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"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 21, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

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$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 9, 2010

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Was it justifiable for the baby boom and their elders, to promise themselves tens of trillions of unfunded benefits, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for future generations to pay for?

Why would some of one generation

want to covertly confiscate another’s wealth?

 

It is grossly irresponsible for the baby boom generation

 to expect [...]

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Bruce Bartlett on Tax Cuts and Revenue

…Tax Nonsense

On July 13, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, asserted that there was no net revenue loss from any of the Bush tax cuts, in defense of an earlier comment by Senator John Kyl, R-Arizona, that all spending increases must be offset so as not to increase the deficit but [...]

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If borrowing to pay for tax cutshelps an economy in the short rundo unpaid for tax cutsretard growth in the long run?

The Laffer Curve, anyone know what this says?

 

It says that at this point on the revenue curve

you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at [...]

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Should North Carolina’s tax revenues rise or fall as many small business owners run out of money to pay taxes and debt payments?

N.C. tax delinquents rise, adding to budget woes: They owe the state $841 million – a 67% jump from 2009…
 
…The $841 million exceeds the $505 million delinquents owed the state in March 2009.

Did state budget writers account for $336 million of unpaid taxes
in 2010/11′s budget?

 
But due in part to budget cuts, [...]

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Arthur Laffter: “Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse”

Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

…if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work.

Incentives matter.

People can also change the timing of when [...]

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Have our nation’s elders betrayed their children?

Our Social Security system
is the very definition of a Ponzi, or pyramid scheme

Congressman Ron Paul
Constitutionalist Libertarian

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam’s IOUs

…For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out…

…This year…the retirement program is projected to pay out more in benefits than [...]

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Was/is PAYGO a Fraud?

…Bunning was objecting to yet another monthly extension of unemployment payments absent an explanation of how it would be paid for.

…None of this is paid for. Instead, the government borrows ever more money, incurring ever more debt and ever more interest on that debt.

To count the interest would be to highlight the fact that we [...]

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How could a $500 million current fiscal year miscalculation by the state of North Carolina affect local municipalities?

N.C. faces $500 million shortfall: The final figure might be much higher as income and sales tax collections trail legislative projections.

Top lawmakers say North Carolina will come up $500 million short of its $19 billion budget by the end of June.

“It would not surprise me if it hit $600(million) or $700million,” said Sen. David Hoyle, [...]

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Does America’s healthcare industry maintain high profit margins by providing superior care and/or medicine, or by financing the political process with profits provided by patients?

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment
in length, in weight or in measure.

Leviticus 19:35

Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans

Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year…

…premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped [...]

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Should the nation’s children be liable for the shortsightedness of their parents?

How should Americans respond
if the economic and political leadership
of the greatest nation in the history of the world
betrayed their children?

Any system produces winners and losers.

If the gap between them gets too great,
the losers will organize themselves politically
and seek to recast the existing system within nations, and between them.

Henry Kissinger

…U.S. states [...]

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