John Gaver's Posts - Fair Tax Nation2024-03-28T12:53:38ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaverhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/364993889?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.fairtaxnation.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1ybyv5ykem25n&xn_auth=noFairTax Calculator updated for 2016tag:www.fairtaxnation.com,2016-02-04:2636007:BlogPost:1957432016-02-04T20:37:43.000ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaver
<p><strong><span class="font-size-3">The popular <a href="http://therichdontpaytax.com/blog/?page_id=824" target="_blank">FairTax Calculator</a> (the long name is FairTax Rate and Real Dollar Calculator) has been updated to reflect the Health and Human Services (HHS) official Poverty Level thresholds for 2016.</span></strong></p>
<p>The new HHS poverty level thresholds were just released and those changes are now reflected in the FairTax Calculator. This year, HHS threw us a curve, but it…</p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-3">The popular <a href="http://therichdontpaytax.com/blog/?page_id=824" target="_blank">FairTax Calculator</a> (the long name is FairTax Rate and Real Dollar Calculator) has been updated to reflect the Health and Human Services (HHS) official Poverty Level thresholds for 2016.</span></strong></p>
<p>The new HHS poverty level thresholds were just released and those changes are now reflected in the FairTax Calculator. This year, HHS threw us a curve, but it was easy to deal with. In the past, there was a single dollar amount for an adult and a single dollar amount for a child. So the calculations to determine the poverty level for a family were simple multiplication and addition. But this year, the government thinks that it costs less for each of six or fewer children to stay out of poverty than it does for the seventh. They also think that each child over seven costs even more.</p>
<p>These different poverty levels required some branching changes in the code of the FairTax Calculator, that were not required in the past. They also required some additional explanation. But even so, making all of those changes only took less than an hour. The calculator has been thoroughly tested from 1 adult to 2 adults, from no children to 10 children, and from $30,000 to $250,000 in spending and the numbers all come out correctly.</p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://therichdontpaytax.com/blog/?page_id=824" target="_blank">Check out the 2016 FairTax Calculator here.</a></span></strong></p>
<p>I hope that you find it useful. It's an Adobe Flash web widget, so if you want to include it on your own site, just click on the small "i" in the upper left corner of the calculator and it will take you to a page where you can find the embed code for that purpose. Note that in order to embed the widget on a page, you must either control the site or have permission to use either "object" or "embed" code on the page.</p>
<p>I tried to embed the calculator in this post, but FTN doesn't allow either "object" or "embed" code in a post. So here is a slightly reduced screenshot of the calculator, so you'll know what it looks like. Click on the image to get to the real calculator.</p>
<p><a href="http://therichdontpaytax.com/blog/?page_id=824" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/403588446?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="680" class="align-center"></a></p>FairTax Rate and Real Dollar Calculatortag:www.fairtaxnation.com,2015-07-11:2636007:BlogPost:1921862015-07-11T18:00:00.000ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaver
<p>FairTaxers, how many times have you been asked by someone you are talking to about the FairTax, "What would my FairTax rate be?" I get it a lot. That's why I created the FairTax Rate and Real Dollar Calculator. It's a Flash web-widget that can be embedded on any site that you control (I.e. that will allow either "embed" or "object" code).</p>
<p>The calculator asks for just three inputs — 1) How many adults are in your home, 2) How many children are in your home, and 3) What is your…</p>
<p>FairTaxers, how many times have you been asked by someone you are talking to about the FairTax, "What would my FairTax rate be?" I get it a lot. That's why I created the FairTax Rate and Real Dollar Calculator. It's a Flash web-widget that can be embedded on any site that you control (I.e. that will allow either "embed" or "object" code).</p>
<p>The calculator asks for just three inputs — 1) How many adults are in your home, 2) How many children are in your home, and 3) What is your family's annual spending on new, retail goods and services. There is a reminder that the dollar amount is spending, rather than income. When the visitor clicks "Calculate", his Effective FairTax Rate and the Actual Dollar Amount he would pay, appears below the input data. A button on the right will reveal his Gross (before prebate) FairTax Dollars and his Total Prebate for the year, as well. Back on the main screen, a button on the left will open a window with an explanation of how those numbers were calculated.</p>
<p>Any time I am being interviewed on the radio or television, I have that calculator open on one of my computers, just in case the host asks about what would be the Effective FairTax Rate for a family of "X" size, spending "Y" amount of money. As fast as the host asks the question, I have the exact answer.</p>
<p>Since this site will not accept embed code, here is the URL to the FairTax Rate Calculator and a snapshot of what the calculator looks like. You will note that in the example image below, I did the calculation for a family of 4, spending $50,000 per year. Go to the following link and check it out. Also, if you have a site that you control and you can include embed code, scroll down to the bottom of the linked page and you will find both "embed" and "object" code that you can copy and paste into your own side, so you can offer that calculator to your own readers.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://TheRichDontPayTax.com/calculator" target="_blank">http://TheRichDontPayTax.com/calculator</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/403588471?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/403588471?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="650" class="align-full"></a></p>Congratulations, America! You finally did it!tag:www.fairtaxnation.com,2011-04-12:2636007:BlogPost:1355322011-04-12T21:00:00.000ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaver
<p>Take a deep breath, America. You've finally worked long enough this year, to earn enough to pay your taxes for the whole year. Since the government claims first dibs on your money, this means that all of your work this year, up to now, has been for the government. But you can now start working for your own benefit.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Tax Freedom Day arrived 46 minutes after midnight, last night (April 12).</span></strong></p>
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<p>Tax Freedom Day is the…</p>
<p>Take a deep breath, America. You've finally worked long enough this year, to earn enough to pay your taxes for the whole year. Since the government claims first dibs on your money, this means that all of your work this year, up to now, has been for the government. But you can now start working for your own benefit.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Tax Freedom Day arrived 46 minutes after midnight, last night (April 12).</span></strong></p>
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<p>Tax Freedom Day is the time when the average American has worked long enough, since the first of the year, to earn enough to pay his taxes (federal, state and local) for the whole year. According to the <strong><a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/" target="_blank">Tax Foundation</a>,</strong> who are the unofficial keepers of Tax Freedom Day, today is that day. But <strong><a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/tfdwebwidget.shtml" target="_blank">ActionAmerica.org</a></strong> takes it a step further. Using the Tax Foundation data, ActionAmerica.org calculates the time of Tax Freedom down to the second. For the average American, Tax Freedom occurred at <strong>12:45:05 AM, this morning.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px;"><em>(See the Tax Freedom Day Clock in the first post, following this article. I can't post it here, because of some sort of forum limitations.)</em></p>
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<p>But that's just the average. Different states have different tax loads. The fortunate people in in low-tax Mississippi and Louisiana were able to observe Tax Freedom Day two and a half weeks ago, on March 26, while the very unfortunate folks in high-tax Connecticut won't be able to start working for their own benefit for almost three more weeks, on May 2. You can find out when your state's Tax Freedom Day falls, on the <a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/" target="_blank">Tax Foundation website</a>.</p>
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<p>Think about it. That's like working two or more hours of every day, for which you will NOT get paid.</p>
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<p>Modern politicians call that work that you do for them, without getting paid, <em>"patriotism."</em> However, Abraham Lincoln had a much better term for it. He called it by its proper name - <strong><em>"slavery."</em></strong></p>
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<p>Think of it as reducing your salary by 23 to 34%, because that's how much of your pay check goes to pay taxes.</p>
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<p>So the question that you must ask yourself is, <strong><em>"Are the meager so-called 'services' that I receive from the government worth a quarter to a third of my work days, each year?"</em></strong></p>
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<p>Or to put it another way, <strong><em>"Are the meager so-called 'services' that I receive from the government worth a quarter to a third of my working life?"</em></strong></p>
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<p>How many of those lost days at work went to build a "bridge to nowhere" (championed, I might add, by TEA Party darling, Sara Palin) or to provide other pork? How many of those lost days went into the pockets of bank officers (via bailouts) of billion-dollar banks that made bad loans? Ask yourself if you're getting a fair return in services, from the government, for all that work that you do for them? Think about it...</p>
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<p>If you aren't receiving a fair return from the government, for all those days of work that you do for them, then you need to be emailing, phoning and faxing your elected representatives, all levels of government and demanding that they <strong>cut taxes and spending</strong>, till they get down to the level that the services that they provide are worth <strong>what you have invested in sweat equity,</strong> every year.</p>
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<p>To put this all into perspective, in the very first year after the income tax was implemented, Tax Freedom Day fell on January 2 and that included all state and local taxes, as well. It leaves one to wonder just how our nation achieved so much, so fast, in the years before the government started providing us all of their so-called "services", for which they so prodigiously tax us.</p>
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<p>Before closing, I want to take just a moment to address the spin that Tax Freedom Day detractors always try to use to attack it. The big government types don't want us thinking about how much their so-called "services" cost us, so they tell us that Tax Freedom Day is skewed later in the year, because the rich pay most of the taxes. But they conveniently ignore other more important facts like, 1) the fact that the rich also earn significantly more of the income and 2) over 120 million Americans pay no tax at all (based upon federal income tax records - also, these people usually pay no state income or property taxes either and pay an insignificant amount of other taxes, such as sales taxes). In fact, many of those poor people will soon be getting <strong>rebates for taxes that they never paid</strong>. But the big government advocates don't want you thinking about that.</p>
