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Before you say anything here folks, these albums were rescued from a vinyl holder box I found thrown out on the street...think there was a rather good collection in there.
Since childhood, I had always dreamed of this project, except then, they were like cd's & very costly for a kid to collect. Therfore, "trashing" them would've been tantimount to TOTAL blasphemy!
I waited some time, but finally got the chance to do the project when I rescued these albums from the street. So many people come over & blast me for "ruining" these albums. And time after time, I explain to them that I actually saved them from the dumpster/landfill & managed to take things musical to another level by making them visual.
The debate continues...EYEWASH design: NYC, 2006 www.eyewashdesign.blogspot.com
F.Y.I.:
The artwork work is comprised of 70 l.p.'s. It represents some 56 taxes imposed on United States citizens, leaving room for 14, yet to come.
ASIDE: n 2005, the ILLEGAL tax on the labor of U.S. citizenry collected comprised: US$927.2 billion. Yet, the LEGAL corporate income tax collected was only: US$278.3 billion.
No thanks to Woodrow Wilson, in 1913, the Federal Reserve - a private, not a government institution - was created by a select group of extremely wealthy men. This directly took power from our own government and handed it to this small group of dominant banker$. The result allowed a then great industrial nation to be controlled by a system of credit, rather than actual gold bullion. Our citizens were forced to hand over their gold & to date, there has never been an audit of the actual gold. Therefore, there is no actual proof it's there.
Also in 1913, the banker$ committed the most diabolical fraud ever perpetrated on the American people, by bribing Senators to pass the Federal Reserve Act without the required Constitutional Amendment. They did this during Christmas vacation, when many Senators were at home, celebrating the holidays with their families. This allowed for the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act to come into being.
They were very clever & understood that whoever issued the money for America would control the government.
The U.S. income tax is a completely illegal instrument of totalitarianism. It is THE economic means by which our government manipulates its people, whilst placing our citizens in a condition of a lifetime of servitude.
We a country taxed from birth, until after death (inheritance tax), yet we are the only first world country without nationalized education or health care.
Over 500,000 Americans have no health coverage and thousands more are bankrupted from having to pay exorbitant premiums & non-coverage fees (nearly everything is uncovered).
Yet, people willingly hand over their hard-earned monies to the government in the form of an illegally collected tax. I invite you to look through the statutes & to find the law requiring citizens to pay income taxes. Because, when you do, you won't be able to identify one law requiring wage-earning Americans working in private corporations, to pay income taxes. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LAW STATING THAT AMERICANS MUST PAY INCOME TAX.
F.Y.I:
TAXES AMERICANS' ALREADY PAY:
1.ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE TAX
2.AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION TAX
3.BUILDING PERMIT TAX
4.CAPITAL GAINS TAX
5.CDL LICENSE TAX
6.CIGARETTE TAX
7.CORPORATE INCOME TAX
8.COURT FINES (INDIRECT TAXES)
9.DOG LICENSE TAX
10.ESTATE TAX
11.FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX (FUTA)
12.FISHING LICENSE TAX
13.FOOD LICENSE TAX
14.FUEL PERMIT TAX
15.GASOLINE TAX (42 CENTS PER GALLON)
16.HUNTING LICENSE TAX
17.INHERITANCE TAX INTEREST EXPENSE (TAX ON THE MONEY)
18.INVENTORY TAX
19.IRS INTEREST CHARGES (TAX ON TOP OF TAX)
20.IRS PENALTIES (TAX ON TOP OF TAX)
21.LIQUOR TAX
22.LOCAL INCOME TAX
23.LUXURY TAX
24.MARRIAGE LICENSE TAX
25.MEDICARE TAX
26.PARKING METERS
27.PROPERTY TAX
28.REAL ESTATE TAX
29.SEPTIC PERMIT TAX
30.SERVICE CHARGE TAXES
31.SOCIAL SECURITY TAX
32.ROAD USAGE TAX (TRUCKERS)
33.SALES TAXES
34.RECREATIONAL VEHICLE TAX
35.ROAD TOLL BOOTH TAXES
36.SCHOOL TAX
37.STATE INCOME TAX
38.STATE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX (SUTA)
39.TELEPHONE FEDERAL EXCISE TAX
40.TELEPHONE FEDERAL UNIVERSAL FEE TAX
41.TELEPHONE FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL SURCHARGE TAXES
42.TELEPHONE MINIMUM USAGE SURCHARGE TAX
43.TELEPHONE RECURRING AND NON-RECURRING CHARGES TAX
44.TELEPHONE STATE AND LOCAL TAX
45.TELEPHONE USAGE CHARGE TAX
