Houston Area Liberty Campaign

[original post from Ackel and Associates, http://ackelandassociates.com/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisiana/, by: Thad D. Ackel, Jr. Esq.]

This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a “secondhand dealer”.  House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include   “… Anyone, other than a non-profit entity, who buys, sells, trades in or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month from any other person, other than a non-profit entity, shall be deemed as being in the business of a secondhand dealer. ” The law then states that “A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property.  Payment shall be made in the form of check, electronic transfers, or money order issued to the seller of the junk or used or secondhand property…”  The broad scope of this definition can essentially encompass everyone; from your local flea market vendors and buyers to a housewife purchasing goods on Ebay or Craigslist, to a group of guys trading baseball cards, they could all be considered secondhand dealers. Lawmakers in Louisiana have effectively banned its citizens from freely using United States legal tender.

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At least one Occupy Wall Street protestor Gets it – It’s the FED Stupid!!

Watching this was truly inspiring to know that at least some of the young people are Awake, Vocal and caring about America enough to speak veritas.

Ron Paul for President 2012
http://RonPaul2012.com

 This is done with some marginal language, but it is clearly an attempt to reach the average novice with concepts that are rarely clear to the masses… This video has been removed from many different locations on You Tube and other websites, but if you see it, you’ll know why…. The “powers-that-be” surely don’t want the word getting out to any more receptive audiences!!!!

Additional reading/viewing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6260646431723948415#
http://americanistbookstore.com/books/shadows-of-power-by-james-perloff/

Social Security, with its ‘trust fund’ filled with Treasury IOUs, is in serious fiscal trouble, but you wouldn’t guess it from stories by the mainstream news media. Reporters and columnists have downplayed the program’s budget shortfall and claimed that fixing the broken system would be a “snap.”
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[From the Business & Media Institute, original article here]

Social Security with its ‘trust fund’ of IOUs is in serious fiscal trouble, but you wouldn’t guess it from the mainstream news media.

This is a historic year for the largest government program: Social Security, which turns 75 in just a few days. The program is also running a deficit for the first time since 1983, and ahead of estimates.

Initially, Social Security was created to provide supplemental income to elderly and disabled people who could not work, and was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Aug. 14, 1935.

Social Security is in the red six years earlier than forecasted, and for the first time since 1983 (the last time the program was “fixed”). Downplaying the significance of the problem, The New York Times reported March 24, that the program is facing a “small” $29 billion shortfall this year because the high 9.5 percent unemployment rate is cutting into payroll tax collections that fund the program’s benefits. Oh, and because there isn’t actually a trust fund with all the money previously collected by people paying into the system.

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Interesting reading.  Be informed before you vote in the current primaries and in the general elections coming this November 2010…your new taxes… 
 
You better change the current leadership in Congress or find a way to hide your money, because they are coming to take it from you in 2011…
 
This is astounding.  Many have no clue about the changes coming our way in 2011 and beyond under the current US Congressional leadership (super majority of tax and spenders extraordinaire). The new tax impact on the average taxpayer as outlined below is hard to imagine. Not to mention the shock wave that will ripple through every part of the economy.  Just adding health care benefits as part of income on the W-2 of every employee in the USA will add $150.00 a month to the average couple’s tax debt. Who has that budgeted for 2011? The Arizona Immigration Law federal lawsuit, DOJ/Black Panther story, Lindsay Lohan trial story, etc, etc in the nightly media are just distractions to keep everyone’s attention off real impacting issues like this one.  Read this and weep about how much money you are going to lose five months from now; when the tax laws change in January 2011…
 
Subject: 2011 Tax Increases
 
In just five months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:
 
If you want to see the entire list of increased taxes for average citizens; you can download this complete PDF Version at the following link:  http://www.atr.org/six-months-untilbr-largest-tax-hikes-a5171##ixzz0sY8waPq1
 
First Wave of Taxes in 2011:  Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
 
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families.
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Dear Fellow Patriot,

This week’s exercise:
CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND STATE SENATOR with the following message:

(Find your legislator here)
“I am very concerned about the state of the Texas economy. Economists have noted that the mode of taxation is, in fact, quite as important as the amount. Just as a small burden badly placed may distress a mule that could carry with ease a much larger one properly adjusted, so we are becoming impoverished and our power of producing wealth destroyed by property tax, which, levied in any other way, could be borne with ease.

Property taxes impose a larger burden on a state’s productive sector than do sales taxes. Consequently, property taxes reduce overall economic performance more than necessary to raise the same amount of tax revenue. This larger cost created by property taxes compared to sales taxes creates a tax reform opportunity for Texas. Do you have in your office a copy of the Texas Public Policy Foundation – Enhancing Texas Economic Growth Through Tax Reform, Texas Public Policy Foundation April 2009?

You have an opportunity to make groundbreaking change in Texas! I want to be sure that you are on board to ensure we have a Constitutional Amendment that secures, once and for all, private property ownership in Texas by repealing property tax.” Read the rest of this entry »

CONTACT INFO: http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&screen=Address& 
 
July 1, 2010

Dear Friend in Liberty,

Yesterday, the House rejected Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed by a vote of 198-229.  The Audit was included in a Republican motion to send the Dodd-Frank Fed Empowerment Act (H.R. 4173) back to committee.

If the measure had been approved, H.R. 4173 would have been changed to include the thorough Audit.

Even worse, the majority of those who voted against it were cosponsors of H.R. 1207.

( http://www.campaignforliberty.com/materials/HR1207-Shame-List.pdf )

Check out our “Hall of Shame” to see if your representative is on the list of those who abandoned their so-called “support” for Audit the Fed (while voting to further empower the secretive Fed) when real action was required.

*[Editor's Note: These are the TX representatives voting 'no' on the Audit the Fed:  Ruben Hinojosa – TX-15, Silvestre Reyes – TX-16, Ciro Rodriguez – TX-23, Lloyd Doggett – TX-25, Solomon Ortiz – TX-27, Henry Cuellar – TX-28 and Eddie Bernice Johnson – TX-30]

Be sure to let them know you will make your fellow constituents aware of their failure to support full accountability from those responsible for this latest economic crisis.

If your representative stood with Ron Paul by supporting Audit the Fed, thank him for his support and urge him to fight any future efforts to expand the Fed’s powers.
See the complete roll call on the motion here.    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll412.xml

There’s still time to stop this Fed powergrab in the Senate.

Find your senators here.  After you contact your congressman, please call your senators and demand they stand up for the American people by defeating H.R. 4173 and taking a standalone vote on S. 604, Audit the Fed.

We’ve come too far to let the Fed off the hook for its actions.  Call Congress today!

In Liberty,
John Tate
President
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Do your part and forward this to everyone you know. WE THE PEOPLE are the new media!

“We have a greater moral responsibility to act than those who live ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable you have an obligation to do something about it.”

www.campaignforliberty.com

Thanks to this HALC author’s friend, Rick, in MN….

 OK, I did my part.  Now You FIRE this around the world to everybody you know.  GRRRRR!!  I’m MAD AND YOU WILL BE TOO!
 
 Your   U.S.  House & Senate have voted themselves raises at $4,700 in the House
and $5,300 in the Senate.

1.     They voted to not give you a Social Security cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011 

2.     Your Medicare premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 each or -$3,200 for husband and wife.                                                        

3.     Over 2-yrs The House & Senate each get $10,000 raises

4.     Do you feel SCREWED?

5.    WILL your cost of drugs – doctor fees – local taxes – food, etc., increase?  You better believe they will!
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