ARMSTRONG: Illegal aliens are flooding the United States to alter the census and the Electoral College to ensure that the Democrats will always win.

Two of my employees, one British and one German, were denied entry to the United States because they might not leave! . . . Unless they vote DEMOCRAT, anyone worthwhile from Europe or Asia need not apply.  -- Martin Armstrong

from Martin Armstrong @ Armstrong Economics. 

QUESTION: Your comment on how you had the mandate from Hong Kong to negotiate with Australia, and the PM would not allow them in because they would vote conservative, has highlighted this entire agenda from the Democrats. They are destroying our country. Will Biden grant them voting rights to suppress those of us who work for a living? 

ANSWER: It is far worse than that. Most states can’t even restrict voting. Illegal aliens are included in the census. That means the Electoral College votes are allocated by the census, and seats in the House of Representatives are also based on the census. If all Americans left California and they are all illegals, they still get the largest vote as illegals. If we look at the 2020 census, Texas has gained two more votes in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade. Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained one seat, based on the 2020 census. The seven states that lost one vote each were California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. That is because real Americans are fleeing the Blue States.

Illegal aliens are flooding the United States to alter the census and the Electoral College to ensure that the Democrats will always win. 

This is getting so outrageous, you just can’t make up this shit anymore. A judge in Washington, DC, the land of Marxists, actually threw out a challenge against allowing noncitizens to vote in the election. These Democrats are determined to win, and they do not care about the law or the people. Why can’t Canadians, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, and everyone else vote in the 2024 election if there is NO requirement to be a citizen?

This is outright treason against the American people. They are even starting to replace American workers, reducing the cost of labor. Unions are actually being undermined by this agenda, and they have not really WOKEN UP. That is why blacks and Latinas are leaning toward Trump. They see this as undermining their own advancements.

Any American who now votes for a Democrat is voting against their own future and that of their family.  This is just out of control.  

Here is the Epoch Times article.  

Biden has been shipping illegals around the country to strategic places to overthrow Republican states. This is not simply an invasion; it is an attempted coup to overthrow the United States, including its Constitution. The Biden Administration attacks any state that tries to enforce voter ID to prove you are an American. The audacity of the Attorney General to claim requiring voter ID is not necessary so they can carry out this treason against real Americans. So much damage is being carried out that there will never be any reconciliation. They expect to rule by sheer tyranny.  

Even the NY Times has reported that the majority believe we are doomed. I am NOT being partisan here. This is why the computer is projecting that there WILL BE NO UNITED STATES post-2032. The Democrats are hell-bent on pushing Marxism despite the fact that it has ALWAYS failed, and this entire illegal immigration is their way to take over the country. they do not care about the people – we are the dirt beneath their feet – not the air beneath their wings.  

We will have no choice but to separate blue vs. red states. There is simply no other alternative. Civilization ONLY survives when everyone benefits. The Democrats do not care that their ideas are anti-religious, anti-culture, and anti-democratic. They MUST impose their agenda regardless of the cost. The rich have become anyone with a job.

This is why there is a growing sense of doom. But this is also engulfing Europe. Those who are supposed to represent us only represent themselves and the agenda. They are told how to vote without ever knowing what the real agenda will be, 

The Founding Fathers understood tyranny, but, unfortunately, the FAKE NEWS of Cicero so enchanted them that they wrongly assumed that a Republic was the best form of government when it was the most corrupt, just as we see today. Even that theme has been used in movies like Star Wars, where the republic is fighting against the empire. Throughout history, this will end in the only way it ever has – the “republic” will collapse.

Then we have companies firing Americans so they can hire illegal aliens on the cheap. This is getting completely out of control, and Americans have to wake up. Then again, the computer will be right, and there will be a time when separation is the only solution. Over one-third of the people in Alaska want to separate from the United States. The same is rising in Florida and Texas, with other states joining rapidly.

Representative Anna Luna happens to be in my district.  She has been putting up a good fight, but she is outnumbered. 

