Word.

Might wanna add “intrepid editorializing” to the motto though.

Ben Bernanke’s re-confirmation for Federal Reserve chairman may get derailed but it’s the Federal Reserve that provides the listing of selections that can be nominated from and appointed, and none else.

I don’t pay taxes, not out of my checks or “income” as not defined under U.S.C. 26. I pay for health insurance and use a seperate capital group for my retirement, I refused to participate in 401K.

There is another place to look for the tax dollars your speak of, under every public office and local service provided by either the state or government. It’s called the “comprehensive annual financial report”. It outlays how tax dollars were used for each public works, office, school, library including investments. Ask any public official, every year these investments gather enough tax dollars that in fiscal year 2003 the state of Texas alone gained over 53.77 billion dollars through these funds:

The CAFR usually has four categories.

Governmental Funds
Proprietary Funds
Fiduciary Funds
Component Units

Governmental Funds involve activities of the government including most basic services such as environmental resources, general government, transportation, education, health and human services, and protection of persons and property. Most of the cost of these activities are financed by taxes, fees , and federal grants.

Proprietary Funds are used when a government charges customers for the services it provides, whether to outside customers or to other agencies with the state. For example, Enterprise Funds, a component of proprietary funds, are for activities that provide goods and services to outside (non-government) customers, which includes the general public. Fees, charges for services or goods, assessments, fines, licenses, etc. are the major revenue sources.

Fiduciary Funds are activities in which the state acts as a trustee or fiduciary to hold resources for the benefit of others. These funds are pension trust funds, investment trusts, and agency funds (which are for assets held for distribution by the government as an agent for other governmental units, other organizations, or individuals).

Component Units reportedly are legally separated organizations for which the government is financially accountable. Usually fees, charges for services or goods, assessments, fines, penalties, licenses, etc. are the major revenue source.

The budget, as commonly known to the public, only involves the Governmental Funds and may not even include all of the governmental-type funds. The remainder of the Funds shown above are not part of the budget and are commonly called “off-budget” items.

-from the website cafrman.com

:there is funding not being used by our states, they have just be able to conceal it so that very little of it is known to the public.

The ONLY way to keep men and women like this from sucking the life out of the country is to sever the financial embilical cord between K Street and Congress. When our congress critters can no longer derive benefit from lobbyists, then and only then, will we return to the democratic principles of by the people, for the people.

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