California Needs Conservatism. The case for someone other than Arnold Schwarzenegger. – Rush shares my opinion that Arnold is not the kind of true tax fighter that the PRC needs if there is to be any hope of salvaging the State from its slide into the abyss of socialism.

Readers may have noticed that, unlike most tax professionals, who just accept taxation as a given out of the control of mere mortals, I have always considered taxes to be the symptoms of out of control spending by power hungry government rulers. Rather than just advise everyone to simply accept the fact that they must bend over, grab their ankles, and allow our rulers to have their way with us (as most tax professionals do), I champion efforts to legally fight back against excessive taxation of all kinds.

It is encouraging to see that not everyone is a sheep allowing themselves to be led peacefully to slaughter. Spreading the word about legal resistance to undue taxation should hopefully encourage others that the cause is not futile. Working within the system to effect such changes is what I support. I do not condone the illegal actions of tax protestor scam artists, such as Irwin Schiff.

Opponents pledge fight to cancel Oregon tax package

New Zealand Farmers hit the street in fight against fart tax – I would have loved to hear Arnold, in his recitation of all the taxes we have to pay each day, include paying a tax each time our animals fart.

Multicolored greenbacks coming in October – It’s hard to stay ahead of the counterfeiters. Doesn’t it seem like our currency is being changed more often than normal?

License bill faces challenge from IRS. It’s risky to use taxpayer ID numbers for noncitizen drivers, agency says. – Just the fact that there is a debate over what ID numbers illegal aliens should be using on their driver’s licenses shows how far into the abyss the PRC has slipped. To continue to force taxpayers to fund benefits for people who have broken our laws is just the same old insanity we all expect from the ruling class out there. The chances of any change in this open season on the wealth of the productive members of our society in order to buy votes for the DemonRats in power are slim to none.

Over the Cliff. Social Security is about to plunge, but retirement benefits don’t have to. – What a surprise. FDR’s Ponzi scheme house of cards is showing signs of weakness.

Analysts Are Skeptical of Ueberroth’s Tax Amnesty. Critics doubt the plan would produce the $6 billion that the candidate predicts, and they see difficult political hurdles. – Predicting how much money can be raised through a tax amnesty program is nothing more than a guessing game. Nothing more than a WAG (wild ass guess).

The Triumph of Leviathan – Fans of big expensive government outnumber those of us who believe in abiding by the constitutional limits that were supposed to prevent the existence of an all powerful and controlling central government.

The Bloglet service that sent nightly emails with the latest postings hasn’t been working for the past few weeks. There have been temporary outages in the past; but this time it appears to be much more serious. Scouring the web and checking with other users, it appears that nobody can reach the Bloglet administrator. Many people believe that the Bloglet site has been abandoned because none of us is able to get beyond the main page.

I have therefore removed the Bloglet sign-up function. I will be looking for another service to take over that will hopefully be more reliable. In the meantime, you can always see everything I have posted on this page right here. It always shows everything for the past 30 days on this main page. The archives have the postings going back to November 2000.

As entertaining as the whole political freak show is out on the Left Coast, I’m just glad that we can laugh at it from the relative safety and security of two thousand miles away. Everything that is going on makes our choice to bail out of the PRC ten years ago look so much wiser. In fact, regardless of how the election turns out on October 7, I don’t see much hope for saving the State from its unstoppable slide into the abyss. Taxpayers who choose to remain are going to see more of their money under attack.

The Power of the Pledge. Merely saying “no” to tax hikes isn’t enough. – I too was very underwhelmed with Arnold’s performance in yesterday’s press conference where he wimped out on the issue of new taxes. Claiming that he can’t rule out new taxes because some kind of natural disaster might occur was a major cop-out. He’s talking like the “girly-men” he used to make fun of. Everyone knows that if a huge disaster happens, the Feds will pick up the reconstruction costs.

Prop. 13 change looks unlikely

Myths about Prop. 13 obscure its profound value in protecting taxpayers

Uncle Sam rips off California

Fixing California

Young Americans: Pay Attention, Or Pay The Bills

Higher Taxes Would Harm Alabama – Between this tax issue and the fight over the ten commandments statue, Alabama is running a close second behind the PRC for weirdness this Summer.

This isn’t too different from what IRS auditors experience when they make their first visit to our ranch, and are greeted by our three very large dogs, including Nikita, our Great Pyrenees, who is almost as tall as I am when she stands on her hind legs.

A Lesson for Arnold Schwarzenegger: Warren Buffet to the California Democrat’s Rescue – Thomas Sowell joins the chorus of pundits who believe that having a Marxist as his number one financial advisor has been an idiotic choice for Arnold.

Stewing Over Too Low CA Taxes, Applauding Buffett for Saying So – We can always count on the mainstream media to support higher taxes.

Latte tax debate whips up strong feelings – Ten cents a cup doesn’t seem like much, but it would set a very expensive precedent to start adding goofy taxes and fees to just about anything.

Hating the Rich – It’s long been socially acceptable in this country to despise and persecute the evil rich, who are defined as anyone having any more than anyone else.