I know you get the w-2g at a casino, but can you reinvest the winnings in a business or other investment in order to avoid paying the taxes?
For example:
Bob wins a 5 million dollar super-fecta at the horse track. He then takes the 5 million dollars and uses it to invest in Bob’s Company Inc. in the same Tax year. Because Bob reinvested that money into a company, is there any way the company can receive the tax liability for the income he provided them in exchange for the income he received?
If I had won money, I would hire a tax attorney, but I am just curious how gamblers get tax shelters.
I am the sole heir, executrix and power of attorney of my uncle’s estate and would like to know if there is anything I can do now to avoid paying estate or inheritance taxes when he dies. He lives in NJ and I live in FL and because of his medical condition he is unable to perform any physical or mental tasks at this time.
Before Hiring one, find out the credentials of the individual(s) you are working with. Only Attorneys, CPAs and Enrolled Agents can represent taxpayers before the IRS in all matters, including matters regarding audits, collections and appeals. Other tax return preparers may only represent taxpayers for audits of returns they have actually prepared.
This can be a dirty and cut throat industry. Be on the lookout, and avoid the “Tax Resolution Scam”. You need to be very careful with whom you select to represent you. There are many tax resolution companies out there that are nothing short of complete scams. This is especially true, for some of the larger firms you see with mass media advertising. Many of these firms will take your money and never lift a finger when it comes to actually working your case. Fall prey to this scam and you will end up paying a lot of money to a company, who does nothing for you, and actually leaves you worse off than you were when you came to them.
Beware the Eager and Unknowledgeable Salesperson. No one should be selling you on any kind of resolution plan without first analyzing your compliance status, the amount and validity of the debt and your ability to pay the tax debt. If the person you are speaking with seems more interested in obtaining your credit card or bank account information, rather than answering your questions and outlining a real solution for your case, your probably better off refraining from hiring their company. An actual honest and knowledgeable agent must examine, analyze, and evaluate the facts of your case, then come up with a viable solution that will really solve your problem. The agent must also frankly advise you if your case is without merit and prevent any other unnecessary costs and expense on your part.
Make sure that you speak only with a professional that specializes in tax representation and collection issues. This is a highly specialized area of taxation. A simple salesperson is not going to be able to provide you with the solution you need. They will either end up selling you a service that does not work for your case at all, or will promise you the moon but will not be able to deliver the desired results.
Beware the “Pennies on The Dollar” Offer in Compromise Ads. There are ninety-nine cents before you hit one dollar! Marketing and sales departments would have you believe that many more taxpayer’s will qualify for an Offer in Compromise than those that actually do. You will quickly realize from simply making a few phone calls, that there are many companies who will only have you talk to a salesperson upfront (ie….the costly free consultation). This salesperson, will try to sell anybody a so called “pennies on the dollar” Offer in Compromise or a penalty abatement for which you may not even qualify. Don’t fall for it! Speak with someone who is qualified and experienced before deciding to hire a specific representation company.
Remember, contracts are legally binding documents. Do not sign any agreement or spend any of your hard earned money until you have spoken with a real professional, who is experienced in tax representation and can answer TOUGH questions. Remember, a contract is binding and you may be held liable for payment for services not rendered or for services that do not provide a solution to your problem.
Look for a warm and sincere guiding hand, who is not afraid to protect your rights and interest. You will be working on personal and stressful financial matters. It is very important that you feel comfortable with whomever it is you decide to hire.
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Many business owners believe that the best way to avoid paying excessive taxes is to exaggerate their deductions or to not declare all of their income. WRONG!! In fact, these are the “RED FLAGS” that often trigger the Internal Revenue Service to audit your tax return to begin with. What a nightmare! An “audit” by the Internal Revenue Service or State Tax Authority can be a painful, time-consuming, money draining event that all business owners should be happy to avoid.
The best way to audit-proof your Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, is to remove as much information from it to another area where the chances of getting audited are greatly diminished. Typically, small business owners are steered to the single member LLC by an attorney. However, these attorneys are not doing their clients any favors and in most cases are forming an LLC simply because they heard everyone else is doing it.
