Until December 22, 2011, I didn't know who Rocky Anderson was.  But then one night while having dinner and watching Cenk Uygur's "The Young Turks", Rocky Anderson appeared on his show and started talking about why he left the Democratic Party in 2011 and helped formed an independent thi… Read full post »
Yes, I was inspired by Martin Luther King, too.  As a flower child, I had a dream, too, of a better America.  Little did I know that our Democracy would be stolen by the rich and powerful, who circumvent the law, stack the Supreme Court with their voices, legally bribe our… Read full post »

by the Barefoot Accountant 

Oh, oh. It’s a Papist Plot deja vu all over again: the return of the medieval, Catholic, theocratic feudal system of Sanctumrectum (mea culpa, mea culpa), focusing on the critical issues facing our country today, such as how many souls of members of Congress can… Read full post »

DECEMBER 6, 2011 10:08AM

Tax Inequity in the United States?

The Barefoot Accountant recently interviewed Susan Bysiewicz, a Connecticut Democratic primary candidate for the United States Senate in 2012, on the pocketbook issues facing middle class Americans. In part 3 of the interview, Susan Bysiewicz addresses the inequity of the tax laws in the Un

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 1:26AM

My 0-0-0 tax plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey, I got the answer for the 18% poverty rate in America, 47 million without health insurance, 26 million unemployed, one-third of the homeowners in default of their mortgages, property values plummeting

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On August 5th, the Barefoot Accountant interviewed Susan Bysiewicz, who is seeking the Connecticut Democratic candidacy for the United States Senate.  Part I of the interview, How to Create Jobs, is available on the Barefoot Accountant's website, where a video and a complete transcript

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Susan Bysiewicz is running in the Democratic primary for Senator of Connecticut. William Brighenti, “the Barefoot Accountant”, requested the opportunity to interview Susan Bysiewicz and Chris Murphy, the two leaders in the Democratic primary race for United States Senator of Con

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Maybe someone will run from the left and challenge Barack Obama for President in 2012 if we start petitioning in large numbers, showing our discontent with President Wuss.

What the hell, miracles have happened before, right?  Didn’t the Red Sox win the World Series after 86 years?

Si

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Do you know how to start a race riot?  It’s quite easy, really.  So don't panic. 

You don't need to go to Selma, Alabama, and you don't need an army of Southern redneck cops, a 1,000 German Shepherd attack dogs, a cock that crows three times, or a thousand bed sheets wi… Read full post »

Click sign the petition to protest Phil Griffin’s termination of Cenk Uygur’s show, scroll down, click “Sign Petition”, add name, address, email address.

Thank you,

The Barefoot Accountant

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It’s time to raise taxes on the rich.  Prior to 1980, the highest marginal tax rate was never below 75%.  In the 1950s, it was 91%.  Those decades after World War II and before 1980 were America’s greatest economic years of prosperity. 

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Obama:  Yes, we can't. 

Brit Hume mentioned on Fox News that Obama can force the Republicans to raise taxes.  To read, see and listen to the complete transcript and video of Hume's commentary, visit The Barefoot Accountant on Understanding the Debt Crisis.

If the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. r

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President Obama’s strategy is based on the premise that the Progressives and the Left have no other place to turn but to him since he is the lesser of two evils in 2012. However, the Progressives and the Left need to let the President know that we will not support

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I just watched Robert Greenwald’s film clip, Koch Brothers Exposed, and was blown totally away at the operation of a brilliant propaganda machine, making that of Hitler and Goebbels in comparision appear infantile and primitive. This is a propaganda machine well thought out, organized, and orc

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AARP recently issued statements conveying that it would not oppose raising the retirement age nor oppose cuts to Social Security benefits.  So the obvious question is, why does anyone need AARP?

If AARP will not represent and lobby for the interests of its members, then it&rsquo

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Last night on Cenk Uygur’s show on MSNBC, Democratic Representative Eric Blumenhauer (ironically a member of the Progressive Caucus), who serves on the Budget Committee, justified the raising of the retirement age for social security because baby boomers will be living longer than their p

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Anthony Weiner was one of the best voices Progressives had in the House. Shame on the Democrats for throwing Weiner under the bus for playing with his weenie: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic Congressional Campaign Comm

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During the Republican debate, all I heard tonight as the answer to all of our nation’s problems is lower taxes on the rich and corporations. 

Imagine, if we just lower taxes even further on corporations and the rich, the skies will open, manna will fall, corporations will suddenly start h

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On ABC's "This Week", Robert Reich and Senator Shelby argued about the way to create jobs.  Reich argued that a massive jobs bill, comparable to that of the Great Depression's WPA, is needed to haul us out of this jobless economy; whereas Senator Shelby argues for further tax redu… Read full post »

Banksters Charging the American Taxpayers Interest on their Own Monies! Are you puzzled why your small business clients have been unable to obtain loans today even though the Federal Reserve has lowered the Federal funds rate to virtually 0% (i.e., .25%) for the past couple of years?  As you know, the Fed has lowered the Fed funds rate to

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Former Senator and Member of Deficit Commission, Alan Simpson

Former Senator Alan Simpson, a former member of the Deficit Commission (the "Gang of Six"), referred to the federal government's $2.5 trillion debt to the Social Security trust fund for retiring Americans as "just a bunch of IOUs", indicating that he had no intention of h

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Imagine you are accountants.  Imagine you are financial problem solvers.  As such, you advise clients on their finances.  You show them not only how they are doing, but advise them on how to improve operations and profitability.  Imagine you are good at what you do.

Our co

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Eric Elliot Ness SchneidermanI never missed an episode of the "Untouchables" on TV (referred to by my dad as "Cops and WOPs"...hey, Paisons, lighten up, I'm a WOP, too). I would curl up on my Daddy's lap on the big ottoman in the living , room every week and watch Elliot Ness in… Read full post »