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Do The Amish Pay Taxes?

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Do the Amish pay taxes?

 Just like the rest of us, the Amish are not exempt from life’s two certainties
– death and taxes. However, there is a reason behind the persistent myth
 that the Amish do not pay taxes. The Amish live within self-sufficient
 communities and do not collect Social Security, unemployment, or
welfare benefits. According to their religious beliefs, paying Social Security,
an insurance premium for the elderly, is tantamount to not “taking care
of their own.” Amish people who are self-employed are not obliged to pay
 Social Security tax, but they do still pay all other taxes, including property,
income, and sales tax. If an Amish person decides to work outside
 of the community, he or she must also pay Social Security tax
 like any other American.

In 1955, the IRS extended the Social Security Act of 1935 to include
farm operators. At the time, some Amish people immediately complied
with the tax, while others conscientiously objected to it. Many felt that it
violated the separation of church and state, some did not want to
accept monies for government programs, and still others believed that
paying a commercial insurance for the elderly went against
their trust in God to take care of them.

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Are You Unhappy?

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

“The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe.  It must be true given the source, right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president.  In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just aren’t happy and want a change.

Define Happy

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ”What we are so unhappy about?”

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Rush Limbaugh Nailed This One

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Bloggers Note: My sis sent me this one…enjoy

Love him or loathe him, he nailed this one right on the head……….

By Rush Limbaugh:

I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don’t criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can’t let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you’re going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.

Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you remarry. And there’s a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a screeching halt.

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A TEACHER’S REMINDER……MAY WE NEVER FORGET!!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Note: Got this from a friend…..yep, had to change the formatting on this one too, pretty wild when I got it..lol…sorry about screaming at you (all caps) in the Title, that’s how I got it..lol

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did something not to be forgotten.  On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.

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