Here’s a fact. Small business owners are open to greater audit risk. If they are using a business entity such as sole proprietorship or single member LLC that requires them to report all of their income and expenses on Schedule C of their individual income tax return, they are exposing themselves to maximum audit risk. How can this be avoided?
S-CORPORATION!
Here’s the information that your attorney doesn’t know to tell you! 7 Reasons why most small business owners should be operating as an S-Corporation:
1. Your annual net income from your S-Corporation appears on one line of Schedule E of your 1040. Accordingly, there is no income or expense detail showing up that would trigger a “red flag” like there is on a Schedule C used for a single member LLC.
2. There is no disclosure of home office expense similar to that used on a Schedule C. On an S-Corporation tax return, home office expenses are combined with other expenses and no separate disclosure is required.
3. If you are a subcontractor for another business, use of the S-Corporation will help you avoid being issued a 1099-MISC which detailed the income you received from the other business. As a sole proprietor, that 1099-MISC is sent to both you and the Internal Revenue Service giving them an opportunity to match-up your income.
4. The typical “red flags” such as travel, entertainment, and automobile expense receive less attention on an S-Corporation return because the audit rate for S-Corporations is substantially lower that for individuals.
5. The Internal Revenue Service is paying less attention to S-Corporation returns currently because of the limited number of auditors they have. Most of the audit resource for corporations is being directed towards big corporations because of the opportunity to extract larger amounts of tax dollars.
6. You can substantially reduce the amount of FICA taxes paid with an S-Corporation. A LLC requires that the owner pays FICA taxes on all of the net income. An S-Corporation is allowed to pay its shareholders a reasonable salary and the remainder of the net income can be taken by the shareholder free of FICA taxes. The savings to a small business owner of a profitable company can be thousands!!
7. It is easier for an owner of an S-Corporation to sell the business because there is no corporate level tax to be paid upon the sale similar to a C-Corporation.
To summarize, small business owners who are currently organized as an LLC or a Sole Proprietor can reduce their risk of a painful Internal Revenue Service audit and save a significant amount of taxes by switching to an S-Corporation.
FACT: The IRS reports that tax evasion is a widespread problem that grows each year costing the government an estimated $350 billion in unpaid taxes and creating a tax gap that grows by 10% each year.
FACT: The additional tax burden falls on shoulders of honest Americans.
FACT: Public services that are supported by tax dollars are affected as well.
FACT: Buying into tax evasion schemes can and will be costly, either in civil or criminal penalties or both, even imprisonment.
The Internal Revenue Service has identified small business and sole proprietorship owners as the largest contributors to the tax gap. Without significant investigations, there is no way for the government to control skimming or non-reported income by individuals who are self-employed or run small businesses.
While there are huge tax evasion activities happening all over the world, it has been estimated that the United States Government has collected roughly $350 billion less than it is owed by American taxpayers. We’re already seeing the IRS cracking down on both small businesses and individuals who evade their taxes with an increase in tax audits and aggressive collection tactics, including bank levies.
Tax evasion is not to be confused with tax avoidance. The biggest difference? One is legal, the other is a crime. Tax avoidance is when someone works within existing laws to pay the least amount of taxes that the IRS says are due. Tax evasion, on the other hand, is when someone intentionally works outside of existing laws by not paying the taxes that are owed to the IRS.
And you don’t have to be a tax lawyer to know the red flags that cause the IRS to suspect tax evasion. If you intentionally fail to report your business cash receipts, including checks that are cashed at the maker’s bank, the IRS has specific audit programs that will investigate this activity. Also, if the amount of income reported on your tax return far exceeds the previous year’s – you will be flagged as suspect! Additionally, if you are one of those “do-gooders” that helps others to file fraudulent tax returns and accept payment for this… that could be a problem.
Tax evasion encompasses any cheating of the government in taxes. Tax evasion is a felony and can carry up to a 5-year prison sentence and/or IRS penalties up to $100,000. Even in the current enforcement climate, taxpayers can learn how to save money by taking advantage of legal tax deductions to reduce their IRS bill. Additionally, anyone who owes back taxes or is being audited by the IRS will need to know that there are options for negotiating a tax resolution. Working with a tax resolution specialist or tax lawyer can greatly increase your chances of successfully resolving your IRS tax problems. However, it’s important to be informed in the first place so you can avoid becoming a target of aggressive IRS collection efforts that can financially cripple you for life.
