Pure Love of Being
Consciously Present as I
Am is the First Law.

Loving All Being
As the Awareness of God
Is the Living Law.

Love that Embraces
All Existence as Itself
Fulfills the Whole Law.

[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Genesis (2006 Reprise): Companion Haiku: The “Light of Living Love” Projects Itself Into What Appears to Be; The “Living Light of Love" Projects Itself Into Conscious Appearance; Pure Love of Being Projects Itself Into This Present Awareness.]

In an email from Downsizer Dispatch, there are many valid reasons and arguments for eliminating these taxes.  Ron Paul's position supports this as well.

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Abolish corporate income taxes.

If this idea seems strange or even abhorrent to you, then please read this letter I sent to my Representative and Senators and consider the arguments...

In his State of the Union address, the President frequently threatened to tax corporations for doing things he doesn't like and recommended tax breaks for corporations he likes. http://bit.ly/yT5Trp

Instead he should've called for the abolition of ALL corporate income taxes.

You don't have to be a conservative ideologue to oppose these taxes. They simply don't work...

* Corporate income taxes bring in only about $200 billion in a year - far less than 10% of revenues and about 1/7 of the deficit.
* The only nation with a higher corporate tax rate is Japan, which has been in a slump for 20 years.

Taxing corporations is NOT a form of taxing the rich, because shareholders include the pension funds and 401(k)s of the middle class and retirees. Not only that, but corporate taxes kill jobs and stifle wages. Here's how...

* When adding in the cost of compliance with the tax code, corporate taxes cost corporations about $250 billion per year.
* Tax compliance costs PER EMPLOYEE range from $517 in large firms to $1,584 in small firms (http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs371tot.pdf, Table 1)

Companies pass on these costs through...

* Lower wages for employees
* Higher prices for consumers
* Less money for investment in innovation or job-creating expansion
* Smaller taxable earnings for shareholders
* Or, they leave the country altogether for a more business-friendly environment, killing even more jobs in the process

And that last point explains why most Americans sense that manufacturing jobs have left.

And these costs even work against the alleged goals politicians like you advocate...

* Less is collected from individual income taxes
* And MORE is spent on anti-poverty programs

Isn't it fair to say that these costs are far greater than the revenues from corporate taxes?

The U.S. would gain a competitive advantage over every other country by simply eliminating the corporate income tax altogether.

* Corporations would relocate to the U.S., the new "tax haven."
* Leading to better wages, lower prices, and more jobs.
* The expanding economy would quickly compensate for the "loss" of corporate tax revenue.
* The anti-poverty rolls would shrink and so would the burdensome expense of these programs.

Ending the corporate income tax would also mitigate corruption. Corporate influence in Washington would be reduced because companies can't lobby for tax breaks when they're not paying taxes in the first place!

This isn't about ideology. It's in the national interest to repeal the corporate income tax and to elimate similar taxes on non-incorporated firms.

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If you agree, we encourage you to send your own letter to Congress. You may borrow from or copy the the above. <https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/end-corporate-income-taxes/>

Do you feel as if few Congressmen speak for The People? This is the good news some don't want you to know.

Take a look at what's really unfolding. This started with 2010 elections and continues to gain momentum today. Understand the forward direction We The People have taken and the forward direction we continue to take behind the scenes. Most importantly, keep up the good work!

A fight between two establishments? Where was the Tea Party in this process?

The video can't be embedded, but beneath its link is a brief synopsis. Be sure to watch this short and inspiring clip (click title or the raw link below).

‘FreedomWorks’ President Talks About Tea Party Plans to Fight This Election

Marco Rubio already has more experience than Obama did. I am going to vote against Barrack Obama in November. What I am more focused on and where I see opportunbity for Tea Partiers to make a huge difference is to start taking over the legislative process.

We don't want more Czars, we don't want more top-down Dictates telling us what to do. We started taking over the House in the last cycle. There's massive opportunity that no one's paying attention to yet, to actually take over the Senate.

