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Slavery

The traditional slave in America was a Black man who was forced to work on a White mans prison.

Slavery from government taxes

When is a tax so high it makes you a government slave?

If you have to give one percent of your income to the government are you a government slave?

If you have to give 10 percent of your income to the government does that make you a government slave?

How about if the government forces you go give 20 percent of your income to your government masters, are you a government slave then?

Are you a slave to the city of Tempe, Arizona?

If you think a tax rate of 10 percent makes you a government slave then you are almost a government slave in the city of Tempe, Arizona.

Are you a slave to the state of Arizona?

Of course if you live in Tempe, Arizona your total tax bill is much higher then the 2 percent sales tax the city of Tempe steal from you, and the 9.3 percent sales tax the city of Tempe, Maricopa County and the state of Arizona steal from you.

If you live in Tempe, the state of Arizona is going to steal between 2.59 and 4.54 percent of you income with the Arizona State Income tax.

That will bring up the total tax rate of a person living in Tempe to between 11.89 and 13.84 percent.

That will make you a government slave if you consider a 10 percent government tax on you income makes you a slave.

Are you a slave of Uncle Sam?

You will be hit up with a 10 to 35 percent tax on your income depending on what you make.

If you live in Tempe, Arizona that will raise your total tax rate to between 21 and 48 percent. At that rate you are a government slave if you consider slavery to be the government taking 20 percent of your income.

Property taxes means the government owns your property

The calculations for property taxes are fairly complex so I will just use the number of $1,043 as the amount of property tax each person in Arizona pays. According to this web site Arizona collected $1,043 per capita in state and local property taxes in fiscal year 2008.

If you make a measly $10,000 a year that is about a 10 percent tax on your income. If you make $50,000 that is a 2 percent tax on your income and if you make over $100K it is a measly 1 percent tax on your income.

If you live in Tempe, Arizona that will raise your total tax rate to between 31 and 49 percent of your income. With these rates you are easily a government slave if you think a 20 percent tax on your income will make you a government slave.

Of course there are a whole slew of other taxes that will bump up those tax rates.

There are taxes on your car, taxes on the gas you buy, both at the Arizona and Federal level. If you own any stock there are taxes on income earned from those.

Some Presidential tax plans

Herman Cain's 999 tax plan

For those of us who don't own stock that will be an 18 percent tax on our income and purchases we make.

That will clearly make you a slave if you think a 10 percent tax rate is the slave rate. And you are almost there for those of you that think a 20 percent tax rate is the "slave rate".

When you throw in the other taxes I have talked about poor people will be hit with a 39 percent tax on their income and people who make lots of money will get hit with a 32 percent tax on their income. If you throw in Cain's 9 percent tax on corporate income, for the high end folks that 32 percent tax will jump to about 41 percent.

Both of those numbers make people who consider a 20 percent tax outrageous government slaves.

Rick Perry's 20 percent flat tax

If you think a 20 percent tax makes you a government slave, you will be a government slave under Texas governor Rick Perry's flat tax plan.

Of course after you throw in all the other taxes I discussed you tax rate will grow to between 31 and 33 percent. Again if you think a tax on 20 percent of you income makes you a government slave you are clearly a government slave under Rick Perry's tax plan.

How about a soak the rich tax?

Most people don't know it, but the Federal Income tax was sold to the public on the basis that it was a soak the rich tax, which would force the rich folks to pay the bills of us poor people.

The first U.S. income tax was created by Abe Lincoln to pay for the Civil War. It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

16th Amendment

Back in the early 1900's when the 16th Amendment was passed American was an agrarian nation with most people living on farms and making very little income. Most folks lived off of the land, or better said lived off of the farm. They didn't need to make any money, because the farm produced everything they needed to live.

The 16th Amendment Income tax was aimed at rich city slickers who the rest of the country thought could be forced to pay their bills.

1913 Income Tax

When you check out the form you will find some amazingly low tax rates. The minimum income tax wealthy Americans paid was a 1 percent tax. For really, really, really wealth Americans the tax jumped up to a sky high 6 percent.

While people reading this in 2011 will think those tax rates are incredibility low, in those days they considered a 10 percent tax on income outrageously high, and they even debated in Congress at putting a 10 percent cap on the tax as the maximum tax rate allowed.

I said the Federal Income tax was only paid by wealthy people. Back in those days you didn't have to pay the income tax if you made less then $3,000.