JUST FOR THE RECORD

Two of my employees, one British and one German, were denied entry to the United States because they might not leave! It has cost me more than $100,000 so far to fight for my employees who they reject and have families overseas with no intention of staying here while Biden lets criminals come in and countries empty their prisons with tickets to America. I am sorry, but I have ZERO respect for what is happening from first-hand experience. Unless they vote DEMOCRAT, anyone worthwhile from Europe or Asia need not apply.

I am finishing an important book on this subject illustrating the TRUTH from contemporary accounts and even using the coinage to provide the real version of why Caesar was compelled to Cross the Rubicon in the middle of a DEBT CRISIS, and the people cheered. The corrupt Senate fled Rome, and the people did not support them any more than we see today. Those who relied on Cicero and even Cato, who was the leader of the oligarchs, have so distorted history that it threatens our very existence.

Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, so despised Cicero and his fake news that he was beheaded and his hands cut off as retribution. As legend has it, Fulvia then wanted to pierce Cicero’s tongue and used her hairpin in her act of revenge against his lies. I suppose that was one way of dealing with the fake news promoters.

Eat red meat. Develop grit. Learn manual skills. Get that job. Thrive.

The USA's suicide rates have been rising the fastest among its youngest people and are now at all time highs.

This alongside the end of marriage and births is the story of the "success" of democracy, technology, markets, immigration; of the establishment for the last 30 years. https://t.co/nPZbwOH11K pic.twitter.com/AtjmURJOHQ

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) December 30, 2023

BUT WHERE ARE MY STATES' RIGHTS?

BREAKING: Supreme Court halts Texas immigration law indefinitely, preventing state arrests of suspected illegal aliens

Complete insanity — your own government is sponsoring the invasion

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 18, 2024

Anthony Bourdain on Mexicans, Mexico, & Mexican Food

Anthony Bourdain. 

On Mexicans, Anthony Bourdain wrote this:

Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities.

We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them.

Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children.

As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.”

But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.

We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.

So, why don’t we love Mexico?

We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires.

Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.

In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us.

The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether it’s kids nodding off and overdosing in small town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroit—it’s there to see.

What we don’t see, however, haven’t really noticed, and don’t seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few years—mostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families who’ve been touched directly by the so-called “War On Drugs”.

Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace.

Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for gorgeousness.

Its archeological sites—the remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply “bro food” at halftime.

It is in fact, old—older even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention.

The old school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generation—many of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europe—have returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.

It’s a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was there—and on the case—when the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them.

To small towns populated mostly by women—where in the evening, families gather at the town’s phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North.

I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.

In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over. We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is.

Migrants Imploding Welfare State

The excuse that migrants came to work and contribute to society does not match the statistics. The NY Post reported, only 2% of 139,500 migrants in New York have applied for work permits, and thousands more are on their way to live off the welfare state. https://t.co/Tm2tLvZNW4

— Armstrong Economics (@StrongEconomics) November 14, 2023

From Martin Armstrong,

People are coming to America for a better life at your expense. The excuse that migrants came here to work and contribute to our society does not match the statistics. As the NY Post recently reported, only 2% of 139,500 migrants in New York have applied for work permits, and thousands more are on their way to our cities to live off the welfare state.

New York received an influx of 2,800 additional people last week alone. There are 65,500 people living in shelters throughout the city at the expense of the taxpayer, and the mayor believes the city will spend of $2 billion this year on funding. We are putting more resources into supporting people who broke our laws by entering the country illegally than we do on our own citizens.

You can work your whole life and send countless funding into Social Security, only to receive the bare minimum upon retiring. You receive no interest on these funds and it is not optional to opt-out of contributing. The average retiree is expected to live on $1,555 per month, which is not enough to live in any US city.

Meanwhile, migrants are receiving a one-time payment of $2,275 and at least $1,225 per month which is more than they likely ever earned from their country of origin. Their room and board is on the taxpayers’ tab and there is no urgency for these people to enter the workforce. In fact, it seems as if they are encouraged to continue milking the welfare system to become utterly dependent on the state. I am stating figures from the US, but migrants are also living on the welfare system in Canada and every other Build Back Better country.

It is not economically feasible for the US to continue funding illegal immigration. And yet, thousands of people are crossing over into the US everyday and no one preventing the invasion of America.

