nation that manufactures its own goods, the United States has become a nation of service providers, moving production “off shore” and relying on fossil fuel to transport its goods over long distances–an increasingly fragile supply line whether judged from an ecological, social, economic, or political point of view. While exporting jobs, we have also exported the skills and technologies for making the very products we depend on daily.

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Sustainable.

Don’t make me laff!

The various gangs in gooferment has made it impossible to produce anything here.

One wonders how the American experiment will end.

With a hyper-inflation? One thing is for sure, we will have to have an “industrial revolution” to bring good things to our own market. We can’t keep shipping little green pieces of papers for real stuff. That’s not going to work any more. What will?

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The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater
By George Friedman

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Blackwater, KBR and all the rest are the direct result of the faulty geopolitical assumptions and the force structure decisions that followed. The primary responsibility rests with the American public, which made best-case assumptions in a worst-case world. Even without Iraq, civilian contractors would have proliferated on the battlefield. With Iraq, they became an enormous force. Perhaps the single greatest strategic error of the Bush administration was not fundamentally re-examining the assumptions about the U.S. Army on Sept. 12, 2001.

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This is a very fair indictment of the Bush Administration. As is usual, the last war’s assumptions are paid for with a lot of blood and treasure. When the “leaders” are blind to the flaws in the assumptions, people perish.

Perhaps a President Ron Paul will cause a fundamental reevaluation of assumptions. No other candidate promises to do anything other than “more of the same”.

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WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE BACKING HILLARY
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>
By DICK MORRIS

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When she says she can “hit the ground running,” she pretends that she is addressing her vast public policy experience. But it is irrelevant that she was in the White House for eight years. So was the pastry chef. But what is relevant, and inescapable, is that she did lead the president’s crusade to overcome the efforts of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to bring him down, and it is that experience which endears her to the base.

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You have to like Dick’s ability to distill an indictment of Hillary’s Presidential candidacy to two words … … “pastry chef”!

Love it.

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A PLAN TO TAKE DOWN HILLARY
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>
HER REAL STAND ON IRAQ AND HOW IT HELPS OBAMA
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on October 7, 2007.

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But Obama has an opening for a very effective challenge to Hillary over the war if he uses the half-hour interview she gave The New York Times in her Senate office on March 14th of this year. In that on-the-record session, Hillary let slip her real colors on Iraq, revealing her essentially hawkish approach to the issue.

She said that she foresees a “remaining military, as well as political, mission” in Iraq. She said she “would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.”

While noting that in public Sen. Clinton backs the goal of “bringing the troops home,” the newspaper said that she took a “more nuanced position” in the interview and spoke of the “remaining vital national security interests in Iraq” that would require an ongoing deployment of troops.

That interview, a major mistake by Clinton, provides enough of an opening to drive a truck through and gives Obama a perfect way to position himself vis-à-vis her.

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Nothing like a POed advisor to be able to show the world your flaws!

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