That isn't much money by today's standards, but adjusted for inflation that $3,000 was about $50,000 to $60,000 in 2011 dollars. In 2006, the median annual income was $50,233.00, for that mythical family of 4. Which is about $25,000 for each adult, in the family, so by those standards only above average people would be paying income taxes today, if we still were using 1914 income tax rates.

Income taxes only go up

Today the Federal minimum tax is 10 percent even if you make minimum wage. Plus Uncle Sam is going to shake you down for another 4.2 percent of you income in FICA or Social Security taxes. Of course your employer has to match that 4.2 percent tax, so it is really an 8.4 percent tax.

Are Americans that stupid and helpless?

I doubt it. If you ask me the elected officials and government bureaucrats have turned the so called democratic American system, into a system of royal government rulers, who live off of us serfs in a high life style, just like the kings and queens of the past.

What would Washington & Jefferson think?

Of course George Washington and Thomas Jefferson they would also be getting out the guns preparing for another revolution, because in there eyes Emperor Obama and King Bush are 1,000 times worse then King George ever was.

Rick Perry 20 percent flat income tax plan

Perry Pitches Scrapping Tax Code, Offering Optional 20 Percent Flat Tax

Published October 25, 2011

AP

Rick Perry is proposing letting Americans choose between their existing income tax rate or a new flat tax of 20 percent, part of a tax and spending reform plan that the Republican presidential candidate is dubbing "Cut, Balance and Grow."

"The goal of my 'Cut, Balance and Grow' plan is to unleash job creation, address the current economic crisis, while at the same time generating a stable source of revenue to address our record deficit and put our fiscal house in order," Perry, the governor of Texas, said at an event Tuesday in South Carolina.

Perry said people taking up the flat tax can scrap the current code, and it would lower and simplify tax rates to the point that Americans could file their tax returns on a post card, which he pulled out as he spoke.

His plan would also get rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax for families, balance the federal budget by 2020, reform entitlements, ban earmarks and impose a cap on federal spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product.

Perry's proposed flat tax would preserve key tax exemptions for families earning less than $500,000 a year and would increase the standard deduction to $12,500 for individuals. It would also eliminate the tax paid on the country's largest estates when property owners die and eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits.

He also revived a proposal to allowed young workers to invest part of their payroll taxes into private accounts -- a plan that President Bush once pushed until it died in a Republican-controlled Congress.

"The flat tax will unleash growth but growth's not enough," Perry said. "We must put a stop to this entitlement culture that risks the financial solvency of this country for future generations. I mean the red flags are alarming."

He called for corporate tax reform, including a one-time reduced tax rate of 5.25 percent for businesses that bring their profits that are parked overseas back to the U.S.

"The U.S. Chamber (of Commerce) estimates this one-time tax reduction would bring more than $1 trillion in capital back to the U.S. create up to 2.9 million jobs, and increase economic output by $360 billion," he said.

"In other words, it's the kind of economic stimulus President Obama could have achieved if he wasn't hell-bent on passing big government schemes that have failed American workers," he said.

Perry's proposal comes two and a half months after he began running for the GOP nomination, and following lackluster appearances in several debates.

The policy rollout is a critical part of Perry's efforts to right a struggling campaign as well as set him back up against rivals like Mitt Romney, who hasn't suggested a flat tax, and Herman Cain, who has proposed a 9-9-9 plan of 9 percent corporate income tax rates and a 9 percent national sales tax.

Publisher Steve Forbes, one of Perry's key supporters for the 2012 Republican nomination, described the proposal as appealing to all comers.

"You have to make a real sum of money before the tax kicks in," Forbes told Fox News, describing the basics of Perry's plan. "Middle-income people are not going to pay more and they are going to save huge amounts of money."

Unlike Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, which relies largely on a new national sales tax, Perry said he would avoid a sales tax while lowering the corporate tax to 20 percent and eliminate taxes on dividends and capital gains, aiming to free up money that presumably would be invested in economic growth.

Forbes argued that a flat tax gets rid of the billions of hours in paperwork, and possibly the millions of jobs that go with tax filings. Without changes to the code, he noted, the Tax Foundation estimates that by 2015, $483 billion alone will be spent on trying to interpret and understand the code.

"You put something like the Perry plan in place, that is several hundred billions in savings off the bat, that's huge," he said.

