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After the 16th Amendment was ratified, an income tax was imposed starting in 1913 with rates ranging from 1 percent to 7 percent with the top rate applying only to incomes in excess of $500,000. By 1916 that top rate had risen to 15 percent, on income in excess of $2,000,000. The top rate exceeded 90 percent at its peak in the early 1950s. The first 1040 form -- instructions and all -- took up only four pages. Today there are some 4,000 pages of tax forms and instructions. American workers and business are forced to spend more than 5.4 billion man-hours every year figuring out their taxes. Since those hours could be put to a more productive use, and almost surely would be in the absence of today’s incomprehensible tax code, the result is a large dead-weight output loss of some $200 billion each year. ... The IRS now has more enforcement personnel than the EPA, BATF, OSHA, FDA , and DEA combined. With its 115,000-man workforce, it has the power to search the property a...

Political spin at its best. No Matter What Side You Are On.....This IS Funny! It just all depends on how you look at some things.. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California  , was doing some personal work on her own family tree .. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid 's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in  Montana  in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor. The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows  in  Montana territory :  On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief , sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.' So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle....

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.  This may or may not be exactly as things unfolded.  No names will be withheld as none are innocent. After a tour of the palace, as they were having afternoon tea, Obama asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?"   "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."   Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"   The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?"   Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, my Queen?"   The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and i...

"They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty." -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought." -- Tammy Bruce (1962-) American radio host, author, and political commentator Source: The New Thought Police, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have...

Look at the size of the crowd - did it make the news?  ALL the networks have   studios within spitting distance of the site.        NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA   SOMEHOW MISSED THIS GATHERING.      Stop     the Mosque at Ground Zero Part II June 16, 2010 ,   New York  , N.Y. ,   -    by El Marco Americans Stand Up Against Radical     Islam in New York - We Will Not Submit! Not one major network sent a satellite     truck or camera crew to this event. Without bloggers this newsworthy event     would have remained unknown to the public and history On  Sunday, June 6th, a     multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition of Americans opposed to Islamic     violence and intolerance rallied at the site of the World Trade Center in ...

County Sheriff Can Bust Big Brother: Wyoming Sheriffs Put Feds in Their Place The duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county. He has law enforcement powers that exceed that of any other state or federal official. This is settled law that most people are not aware of. County sheriffs in Wyoming have scored a big one for the 10th Amendment and states rights. The sheriffs slapped a federal intrusion upside the head and are insisting that all federal law enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory agencies must clear all their activity in a Wyoming County with the Sheriff’s Office. Deja vu for those who remember big Richard Mack in Arizona. Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis spoke at a press conference following a recent U.S. District Court decision (Case No. 2:96-cv-099-J (2006)) and announced that all federal officials are forbidden to enter his county without his prior approval ...... "If a sheriff does...