Time Magazine
April 16, 2012
Re: Inside the presidents' club
Time Magazine's "Inside the presidents club" 8-page story on living past presidents is hardly the stuff of encouragement to beleaguered taxpayers in this lingering recession. Indeed, according to the FY2008 GSA Allowances for Former Presidents, we supported them to the tune of Jimmy Carter: $518,000, G.H.W. Bush: $786.000, Bill Clinton: $1,162.000, and G.W. Bush costs -- plus benefits, with annual increases and undisclosed Secret Service protection costs for life-- all for either four or eight years of work in office. When this all started, Harry Truman needed it. No one before or since has.
The New York Post
April 14, 2012
Bam's Buffett rule blather
President Obama's continued attempt to enforce his 'Buffett Rule' by raising taxes on those earning over a million dollars is merely part of his re-election campaign, even though such taxation would be mostly levied against job creators.
Coupled with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, Obama's tax crusade will continue if he's re-elected, regardless of the negative impact on business, jobs, the people and the economy.
It's doubtful that the Senate would pass Obama's tax proposals prior to the elections. However, the Republican House should pass a separate bill making the Bush tax cuts permanent.
Voters need to know who would raise their taxes in these dire economic times.
D. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
USA TODAY
April 10, 2012
The tax man cometh: President Obama
President Obama's continued attempt to enforce his 'Buffett Rule' by raising taxes on those earning over a million dollars is merely part of his re-election campaign, even though such taxation would be mostly levied against job creators.
Indeed, coupled with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts the first of next year, the president's tax crusade will continue if he's re-elected, regardless of the negative impact on business, jobs, the people and the economy.
It's doubtful that the Senate would pass President Obama's tax proposals prior to the elections. However, the Republican House should pass a separate bill making the Bush tax cuts permanent. Voters need to know who -- beyond the president -- in the House and Senate would raise their taxes in these dire economic times.
Americans for Tax Reform
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
December 21, 2010
Re: And the rich get richer
By Tim Rutten
Tim Rutten's hackneyed social justice notion that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is simply absurd and irrelevant, particularly in these dire economic times. Indeed, in case he missed it, we have serious problems in government in America, such as the growing damages of over-reaching government.
Though the Tea Party-effect has taken a positive hold-back on increasing taxes, a bloated budget-as-usual, and implementing fiscally terminal Obamacare -- the looming Fannie and Freddie fiasco is still alive and threatening the overall economy.
Indeed, the years of irresponsible multi-billion dollar band aids for deeply-infected Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, banks and mortgage lenders have had little to no effect on the housing nightmare -- and government has yet to own-up to causing the housing and economic collapse.
Instead, the usual government suspects continue to ignore the Fannie and Freddie disease, while affordable housing entitlement activists go about the dirty business of intimidating banks and coercing lenders to modify home loans and forego foreclosures for unqualified borrowers who still cannot afford homes.
Jerking around the American people, our taxes, our property and our economy is far beyond the constitutional scope of government. Plunging the nation into insurmountable debt is malfeasance. Embezzling $billions and $trillions to fund 10 thousand unworkable government programs is criminal waste.
Breaking up Fannie and Freddie to privatization -- and seriously downsizing government and government programs -- would be significant steps toward reversing out-of-control federal power, restoring power to the states, and sanity to domestic affairs.
Dan Jeffs
Apple Valley
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
December 11, 2010
Re: Obama locks horns with Democrats on tax-cut deal
Compromised government - unacceptable
President Obama made a deal with Republicans to extend current tax rates for two years with a $120 billion unemployment benefits extension attached. House and Senate Democrats attached $billions in subsidy and tax break amendments for ethanol, Hollywood and other political pork, raising the so-called $700 tax deficit to a $trillion. Yet the lame duck the socialists among them, such as Speaker Pelosi and filibustering Sen. Sanders (S) Vermont, are being spiteful and vindictive in resisting any compromise.
That's the way our government embezzles taxes and debt in Washington's business as usual -- for the last two years on steroids -- to pass the $800 billion stimulus bill, and the $trillion(s)? national health careless law. And that's why voters are replacing Democrats with committed Republicans in the House and Senate, and in state houses across the country. The American people don't want tax increases now, two years from now or ever, and neither does our beleaguered economy. We want tax cuts and downsized government.
Lest tenuous tax and spend office holders forget -- and fail to follow the voters' marching orders -- they and President Obama will be removed from office in 2012. The only deal the people want is responsible, constitutional and honest government, limited to what we need, not what we don't need or want. Clean, single purpose legislation written in plain unfettered language is a start. Legislation filled with legalese, bulk fine print, and dirtied with add-ons and costly clutter is unacceptable.
Dan Jeffs
Apple Valley
The Washington Examiner
December 7, 2010
GOP should insist on permanent tax cuts
Re: "Senate rejects Democratic tax-break proposal," Dec. 5
Republicans in Congress should hold fast to making the Bush tax cuts permanent. All of them. Lest we forget, in order to get those cuts in the first place, President Bush had to compromise with congressional Democrats by allowing them to expire on Dec. 31, 2010. Those cuts were good for the American people and the overall economy then, and they are even more important now in this recession.
But at the 11th hour, President Obama and the short-lived Democrat-controlled Congress are playing spiteful games by bringing bills to a vote under the guise of making the middle-class tax cuts permanent and allowing the tax cuts for the rich expire. The problem is that taxpayers making over $250, 000 are considered rich by Democrats, when in fact they are the backbone of job creation.
Extending the tax cuts for a year or two is unacceptable. President Obama and Congress have been playing fast and loose with health care, the deficit and the national debt for two years, with no results for either jobs or the economy.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
Dissing the tea parties
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside, CA
April 18, 2009
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The Daily Press
April 20, 2009
Bias pervades media
The left-wing media establishment attacked or ignored the tax day "tea parties" because the media are a product of the liberal schools of journalism and most of the nation's secular-progressive colleges and universities -- condescending and dismissive of anything opposed to their ideology.
Contrary to popular belief, the First Amendment is not exclusive to the left, and real journalism is not dead. I am thankful that we have objective local and regional newspapers, the fair and balanced Fox News Channel and others looking out for us.
If it were not for the far-left tyrannies and entitlement-driven government, there would be very little media-driven hate and discontent in America. I shudder to think of what it would be like without the truth.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA