Facts* v. Farts*

Here is exactly what #45 wrote/said/distributed –

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......

....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....

....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!

We are not going to bore you with any of the endless smelly stuff flowing from the media and the democrats and all the other nonsensical dopes we akin to that which most of us flush each morning after perhaps a few enjoyable but smelly “farts” – see our carefully worded/chosen title above.

We offer the above for two reasons – here they are:

·         What’s wrong with his suggestion/question worded above – why don’t these smelly ones get to work (…help fix…) back home – really that statement/question seems to be not only needed/answered but we know one thing – this place of ours exists because our founders and ever since our fighters have not run away…

·         …and yet the smellyones (aka democrats) apparently want more runawayers to come here…do they?  Why could that be?

* Folks there is a basic (one letter difference in above title words) – a fundamental reality of why we the people need to flush (vote out) the smelly ones and so far we ain’t doing it!

The True Joy* of the Democrat Party

The difference in those tax rates is driven by the more than 30 different city-imposed taxes (and a host of other fees), as of October 2015, which Chicagoans must pay besides the property tax.

• Amusement tax (5 percent or 9 percent of charges for amusement)
• Amusement tax – subscribers to paid television programming (9 percent of television programming costs)
• Boat-mooring tax (7 percent docking or mooring fees)
• Bottled-water tax (5 cents per bottle)
• Chicago share of the state income tax (distributed by the state)
• Cigarette tax ($1.18 per pack)
• Electricity infrastructure maintenance fee (usage schedule starting with 0.53 cents per kilowatt hour)
• Electricity use tax (usage schedule starting with 0.61 cents per kilowatt hour)
• Emergency telephone system surcharge – landline ($3.90 per month)
• Emergency telephone system surcharge – wireless ($3.90 per month)
• Foreign fire-insurance tax (2 percent of taxable premiums)
• Fountain-soft-drink tax (9 percent of syrup price)
• Gas use tax (6.2 cents per therm on businesses that purchase gas from sellers not subject to either distributor or reseller occupation taxes)
• Ground-transportation tax (varies, including $78 per month for city cabs, $3 per day for noncity cabs)
• Home-rule retailers’ occupation (sales) tax (1 percent on food and drugs; 2.25 percent on general items)
• Hotel-accommodations tax (5.58 percent of gross rental charge, includes municipal-level tax)
• Liquor tax ($0.29 per gallon of beer, $0.36 to $2.68 per gallon of liquor depending on alcohol content)
• Motor-vehicle lessor tax ($2.75 per vehicle per rental period)
• Nonretail transfer-of-motor-vehicles tax (based on schedule of age of vehicle, from $10 to $80)
• Occupation tax – natural-gas distributor and reseller (8 percent of receipts)
• Off-track-betting tax (1 percent of wagers plus $1 on off-track-betting admissions)
• Parking tax (22 percent for daily parking, 20 percent for daily parking on weekends, 20 percent valet parking)
• Personal-property-lease transaction tax (9 percent of receipts or charges)
• Personal-property replacement tax (distributed by state, 2.5 percent on corporate income, 1.5 percent on partnerships, trusts and S corporations)
• Real-property transfer tax ($5.25 per each $500 of transfer price)
• Restaurant tax (0.25 percent of retail price in addition to sales tax)
• Soft-drink tax (3 percent of price)
• Telecommunications tax (7 percent of receipts or charges)
• Tire fee ($1 for each new tire sold)
• Use tax for nontitled personal property (1 percent, except for first $2,500 each year)
• Use tax for titled personal property (1.25 percent)
• Vehicle fuel tax (5 cents per gallon)
• Wheel tax ($85.97 annually for small passenger automobile; $136.54 annually for large passenger vehicle)

They all add up. In 2014, the city collected more than $1,280 per person in various nonproperty taxes and fees. 

·         Source:  https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagoans-the-most-taxed-residents-in-illinois-paying-more-than-30-city-taxes/  ....worth reading perhaps if one is interested in what living in one place costs for some of the above versus perhaps an alternative living choice….   

             

* …by True Joy we simply mean...what one gets for what one pays…and how often and obvious they are reminded of what they are paying.   If interested, here’s more:  https://wgntv.com/2018/06/21/city-of-chicago-doesnt-know-how-many-fees-it-has-on-the-books-inspector-general-says/

A basic fundamental

Some of us are not only getting it – we are grateful for those doing it – while most of us are not doing either.   Many seem to not even know it is going on – occurring, here and elsewhere – not particularly enjoyable – and yes it has its ups and downs.   Occasionally it prevails and many times it does not.  It prevailed here in our land of the free, home of the brave a while back.  Best instead of this guy trying to explain it – we’ll just let a guy who did it here explain/offer more...here goes:

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith

Paris Nov. 13. 1787.

the people can not be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong [. . .] will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.

We borrowed these words from the man above – found ‘em at:  http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/100  and close with a simple observation or two – the last two words (natural manure) of his shown above simply say it better than our terms – nincomPOOPs and flushing.   We also mention DEBT almost daily – we see/smell little difference between “manure” and DEBT not repaid.

We the people and a few basics…

…that we call fundamentals – here goes:

·         What happened on July 4, 1776?

o   July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776).

o   It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775).

o   And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776).

·         Okay, so what did occur on July 4, 1776?

o   The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes.

Who is this guy mentioned above – Thomas Jefferson?   We’re gonna make that answer very simple – please read his own words written a few years later:

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith

Paris Nov. 13. 1787.

the people can not be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong [. . .] will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure. 

Our sources for a bit of the above are:

o   https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/fourth-of-july/

o   http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/100

This 4th of July offering says a bit about when and why we the people got movin’ and also, perhaps, why we aren’t today.