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<p>That's because if you think about it, you might do the math and realize that while the top 5% of income earners, who pay almost 60% of all taxes, comprises only about 7 million people, those who <strong>pay NO income tax</strong> and an insignificant amount of other taxes comprises a whopping 120 million Americans. Then of course, there is the working poor, who pay a negligible amount of taxes. All total, there are almost 20 times more Americans who pay little or no taxes than there are rich taxpayers. That means that, if anything, the Tax Freedom Day calculations err on the side of earlier dates, rather than later.</p>
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<p>Tax Freedom Day detractors have been challenged on the one-sidedness of their argument, but have remained conspicuously silent on the issue.</p>
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<p>Tax Freedom Day really does represent the average or even low income American. The higher up the food chain you are, the later is your personal Tax Freedom Day. If you want to know in what percentile your personal income falls, check out the <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/irsdata.shtml">1986-2008 IRS Collections Data</a></strong> and look at the column on the right. You might be surprised where your income falls.</p>
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<p>But here's the worst of it. Tax Freedom Day does not include the deficit. It only includes this year's projected taxes. If you include the deficit, that we or our children will eventually have to pay, Tax Freedom Day would fall on May 23. What this means is that even if the government were to freeze taxes and spending at current levels, interest payments would force future Tax Freedom Days later in the year.</p>
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<p>If you don't want to be forced, in years to come, to work a third or even half of the year, to pay your taxes, then you need to be after your elected representatives every day, to cut spending and cut taxes.</p>
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<p>Tell your congressman that you're tired of working more than a quarter of every year, to pay for their spending sprees. Tell them that to compare their spending to that of drunken sailors, would be an insult to drunken sailors, since drunken sailors stop spending, when they run out of money. Tell them that even the promised budget cuts <strong>that they failed to deliver,</strong> are really not enough. Tell them not to raise the debt ceiling, because you can only work so many hours a day, on their behalf and you're already working a quarter of every work day, for them. Tell them that November 2010, was only the beginning.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Happy Tax Freedom Day, America. You've way more than earned it.</span></strong></p>I WANT YOUR MONEY [Review]tag:www.fairtaxnation.com,2010-10-17:2636007:BlogPost:1168702010-10-17T06:30:00.000ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaver
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</div>ActionAmerica Tax Freedom Day Clocks Updated for 2010tag:www.fairtaxnation.com,2010-04-01:2636007:BlogPost:979902010-04-01T23:14:06.000ZJohn Gaverhttp://www.fairtaxnation.com/profile/JohnGaver
<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/"><b>The Tax Foundation</b></a> just announced <b>Tax Freedom Day for 2010</b>, as <b>April 9</b>. Using this new data, all of the <a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/tfdwebwidget.shtml"><b>ActionAmerica Tax Freedom Day Clocks</b></a> have been up updated, to count down to or up from the newly calculated date.<div><br></br></div>
<div>The Tax Freedom Day Clocks continuously draw attention to how much of our hard work goes to fund the…</div>
<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/"><b>The Tax Foundation</b></a> just announced <b>Tax Freedom Day for 2010</b>, as <b>April 9</b>. Using this new data, all of the <a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/tfdwebwidget.shtml"><b>ActionAmerica Tax Freedom Day Clocks</b></a> have been up updated, to count down to or up from the newly calculated date.<div><br/></div>
<div>The Tax Freedom Day Clocks continuously draw attention to how much of our hard work goes to fund the government. Prior to Tax Freedom Day, they count down the days till Tax Freedom. After Tax Freedom Day, they count up the number of days that you have actually been working for yourself. Tax Freedom Day is actually different for each state. For simplicity, the ActionAmerica Tax Freedom Day Clocks are based upon the national Tax Freedom Day.</div>
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<div>The clocks are available in three forms - as JavaScript, appearing at the top of each page in the <a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/index.shtml">ActionAmerica Tax and Economy section</a>, as a <a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/tfdaywidg.shtml">Macintosh Dashboard Widget</a> and as a <a href="http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/tfdwebwidget.shtml">Flash Web Widget</a>. The web widget, seen below, can be attached to postings on many forums, blogs and social networking sites (though not all sites allow the use of "object" or "embed" code that is necessary to do this). FYI, to post it on Ning sites, like this one, you must paste the object code into the post, while in HTML mode.<br/><br/><div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://ActionAmerica.org/flash/tfdclock.swf" width="190" height="185"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"></param><param name="movie" value="http://ActionAmerica.org/flash/tfdclock.swf"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"></param></object>
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<div>Many people don't realize just how much of their hard work goes to support the government. I hope that a lot of you will find this useful and will spread it around, to help enlighten as many taxpayers as possible, to the real cost of government.</div>
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<div>For the purposes of this clock, ActionAmerica uses the Tax Foundation data to calculate the exact minute of Tax Freedom, so the clocks can count down in seconds. Some people say that's sadistic. But it's no more sadistic than our government forcing us to work for more than a quarter of the year, just to support them.</div>
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<div>For those who are interested, the exact moment of Tax Freedom in 2010, is <b>April 9 at 3:31AM.</b></div>
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