DRAG QUEENS & COUNTRY MUSIC: Destroying Religious Convictions or Calling for Acceptance?

It's not like the Country Music Awards organizers planned the awards to show just a week after the mass shooting in Nashville, but perhaps the planners of the shooting did time the event accordingly to maximize political impact.  Well, that's some conspiracy stuff.  Depends on who you ask.  The celebration on the heels of the tragedy in Nashville has got to, and I am sure it is meant to, appall some folks.  But that is the angle--to bring people to a breaking point. 

With lyrics of killing your husband.   

CMT is Country Music Television, the host of the Awards. And what you're watching is the Country Music Awards Ceremony held at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.  Singing is Kelsea Ballerini, and the song is "If You Go Down, I'm Goin' Down Too."  And what you think you heard is exactly what you heard.  Check out the lyrics.  

CMT keeps using words like slayed and killed. They said these drag queens slayed it. Right after the Nashville shooting. Should be called drag queen awards now. They also are promoting gun control. Literally. They did a segment on it.. #CMT #GoWokeGoBroke pic.twitter.com/9CjuioJkg7

— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) April 3, 2023

Country music was hijacked long ago.  I mean this ain't the music of Dolly Parton or Hank Williams or Marty Robbins or two of my enduring favorites Tammy Wynette alone or in a duo with her husband, George Jones.

I keep all your secrets by the dozen

You know where my skeletons sleep

Hypothetically, if you ever kill your husband

Hand on the Bible, I'd be lyin' through my teeth.

But just as watching violent video games a mass murderer does not a player make, so violent lyrics don't a criminal make of the singer or writer or a cowgirl driving the Texas interstate.  

Awards, ceremonies, and parties are supposed to be a break from the day-to-day world but it certainly doesn't seem like we're living in an everyday world.  Is every context now a politically charged context?  It may seem distasteful but it also shows that the events are different.  Nashville is different and separate from Austin politically and tragic news us separate from an awards ceremony . . . right?  I do like the attempt by the CMA to cut through the media's efforts to cast all of one group as AR-toting murderers bent on revenge on a Christian school or Christian theology.  There are better ways of redressing one's grievances than by murdering adults and kids at school.  So, to that end, I almost appreciate the presence of the drag queens in Ballerini's performance, though I myself cannot look at it.  But like most public events, the presence of drag queens is a double-edged sword.  It doesn't necessarily try to mainstream or normalize different genders.  That's the media that's promoting the LBGTQ agenda.  Though the CMA did accomplish the feat of a drag show onto that national stage.  Why limit yourself to an elementary school library's afternoon reading hour?  

So as these military measures go, they're often stacked, meaning there are multiple layers of assault in a single event.  Here you've got the inclusion, conviction-destroying narrative shaping LBGTQ's "we're all the same" agenda with, drag queens, which is like the black face of the 1920s and '30s, and gun control.  BTW, as the inclusion narrative becomes more extreme, it means the country is going to have more of these mass shootings to push the ethics, the politics, and normalization so as to destroy religious convictions.  Immigration is part of this inclusion.  So the farther the country goes to lowering standards to nothing, the more violence will erupt.

America suffers from cultural pluralism while being debt slaved by a tiny minority of the elite. 

MEDIA LITERACY CLASSES IN SCHOOLS: Not about Literacy. About CENSORSHIP

They are training a generation of censorship professionals tied to the teat of government-backed censorship operations. 

The “Media Literacy” scam is accelerating way too fast & it has to be stopped NOW.

Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/GCr7Q54adF

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 21, 2023

00:58   What is Media Literacy?

When you hear the words media literacy, you fixate on the word literacy, and you think they're talking about underserved, underprivileged, inner-city schools with kids who can't read because we have an epidemic of illiteracy and low literacy rates among a lot of our youth.  So you hear that word literacy and you think that's what they're talking about.  That is not what it is at all.  Media Literacy says if you don't read the right media sources, official media sources, official state-backed media, government sources, or regime-compliant media, then you are illiterate.  You are media illiterate, and you need to get your mind right to read the right media sources.  So media literacy is just regime media installation.  And it is about the institutional embedding of censorship organs within K-12 schools, within higher ed.  And then at the capacity building side by tons and tons of government money propping this up.  