I'm not talking about a Republican takeover, I'm talking about a Freedom Caucus, a majority of the New Majority of Constitutional Conservatives. Then we drive policy from the bottom up.

There was a big vote that happened a few weeks ago between Mitch McConnell (Senate Majority Leader) and Ron Johnson, a Tea Party freshman, a great Senator. Ron Johnson only lost the sitting Majority Leader by two votes. So think about what happens if we (the Tea Party) wins in Utah.

These are the problems we're having right now, going after the Republican establishment. You have a consolidated effort where they put aside their differences. All of these groups, the Tea Partiers, the 911ers and the Constitutionalists have come together.

We have to beat the Republicans then we have to beat the Democrats.

What a great commentary. Come one, come all, Constitutional Conservatives. Vote against B. Hussein Obama in 2012. We can do it, we almost already have.

Just as important as president is voting for more good Congressmen! Congress IS our check & balance, regardless who's elected president. Place more good Congressmen, especially in the Senate.

Conservatives are the American majority, but that majority won't have its voice if you don't use your vote to be counted in them come November. Take time to vote and give friends a ride.

Raw Link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/freedom-works-president-explains-his-theory-on-the-tea-partys-real-motives-in-the-2012-elections/

Grumpy Gingrich never called Romney to congratulate him on his double-digit win in FL.  The T.E.A. Party members would never support Newt.

Also, it’s unusual for a presidential candidate personally to be paid significant amounts for travel or donor lists.  Newt pays himself and his own company for services with campaign contributions. "Gingrich's campaign leaned on the network of companies and non-profits he built." Looking for a word here; nepotism doesn't quite fit, or perhaps it is a perfect fit!

"Newt Gingrich’s campaign paid him $47,000 for a list of supporters and paid one of his companies another $67,000 for web hosting, according to a report filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.

The report paints a picture of a campaign that is working to professionalize, but continues to be based in part around the candidate himself and the network of companies and non-profits that he built after leaving Congress."

Newt Gingrich loses Florida — and reminds us why

In this well written article, the current system in education intentionally supports the "Caste" system.  Knowing and understanding how it is done, and why, will assist parents in breaking the cycle. This is why the ELITE continue to dominate our society - education is ALWAYS the key, and government controlled schooling produces the results THEY desire.

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The American Caste System

By Oliver DeMille

The American framers overcame domination by an elite upper class by establishing a new system where every person was treated equally before the law.

This led to nearly two centuries of increasing freedoms for all social classes, both genders and all citizens—whatever their race, religion, health, etc.

During the Industrial Age this system changed in at least two major ways.

First, the U.S. commercial code was changed to put limits on who can invest in what.

Rather than simply protecting all investors (rich or poor) against fraud or other criminal activity, in the name of “protecting the unsophisticated,” laws were passed that only allow the highest level of the middle class and the upper classes to invest in the investments with the highest returns.

This created a European-style model where only the rich own the most profitable companies and get richer while the middle and lower classes are stuck where they are.

Second, the schools at all levels were reformed to emphasize job training rather than quality leadership education.

Today great leadership education is still the staple at many elite private schools, but the middle and lower classes are expected to forego the “luxury” of opportunity-affording, deep leadership education and instead just seek the more “practical” and “relevant” one-size-fits-all job training.

This perpetuates the class system.

This is further exacerbated by the reality that public schools in middle class zip-codes typically perform much higher than lower-class neighborhood schools.

Private elite schools train most of our future upper class and leaders, middle class public schools train our managerial class and most professionals, and lower-class public schools train our hourly wage workers.

Notable exceptions notwithstanding, the rule still is what it is.

Government reinforces the class system by the way it runs public education, and big business supports it through the investment legal code. With these two biggest institutions in society promoting the class divide, lower and middle classes have limited power to change things.

The wooden stake that overcomes the vampire of an inelastic class system is entrepreneurial success.

