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Former Wall Street Consultant, former Atlanta Tribune Columnist and Author of the new novel, "To Wrestle with Darkness", Alan Jones offers his thoughts on Value Added Taxes and the Fair Tax.
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Former Wall Street Consultant, former Atlanta Tribune Columnist and Author of the new novel, "To Wrestle with Darkness", Alan Jones, brings us some of his thoughts on Goldman Sachs being charged by the USA.
Also, please check out my website, www.towrestlewithdar kness.com
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Former Wall Street Consultant, former Atlanta Tribune Columnist and Author of the new novel, "To Wrestle with Darkness", Alan Jones, brings us some of his thoughts on the nature of faith. You will enjoy this.
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What Thursdays Supreme Court ruling means..
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Latest video from Alan Jones, Author and former Wall Street Consultant. What the Supreme Court ruled, what it really means and why we should be concerned?
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Sunday Sitdown - Relationship Economics - tips for women 12-27-09.mpg
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Sunday Sitdown - Relationship Economics - tips for women 12-27-09
This week we discuss steps women can take to improve their chances in the dating marketplace.
Related: relationships, women, dating, economics, men, supply, demand, wrestle, darkness, author, alan, jones
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Here is the article I referenced in the video. Check it out when you can.
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/34433979/ ns/health-skin_and_b eauty/
Next week, I plan to share some tips on how to best leverage your own position in today's dating market..
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Monday Night Sports with Steve & Marcus 12-14-09 part 2.
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This is the very first of my Sunday Sit Down sessions. This is unedited and unscripted, but for a first try I think it's pretty decent. I may repost later in the week if only to familiarize myself with this editing tool, but we'll see. Anyway, enjoy.
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By: ziglet53. on 22 Oct 10, 21:16:31
I'd take the transparency and simplicity of the Fair? Tax any day. Best "flat tax" plan around. VAT lacks the simplicity and the transparency. And I like the fact that all illegals aliens are penalized - that's only fair since they've broken our laws.
By: dtvgmedia. on 16 Sep 10, 18:28:37
@poppa1050 Through the lens of consumption we learn this. No matter what form of tax we have, sales, vat, income, or? land value tax 1. the consumer pays it. 2. the producer remits it. There would be no profit to tax with an income tax if no one consumed your product or service, and so an income tax is payed only because a consumer payed the cost of the tax. But increasingly it become apparent the lack of sense to punish domestic productivity in a global market.
By: jxavierf. on 27 May 10, 16:51:56
No...they (convervatives) are not talking out of both sides of their mouth. They want? the Consumption tax in LIEU of the income tax......they are in opposition to the imposition of BOTH burdening the people.
By: dtvgmedia. on 07 May 10, 07:09:56
@poppa1050 I was just saying it would not be fair to dismiss as insane those that prefer one over another because of differences. The one thing a VAT and Fairtax have in common is they tax? consumers. That said; whatever tax you have, consumers will always pay it, and producers remit it. When viewed though the lens of consumption, even an income tax is a convoluted consumption tax (e.g. no consumer, no income to pay tax on). All taxes are embedded (explicit or hidden) in the cost of a product.
By: poppa1050. on 07 May 10, 01:03:07
Yes, VAT? and Use taxes are more hidden and they are complex, although one could argue they are no more complex than our current income tax codes. But I think you understand, I'm not making an arguement for VAT taxes or the fair tax, but I'm just saying, that while they are very different, they are more alike than either is like an Income tax.
By: 12FlyMe. on 06 May 10, 18:45:37
DVT dumb ass -- so you say COST WONT CHANGE? You dumb fuck - ALL taxes will be in the PRICE of things. No more taxes - at all -- but the price of the product we buy. And prices wont change. YOu dumb fucking idiot. How FUCKING stupid can you be??? Are you FUCKING INSANE. ? ALL income tax, ALL cap gains, ALL corporate taxes ALL of them, paid by a sales tax, but the total price is the SAME. The HUGE fucking sales tax, won't raise prices AT ALL? You are fucking idiot.
