Christopher Hitchens on a Flat Tax, Immigration and Defense Contractors (1994 Part 6)
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A flat tax (short for flat rate tax) is a tax system with a constant tax rate. A flat tax may also be called a tax in rem (“against the thing”), such as an excise tax on gasoline of three cents per gallon. Usually the term flat tax refers to household income (and sometimes corporate profits) being taxed at one marginal rate, in contrast with progressive or regressive taxes that vary according to parameters such as income or usage levels. Flat taxes offer simplicity in the tax code, which has been reported to increase compliance and decrease administration costs.
Flat taxes that allow a tax exemption for household income below a cutoff level are not true proportional taxes, because, for household incomes below the cutoff level, taxable income is less than total income.
A welfare queen is a pejorative phrase used in the United States to describe people who are accused of collecting excessive welfare payments through fraud or manipulation. Sensational reporting on welfare fraud began during the early-1960s, appearing in general interest magazines such as Readers Digest. The term entered the American lexicon during Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign when he described a “welfare queen” from Chicago’s South Side. Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that it often carries gendered and racial connotations. Although American women can no longer stay on welfare indefinitely, the term continues to shape American dialogue on poverty.
The term “welfare queen” became a catchphrase during anti-welfare dialogue and eventually became a permanent feature of American folklore. Media hype from the 1980s to the 1990s also aided in perpetuating the idea. The term came under criticism for its supposed use as a political tool and for its derogatory connotations. Criticism focused on the fact that individuals committing welfare fraud were, in reality, a very small percentage of those legitimately receiving welfare. Use of the term was also seen as an attempt to stereotype recipients in order to undermine public support for AFDC.
The welfare queen idea became an integral part of a larger discourse on welfare reform, especially during the bipartisan effort to reform the welfare system under Bill Clinton. Anti-welfare advocates ended AFDC in 1996 and overhauled the system with the introduction of TANF. Despite the new system’s time-limits, the welfare queen legacy has endured and continues to shape public perception.
Studies show that the welfare queen idea has roots in both race and gender. Franklin Gilliam, the author of a public perception experiment on welfare, concludes that:
“While poor women of all races get blamed for their impoverished condition, African-American women commit the most egregious violations of American values. This story line taps into stereotypes about both women (uncontrolled sexuality) and African-Americans (laziness).”
Studies show that the public dramatically overestimates the number of African-Americans in poverty, with the cause of this attributed to media trends and its portrayal of poverty. Political scientist Martin Gilens found that the media shifted its focus on poverty from white Appalachian farmers and factory closings during the 1960s, to a very darker image following civil unrest in major US cities. By 1973, 75% of magazine pictures featured African Americans (12.8% of US population) as the face of welfare since they make 35% of welfare recipients. This darkening of welfare recipients was accompanied by a feminization of poverty during the same time, where from the 1970s onwards, women became the predominant face of poverty.
Franklin Gilliam’s study examined the intersection of people’s attitudes on race, gender, and the media. The experiment showed an 11-minute news clip, with a welfare story embedded at some point in the clip, to two groups of participants. Each welfare clip had a different recipient — one with a white woman and the other with a black woman. The results showed that people were extremely accurate in their recall of the race and gender of the black female welfare recipient, confirming that the gendered and racial narrative had entered common knowledge and that implicit associations were often made.
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Police Brutality in Washington DCWilliam Cooper’s September 11th, 2001 Broadcast (40/53)
LINK TO “HOUR OF THE TIME” WEBSITE:
http://www.hourofthetime.com/wordpresstest/
You can find much more of William Cooper’s work and research there.
Please listen to everything the late William Cooper has to say, I’m not asking you to agree with what he has to say but it least I hope it starts to get you thinking and researching. There is so much more info that William Cooper has given to us that all you need to do is either google him or search more videos regarding him on YouTube, this is just the start.
Why am I doing this if other versions already exist on YouTube? Well, I’m doing this to show that this broadcast matters and needs to be listened to, and if YouTube or some one else tries to take these videos down, well, they’ll have to take down 53 more videos. (NOTE: During data transfer some of the broadcast was lost, in total, about 9 minutes worth).
This series has 53 parts, 50 of which are 10 or so minutes long, so I will try to get them all up as quickly as I can. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this very important broadcast from one of our last true great patriots.
RIP William Cooper 1943 — 2001
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Phantasy Star IV Part 17 – Zio
The time has come to put an end to your tyranny.
Oh, and I fixed the slowdown problem! Yay, me!
Gameplay, recording, editing, and commentary by KinakoIshiyama
http://www.gameanyone.com
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Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®Michael Tsarion on VERITAS – Architects of Control – www.VeritasShow.com – 6/8
Alternative historian Michael Tsarion discussed humankind’s future, as carried out by unseen elite or controllers. Some say we live in a virtual world or a prison planet, but we are trained not to find out. And even if we wake up, what can we do to remove the shackles? He discusses the following statement: “Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will not-under any circumstances-perceive the actual. His happiness is delivered to him through a tube or an electronic connection. His God lurks behind an electronic curtain; when the curtain is pulled away we find the CIA sorcerer, the media manipulator.”
Duration : 0:9:10