For more information on achieving a tax resolution for your IRS problems or back taxes, visit www.taxresolution.com for a free tax relief consultation or call 866-IRS-PROBLEMS.
Tax evasion and tax avoidance are too distinctly different things. Avoiding taxes is simply the practice of taking advantage of as many legitimate deductions and tax credits as you can in order to lower your tax liability. Evasion is the criminal act of not paying taxes that you owe.
The Internal Revenue Service has more than 300 agents dedicated to the investigating and penalizing of taxpayers who attempt income tax evasion.
The Internal Revenue Service audits taxpayers at random every year, but most audits are due to unusual activities when it comes to filing income tax returns. Certain actions will trigger an Internal Revenue Service audit such as, too many deductions in proportion to earnings, and too little income claimed by a person with a lot of assets.
One of the rights you have as a taxpayer is the right to representation. Take advantage of it and hire a tax attorney if you are faced with major IRS problems.
Contacting the Internal Revenue Service directly is not recommended. After all, they do not have your best interests at heart. They are considering the best interests of the federal government and their personal career aspirations. They are not likely to work things out in your favor; they are more inclined to work things out in favor of the federal government.
There are three crimes that you can be convicted of in regard to income tax evasion.
The first crime under the penal code is tax evasion, which can impose a fine of $100,000 and five years imprisonment.
The second punishable offense the Internal Revenue Service can charge you with is filing a false income tax return. Under this charge, the Internal Revenue Service does not have to prove that you had an intent to evade your taxes, only that you did file false returns. Conviction can get you a $100,000 fine and up to three years in a federal facility.
The third crime of which you can be convicted under law is failure to file an income tax return. As a misdemeanor, you can face 3 years imprisonment and a $25,000 fine for each year you failed to file your income tax return.
If you are facing the possibility of being charged with income tax evasion, you need to hire a tax attorney right away. Forget trying to negotiate with the Internal Revenue Service yourself. At this point, the Internal Revenue Service not only sees you as an uncooperative taxpayer, but as a criminal. You are going to need good, professional representation if you are going to avoid jail time.
President Bush’s Accomplishments
Spotted at Rightnation.us and GOPUSA.com reprinted here for your pleasure. I encourage people who support Bush to learn how effective our President has been, and liberals ought to browse this too. Just remember, the liberal media can’t cover up the truth of his accomplishments. The Bush Administration 2001-2004
Abortion & Traditional Values
1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton’s move to strike Reagan’s anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton’s policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.
Budget, Taxes & Economy
1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton’s “ergonomic” rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe’s ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA’s from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.
Character & Conduct as President
1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:
Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: “War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.”
On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” The crowd roared with cheers and chants of “USA! USA! USA!” Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation.
Education & Employment Training
1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced “Jobs for the 21st Century,” a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers.
Environment & Energy
1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton’s CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.
Defense & Foreign Policy
1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime’s senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD’s without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists’ funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian “Roadmap to Peace,” along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.
Globalization & Internationalism
1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren’t interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: “The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?” We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.”
Government Reform
1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.
Health
1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:
A 10-year privatization option.
Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.
More health care choices: As President Bush stated, “…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What’s good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.
New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you’ll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.
Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration
1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush’s leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create “one face at the border.” This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America’s ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.
Judiciary & Tort Reform
1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA’s unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.
Politics
1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court’s Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual’s wishes.
Second Amendment
1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined “collective” right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.
Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism
1. Endorses and promotes “The Responsibility Era.” President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, “In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you’re responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you’re responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you’re responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you’re responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself.” 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration’s belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year’s worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, “No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity.” As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:
Equal Justice
Freedom of Speech
Limited Government Power
Private Property Rights
Religious Tolerance
Respect for Women
Rule of Law
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