EagleBank could be lead sponsor of Congressional BowlEagleBank is in talks to become the lead sponsor of the Congressional Bowl, the college football playoff game that will likely pit Navy versus an Atlantic Coast Conference team in D.C. Dec. 20.
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in around 5000 words The Holy Bible makes do with less than 800,000 words.
The Office of Management & Budget estimated in 2004, that as a nation we spent over $200 billion on compliance cost. At a time when the nations manufacturing industries, (the foundation of any good economy), are all struggling against cheaper imports, shouldn’t our leaders be using that money to create “Jobs” for their citizens? Most experts agree that $200 billion would create well over 3 million jobs, which of course creates sales of consumable goods, which creates more jobs, and sales taxes, at the state level.
From the moment we wake up in the morning we are being hit by taxes. Everyone wants some of our hard-earned money. Turn on the lights (electricity taxes); run the shower (utility taxes); and my personal favorite, the telephone taxes, all 6 million of them, (that's what it seems to me every time I receive a telephone bill). We are so programmed to paying them that we really don't take any notice any more.
Has the time come for a simple Flat Rate Tax, something we (the people) can ALL understand? There are many countries, all over the world, who have used this simple-to-understand, and cost effective way, of collecting taxes to revitalize their economies. Let's just imagine for a moment: what would it be like if we could complete our tax returns on one simple piece of paper?
A Flat Rate Tax for individuals, and a Flat Rate Tax for businesses. The same rules applying to all, regardless of the size of income. All of us paying the same rate. Most of the successful countries have levied Flat Rate Taxes of less than 17%, with a starting level that protects the lower income groups.
Could life ever be that simple again? The real question here is, would our leaders really want us to understand what they were up to? And then, there are the lobbyists’. Oh well, the daydream was nice while it lasted.
Benjamin Franklin once said “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
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“Your” Money Matters by Carl Hampton
From the Author of “From Credit Despair To Credit Millionaire.”
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