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Here it is Tax season and the biggest deadline of the year for some is April 15th.  You get home from driving down the toll road to pull in your drive way of a home that was heavily property-taxed to death.  The last thing you would expect is a new sneaky business tax from the state of Texas.
The only thing that Republicans are good for is “no new taxes” or “reducing taxes”. What most people do not know is that they are all lies coming from the same crop of nasty politicians. They are darn-right lying to us hard working business owners.

Texas used to care about small business owners and offered some of the lower tax rates. There are no state income taxes but if you own a business you are subject to employment taxes among the new Texas Franchise Tax or Texas Margin Tax which will effect around 1 million businesses.

We already pay thousands in property taxes. Texas is one of the worst in the nation for property taxes. I pay for Plano and Collin county property taxes at a total of $8k or so a year. A retired person with no income could certainly not afford that outrageous tax.
Do I really need to pay more to the state of Texas? Am I paying for the Republican legislatures to goto lunch and Church or what exactly am I paying for? I know most the roads near me are all TOLL Roads. It certainly is not going to rebuild I-35 to Austin which needs major help! I know its not going to the schools because I we already pay for every kid in town to goto school through the property taxes. So where is this money going??
Who is eating our lunch in Texas?

Gov. Rick Perry is responsible for signing this expanded Business Tax Law into legislation. He is one of the people who went around bragging how he would not raise taxes during his election.

Are you Texans still going to vote Republican in November knowing that you have been lied to about higher taxes? Think about it.

Come on… it’s the new American Way to feel like the CEO of Exxon to take welfare out of everyone else’s pocket and put it in your own. Who cares about the American Economy we should just make sure everyone is on food stamps. Let’s make these food stamps flashy and look like credit cards so they can be sexy looking and people will be on them forever. People will never get off their food stamp addiction because they will have no embarrassment of using them in public.

We should all get on food stamps and see how fast we can take down the American Economy. Or wait its already wrecked anyway so we wont feel so bad right?

Seriously, these Food stamp cards do not even say the words “food stamp” on them. I think it is ridiculous that we are just giving away taxpayer money so people can go parading around with flashy credit cards. There are even advertisements airing on TV and radio where you can hear a conversation of people basically bragging of using food stamps making it sound cool. It is not cool… it is getting money for doing nothing and should only be used as a temporary source of “help” while trying to feed your family in rough times or times such as a layoff.

I think its fine that food stamps are now electronic but they should say the word “food stamps” on them. I am not saying they should be the Scarlet Letter but there should be an indication to people they are a temporary thing and a last resort.

What has happened to the Countdown with Keith Olbermann who used to have a good, quality show?  The MSNBC show has not turned into a big Obama commercial just going on and on about Hillary’s campaign mistakes.

What about Ron Paul? You never hear a glitch of Ron Paul mentioned on Countdown.  I am having to turn over to Glen Beck just to get the other side of the story.  I think the programming over at MSNBC needs to wake up to the rest of the world out there.

One major thing that Countdown did not mention was the Sally Kern scandal in Oklahoma City.  Countdown you would have though could have mentioned her as one of the World’s Worst Persons but there was NO mention of Sally Kerns… you know the lady (not very lady-like) who referred to Gays as Terrorists.

I expect the Faux News folks or the CNN Immigration Channel not to mention Sally Kerns but why has MSNBC not even mentioned it.  It makes me wonder what other news we are missing out on because of their anti-Hillary parade.  From now on I will just tivo Countdown and fast forward through any mentions of Obama or Hillary.  I plan on just watching Countdown for the Odd Ball and the World’s Best Persons then switch the TV off and not rely on any of these non-stop talking heads.

This is why I believe that Churches should be taxed and government should not have any relation to churches.  Mixing of Church and state is lethal to the American way of living.

Recently, Representative Sally Kern, a republican spoke out and compared gays to Islam terrorists. Of course, another confused Republican making untrue statements about gays.

I have seen some good progress in Oklahoma legislature the last few years but a few steps backwards always seems to come in that state when there is progression.  It is sad to see a lady with such a negative attitude and unloving spirit leading in the great state of Oklahoma.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) returned with big comeback for its 33rd season. The content of the show contained lots of politics including Huckabee and Clinton. The best part of the show was when Tina Fey returned with her Weekend Update actually making some good points. For instance, the fact that having two presidents (Bill and Hillary) really could not be a bad thing.

The video is on the Hulu site so you have to be a member of the beta program to watch it if you go directly to the site. There is also a commercial which displays which is irritating. Here is the video embedded in the Hillary blogspot site.

The main reason I think that Barrack Obama will not win in the general election is the fact that republicans will rip him apart for many reasons. A huge reason is his name which have three words that the conservative groups will throw in his face… Barack which sounds like Iraq. Hussein (similar to the guy that was hung) and Obama which CNN has already turned around many times into Osama.

Obama is the media darling even though they have hinted several times to make him seem Muslim. It could be a way of making us fear him for the general election while flawlessly making negativity towards Hillary Clinton. It’s basically almost like they want Obama so the Republicans have an easy race to win.

Obama is not Muslim. Even if he was Muslim we should not be so scared of a Muslim leader. We should not be so closed minded. America is a country of people of all origins and religions. I would rather the president be a person of non-religion than some extremist of any kind.

Religion should not be mixed with politics. If Obama takes the nomination then you will see it explode in our faces. The republican smear machine will kill the democrats chance of any general election wins.

Obama is not a bad person. We know Oprah would not back someone who was not fit to be King. I just do not think it is time for him to be the next U.S. leader. He is better suited for Vice President under Hillary for President.