Proponents of the flat tax argue that a uniform rate will improve the U.S. economy because it will increase take-home wages, in essence incentivizing work. Lower taxes, they claim, will also encourage entrepreneurship.

President Obama's campaign, ready on the criticism, issued a statement saying Perry's plan, as well as Romney's are intended to benefit high-income households at the expense of the middle class.

"Both the Romney and Perry economic plans embrace a far-right vision for our tax code," wrote James Kvaal, policy director for Obama for America. "They share elements with plans offered by congressional Republicans, which independent economists believe would fail to accelerate job creation now. Both plans would cut taxes on wealth and investment income, shifting the tax burden onto work and wages. Both plans are likely to be costly, driving up the deficit at a time of historic fiscal challenges. And under both plans, the most fortunate Americans would pay less while the middle class would pay a higher share."

But Perry's campaign dismissed the criticism.

"Gov. Perry's plan will reduce taxes for everybody and grow the economy and not pit Americans against each other like President Obama is doing," Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner told Fox News.

The Club for Growth, a conservative economic group, praised the proposal.

"Rick Perry's plan for tax reform would be massively pro-growth," the club's president, Chris Chocola, said. "A flat tax like the one proposed by Perry would unleash years of economic growth if it is passed into law.

Chocola said he continues to be "disappointed" that Romney has not embraced a flat or fair tax.

"He would be wise to avoid using class warfare when comparing his current proposals to those of Gov. Perry or Herman Cain," he said. "The Club for Growth is looking for bold leadership on tax reform from the Republican nominee -- not demagoguery or platitudes."

Herman Cain 999 tax plan

What Is the 999 Tax Plan - Can Herman Cain's Tax Plan Really Work?

By Jake K. Jones

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last month, you have probably heard about the Herman Cain 999 tax plan. What is the 999 tax plan? Can it really bring prosperity back to America and get people back to work? These are all questions that Republicans and Democrats alike are asking themselves as we get closer and closer to the GOP primary races and the Presidential election.

Trying to understand the current code is almost impossible. Only the best accountants can really explain the tax code in any way that is understandable. So what is the 999 tax plan? Let's establish how this plan works, and then we'll discuss if it will work for America.

9 % Business Flat Tax

Businesses are taxed at 9 %. Period. They are charged at 9% of gross income less any and all investments. They can deduct purchases made from other businesses. In addition, they can deduct dividends that are paid out to the shareholders of the company. This encourages businesses to pay out more money because it is a deduction.

9 % Individual Flat Tax

All individuals pay a 9 % flat tax on everything they own. They don't pay more if they make $250,000 per year. They don't pay more if they own a business that makes $250,000 per year. All individuals pay the same rate, so those people that don't pay any taxes now would pay taxes in the future. You could still deduct taxes for charitable donations. This would ensure that giving to charities is strongly encouraged.

9 % National Sales Tax

Everyone would pay a national sales tax on anything they buy. You would not be taxed on things you do not buy. Your taxes would not go to pay for Planned Parenthood funded abortions. If you want to buy a boat, you will pay a 9% sales tax on it.

Many people have asked if this would do away with the state sales tax. It has not been confirmed how this would work, but it appears that the 9 % national sales tax would not cancel out the state taxes. You would still pay a state sales tax.

What is the 999 Tax Plan? It is a 9 % business tax, a 9 % individual flat tax, and a 9 % national sales tax.

Under this scenario, we can see that those living in poverty and those living in the middle class will wind up paying more in taxes. There is no arguing this fact. The so-called "rich" people would pay less in taxes, so some people are not happy about this. My argument against this point is that companies will be paying MUCH less in taxes, so there would be a huge influx in new jobs to stimulate the economy. The people that are poor and unemployed will be able to afford the 9 % tax because they will actually have a job!

Contrary to the popular beliefs of those "evil" rich people, most companies don't just save all the extra money for their own pockets.

The biggest objection I have heard from conservatives is that this plan could be easily changed in the future so that the 9 9 9 plan could be changed to the 10 10 10 plan or 15 15 15 plan or whatever they want it to be. I would argue that liberals already want to raise taxes, and having a 999 plan isn't going to change their thirst for higher taxes. I think it would be harder to raise taxes because everyone would understand their taxes are going up.

