Every year, the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation and the Center for Fiscal Accountability calculate Cost of Government Day. This is the day on which the average American has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burdens imposed by government on the federal, state, and local levels.
In 2010, Cost of Government Day falls on August 19. That means working people must toil 231 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government. In other words, the cost of government consumes 63.41 percent of national income.
Two years ago Americans worked until July 16 to pay for the cost of government: all federal, state and local government spending and regulatory costs. That government was too expensive and wasteful. Two years later, we work until August 19 for the same bloated government. We have lost an additional full month of our income to pay the cost of government in just the last two years, said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
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If you actually compute the amount of time serfs in the middle ages had to devote to their liege lord versus time available to support themselves and their family, we are more taxed than they were. Goverment and the ruling class has become the Masters of the American people through legislative tyranny and confiscation by tax law and deficit spending!
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231 days. Tax day used to occur sometime in May. Now its August. This number will probably soon fall about Christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT. HERE'S YOUR TAX BILL. Our founding fathers would recommend another revolution.
One barometer of the plunge in excitement has been the sale of Obama-themed T-shirts, which designers had been banking on after the craze of last year. Clothing labeled with the president's name sold by the thousands, helping to salvage a tough economic year for the island.
But this year's T-shirt sales are much less brisk, merchants say.
"Last year, Obama gave you goose bumps, but I don't think you're going to see that this year,'' said Alex McCluskey, co-owner of the Locker Room, who sold more than 4,000 "I vacationed with Obama'' T-shirts last year. But so far this year, he said, his hot item is T-shirts of former President Bush asking, "Miss me yet?''
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when is this ASS going to work??? with golf and sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and trapsing around the country on taxpayer money who knows........what a JACKASS
"Coach Saban has not been contacted for a political endorsement of any kind," Associate Athletics Director Jeff Purinton wrote in an e-mail response to questions from The Birmingham News.
[Dorothy] Davidson, when contacted about the campaign ad and photo on Tuesday afternoon, at first said the image of her and Saban together was real and taken about three weeks ago. However, when presented later with a 2007 photo of Saban and his wife that appears to be the base photo onto which Davidson's image was added, the candidate acknowledged that her image was digitally added to the 2007 photo.
"They said we could do it this way," Davidson said.
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What an idiot.How do people think they will not be caught doing something this FREAKIN'STUPID.Only in Tuscalooa. This truly is "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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