By: BullshipDetector. on 06 May 10, 15:31:05
Dtv first of all idiot, Fairtax isnt even a tax/ Its not even real. Its like saying Casper the Ghost is a piano. ? It's bullshit. Fairtax isn't even a plan It's a farce. It's own leaders KNOW it's a farce. Its own leaders sure as fuck won't come withint 100 miles of hearing under oath about it -- why? Because the know it's pure bullshit. Bullshit isn't a tax plan, moron.
By: BullshipDetector. on 06 May 10, 15:28:43
Never heard of CAT taxes, but Fairtax isn't a consumption tax at all. It's a farce - it's a gimmick. No one is trying to pass it. Even it's "sponsors" in Congress are avoiding all hearings under oath about it.? They know it's insane double talk - taxing the GOVERNMENT -- taxing cancer victims, taxing rent. They won't get within 100 miles of a hearing under oath, how the FUCK is it gonna pass, retard?
By: dtvgmedia. on 06 May 10, 15:18:29
@12FlyMe The FairTax 23% transitional tax credit immediately removes embedded production taxes. With a 23% inclusive? sales tax added, cost don't change, house, car, or cancer treatment. The monthly prebate is in the amount a family would spend on a poverty level consumption, effectively removing all the burdens of taxes up to a poverty level consumption. The Monthly prebate for husband wife and 2 kids is $524, The amount of taxes they pay, even now, embedded in poverty level consumption.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 23:33:27
DTV this guy is clueless about Fairtax. He thought it was on the level. He didn't know it was - and is - literally a farce, He didn't know it's own leaders? have avoided hearings under oath for 13 years, because their "plan" is totally made up BS. They KNOW their math is based on layers of absurdities.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 23:31:41
DVT - the Fairtax doesnt untax anyone, retard. In fact, there ARE no exlusions AT ALL. NONE. If a poor person gets cancer - or their child does, they could EASILY have 100,000 in SALES taxes on? 300,000 in medical cost. Fairtax leaders KNOW these people can't pay that. But their math is BASED on ALL taxes being paid on ALL spending, including cancer surgery. The "prebate" dumb ass - is 199 a month, and doesnt go up on dime if you get cancer, idiot.
By: urgener. on 05 May 10, 23:31:38
Both? the CAT and the FairTax are consumption taxes, which makes them BOTH far better than what we've got now. Two differences, however, make the FairTax better than the VAT. The FairTax only taxes an item ONCE THis greatly reduced the wasted overhead expense. The other difference is the FairTax shows on every retail sales receipt what portion of our consumer spending is absorbed by the federal government.
By: dtvgmedia. on 05 May 10, 21:58:49
The fairtax with its sales tax and prebate untaxing a poverty level spending, is a progressive consumption tax. It's more progressive? then our present income, corporate income, employee payed payroll, employer paid payroll, self employment, and capital gains taxes, all being payed because a consumer bought your product making income possible. In this sense our present system is a complex regressive consumption tax the consumer pays, and the producer remitting it to the government.