46.TOLL BRIDGE TAXES
47.TOLL TUNNEL TAXES
48.TRAFFIC FINES
49.TRAILER REGISTRATIONS TAX
50.UTILITY TAXES
51.VEHICLE LICENSE REGISTRATION TAX
52.VEHICLE SALES TAX
53.WATERCRAFT REGISTRATION TAX
54.WELL PERMIT TAX
55.WORKERS COMPENSATION TAX
56.FEDERAL INCOME TAX
Fifth annual Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Fifth annual fiscal summit sponsored by The Peter G. Peterson Foundation held on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
On Tax Day, April 17, 2018, one year after the first Tax March, communities across the country are taking action and speaking out against the Trump Tax. Grassroots activists, elected officials, and community leaders joined together at more than 100 events happening from coast to coast to fight for an economy that works for all Americans, not just the wealthy few. In New York City, activists held the People's Tax Day Action Festival at Foley Square. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Fifth annual Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
In the 2010, the Average Net Worth of the richest U.S. 25 House of Representatives Total 2.1 Billion Dollars, according to data from OpenSecrets.org, Center for Responsive Politics.
Nineteen of the richest House members are Republicans, while six are Democrats. The Republican House members have been the strongest supporters to avoid returning tax rates to their pre-2001 level. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending the Bush era tax cuts from 2011-2020 will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt - $2.65 trillion in lost tax revenue and $0.66 trillion for debt interest.
Today taxes are lower than at any point since 1979, and have been credited with growing the government budget deficit, shifting the tax burden from the rich to the middle and working classes, and increasing income inequality without creating domestic economic growth. Unfortunately when controlling government representatives from the House are from the wealthy class, their policies increasingly support the richest rather than the majority of working Americans.
DATA SOURCES:
Average Net Worth - Richest 25 House of Representatives, 2010:
www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&year=201...
The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update:
www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/117xx/doc11705/08-18-Update.pdf
Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Says:
www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html?ei=5088&...
The Boom That Wasn’t: The economy has little to show for $860 billion in tax cuts:
Though they served under presidents of different political parties, two of the nation's leading macroeconomists found much more to agree on in a discussion about the economic implications of long-term debt.
(pictured here are Glenn Hubbard, left, and Alan Kreuger, right.)
tax reform
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Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a news conference on tax reform and capital gains.
Michael Schmidt, Senior Economic Advisor, left
Robert Mujica, Budget Director, right
Fifth annual Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
"Out the UBS 4000. Don't let tax evaders write the law." A petroleum jelly political window sticker. Instructions in the image: "Download from stickerdujour.blogspot.com : Print : Use a tissue to wipe with petroleum jelly : Cut out : Press on inside of window where driver's view is blocked." 100% free, modifiable and public domain.
Closing on an optimistic note, both cited immigration reform as a promising way forward for a Congress that has been too divided to make progress on other major legislation. Krueger said, "I think immigration reform is probably the lowest-hanging fruit as far as economic and fiscal policy goes." Hubbard agreed, adding, "it should be in both sides' economic and political interest to accomplish that. And it would provide a signal far beyond immigration reform that says, 'Look, we can talk about big things that are contentious and come to a solution."
The British High Commission and the Chevening Alumni Association of Pakistan jointly hosted a policy discussion on tackling the tax crisis in Pakistan.
Talking about the recent economic crisis and recovery, President Clinton said, "[T]hat's what's been so challenging about the subject that brings everybody together here at the Peterson Foundation. We have a long-term debt issue. We have long-term age distribution issues, aggravated by the fact that we have not passed immigration reform, which I think would ease a lot of these other problems."
Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a news conference on tax reform and capital gains.
Michael Schmidt, Senior Economic Advisor, left
Robert Mujica, Budget Director, right
Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a news conference on tax reform and capital gains.
Michael Schmidt, Senior Economic Advisor, left
Robert Mujica, Budget Director, right
Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a news conference on tax reform and capital gains.
Michael Schmidt, Senior Economic Advisor, left
Robert Mujica, Budget Director, right
Few issues will gain more public and political attention in coming years than tax reform -- both fundamental reforms and incremental changes to our tax code. Through successive tax cuts that primarily benefited the very wealthiest, President Bush has already made the federal tax system more complicated and unfair, while starving the nation of revenues needed to meet our current and future challenges. On January 31, 2005, American Progress held a forum to release its comprehensive plan for progressive tax reform.
"Does one house/yr sound like a middle income to you?" A petroleum jelly political window sticker. Instructions in the image: "Download from stickerdujour.blogspot.com : Print : Use a tissue to wipe with petroleum jelly : Cut out : Press on inside of window where driver's view is blocked." 100% free, modifiable and public domain.
ACT UP New York took to the streets in outrage to draw attention to World AIDS Day, an international recognition of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. ACT UP NY in alliance with fellow direct action groups, Rise and Resist, and Voices4, staged a die—in and speak out on November 29, 2017 in Times Square to emphasize: people with HIV and AIDS are still here. We are here, and we are fighting for the end of the AIDS epidemic in New York, the US, and around the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside Cipriani at 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan on December 2, 2017; to protest Trump's $1,000 dollars a plate brunch, a fundraiser hosted by the Republican National Convention for his 2020 re-election campaign. The crowd of protesters loudly booed Trump's motorcade when arrived at the NYC Fundraiser, forcing Donald Trump to use Cipriani's service entrance at 41st street to avoid the protesters. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Fifth annual Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Few issues will gain more public and political attention in coming years than tax reform -- both fundamental reforms and incremental changes to our tax code. Through successive tax cuts that primarily benefited the very wealthiest, President Bush has already made the federal tax system more complicated and unfair, while starving the nation of revenues needed to meet our current and future challenges. On January 31, 2005, American Progress held a forum to release its comprehensive plan for progressive tax reform.
Fifth annual fiscal summit sponsored by The Peter G. Peterson Foundation held on May 14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
And as part of his concluding remarks, President Clinton summarized why it's important to continue to care about our long-term fiscal challenges and economic growth: 'The thing I like about this Peterson [Summit] is I know a lot of people think we should have stopped talking about the deficit and the debt when the economy was down. On the other hand, to pretend that there are no long-term demographic changes or healthcare drivers here is crazy. And I think [that] continuing to focus on things that will shape the possibilities for America in the future."
[Alan] Kreuger saw the corporate side of the code as most in need of reform, saying "it's hard to conceive of a worse tax code than the one that we have on the corporate side. [It] doesn't raise much revenue, it gives incentives to keep money abroad, it gives incentives for inversions of companies. It distorts economic activity in all kinds of ways."
Few issues will gain more public and political attention in coming years than tax reform -- both fundamental reforms and incremental changes to our tax code. Through successive tax cuts that primarily benefited the very wealthiest, President Bush has already made the federal tax system more complicated and unfair, while starving the nation of revenues needed to meet our current and future challenges. On January 31, 2005, American Progress held a forum to release its comprehensive plan for progressive tax reform.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) met with SHRM members to discuss the #WorkFlexBill and #TaxReform during #SHRMVLS Hill Day. Photo by: Steve Purcell
Few issues will gain more public and political attention in coming years than tax reform -- both fundamental reforms and incremental changes to our tax code. Through successive tax cuts that primarily benefited the very wealthiest, President Bush has already made the federal tax system more complicated and unfair, while starving the nation of revenues needed to meet our current and future challenges. On January 31, 2005, American Progress held a forum to release its comprehensive plan for progressive tax reform.