Utopian States: Loves happy people

Former presidential contender and billionaire Ross Perot is worried that America is a sitting duck for an unnamed foreign invader. In an interview for his new autobiography, Perot said the nation’s weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover—and neither presidential candidate is the man to save the country.

Citing an impending fiscal cliff,  Perot warned of disaster. “If we are that weak, just think of who wants to come here first and take us over,” the former CEO of info-tech company Perot Systems told USA Today on Monday.

“The last thing I ever want to see is our country taken over because  we’re so financially weak, we can’t do anything,” Perot says.

When asked for his take on the presidential race, Perot added, “Nobody that’s running really talks about it, about  what we have to do and why we have to do it. They would prefer not to  have it discussed.”

However cryptic he may be, this is the first political reckoning by Perot in years, ever since he withdrew from the political landscape after the fall of his Reform Party in the 2000 election.

Perot is the last presidential candidate that I’ve been somewhat excited about.

According to Forbs they got together the  “world’s greatest philanthropists”.

Inspired by the 30^th anniversary of the Forbes 400 issue,       Forbes aimed to actually bring the 400 people together in person to help       try to solve the world’s most intractable problems. The first ever       “Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy” was held in New York in June – an       unprecedented gathering of wealth and international philanthropy,       featuring 161 billionaires or near-billionaires – with keynote speakers       that included Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah Winfrey. That effort       was reflected in the magazine. Twelve of the attendees – some of the       world’s greatest philanthropists – are featured on the cover:       representing a staggering $126 billion in combined net worth.

They are dead-beats as near as I can tell. None of them has considered my request to even help fund one Utopian State. Land is needed. Jobs are needed. Facilities are needed. Roads and sewerage are needed. Lawyers are needed. Lobbyists are needed. Builders and construction workers are needed. Marketing people are needed. Approximately $25 million is needed in nine stages, each stage to be a prerequisite to the next.

Each stage will require more and more funding up until the last two stages consisting of buying and developing the land. The first stage would be research. The second stage would be writing the reports. The next stage would be writing a book on the proposed city-state. The next four stages would be the professionals – the lawyers, lobbyists, architects and the marketing analysts. Each stage would probably cost twice what the previous stage cost. The first stage would cost $50K. The other stages would require $100K, $200K,$400K, $800K, $1.6M, $3.2M, $6.4M, and $12.8M.

If ten utopian city-states were built, they would compete for the best government, among other things.  The winner would be the world, the people, the billionaires, the earth and humanity.  It’s a win-win effort.

Let’s at least build a prototype!

I work for expenses.  Contact me via the ‘contact’ link below the picture of the serene road.

Mitt’s Taxpolicy:

http://www.mittromney.com/sites/default/files/shared/TaxPolicy.pdf

 INDIVIDUAL TAXES

• Maintain marginal rates at current levels

• Further reduce taxes on savings and investment

• Eliminate the death tax

• Long-term goal: pursue a flatter, fairer, simpler structure

CORPORATE TAXES

• Lower the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent

• Transition to a “territorial” tax system

 

“The best course in the near term is to overhaul and to dramatically simplify the current tax code, eliminate taxes on savings for the middle class, and recognize that because we tax investment at both the corporate and individual level, we should align our combined rates with those of competing nations. Lower taxes and a simpler tax code will help families and create jobs.”

(Mitt Romney, No Apology)

Obama’s Tax plan:

http://www.barackobama.com/taxes

• Asking millionaires to pay their fair share

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No household making more than $1 million each year should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than a middle-class family pays.

Taxes are part of production costs.

Production costs have to directly cover Income taxes. corporate taxes, health Insurance, Social Security, unemployment, and long term disability.

Because these are the deductions made by government.  US manufacturing has to pay a blood thirsty (money grubbing) government in order to use the American worker.  Other governments do not have to pay the American government for access to the most  important thing: the American Market place.

Production costs have to indirectly cover housing, property taxes, food, clothing and transportation.

Because people can’t live without these things and if they can’t live, they can’t produce.

It’s pretty obvious that the more the direct production costs are reduced, the more competitive the American workforce becomes.  Changing the tax plan to reduce the cost of production while taxing the right to access and sell to Americans makes American products cheaper, raises taxes and makes foreign products more expensive.

Solution:

The only income taxes should be paid by the top 20 percent.  These taxes should be sufficiently high to keep billionaires from getting richer.  You don’t have to be a billionaire to own stock, so the argument that the stock market wouldn’t do as well is foolish.

There should be no cut off for social security.  The top  20 percent should pay social security taxes at the same rate as the bottom 80 percent.  Heck, it all goes into the same revenue pool eventually anyway.

The rest of us should only pay only a federal sales tax of ten percent on all products foreign and domestic.  The lower 80 percent should not pay an income tax.

What percentage of the population is gay?  The more rigorous studies have shown different results within a range of 0.6 to  5.4 percent. These studies include Bell-Weinberg, 1970 (~2 percent);  Billy-Battelle, 1993 (1.1 percent); Cameron-Ross, 1975-78 (~3 percent);  Catania-NABS, 1992 (2 percent); FRI, 1983 (5.4 percent); MacDonald, 1988 (2 percent); NCHS, 1988-91 (3.5 percent); Schmidt, 1987 (0.6 percent); and Trocki,  1988-89 (3 percent).

The working  class in the USA is much larger and includes the gay community.  In the USA, the civilian workforce was 140,000,000.  Same sex marriages have been discussed extensively.  Same sex marriages have been called marriages rather than civil unions in spite of the fact that many heterosexual married couples object to using same name for both same sex and heterosexual marriages.  The gay community got their way in many states.