By: dtvgmedia. on 05 May 10, 21:44:12
Your description of the Fairtax and VAT tax is exemplary. Don't dismiss as insane those that hate a VAT, preferring the FairTax. There are reasons why some prefer a FairTax? over a VAT tax. 1. VAT tax is levied in addition to the income tax. Taxes are already too complex 2. Transparency. The VAT, like the income tax, does not show people how much they are truly taxed. 3. VAT requires complex exemptions deductions and credits, while the fairtax prebate untaxes your poverty level spending.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 21:07:34
Pappa obvious? tariffs were not the primary reason for the WAR? Here is a clue idiot, the PEOLE involved in the WAR have reasons. War is a word. The SOUTH fought to spread slavery. The North fought to put down the rebellion. While LIncoln was kicking their slave raping child selling ass, he also got the 13th Amendment passed - and THAT - not the war - ended slavery.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 21:05:51
Popp what are you , nuts? First you say tariffs was a cause of the CIvil War. Then I show that's horse shit. SO you change, and say like some idiot "Well, the North wasn't purely trying to end slavery". SO the fuck what? No, idiot, of course Lincoln wasn't fighting the Civil War to end slavery. HE fought it to? put down the idiot fucking rebellion. But WHILE he did that, he and others did 13th Amendment. Learn a little history, instead of adopting the Confederate pukes BS.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 21:03:05
popp of COURSE the South counted the slaves for representation. But they weren't complaining about that for the civil war causes. You said tariff was an issue for secession. Actuallly it wasn't. The issue was slavery. In fact, SC didn't even MENTION slavery? in their own official Declaration of Causes. Some folks did mention tariffs, but it was an EXCUSE even then. As Confederate leader Mosbey said "Of course it was about slavery - I never heard any other reason BUT slavery.
By: poppa1050. on 05 May 10, 10:40:40
@12FlyMe And as I'm sure you know, another issue was that the south wanted to, for the purpose of representation in? congress, count slaves as full persons, where they were being counted as 3/5ths of a person previously. Which again goes to them speaking out of both sides of their mouths. Imagine today capturing a bunch of foreign nationals, enslaving them, and counting them on your census form?!?!
By: poppa1050. on 05 May 10, 02:09:04
...Any flat tax, including consumption taxes, by? definition costs lower income people a higher % of their pay, and as you stated, still may leave us under funded nationally.
By: poppa1050. on 05 May 10, 02:08:29
Also, and I really don't want to argue, since we are both opponents of the Fair Tax, you might want to look up Webster's definition of an excise tax. 1 : an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity. Look it up Webster states that a VAT tax is a consumption tax.? What is so hard about that? Doesn't mean I approve of it, I don't.
By: poppa1050. on 05 May 10, 02:02:06
Obviously, tariffs were not the primary reason? for the war, but one cannot assume that the North's motivation was purely to end slavery. The truth, I believe is somewhere in between. The South had an unfair labor advantage (slaves) over the North, and some northerners, so it is told, sought to either raise export taxes on the South or end slavery to level the playing field. Also...
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 01:41:20
South Carolina, seceded first -- and had BY FAR the biggest problem with tariffs. Yet in their "Declaration of Causes" which the leaders issued to tell history and the world WHY they seceded - they mentioned slavery first, foremost, and repeatedly. They did NOT mention the tariff. At? all. Do you think they FORGOT?? Do you think in writing about the Causes, they just FORGOT?? No, they were so pissed that anyone called slavery a sin -- they couldn't see straight.
By: poppa1050. on 05 May 10, 01:35:58
Ok, I hear what you're saying. But before we get to a technical discuss of? how it would actually work (or not work), the right's arguement is that taxing for usage/comsumption is more "Fair" way to tax. Well, my point is that Use and VAT taxes do just that. If they were sincere, then they would be cheering lowering income taxes (98% paid less last yr) and moving to VAT and Use taxes for revenue generation.
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 01:31:58
The South did not secede over tariffs. Jeff Davis himself said it was not tariffs. They seceded because they could not get control of western states? by election -- so they used violence. It had everything to do power and prestige, nothing to do with tariffs. Just like, when a thug beats the crap out of you for "looking at me funny" -- it's an EXCUSE.. When are apologist for the South gonna figure out the difference between a reason, and an excuse?
By: 12FlyMe. on 05 May 10, 01:20:52
Poppa wrong -- an import tax is not a sales tax. Apparently you heard some dumb ass speaker give some dumb ass slant that the US "traditionally taxed consumption" like Fairtax would. Do you ever think for yourself?? Hello? Rent, food, cable, cancer surgery, was NEVER subject to a fed sales tax AT ALL on national level, much less the world's HIGHEST sale tax.