Source

999 Plan: Herman Cain's Proposal Would Raise Taxes On 84 Percent, Study Shows

STEPHEN OHLEMACHER 10/18/11 09:23 PM ET AP

WASHINGTON — Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan would raise taxes on 84 percent of U.S. households, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday, contradicting claims by the Republican presidential candidate that most Americans would see a tax cut.

The Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank, says low- and middle-income families would be hit hardest, with households making between $10,000 and $20,000 seeing their taxes increase by nearly 950 percent.

"You're talking a $2,700 tax increase for people with incomes between $10,000 and $20,000," said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. "That's huge."

Households with the highest incomes, however, would get big tax cuts. Those making more than $1 million a year would see their taxes cut nearly in half, on average, according to the analysis.

Among those in the middle, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 would see their taxes increase by an average of $4,400, the report said. Those making between $50,000 and $75,000 would see their annual tax bill go up by an average of $4,326.

"It's very, very regressive compared to the current system, and that's largely because we're exempting capital gains, and we're taxing your spending with the sales tax," Williams said. "People at the top end don't spend all their money and they get a lot of capital gains, so they are doing pretty well here."

Cain disputed the analysis Tuesday evening during GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, where the other Republican candidates heaped on criticism. Cain has acknowledged that taxes would increase for some but says taxes would decrease for most.

"It does not raise taxes on those that are making the least," Cain said. "All of those are simply not true."

"The reason that our plan is being attacked so much is because lobbyists, accountants, politicians, they don't want to throw out the current tax code and put in something that's simple and fair," Cain said. "They want to continue to be able to manipulate the American people with a 10 million-word mess."

Cain's plan would scrap current taxes on income, payroll, capital gains and corporate profits. He would replace them with a 9 percent tax on income, a 9 percent business tax and a 9 percent national sales tax.

Cain's campaign has gained momentum largely in response to his tax plan, which is popular in part because of its simplicity. Several polls have the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza at or near the top of the Republican field, vying with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

President Barack Obama told ABC News that Cain's tax plan would impose a "huge burden" on middle-class and working families. The president said Cain's plan would make sure the wealthiest pay less – and replace the revenue with a sales tax hitting the less well-off.

Romney criticized the plan in a conference call with reporters Tuesday.

"I believe that you're going to find with the 9-9-9 plan Herman Cain has put out that the burden shifts more to the middle class, and I think that's the wrong direction to go," Romney said. "A decision to completely jettison our current tax system for a new system always has some merit, but then you need to get into it, to figure out who's this going to help and who's this going to hurt."

Cain's rise in the polls has brought increased scrutiny, and his tax plan has taken hits from across the political spectrum. Some don't like shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the poor and middle class; others don't like the new national sales tax.

"Anytime you give the Congress a brand-new tax, it doesn't go away," said Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. "If we give Congress a 9 percent sales tax, how long will it take a liberal president and a liberal Congress to run that up to maybe 90 percent?"

William McBride, an economist at the conservative Tax Foundation, said Cain's plan to move away from taxing savings and investment "would be a very good thing for growth in the long run."

But, McBride said, the national sales tax would be a nightmare to administer because so many state and local governments already have sales taxes, and the bases are different.

In most states, food and medicine are excluded from sales tax. Cain has said his sales tax would be applied to all new goods – only used goods would be exempt.

"It's not as simple as having all these jurisdictions simply tack on 9 percent and send it to the federal government," McBride said in an interview.

Cain has said his plan would initially raise as much money as the current tax system but do it more efficiently, leading to economic growth, which would produce higher tax revenues. The Tax Policy Center analysis agreed that the plan would initially raise about the same amount of money as current tax policy, about $2.55 trillion in 2013.

The Tax Policy Center compared taxes on U.S. households under current tax policy, with those imposed under the Cain plan. In using current tax policy, the analysis assumes that tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush – and extended through 2012 by Obama – would be extended.

The center did a separate analysis that assumed all the Bush-era tax cuts would expire at the end of 2012. Under that scenario, Cain's plan would still impose higher taxes on 77 percent of U.S. households, the report said.

The Tax Policy Center is a research group formed by two Washington think tanks: the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. Researchers at the center regularly testify before Congress on tax policy. The center's analyses during the 2008 presidential campaign were widely circulated.

The center said researchers tried to consult with Cain's advisers to make sure they were interpreting the plan correctly, but they had not heard back.

What's going to prevent Cain's 999 tax plan from becoming a 29/29/29 tax plan? Not much read more on this.