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Showing posts with label Push Junction. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Texas Democrat Rep Proposes State Income Tax
Texas Does Not Have a State Income Tax, but one Texas Democrat State Representative, Lon Burnham, Wants us to have a State Income Tax!
At a time when the Texas treasury is overflowing, one state lawmaker says it’s time to introduce a state income tax.
1200 WOAI news reports that State Rep. Lon Burnham (D-Ft. Worth) one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in the Texas House, is proposing a ‘graduated personal income tax’ on all incomes in excess of $250,000 a year.
It calls for a four percent tax on all income over $250,000, and five percent plus $10,000 on all incomes in excess of a quarter million a year.
Burnham declined to return calls seeking comment, but detractors of his proposal had no problem talking about it.
“Texas has been successful as a conservatively run, low tax state without a personal or a corporate income tax,” said James Quintero, an analyst with the free market Texas Public Policy Foundation. “We need to continue on that track to continue to support jobs and income and businesses and wealth.
read more here: http://pushjunction.com/l/CX4
At a time when the Texas treasury is overflowing, one state lawmaker says it’s time to introduce a state income tax.
1200 WOAI news reports that State Rep. Lon Burnham (D-Ft. Worth) one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in the Texas House, is proposing a ‘graduated personal income tax’ on all incomes in excess of $250,000 a year.
It calls for a four percent tax on all income over $250,000, and five percent plus $10,000 on all incomes in excess of a quarter million a year.
Burnham declined to return calls seeking comment, but detractors of his proposal had no problem talking about it.
“Texas has been successful as a conservatively run, low tax state without a personal or a corporate income tax,” said James Quintero, an analyst with the free market Texas Public Policy Foundation. “We need to continue on that track to continue to support jobs and income and businesses and wealth.
read more here: http://pushjunction.com/l/CX4
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Texas Concealed Gun Carriers Responsible for Almost NO Crime
DON"T BELIEVE FEAR ABOUT PEOPLE WITH GUNS!
All this talk about if you let people walk around with guns then they will just go crazy and feel like they can shoot people even in little arguments at the store is just plain wrong! if anything, the opposite is true. Give a gun to law abiding citizens who can pass a minimum shooting qualification and they will actually behave much better than the rest of the population.
The saw the following article posted on Push Junction and it was well work me re-posting on my website in light of the current national discussion about what will happen if you allow people to arm themselves.
Read the rest of the article here: http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=10655246#ixzz2FvPvYekT
All this talk about if you let people walk around with guns then they will just go crazy and feel like they can shoot people even in little arguments at the store is just plain wrong! if anything, the opposite is true. Give a gun to law abiding citizens who can pass a minimum shooting qualification and they will actually behave much better than the rest of the population.
The saw the following article posted on Push Junction and it was well work me re-posting on my website in light of the current national discussion about what will happen if you allow people to arm themselves.
Texas Concealed Gun Carryers Responsible for Almost NO Crime
Friday, December 21, 2012
study discredits hysterical arguments of anti gun activists
Jim Forsyth
A concealed handgun toting Texans in a safe and law abiding Texan, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Statistics compiled by Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed reveal that Concealed Handgun License holding Texans are responsible for fewer than one quarter of one percent of the gun related crimes which have been prosecuted in Texas over the past 16 years.
The Legislature in 2005 approved the CHL program, allowing anybody who completed a DPS background check and undergoes a safety course to carry a concealed weapon in public places.
Since 1996, when the law took effect, there have been 852,271 convictions of Texans under the 125 gun related offenses prohibited under state law, everything from Class A felonies like murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated rape, to relatively minor offenses like carrying a weapon in a prohibited place.
Of those convictions, only 1,972 of them were of individuals who were licensed to carry a concealed handgun at the time of the offense, or roughly .19%.
The statistics also show that all of the arguments which were made by opponents of Concealed Carry, that 'every fender bender accident' would 'turn into Dodge City,' have also not been true, as there have been almost no reports of CHL holders pulling their guns or using their legally carried weapons to make a situation worse.
Statistics compiled by Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed reveal that Concealed Handgun License holding Texans are responsible for fewer than one quarter of one percent of the gun related crimes which have been prosecuted in Texas over the past 16 years.
The Legislature in 2005 approved the CHL program, allowing anybody who completed a DPS background check and undergoes a safety course to carry a concealed weapon in public places.
Since 1996, when the law took effect, there have been 852,271 convictions of Texans under the 125 gun related offenses prohibited under state law, everything from Class A felonies like murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated rape, to relatively minor offenses like carrying a weapon in a prohibited place.
Of those convictions, only 1,972 of them were of individuals who were licensed to carry a concealed handgun at the time of the offense, or roughly .19%.
The statistics also show that all of the arguments which were made by opponents of Concealed Carry, that 'every fender bender accident' would 'turn into Dodge City,' have also not been true, as there have been almost no reports of CHL holders pulling their guns or using their legally carried weapons to make a situation worse.
Read the rest of the article here: http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=10655246#ixzz2FvPvYekT
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