Becoming a producer and successfully creating new value in society helps the entrepreneur surpass the current class-system matrix and also weakens the overall caste system itself.

In short, if America is to turn the Information Age into an era of increased freedom and widespread economic opportunity, we need more producers.

Intimidating Ron Paul never worked nor will it work on his supporters.  Eddie Dillard voted and then decided to go home, put on his Ron Paul T-Shirt, pull his Ron Paul sign from his front yard, and go back to show some support for Paul.  Little did he know it was a scheduled stop for Newt & the Gang.  Gingrich's security immediately tried to intimidate Dillard but he held his ground, even after stomping on his bare foot (he was wearing flip-flops)...

PHOTO BEFORE GINGRICH ARRIVES:

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Eddie Dillard (R) holds a Ron Paul sign and Sue Janssen (R) holds a Newt Gingrich sign before Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich visits a voting precinct at the First Baptist Church of Windermere January 31, 2012 in Orlando, Florida.

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Ron Paul Campaign Calls on Newt Gingrich to Apologize for His Staff Assault on Ron Paul Supporter

"They say the culture of an organization is a reflection of its top executive and today’s deplorable behavior against Ron Paul supporter Eddie Dillard in Florida reflects very poorly on Congressman Gingrich"

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‘Everyone step on his toes!’ Gingrich security harasses Ron Paul supporter

Dillard, a 29-year-old Ron Paul supporter from this suburb near Orlando, arrived to vote at his precinct at Winderemere Baptist Church early Tuesday morning. Pulling into the parking lot, Dillard noticed a man outside the polling place with a Gingrich sign. He decided to run home, slip into his "Ron Paul Rocks America" T-shirt, grab a "Ron Paul 2012" sign from his garage, and return to give his candidate some representation outside the precinct after he cast his vote.

Dillard found a quiet spot along a sidewalk lined with tiny American flags and held up his sign. Little did he know, Newt Gingrich had chosen that very spot to make his first Primary Day campaign stop.

When Gingrich's bus pulled up, Dillard stood silently holding his sign and watched the news-media horde swamp the candidate. Gingrich stepped down from the bus and made a beeline for Dillard. He stopped in front of Dillard and his sign and parked himself for a round of handshaking and pictures with voters. The placement couldn't have been worse. There was Gingrich, standing with his wife Callista at their first event of the day, and a giant Ron Paul sign floated inches from their crowns.

Noticing the awkward optics, Gingrich aides and security personnel swarmed Dillard, trying to intimidate him into moving. One of Gingrich's security agents stepped in front of him. When Dillard didn't budge, the agent lifted his heeled shoe over Dillard's bare foot and dug the back of it into his skin, twisting it side-to-side like he was stomping out a cigarette. Shocked, Dillard kept his ground and took a picture of the agent with his phone, which was quickly knocked out of his hand. Dillard slipped off his flip-flop to pick up the phone with his foot, and a Gingrich supporter kicked the sandal away.

"Don't kick me!" Dillard said to the man who knocked away his sandal. More members of Gingrich's security retinue approached, shoving their shoulders and chests in front of him.

"Just block him!" a Gingrich campaign aide said. "Everyone step on his toes!"

Gingrich supporters handed a "Newt 2012" yard sign up to the front to put in front of Dillard's Paul sign. The two signs, zipping back and forth inches from Gingrich's head, circled each other in the air like fighter jets in a dogfight.

When the candidate finished taking pictures with voters, furious Gingrich aides grilled Dillard.

"If we did this to you, you guys would be furious," said an aide before stomping back toward the bus. "They have no class. No class."

As Gingrich pulled away, Dillard looked down at his foot. With the adrenaline pumping, he hadn't noticed the pain, but now it was starting to sink in. A bruise was forming, and there was a cut mark where the security agent had dug in his heel.

"That was really something," Dillard said afterward. "My heart's racing. Not what I expected to happen today."