2:04. Now, a couple of levels of this.  Media literacy is literally about training you to be stupid, to be dumb.  The underlying presupposition of the field, the illegitimate field of media literacy, is that if you do critical thinking you will become a heretic, you will become a wrong thinker, a dissident, a heterodox person.  If you think critically, if you go down the rabbit hole, if you do your own independent research, you will not trust the regime, you will not trust the system, you will not trust government narratives; you will not trust legacy, mainstream media.  And so they teach methods . . . the curriculum for media literacy programs are about how not to do your own research.  I'm not joking.  You can look all this up for example the SIFT Method [it's an evaluation strategy] is one of the core things that have been developed. It just says that when you have a research topic and you want to look something up for school and you want to look something up on your own private time, don't go down the rabbit hole, don't think independently, sift through the top 10 results of a Google search, Wikipedia, and Wikipedia-approved sources.  Mind you, Wikipedia currently lists Elon Musk as a far-right conspiracy theorist and bans the ability to even have the most conservative or Centrist outlooks allowed to even be cited.  So it pre-bans the ability to even access news institutions that might challenge government narratives.  This is Clockwork Orange on steroids, and it's being mandated by governments.  This is the part that I was not expecting to happen so fast.  The state of California just last week passed a mandatory media literacy law requiring every public K-12 school in the entire state to have mandatory media literacy classes.  Now every single actor in the censorship industry is doing touchdown dances, spinning the basketball a la Wilt Chamberlain or Harlem Globetrotters style, just stuffing on the rest of the world that's had its eyes closed because this is millions and millions of dollars that automatically flow into the censorship's pockets because it is mandatory government required capacity building to do this.  There are going to be 10,000 people at least just in the schools in the California system we're going to need to be these teachers in all these classes K through 12 you're going to need to train an army of educators on how not to trust alternative news or Elon musk's vision at X or social media influencers who disagree about health or electoral politics or on environmental issues or on abortion immigration or energy or any of that.  Again it's not just the curriculum that's only a tiny part of it it's the Civil Society capacity building they're funding this is mandatory government money to a censorship mercenary Army in charge of your kids that just passed in California it already passed in Illinois it's already in Rhode Island it's now in New York this industry could not support itself and while there is Success right now at the federal level with things that have been done around these major class action lawsuits, Missouri V Biden, America First lawsuit, Congressional investigations and subpoenas.  They are going down into the state governments one by one capacity-building the industry to destroy the alternative news industry.  And this has got to be challenged before it gets its roots down because they are going to make the argument that if we don't stop it now they are going to make the argument that "you're going to have hundreds of thousands of public employees who are going to be put out of a job if you kill immediate literacy later," which is to say that they're going to make the same argument that coal miners in West Virginia would make, "Well, if you shut down the mine, you're going to put all these people out of a job."  They are training a generation of censorship professionals tied to the teat of government-backed censorship operations.  Their careers are going to be attached to this.  "They won't be able to provide for their families if you take away their censorship jobs." That's literally going to be the world that we're going to be in, if this thing isn't killed now.  

Every time you hear the word media literacy, drop this link to them

Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "I fully support, and have for many years, amnesty for illegal immigrants"

It doesn't hurt to listen to the following exchange from a particular context.  Hear what the Russian conservative, Vladimir Putin has to say about the west's inability to replace its own population and how free immigration on the American taxpayer's dime is no substitute.  It means we are surrendering the values that made this country great over the last 250 years.  

