Current Events, Political Comment, 5-27-2025, "SALT" deduction

 

Is a "SALT" deduction a way to get all Federal taxpayers to subsidize overspending by primarily blue state governments?

Does it primarily benefit the rich, that is less than 10% of the population earning greater than $200000 income annually?

Sounds like a Republicrat plan to men!!!

Bet you don’t hear Congress members complain about this from either political side!

They ain’t lookin” out for avarage Americans, not the poor or the the working class. I can hear them now “Oh, it will just cost them a little bit to help my friends (AKA donors)”.

No salt please...

Climate Change and Global Warming- Hinkleman’s Simplified (well kinda) Theory

 

Climate Change and Global Warming- Hinkleman’s Simplified (well kinda) Theory

The upper atmosphere, layers of gases many miles above the surface o the earth, act as an encasement like a slightly permeable green house ceiling.

In winter this encasement acts like an insulator keeping heat from going back into space.

In summer this encasement filters the radiant heat from the sun mitigating the heat.

Pollutants are slowly chipping away at this encasement allowing colder air masses in winter and hotter air masses in summer.

Three major that this creates are:

1. Hotter and hotter summers with stinging radiant heat from the sun as filtering of the upper atmosphere decreases.

2. Colder and colder winters as the insulating effect of the upper atmosphere decreases.

3. In spring and fall it is normal for weather to be violent as these cold and hot air masses collide. However, with enhanced cold air masses and hot air masses colliding, these storms will become bigger, more violent, and last longer into summer and winter.

I am guessing that scientists speculate that heat will eventually dominate and average temperatures on earth will increase, thus the term “global warming”.

Sorry that this is not a heart warming blog but it is consistent with what I see already happening.

I guess the good news is that we have opportunities to correct this if we work smart technologically, politically and social-economically. Even this problem doesn’t exist to the exclusion of other problems. We need to work together with a step by step plan that includes surviving today while planning and working toward where we want to be tomorrow- And sticking to that plan!

                                                  2025 Update to Electric Cars Blog 2022

At this point, I believe that the technology to produce hydrogen-electric vehicles is available.

Hopefully, we'll be seeing them soon.

Hydrogen production utilizing natural resources seems to me to be a very environmentally friendly methodology and a huge money maker.

Five-minute refills for an EV's hydrogen tank (or replacement) with long distance between refills sounds great to me.

A Hydrogen fuel cell (battery) that lasts over 100000 miles also sounds great.

Oh yes, also a hydrogen fuel cell will make EVs much lighter than current batteries.

A Hydrogen fuel cell is NOT just useful in cars. From boats, campers, houses, factories, AI- Hydrogen fuel cells have potential to change our entire power grid.

Comparing the Federal Budget to an Individual Taxpayer’s Home Budget

 

Comparing the Federal Budget to an Individual Taxpayer’s Home Budget

Recently I wrote about our U.S. economy, how far in debt we are and what it would take to dig ourselves out of debt. Yet until recently when some folks noticed how much we spend just on the annual interest on that debt did those folks become concerned.

So, to make this more understandable to people who don’t deal with political or financial terms, I’d like to make a household budget comparable to an individual’s personal household budget. So, let’s get started.

Total income for this individual is $63795. per year. Take home after taxes, Medicare, etc. $51904 per year.

Total calculated expenditures for the year $88172 (rent or mortgage, car, insurances, taxes, utilities, etc., oh, and interest on money that you’ve borrowed and not yet paid back (Total Loan $469385.98 Annual interest on loan without anything on the principle of the loan $15020)

So, basically what this is telling us is that we make $63795 ($51904 take home) this year but we’re going to spend $88172. That puts this individual $36268 further in debt.

Better get another loan*. So, next year you’ll be even further in debt. Soon no one will be willing to lend you any money. Actually, no one would have lent you money long before it reached near that much! But if multiplied proportionally to the annual income and debt of the U.S. government this is exactly the situation our government is in!!!

So, an individual would have two choices of what to do in this situation-

1. Increase income.

2. Decrease spending.

Well, believe it or not, these are the two options that our government has also.

So, how does the government do this.

1. Increase income- a. Tax your citizens more. Citizens are struggling enough without more taxes!

b. Grow the economy. Hey wait a minute. Isn’t this exactly what our president is trying to do? And a certain political party is trying to trip him up every step of the way. Do they care more about their party than the country? Do they hate our President so much that they want to sacrifice our country to make him fail?

2. Decrease spending- a. Decrease funding for all government funded programs by at least 20% in order to balance the budget. Eliminate programs if not absolutely necessary.

b. Eliminate waste and fraud. Hey wait a minute. Isn’t this exactly what our president is trying to do with DOGE? And a certain political party is trying to trip him up every step of the way. Do they hate our President so much that they want to sacrifice our country to make him fail?

The numbers in this article are not off the top of my head but are from published estimates.

*In government terminology “Better get another loan” equates “raise the debt ceiling”.

Why the United States doesn’t need Socialism- a different approach

Why the United States doesn’t need Socialism- a different approach

I could begin this paper writing about how socialism has never worked, how it drifts back to capitalism or worse to dictatorship. That’s it’s basically an outdated failed experiment.

BUT…

That’s not the basic reason that the United States doesn’t need socialism.

The United States, fundamentally, is a representative democracy by the people and for the people (sounds almost socialistic!).

Unions began here in the 1700s. Though unions had a rocky start, they have since become powerful representatives for the working class.

In the early 1900’s, our elected representatives began enacting labor laws to protect our working class from overzealous employers.

In 1938, a minimum wage was established.

As recently as the 1980’s, IRA’s and 401K’s were established that were not dependent on the survival of an employer’s business. These IRA’s and 401k’s today are heavily invested in the U.S. stock market. So, one of the primary goals of socialism, workers’ ownership of businesses, has been attained without socialism.

My message to progressives with socialistic leaning-

Please try working within this government, by the people and for the people, a government that allows you to pursue your dreams. Don’t expect things to be handed to you. WORK is the operative word. Success requires intelligence, work, ability to get along with others, and a dedicated effort (more work) everyday (except your day of rest).