Fox News is the big bully that calls names but now its finally getting a taste of its own medicine. Fox and Friends guest Lee Camp, a comedian, asked the anchor what Fox news was and if it was just a festival of ignorance or a parade of propaganda.

The rising comedian Lee Camp also commented that people should go hug their kids and pay attention to what really matters. Mostly implying to quit wasting time watching the fear mongering channel that Fox news delivers.

My favorite words for Fox news are Faux or Fake news. But if we did not have the rejects like Bill O’Reilley looking for a lynching or Neal Cavuto the chubby bully then who else would we make fun. The viewers will always find some big mouth like Rush Limbaugh to follow.

Chase Manhattan once inherited the best credit cards from First USA and Bank One. They took in the good credit cards and temporarily made them better. The problem is that now corporate greed has made them confuse the consumers about what rewards they are really getting.

The biggest rip-off I have seen in the credit card industry has now come from my favorite credit card issuer. The new Chase Visa Freedom Card is so misleading to card holders that it deserves attention as a fraud.

What you think may be coming in your wallet may never actually come. If you shop at Whole Foods and you think it’s a grocery store well according to Chase it doesn’t count as one when it comes to rewards. That is just sickening and sad that Chase could be so greedy that it does not count Whole Foods as a grocery store. Does Whole Foods get its own text book category – should we just rewrite any definition of a business we have learned?

Of course, none of the rewards programs allows Wal-Mart to count as a grocery store even though they do have grocery stores. I assume their gas stations do not count as gas either. The computer your looking at may not even be a computer it could have counted as a printer according to these fools.

What about fast food? You would think that KFC, Papa John’s, and Popeye’s Chicken would count as fast food but according to a recent Bankrate.com report it states that Chase does not count these for the 3 percent cash back on the Freedom Card. You mean to tell me that KFC is not fast food? I am now starting to wonder if the Bush Administration cronies are working over at Chase.

So now I think someone needs to get fired or impeached. This one takes the cake because we have learned that Sprint and Verizon do not count as telecoms. Maybe Chase is playing favoritism to AT&T trying to steal them from their longtime partner Citibank for a stab at the highly popular Universal Card.
The backlash has just now begun for Chase. The word will get out and as more people find out the more will switch to the other more “rewarding” programs.

Although, My faith in credit card rewards programs are at an all time low. Chase has let me down, Citibank has nothing left but the most useless “Thank You” points, and Bank of America wants you to play round with counting “Change”.

What’s left? You can weed through all the programs at Capital One and see if any of them make sense (if you have the time). And you can Discover if you like to only get back a fourth of a percentage point.

No, really. There are some good programs with most of these issuers but it takes a lot of looking through the fine print, calling customer service talking to people that have no clue what rewards you may or may not be getting, and checking out sites such as CreditCards.com and RewardsCards.com to try to help. The only bad thing is the credit card companies try to regulate what these card review sites try to say in their copy points so you have to read the reviews and pay less attention to the copy points. They threaten to take them out of their card affiliate program if they do not use their exact bullet or copy points outside of the review.

Our request to the credit card companies: Tell us the truth about what programs get rewards or not. Tell us the before we apply for the card. We understand that card issuers make less on some purchase because of business partnerships with Sam’s Club or some discount chains. Why not tell us before so we can choose if we want your card and goto another better card that offers discounts on our frequent eating at KFC and shopping at Whole Foods. The consumer deserves to know beforehand and the credit card companies should all be ashamed in these types of tricky business practices.

Our Favorite credit card picks include lower gas mileage cards and along with others that help save the environment such as the Brighter Planet Visa or the GE Money Earth Rewards MasterCard.

Glen Beck interviewed Jonah Goldberg who is a contributing editor for National Review and author of ‘Liberal Fascism’ earlier tonight.  Glen Beck was basically promoting Goldberg’s book talking about how liberals call conservatives fascists but yet they are actually fascists themselves.  It’s like name-calling of name-calling.

The best part is that if you sign up for Glen’s email list you get to hear more of Goldberg’s conservative mutterings.  That would really make all of my dreams come true.

The New York Times did a good review of the book if you want to read it or you can go out and buy the book to torture yourself further.  You could also read National Review for free for the extra waterboarding effect.

I just laughed when they compared Hitler’s being a Vegetarian to liberals who are vegan or eat only vegetables.  That statement right there made me loose their credibility.  Sometimes you can tell just in an interview what a dumb-headed label-pin-headed individual these neo-cons really are.

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney dropped out of the race today after he meet with his team and realized they were climbing an uphill battle.  His speech mad him sound like some guy living in the 1940′s in a place called Pleasantville.  Of course this Pleasantville would only have white families who were straight and Mormon wearing sweaters and preppy hair do’s.

Back to reality and Planet Earth Romney decided he better end this race for the White House.  I think his speech mentioned how sexual the country was getting — I do not think he mentioned VIOLENCE… but sex of course.  He mentioned the gays wanting to get married to show us how straight and conservative he would be if he were in office.

Romney mentioned that he had to step down because if he did not then the terrorists would basically take over our country.  Wasted was millions of dollars he spent on his own for the campaign but he got to have his last words.  Jay Leno even said in an interview with Ron Paul that hes a changed man from what he said years ago to what he says now.

Well God Bless America that Mitt Romney has dropped out!  How about that for some religious words for ya.  Now if we can just get Huckabee and McCain to drop out and let Ron Paul run the show we will really be blessed.

I think Romney was desperate and made himself a jerk in his farewell speech.  He should stay out of politics and go back to Romneyville where live is grand and he does not have to see any gays, women, or minorities.