.@RepChipRoy Full Questioning Of DHS Secretary Mayorkas @chiproytx Exposes Mayorkas For Lying About "Operational Control" Of The Border

"Your agency is releasing people on purpose in order to flood the zone & make sure that more people can come to the United States." pic.twitter.com/kdLIxChYKD

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 28, 2022

Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "I fully support, and have for many years, amnesty for illegal immigrants" pic.twitter.com/PeFJBnui3G

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 28, 2022

Virginia Bill To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Become Police Officers & Arrest American Citizens

Virginia Bill To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Become Police Officers & Arrest American Citizens

This bill allows “illegal aliens granted DACA to become police officers”

The Black Vote knows it won’t stop there:

“I want to know who was responsible for this piece of trash… pic.twitter.com/kTJRr7nkgD

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 26, 2024

Virginia Bill To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Become Police Officers & Arrest American Citizens

This bill allows “illegal aliens granted DACA to become police officers” The Black Vote knows it won’t stop there: “I want to know who was responsible for this piece of trash legislation that was gonna tell the migrants at the border, get ready to arrest Americans in the country legally.” “It passed the house. It passed the senate. It made it on to the governor's desk. What the **** is going on here? You couldn't tell us. You couldn't get the word out. So I guess we was going to just have a legal just show up in police uniform, and Americans was just supposed to take it. We are supposed to comply?” More about the bill from FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: “While Senator McPike and Chief Newsham appear sympathetic to DACA recipients, they seem perfectly comfortable creating a situation in which illegal aliens can enforce U.S. law—and in doing so, can arrest and take into custody U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. Furthermore, neither has fully explained how DACA beneficiaries can serve as police officers when federal law generally bars illegal aliens from possessing firearms. Representative John Macco (R-Ledgeview) wrote in support of his bill saying, “Simply, it is common-sense legislation that would allow local law enforcement agencies to hire diverse and qualified candidates. Ironically, the legislators pushing these bills talk about how these illegal aliens are “qualified” to become law enforcement officers. But, as mentioned above, illegal aliens are generally barred from possessing firearms. Moreover, to carry out their duties, officers must take an oath of office, which requires them to enforce the law and protect the constitutional rights of all in their community. DACA recipients cannot, in good faith, take this oath because they continuously reside in the United States in violation of the law. And, even if the illegal aliens who benefited from DACA were otherwise law-abiding, their illegal status could impede their efforts to enforce the law. State legislators pushing proposals to allow illegal aliens to become police officers are not only undermining the rule of law but also threatening public safety. The public must be confident that the officers sworn to protect them and uphold the law are upstanding citizens in the community. FAIR is working with state legislators to make sure these bills do not advance and to protect the integrity of law enforcement agencies across the country as we deal with the worst border crisis in history”

IMMIGRATION CRISIS: Major Cause is that they're fleeing from low civilian gun ownership to a high civilian gun ownership state

from Ostrowski:

Immigrants come from low-gun-ownership countries to the US, a high-gun-ownership country.  

They come here to escape mindless gang violence and random political violence.  They come here to become citizens.  They come here, my right-wing people would say, because of all the free stuff.  I think that's very incomplete.  Yeah, we have a relatively generous welfare state, and once you get in the borders, . . . it's understood that the current regime isn't going to kick anybody out.  You get here physically and you're in, you have a kid, your kid has birthright citizenship--that's one of the 4 reasons why people come here.  To become citizens themselves, to get welfare, birthright citizenship for the kids, and . . . ?

The reason we have the leading economy on earth is due to private gun ownership.  It's a check on government power.  There's a general correlation between a well-armed civilian population and relatively high rates of freedom.  Until the last few years, there's been some decline.  The U.S. is at the top in terms of freedom.  The other country is Switzerland.  People want to invest in a stable polity.  the U.S. is a stable polity because of civilian gun ownership.  In his The 2nd Amendment Works, he points out that countries have coup d etats when civilians don't have any guns.  You take a couple of hundred people in some of these 3rd world countries and you take over a couple of key positions in the capital and you control the country.  This happened in Burma, Myanmar.  The War on Drugs creates refugees.  Gang violence in Nicaragua.  That violence is drug violence.  End the Global War on Drugs tomorrow and that will create more political stability in these countries and people will want to stay in their own country if they want to.  And have a Global Right to bear arms.  People fleeing hellhole countries for the United States, they're fleeing from low gun ownership countries.  When you have a low gun ownership country, you have political instability.  Coup d'états correlate with low civilian gun ownership.  We don't shoot politicians because they raise taxes 14%.  The mere possession of the right to bear arms is a peaceful deterrent to tyranny.  In other words, we don't have to go out and shoot anybody, the government just knows, like our government knows.  That's why they spy on gun people and infiltrate organizations.  They know even though some of the naive people do not.  If the U.S. government started a civil war against this population, we would win in about a month.  We would kick their fucking ass.  Now, we don't have to do it.  It's latent.  It's peaceful.  That's why I have the double D olive branch in my book.  

