Tax Cuts

1) The article sums up tax cuts and spending. It simplifies who pays what and how much. It works this way so that the rich have to pay more and the poor pay nothing. The poor can only make more if the rich become richer. When a wealthy man gets his pay check at the end of the week he looks at his check and notices that almost half of his hard earned money is taken out, he wonders were the money actually goes. Yeah some of it goes state and some goes to federal, but a great majority goes in the pockets of the non workers, the ones who can work but choose not to. Like at the end of the year, after people file for taxes and maybe get back some money, the ones who get back the most are the ones who worked the least and the ones who worked the most get very little to nothing. How is that fair?

2) This article does explains how complicated the tax process and the tax system actually is, but in real life it is obviously not this simple. It isn't this simple because so people feel obligated to ask questions and so the government can make money. In the article the people get tax cuts and the rich get a bigger percent because they paid more. As stated in "How Did the Tax Code Get so Complicated?" They say "To make it worse, the "mix" of tax increases and decreases for particular groups of taxpayers often shifts from one year to the next, resulting in a constantly changing kaleidoscope of tax increases for some and tax decreases for others." (Ernest S. Christian). This statement makes sense because the tax system is constantly changing making it more and more complicated.

3) The author is a Democrat because he tend to favor the low income more. In the article the men get together and beat up the ricg man because he got more money then the lower class. The author talks more about the poor and there is more poor people then there is rich.


Christian, Ernest . "How Did the Tax Code Get so Complicated?." Center for Stratigic Tax Reform. 28 Mar 2005. Investor's Business Daily. 12 Dec 2008 .

Second Presidential Debate 2008

In the 2008 presidential debate Barak Obama and John McCain both had great arguments, but I feel that Obama came out on top. He was fluent in everything he said. He answered every question and each question answered made sense and were all great ideas. The first thing that I think is most important is taxes. Barak Obama says that he plans to provide a tax cut to 95% of the middle class Americans. He also says that he will give tax cuts to small businesses that make less that $200,000 a year. Obama thinks that small businesses need loans so they can provide payrolls and so they don't go out of business resulting in employees loosing their jobs. He also believes that the people who need financial help should get it and the people who don't shouldn't. Obama wants to help the environment by increasing the peace corp numbers so we can help out more with the world and its people. McCain on the other hand wants to provide tax cuts to big businesses. He also says that we should buy up all the business loans. McCain wants to make nuclear power plants. He says that they are clean and efficient for the environment, he also want them built to create jobs for Americans. The debate did not change my opinion at all. I still think that Obama would make a better president than McCain. He is a good leader and has really great ideas and solutions. I think he could lead the U.S. out of depression. He should be the next president of the United States.

Democracy

1) The creators of Americas Political system were wealthy aristocrats, intellectuals, and power brokers of the colonial America, so the founding fathers feared literal democracy as a potential for "mob rule", which would give the people ultimate power and could result in taking the riches away from the wealthy, meaning they would be the ones who lose their wealth and be the ones who were most affected by the change.


2) The problem with the oligarchical representative republic is without a political system watching over society, greed would slowly coruppt the law and the political and economic legislative systems in ways that greatly benefit themselves and those who provide them funds and political favors.


3) The Status Quo works in the away that the people who endure the most hardships and are at the bottom of the chain need change. The people at the who are at the top of the chain and are of the elite minority, benefit most from the system, but will not do anything because they perfectly content with their lives. So the people who want and need can't do anything, because they can't get their voice heard, and the people who could do something and make other peoples lives better won't do anything. The system prevents any change and progress.


4) The author is saying that the government is falsifying our means of being secure and having power among us. He also says that we are not really a Democracy, the government just makes us think we are, because we have only a few features of Democracy and the government is using propaganda to drill the meaning of a Democracy into the minds of there society.

Declaration of Independence

1) The passage says, violating right of life and liberty of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere. It also says that he is determined to keep an open market where MEN should be bought and sold.
2) To purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them and Murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them, with crimes of which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
3) Thomas Jefferson was against slavery and was against King Georges decision to encourage slavery in the 13 colonies, but at the same time Jefferson owned slaves of his own and did not set them free.
4) Jefferson accuses King George for encouraging slavery in the 13 colonies and refusing to restrict the slave trade, and inciting slave to rebel.
5) The King insinuates that slaves in the 13 colonies would be good. He also insinuates that the slave trade should stay.

Candidates 08

John McCain and Barack Obama are the last candidates running for president. John McCain is a Republican, while Barack Obama is a Democrat. The two have similar issues such as; the migration of illegal immigrants, and they both support stem cell research, but they oppose human cloning.

John Sidney McCain was born on August 29, 1936, Coco Solo Naval Air Station. He was a naval aviator for many years until he was shot down and captured by Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war for six years. John McCain retired from the Navy in 1981. He moved to Arizona and was the U.S. Senate from arizona in 1986. He was married and divorced, but is now currently married to Cindy Hensley McCain. They have seven children.

John McCain is for free trade and voted yes on NAFTA. He also plans to do something for the environment by Introduced the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007, created to reduce greenhouse gases and use different energy sources such as neuclear power.

Barack Hussein Obama was on born August 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. he went to Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review, Barack taught contistutional law at the University of Chicogo Law School for nine years. Currentlt he is the U.S. senator from Illinois. He is married to Michelle Obama. The have two children.

Barack Obama says that he would immediately try to amend NAFTA with Mexico and Canada, and would eliminate tax breaks with companies that are planning to move over seas. He would also start an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to ride greenhouse gases, and would try to make the U.S. a leader in the gobal climate change.