Hey Apple Fanboys?

Considering most of the "Tolerant Liberal Left" just LOVE Apple, and just LOVE 90% Tax rates, how do you jive this with your love of Apple?

The end of 80% lowers?

While I wait for my meds to fully kick in so I can go to sleep, I'm checking through the various boards I'm on, and I run across this.


ATF Issues First Ruling of the New Year – Is It The End Of 80% Lowers?

The explanation given by someone is as follows:

"When you let someone else make an 80% lower into a completed lower and they walk off your property, you have distributed a firearm manufactured on your equipment that you control, and therefore you need a gun manufacturing license and to mark the "gun" with maker and serial number, keeping the appropriate records and you have committed a felony buy manufacturing the gun before obtaining the aforementioned... and you did not get a background check on said individual... another felony..."


This is the first I've seen of this, so forgive me if you already are familiar with this.

One of the other folks on the board who is a Manufacturer stated that all of this came about because of Ares Arms trying to circumvent the "Manufacture" clause. The gist is, Areas submitted a 80% receiver with 1 (ONE) hole drilled and ATF decided that receiver with THAT ONE HOLE DRILLED was a firearm. So Ares came back with they "Sell the Receiver" to someone, then the "Owner Drills the ONE Hole", then they bring it back to Ares to finish the milling. Hence ATF decision in that TOP link.

This is also to stop people from pooling their money together to buy a "Ghost Gunner" Mill and having a Milling party, where people bring their own 80% receivers, and put them in the mill and hit enter.

As more and more regulations are written, soon everything not expressly authorized is illegal.

How long before we need to pay an "Air Tax" such as in "Birth of Fire"?

Is it time to break out the Winchesters?

You work for a national company.  In your job you have to travel to other states as part of your job.  Imagine your surprise when one day you get a tax bill from a state you don't live in and don't work in except you went there to help a client with lets say a software or hardware issue.  You open the bill and they want you to pay a full years income taxes and maybe years of back taxes.  What do you do?

Sharks. Tax agencies. But I repeat myself . . .

Click on that, Peter has some further news and thoughts on it.

Reid says no deal unless taxes are raised

"Reid said Republicans would have to agree to more tax revenue to get anywhere near a bigger deal.

“They have their mind set on doing nothing, nothing more on revenue, and until they get off that kick, there’s not going to be a grand bargain on — there’s not going to be a small bargain,” Reid said. “We’re just going to have to do something to work our way through sequestration.”

Hmm, no negotiations in other words.  And just WHO is holding the country hostage?

Texas wants New Yorkers

""WANTED: Law abiding New York gun owners seeking lower taxes and greater opportunities.""

I don't think New York's tax revenues will be up to snuff after this fiasco perpetrated on honest New York residents.

Taxes for thee - Not for me...

Mr Inconvenient truth himself, sold his Current TV channel, but insisted the sale be completed BEFORE January 1st.   So he wouldn't have to pay higher taxes.

"Gore’s post-vice presidential work has notably centered around reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other green causes. The former vice president will pocket an estimated $100 million on the sale. According to the New York Times, which first broke the story Wednesday, Gore wanted to complete the sale before Jan. 1, 2013 to avoid getting slammed with higher taxes."

It seems taxes are for everyone else.  And he doesn't think he has to pay "His Fair Share"

Why isn't the MSM reporting this?

"UPDATE: I almost forgot why I put “the rich” in quotes. And that is, you’re now “in the top 2% of earners” if you’re in the top 20% of earners. The NYT has that story for you:

Affluent people are much more likely than low-income people to have health insurance, and now they will, in effect, help pay for coverage for many lower-income families. Among the most affluent fifth of households, those affected will see tax increases averaging $6,000 next year, economists estimate. [Emphasis added.]

That top fifth includes households making $75k or so a year. But, yes, please let’s do keep talking about “millionaires and billionaires.”

So my older brother and his wife who both bust their butt, are going to get hit by a larger tax bill. Granted I think my older brother is an idiot most of the time, especially as it come to politics, in this economy he can't afford to have his taxes go up in addition to the extra costs of Obamacare.  My brother and sister in law are doing everything they can to provide the best they can for their kids, my niece and nephews, and taking 20 more in taxes every payday from each of them, that is gas to get to work, food from the dining room table, clothes for the kids.

But this isn't about my family, this is about EVERYONE'S Family.  your family, your friends family.  Everyone is going to get hurt by this.

On Obamacare there is some news about new Taxes

and the re-definition of full time employment:

"The regulations, written by an IRS attorney, arbitrarily redefine “full time employee” as someone who works 30 hours a week for a business. Traditionally, most private businesses have defined “full time employee” as someone who works 40 hours a week. With this new regulation, the federal government is now removing the right of businesses to define “full time employee” as they deem appropriate for their unique conditions."

You want everyone to pay higher taxes?

how about you make sure your own employees pay theirs first, before you ask anyone else to pay more.

"How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.

Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share"

Seriously, if you want Americans to pay "Their" fair share, your own people need to start paying period.