My observations:

I really liked Ostrowski's point, an obvious one, but as Gary North used to say, "Facts don't speak for themselves," so I was glad to hear it stated, "The reason we have the leading economy on earth is due to private gun ownership.  It's a check on government power."  You do realize that every time you heard Obama and his progressive ilk say, "Who needs an AR for deer hunting?" he's literally baying for your surrender or death.  He's downgrading your survival and self-defense to hunting for venison.  Don't believe me?  Compare his remarks and his principles with Lenin.  Gun control is the root of terror.  Civilian gun ownership is the root of peace.  See Ostrowski's "Intellectual Roots of Terror."

 

Opting Out Of The Obamacare Tax: What Happens If You Don't Pay?

Kelly Phillips, Erb

Last month, the Obama administration announced that between three and six million households – about 2 to 4 % of taxpayers – would be faced with a penalty (or is it a tax?) at tax time for failing to secure “minimum essential coverage” to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes referred to as Obamacare.

Under Obamacare, you’re considered covered if you have insurance through the government, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, retiree coverage, TRICARE, or VA health coverage; private insurance that you purchased on your own including COBRA coverage and coverage obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace; or provided by your employer (even if you didn’t pay anything for the coverage). You’ll report coverage on your tax return (find out how here). Most taxpayers – about 130 million or so – will report coverage.

Of those that don’t have coverage (estimates range from 20 million to 37.5 million), most will avoid being subject to the penalty based on a waiver or exemption. Exemptions exist based on income or filing status, immigration status and religious affiliation – as well as the much-talked about incarceration exemption. A number of hardship exemptions are also available. (For more on exemptions and waivers, click here.)

Those taxpayers who can’t demonstrate essential minimum coverage and aren’t otherwise exempt are subject to a penalty – the shared individual responsibility payment – equal to 1% of income above the “filing threshold” or $95 per adult and $47.50 per child (up to $285 for a family), whichever is higher. That amount is figured and reported on the taxpayer’s 2014 tax return, payable by April 15, 2015.

For the 2015 tax year, the amount of the penalty increases to 2% of income or $325 per adult; in 2016, it jumps up again to 2.5% of income or $695 per person.

In terms of dollars, the CBO had initially estimated that by 2016, nearly six million taxpayers would be subject to an average penalty of $1,200. The overwhelmingly majority (80%) of those estimated to be at risk to the penalty were those in the middle class with incomes between $55,850 and $115,250.

Since that time, the numbers have been adjusted downward, based largely on the perceived success of policies purchased through the Marketplace and the increased number of taxpayers exempt under the rules. Those estimates – between three and six million households – are still just guesses. But the dollars associated with those numbers are the real mystery. You see, buried in the language of the 2010 law creating the Affordable Health Care Act (you remember, the “big f*cking deal”) is a bit of an out: There are practically no real consequences for not paying the penalty.

I mentioned this to Maggie McGrath, personal finance reporter for Forbes, while shooting video about the Health Care Act earlier this month. “Shouldn’t that be the real story?” she asked.

She’s right, of course. It should but oddly enough, nobody is really talking about it.

Why so quiet? Here’s my guess: nobody has a clue what’s really going to happen. You see, when the Act became news in 2010, rumors were flying about what would happen if you didn’t pay the penalty. It was politically tricky. The consequences needed to be enough to make you want to conform with the Act but not so onerous that Congress would be loathe to vote for it.

The final language in the Act declared that the penalty “shall be paid upon notice and demand” which sounds really intimidating. The language went on to note that the penalty would be “collected in the same manner as an assessable penalty under subchapter B of chapter 68″ which also sounds pretty serious – especially since subchapter B references some pretty nasty penalties for otherwise not complying with other sections of the Tax Code.

