FAIRTAX RALLY TWO DAYS AWAY

Well ... Wednesday night we'll have a chance to see whether people are willing to go further than a phone call or a letter to support real tax reform in this country.  The weather for Wednesday night is supposed to be good, but we do have the American Idol finals to contend with.  Will proponents of the FairTax pack the Gwinnett Convention Center at 7:30 to show the political class that the time is now for tax reform, and that the FairTax is the best idea out there?

More about the rally tomorrow and Wednesday ... but here's a link with all the information you should need!

ABOUT THOSE PREBATE CHECKS

Have you ever known anyone who seems to make a life's mission out of telling you why you can't do something?  They're out there, and the FairTax has drawn more than its share of these people awash with negativism.  These people seem to sit around working overtime to find some reason why the FairTax just wouldn't work. 

Amazingly, a lot of these naysayers actually change the structure of the FairTax before they can find a way to criticize it.  These are the people who say that the "real" FairTax rate would have to be much higher than the 24% cited in The FairTax Book.  These people come up with rates of 45%, 60% and higher!  To reach these figures they create exemptions that simply aren't in the bill.  That's like removing a wing from a new airplane design and then complaining that it won't fly.

There are other critics who leave H.R. 25 as it was written, but just say that it can't work.  One of the principal objections these people make is that the prebate check idea is unworkable.  They believe that there is just no way our government can possibly issue that many checks or credits every month.

There was a story in the Sunday Atlanta Journal Constitution about a company called CheckFree Corp.  This is the company that works with banks and financial institutions to facilitate online bill paying.  According to AJC reporter Peralte C. Paul about 35 million Americans use online bill paying every month.  That number is expected to double to 65 million by next year.  If each of these consumers pay three bills online every month that would be far more transactions handled by CheckFree Corp than the government would have to handle to make the FairTax prebate payments.  Granted, a private company can do just about anything better than government can.  So .... let's get busy right now working on a contract with CheckFree Corp to handle the FairTax prebate payments. 

Next objection?

CATCHING UP ON OUR AMIGOS!

The San Francisco Chronicle detailed some of the numbers for the Hispanic invasion in its Sunday edition.  OK ... so the SF Chronicle is a bit too liberal and politically correct to actually call this invasion an invasion, but the numbers are interesting nonetheless.  Here are some tidbits:

• Ten percent of Mexicans now live in the United States. 
• Fifteen percent of the Mexican workforce lives in the U.S.
• One in every 7 Mexican workers "migrates" to the U.S.
• Mexicans make up 56% of what the Chronicle refers to as the "unauthorized U.S. migrant population."  I'll translate:  Mexicans make up 56% of illegal aliens in the U.S.
• There are some Mexican communities that have almost no workers left.  They've gone to the U.S. 
• Mexicans in the U.S. send about $20 billion a year back to their homes in Mexico.  This amount exceeds Mexico's income from all oil exports and is much higher than Mexico's revenue from tourism.
• The $20 billion that Mexicans send back home exceeds the entire foreign aid budget of the United States.
• In five Mexican states the money sent home by those who have invaded the United States exceeds total locally generated income.

Sounds like a rather successful invasion, don't you think?  All this money flowing to Mexico from the United States surely does take the pressure off Mexican government officials to clean up their corrupt system and get on with the job of building a vibrant economy.  Here's your link to the San Francisco Chronicle story.

WHY SPEND MORE FEDERAL MONEY TO REBUILD NEW ORLEANS

Ray Nagin, the man who completely ignored his most-important responsibilities as Mayor of New Orleans over the past few years, has been reelected.  The man who would not order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans because he was afraid of lawsuits from the hospitality industry will be leading New Orleans again.  This hideous excuse for a leader, who told tourists to make sure that they had rooms on the third floor or higher as Katrina approached, has won the endorsement of the New Orleans "voters." I don't think is at all a stretch to say that this man and his malfeasance in office is directly responsible for many of the deaths that occurred in New Orleans during and after Katrina.  Now he's going to have four more years to compound his errors.

The primary blame goes to the voters, many of whom voted by absentee ballot and will never make New Orleans their home again.  It was race, pure and simple.  New Orleans has had a black mayor for 30 years, and they weren't about to let a hurricane wash that legacy away.  Now it looks like Ray Nagin is going to get his "chocolate city." 

In view of this election, and the type of person who will be leading New Orleans for the next four years, does it really make sense to pour more billions of dollars into rebuilding this city?

AL GORE'S CRUSADE CONTINUES

Former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Al Gore is not content with earning money in the private sector and sitting on corporate boards.  He's out there jumping up and down about what else...global warming.  Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in...where else...France, Gore called global warming a "planetary emergency." 

Oh, and he now says that global warming is a moral problem, not a political one. He says the Bush administration should sign on to the Kyoto Treaty.  This despite the fact that not even the countries that have signed onto it can meet its emissions targets.  This has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with crippling the economy of our country in the name of environmental extremism. The Kyoto Treaty was designed to hinder American economic growth while giving a boost to such countries as China.  Why is Al Gore so eager to sign on to this failed idea?

Gore also is going around blaming Hurricane Katrina on global warming.  That's right everybody...there weren't any hurricanes until global warming came along.  In Al Gore's weird little world, hurricanes are a recent development.

And the worst part?  The media actually pays attention to him...giving him all sorts of coverage and air time.  Only in America.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

What does a redneck spend lottery winnings on? Maybe something like this.  More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

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