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Unmasking the Complexities of the Tax Burden

This Tax Day op-ed from Jason Briggeman

None of those regressive taxes has its own "day", and it's no wonder. If Americans had 24 hours to contemplate FICA, there might be a mass uprising against its sheer injustice; instead, we get the banal resignation of April 15. And note one further irony: Far from a day on which we rue the burden of all taxes, America's "Tax Day" is a nearly propagandistic device by which our consciousness of taxation is reduced almost entirely to one benign element--refund checks. » Read more...

Posted by: Ken Prazak on Apr 13, 05 | 11:43 pm [1] comments (1454 views) | | [0] Trackbacks [0] Pingbacks

April 15: Just Another Day?

Tax Day approaches and two LPI members present their views.

May I suggest the impossible? Well, I suppose, the improbable. But it could be the inevitable if free people can visualize the concept: April 15 being meaningless...well, virtually meaningless, except as a footnote in history. » Read more...

Posted by: Ken Prazak on Apr 13, 05 | 8:46 pm [2] comments (2792 views) | | [0] Trackbacks [0] Pingbacks

Coming Soon

Not quite as bug free as we hoped. Some more tinkering (more like a fresh install due to database cross contamination) needs to be done before we give it another go.

Until then some words from Joe Trippi, political blog guru and author of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" ...

We proved that tens of thousands of people communicating outside the official campaign structure could be as powerful - even more powerful - than whoever was allegedly "in charge." I said it from the beginning: I didn't manage the Dean campaign. They did.
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Listen, most Americans are unhappy with both political parties; they assume that every candidate is lying to them. Young people say they're powerless to change anything except the channel. Our founders feared this would happen, so they placed the power to elect a new government - the power of revolution - in the hands of the people. We've had the right to fix the system since 1789. Now we have the tools, and the will to use them.

And from an interview...

Trippi - But I think more importantly, there's a sense of community that forms around the blog. That's really what the Net is about. It's about building a community. There may be zillions of communities within the Net, but you know, your own community builds around that blog.
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Q? - So it's a community because people are both reading and writing at the same time about these ideas?

Trippi - I think they're both reading and writing the ideas, but the other thing is that there is a sense of community. There's a sense of, "We're part of each other, and we're trying to find our way." No matter whether it's an issue of importance to the campaign or the nation, we're all exchanging these ideas in common cause — except for the trolls, of course.

In addition to the hundreds of hours volunteered for our internet efforts, more than $1,000 has been fronted since early 2002 to pay for the costs to keep us on the internet. Costs have gone down from $115/month in 2001 to $35/month now, even with the added function of online donations. You can help us reimburse those we owe and make sure we can continue to afford this tool by taking advantage of the online donations right here.

Posted by: Administrator on Nov 30, 04 | 7:27 pm | [0] Trackbacks [0] Pingbacks

My Election Analysis

by Kenneth Prazak

The American revolution was a direct result of the culmination of the age of reason. From Aristotle, to Thomas Aquinas to John Locke, the founding fathers lived in a culture of reason that naturally led to a desire for individual freedom anchored with an insistence for individual responsibility.

Today, our society has devolved into an age of feelings. At the time of the American revolution, the US voting public had a literacy rate in the range of 90%. Today functional illiterates amount to nearly 50%. Only 5% of the population either has the ability or chooses to use the ability to think abstractly. So when most US citizens go to vote, they vote for what they feel is right for them. » Read more...

Posted by: Ken Prazak on Nov 29, 04 | 10:30 pm [1] comments (2141 views) | | [0] Trackbacks [0] Pingbacks

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