Abolish the IRS. Repeal the 16th Amendment. Both are two of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people.

If you don’t believe this now… you soon will - so please try taking at least THAT to the bank!

In the meantime, determine what’s real and truly valuable to living your life - this, after all is said and done, is the essence of what it means to be truly FREE.

What can you do WITHOUT?

In order to correct this out of balance condition there needs to be laws in place (similar to the anti-Trust legislation) that caps the annual income of all capital owners and their surrogates (CEOs, CFOs, etc.) at a specific federal percentage above that of the highest paid worker within their respective firm. Also, we need to eliminate labor arbitrage by canceling all Temporary Worker Visa programs (L-1, H1-B, etc.), and establish tax penalties for firms that expand their workforce above some threshold through outsourcing, or replacement hiring in foreign locations.

Essentially, FDR was accurate when he characterized the Great Depression as an out-of-balance Economic malady. Rural income prior to the Great Depression was significantly lower than urban income, now (overvalued home equity) as then there was unlimited amounts of overvalued phantom equity flowing into the stock market, the income differential between labor and capital while nowhere near the current astronomical level was still much higher than sustainable. There in lies the root cause of the out-of-balance condition that precipitated the Great Depression. Any system including the market economy that gets to far out balance does not function properly. Certain constraints need to exist to keep the market economy from slipping into a dysfunctional state. Balance is the essence of stability nothing short of this will guarantee permanence.

Furthermore, bad ethics are everywhere, from bogus, manipulated CPI, GDP figures, to the denial by most bank/business economists that US debt levels are not a time bomb!

I’ve written a post in my blog, the title of which, I beleive, says it all. “Debt. Americans search for fulfillment.” It’s at http://enlightenedeconomics.wordpress.com/

I also cover the latest socially responsible investing at http://investingforthesoul.com/

Best wishes, Ron Robins

We have so many problems and most of the presidential candidates are talking short term fixes. Returning some of our money to us in the form of tax rebates/credits is not going to prevent the country from spiraling downward into economic hell. What the government needs to do is stop the outflow of non-essential spending.

First the stupid occupation in Iraq. What is the point of all this? We are in a police action since 2003, chasing a few hundred insurgents who want to kill each other for religious reasons and control of their oil. It’s costing us 8 billion dollars a month and is a waste!
Almost 4,000 soldiers have died already and there is still no political solution even remotely close to being formed. Nation building didn’t work in Vietnam and we lost 58,000 young men for nothing.

Second, the government has to stop over-regulating business. Some directives are necessary, but Congress goes to far. What good did all those SEC rules do for the Enron fiasco? Fraud was still committed and no matter how much you punish the rest of the business community with high cost regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, corruption will still happen. The trouble is that Congress has to justify their political existence and retention of power to the American people by presenting a false face of ‘good government’.

I have learned a lot about the dishonesty of our government since paying more attention to the presidential election coming up in November of this year.

I am voting for Congressman Ron Paul because I agree with most of his platform, although not all of his ideas. His articles on governmental issues are very interesting and can be found at: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/articles