OK, why can’t the workforce get month long vacations if they want?  Why is this never discussed?  Truly we are a huge segment of the population (over 140 million).  The group of workers also includes the gay community.  So why is this issue never discussed by politicians?

After twenty years of working, I got five offers of employment from various companies.  I couldn’t get one of them to agree to give me more than two weeks of vacation.  I couldn’t even get the commitment of an extra vacation week without  pay!  It’s absurd how the same old unresolved issues are discussed over and over (like abortion rights), but zillions of other important issues are ignored.

This is a tiny example of why this government is dystopian.  Big and small, the reasons that we are a dystopian government abound!  The needs of minority groups are coveted and handled year after year as if the needs of the majority don’t even matter!

Questions to ask the candidates.  The correct answers are given.

Q: How do you lower the debt?

A: More revenue and less government expense.

Q: How do you generate more revenue?

A: Slightly higher taxes on the rich.

Q: How do you generate more private sector jobs?

A:  Lower the price of American made products while promoting the increase in prices of the competition.

Q: How do you lower the prices of American made products?

A: Keep the Yuan from being pegged to the dollar, inflate the dollar slightly, add a national sales tax to all products while dropping corporate taxes on American companies, especially small companies.  If it is legal under our trade agreements, a  small tariff should be added to countries with whom we have a trade deficit.

Q: What is another way of generating more private sector jobs?

A: Give more help to the small company and less to the monopolies and mega companies that benefit from size.  Encourage product variety and quality.

Q: What is another way of generating more private sector jobs?

A: Eliminate taxes on the middle class.  This will increase spending which will increase American jobs which will replace lost revenue from middle class taxes. 

Q: What is another way of generating private sector jobs?

A: Increase the price of the competition by a sales tax which will also generate revenue.  Small American companies would be exempt from a sales tax.

Q: How do you decrease government expenditures?

A: Make government more  efficient.  Don’t increase government benefits or wages.   Allow government employees to enter the newly increased private sector workforce.

Increasing the prices of foreign competition while lowering the prices for small American business will generate more revenue while at the same time creating more jobs.   Government expenditures can lowered by making government more productive and by employing the excess manpower in the newly expanded private sector workforce.

All of the above steps have to be taken.  They are all essential.

It took me a year to find out how to sell an inherited timeshare. I must have made a hundred calls. I called the Florida Attorney General’s office several times. They couldn’t help me except to say “Don’t pay for the fee up front – at the beginning.” and “There are a lot of resale scams out there.”

A relative paid $60,000 for a couple of timeshare units several years ago. I saw several similar timeshares selling on Ebay for a few hundred dollars. I had lawyers tell me they could get me out of the timeshare contract – if I paid them a few thousand dollars! (The audacious bastards!)

Westgate – the real owners of the timeshares – offered me no help with the sales other than to tell me they had the right to buy the timeshare back. They had the right of first refusal. In other words, if someone made an offer on the timeshare that wasn’t high enough, they could buy it back at that price and sell it to another.

I was about to give up trying to sell them. I thought they were worthless. Then I took a trip to Florida. I drove around and stopped at every place that offered free tickets or timeshare resales. One told me that they worked for Westgate and couldn’t buy them back and that they most likely couldn’t be sold. Another place would give me $100 if I took two hours to attend their presentation (but my wife and I had to make more than $50,000 a year). I refused the $100 offer.

Then, on my way to buy some cheap tickets, I found the place I was looking for. The were licensed real estate brokers that had been in business for 19 years. They had sold over 15,000 time shares. They could get 50% to 70% of what my relative paid for them several years ago. And best of all, they didn’t charge a commission until the sale was complete. The new owner would assume all closing costs!

Since then I got a call from someone in the “Bureau of Compliance at the Division of Florida Timeshares”. He told me that the correct way to find someone to sell a timeshare was to do an internet search on “Licensed Timeshare Resale Broker“. The key word is broker. You need a licensed real estate broker to properly sell your timeshare. Don’t ever turn the timeshare over to a lawyer. Don’t ever pay the commission up front. You may have to pay for an appraisal, but that is standard in the real estate business.

Good luck.  And if you want to rent a timeshare week, click on “Buy Vacations” at the top of the page and I will rent you a week.  People that rented them have given rave reviews.  One mom told me her whole family kissed her and said “This is the best place yet!”

Like the presidential election of 2000, this election could depend on the outcome of the Ohio and Florida elections.

Obama has the slim electoral lead of 221 to 191.  Obama is a mere 30 electoral votes ahead.  Ohio and Florida combined have 47 electoral votes.  Like the 2000 presidential election between Gore and Bush, the 2012 election could be decided by Florida and Ohio.  Presently Florida and Ohio are too close to call.

OK, perhaps the question should be why this democracy and similar democracies will never work.

Democracy is a government where non-experts vote for non-experts to hire incompetent help. The fact that this type of government works at all is amazing.

Government is driven by a public that keeps complaining and patiently paying taxes until the job gets done. Government just keeps experimenting until the public stops complaining.

The system is insane. Take laws for example. Knowledge of the law is not a defense; people are supposed to know the law by osmosis or, perhaps, thought broadcasting. A belief in thought broadcasting is symptomatic of insanity, by the way.  If laws were taught and tested the way they are in order to get a driver’s license, that’s OK.  The people should know those laws because they have been taught and tested.  We should be responsible for knowing and obeying traffic laws.

People should also know that there are laws against stealing, murder, and harming others.

The victimless crimes and the untaught/untested laws are quite another story.  If government wishes to punish us for the millions of untaught/untested victimless crimes, then it is government that should be punished or sent to an insane asylum.

More in the book…