A Police Chief, A Lawsuit And A Small-Town Mayor

SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES

Right now an employer has to pay BOTH sides of the Social Security tax on himself. Workers only pay half,

their share!

Obama wants to raise the 12% we small business owners pay on the first $102,000 of our incomes to $250,000

or MORE!

For any small business that makes $250,000 in income this is a $18,000 PER YEAR additional TAX!

This will further reduce new jobs, investment spending toward the company and possibly cause some employees

to be FIRED.

The money has to come from SOMEPLACE! Democrats seem to think money grows on trees!

Now Obama said this ADDITIONAL tax by raising the cap may be up to $500,000 of income.

So for those like me that will mean $47,760 MORE taxes each year.

This will DEFINITELY cause FEWER NEW JOBS!



CAPITAL GAINS TAXES

This may be Obama's WORST policy. Did you know that under the lower 15% capital gains tax rates that MORE

TAXES WERE COLLECTED by the IRS than under the old 28% tax?

Even though Obama has been TOLD this he STILL wants to raise this tax.

What it will do is tax any profits you make on your retirement accounts, savings accounts, and college

savings accounts for your kids. Because you will pay nearly DOUBLE the taxes you will have MUCH LESS MONEY

for retirement due to the effects of COMPOUNDING!

What this will also do is reduce money INVESTED IN AMERICA which means fewer new businesses, and FAR FEWER

JOBS.

Summary: Fewer new businesses, less growth, definitely fewer jobs and also some firings due to this!

If McCain and Palin get elected, this country is SOL. I happen to travel to many countries. I would be hard pressed to find somebody abroad that doesn't feel Obama represents a new hope in the American dream. George Bush has taken us back 50 years! We are now less safe than we were Sept. 10th 2001. How sad it is that people will only vote based on right wing finatics that prey on peoples personal faith to gain power. The absolute opposite of what our founding fathers had framed in that document - the Constitution. Sarah Palin wanted to ban books from a PUBLIC library, As a Lutheran i am taken back that this could happen in America. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, "What makes me an American." God bless us ALL

'Trickle Down' has really worked well hasn't it? Inflation rampant, the financial system veering toward collapse. Yeah, four more years of rich white guys in control. NOT!

btw, daytrader... ever consider a productive job?

Hey Newsweek-- if your're interested in pursuing bad behavior maybe you should check out 'busgate.' I was told by an acquaintance who has family in AK that Track and friends were involved in vandfalizing school buses. The judge gave them the option of jail or military service (not an uncommon choice in backwaters). That's why Track is on his way to Iraq.

She makes Hillary look lame and tame. And the disgusting thing is that America is buying it!! Since when is being a PTA president, small town part-time mayor and governor of a one dimensional, small state for barely 2 years sufficient credentials for the world's most power job? Oh, I forgot...she's hot looking, is a hockey mom and parades her kids around while telling the media to leave them alone. Her answers to Charlie Gibson 's interview were beauty pageant fluff, not unlike the contestant a few years ago who wandered around on the topic of geography and maps. And we're swallowing this like pablum!!!! And to top it off, she has lied about her record, the bridge to nowhere, earmarks, just like it never happened. The last time I saw denial of the truth like that, Baghdad Bob was telling the international media there were no American troops massed outside of Baghdad. I hope America wakes up from their "affair" with the Alaska calendar girl.

You are so discussing! Since when is Newsweek so attuned to small town community gossip, in Alaska, nevertheless? Excuse me, but don't you have more pragmatic details to report. I was on the fence, but decided to hop over to the McCain/Palin pasture; simply because you think you can educate me to the otherwise.

If Palin fired the Chief of Public Safety for the reason alleged then it further demonstrates her approach to handling corruption. This time the true corruption lies in Alaska State Trooper's hiding behind a union. Public officials, and more specifically, law enforcement officials such as Mike Wooten should not be allowed to hide behind union representation. Mike Wooten said on CNN he "never drove drunk" and he "never threatened anyone". What little the public knows about who he is should clearly demonstrate he is again lying. If not, then what lies behind union protection in his record does. If that doesn't reveal why he was a threat then the recently released Air Force Office of Special Investigations report concerning his drunk driving and threats should. The story in that report also clearly support his incident and wrongdoing at the Mugshot Bar which was similar however the latter, a report focusing on his abuse of power at another Anchorage bar The WoodShed when he threatened and latter made a 911 call to cover his actions will show the real Mike Wooten. That incident which the AST completely buried was with a Federal LE officer with a 20 year service record with not a single complaint against him. Bottom line: Wooten is a danger and hides behind his union. The ASTs leadership failed to protect the public from him. If Palin did fire a chief because he failed to lead then she rocks! Read the newly released AFOSI report on Wooten he drank over 7 drinks then drove with two married women to a bar then falsly reported a domestic while his girlfriend Angela Johnson begged him not to do so, and then told the 911 operator it was the wofe of the Special Agent he was reporting begging him not to make the call when all along it was his girlfriend who was married as was he. Mike Wooten is an accident waiting to happen and the current complainants and those harmed by him could sue the State and AST for not protecting them. Sarah did the right thing either way!

Lets get real here . No matter who wins the white house, there will be tax increases due to the "economy stupid". The fact that we are in 2 wars, the list goes on and on. I will not even comment on your "idiot" slam. We are a diverse nation and I still have the right to think the way I want. for now anyway. This country is not a democracy, it's a plutrocracy. If you can't see that then you are ignorant.

It is no coincidence that revelations of police misconduct from the Rodney King beating to CBS news Katey Couric recent expose on corruption in Chicago City Police drug task force involves video camera documentation of misconduct including separate incidents of beating up of innocent bar patrons and a female bartender by the officers involved. A Chicago Police officer implicated was audiotaped later conspiring to murder his fellow officers to prevent further investigation of wrongdoing that included multiple and systematic thefts of drugs and money from drug dealers and falsification of police reports and sworn affidavits. The revelation of misconduct did not come from so-called good officers coming forward to report on the misconduct of their co-workers. Only when there is independent videotape footage documenting police misconduct or dead bodies turn up as in the Atlanta wrongful drug bust and shooting murder of a 95 year old grandmother in her own home does a successful investigation and prosecution go forward.

With Sarah Palin sister there will not likely be any videotape and no bodies found so it not likely that any of her brother-in-laws co-worker Alaskan State Troopers are going to come forward on their own to document any misconduct. Sarah Palin should not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened.

Ten domestic violence related deaths in four different states involving four different sworn law enforcement officers is more than enough reason for Governor Sarah Palin to not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened. Alaska in the winter is a big state in which it is easy for someone to disappear or a suspicious car accident to occur. In light of the recent murders of spouses and girlfriends by police officers in four other states, any alleged intervention by Governor Sarah Palin involving her ex-brother-in-law was not unethical or unreasonable, rather it was probably the more prudent course of conduct. Sarah Palin should not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened.

Obama got it worse with Islam ties and his lack of "experience". To put your name for such a high executive position in a country all candidates should expect equal probing, I don't expect Palin nor Obama to get any special treatment about their lives. If Palin has skeletons, people have the right to know and make an informed decision when preparing to vote. If Palin has problems with power abuse, I want to know because it indicates future behavior that she might fall back on whenever someone is not walking the line.

I called a long time friend who's lived in Alaska for almost thirty years to get his opinion on Sarah Palin. He said Alaskan's hate to see her go , they hope her replacement will continue the projects she's started.. The Liberal media will invent news on a slow news day. I predict Bidden will resign his vice presidential bid and Hilary will be the the vice presidential running mate.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: what's the point of having power if you don't abuse it?