So what would the penalty for noncompliance be? Jail time? Nope. The language in the Act specifically rules out jail time, saying at Section 500A(g)(2)(A):

In the case of any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure.

So, no jail time.

But that means that the IRS will chase you and lien your property if you don’t pay, right?

Nope. That’s not allowed under the Act.

At 500A(g)(2)(B)(i), the Treasury cannot “file notice of lien with respect to any property of a taxpayer by reason of any failure to pay the penalty imposed by this section.”

So, no liens.

Then, clearly there will be levies or seizures on your wages and account, right?

Nope. Not that either. Under 500A(g)(2)(B)(ii), the Treasury cannot “levy on any such property with respect to such failure.”

To recap then, by law, you have to pay the penalty. But if you don’t, you won’t go to jail, you won’t be liened and you won’t be levied for collection.

Is there anything that could happen to you if you choose not to pay? With no jail, no liens and no levies, it doesn’t leave the IRS a lot of room to work when it comes to collections. Congress actually managed to create, as I wrote in 2012 and in in 2013, an incredibly complex and burdensome law without any teeth.

Well, maybe some teeth. Baby teeth. The IRS might seize any part or all of your refund in order to satisfy your obligation. Might. IRS hasn’t come right out and said that it absolutely will offset your refund if you owe a penalty for failure to pay. However, in the Final Regulations issued on this matter, IRS noted that “[n]othing in this section prohibits the Secretary from offsetting any liability for the shared responsibility payment against any overpayment due the taxpayer, in accordance with section 6402(a) and its corresponding regulations.” That’s sufficiently passive aggressive, right? You’re on notice that the IRS doesn’t think that it’s barred from taking your refund. They’re not saying they will (for certain) but they’re not saying they won’t either.

So is there anything you can expect for sure? You can definitely expect a lot of letter writing and virtual shaking of the government’s fist at you. Maybe even some blustering, for good measure.

But real consequences? Other than that potential refund seizure and a guilty conscience, there’s nothing to keep taxpayers from opting out of paying. Will they? We’ll have to wait and see.

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U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: Whatever city you want and you don't have the money, the Department of Homeland Security will pay for your plane ticket

Please tell us how the people from Nepal are getting here to the United States and who is enticing them to come.

It took me 3 days down there to really understand what's happening at the border I didn't really understand the full impact of how crazy it is many of them have been terribly abused there's a tree called the rape tree where the cartels extract the final payment from women before they come across and what happens to children when they come across and the disappearances the people are are extorted they're exploited they're robbed they are beating their raped so that's part of the issue the other part is that they come across and they're not released on their own recognizance they are brought through the border patrol and the border patrol processes them they fingerprint them so if they have a criminal record they're diverted to a holding facility if you don't have a criminal record you are asked what city do you want to go to? And many of them don't have any money.  Whatever city you want and you don't have the money, the Department of Homeland Security will pay for your plane ticket.  Read that again.  The Department of Homeland Security is paying for illegal immigrants to stay at any city of their choosing paid for by U.S. taxpayer.  You're brought to the airport on buses and you board the plane to whatever destination you want in the country they're Landing in New York and Minneapolis creating big burdens on the social services systems in those cities.  The way it's happening and there's the worst part of the border patrol is utterly tomorrow lives then you know they

Wow!  "We're not defending the border anymore.  We're just processing people coming in."  9 of them have committed suicide in the last couple of years because they're utterly demoralized.  The cartels are now running everything at the border, so the cartels have tick tots that you can look up and YouTube videos to show what you need to do to get into the United States to the cartels you fly from countries all over the world of all the families that we saw coming across about 300 only two were from Latin America.  I thought all these people were going to be from El Salvador, Nicaragua, or Panama, or Costa Rica and Mexico, but no.  They're all from countries countries like Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan . . . a lot of them from China, Nepal, and Tibet, and then every country in West Africa.  The reason is that cartels are advertising across the globe.  You get on an airplane to Mexico City, and you get your visa in Mexico City.  And the cartel will help you do it, so a domestic Visa in Mexico.  And then you fly to Mexicali.  They have a parking lot that's filled with these big white buses.  Each bus carries 55 people and