Hi Michele , THANK YOU for your "Friend Add," in response to my recent Michigan FairTax post. For this movement to gain mass attention, we need to build an army capable of garnering 500,000 Michigander signatures in late 2009 / early 2010 in order to qualify for the 2010 November election. Having a list of over 20,000 members - and growing daily, we are now focusing on developing computer-using members for reasons discussed below.
Register email; request Wiki access to get active
Adding your email to our list gives us an indication of interest and will keep you apprised of basic milestones. However, we do not email state-wide very often - and, in fact, we are moving the broader activist mission to a new private "wiki" for those who wish to help spread the word beyond family and friends.
Don't know what a "wiki" is? Take 4 minutes to view this excellent little video vignette. We're moving to a wiki, over email, because it's...
- permission-based you must "request access"
- a more powerful project-creation and coordination tool
- subscriber-run, "bottom-up" command and control
To recap: Act by "joining our army", as an interested Michigander. You'll receive an immediate confirmation email. Within a day, you'll receive our formal welcoming / orientating email which will also provide you with a link to our Community Leadership Wiki, where you can volunteer for leadership, or simply provide support in defined Functional Areas support.
Together, you and I will restore a tax system that serves Michigan's workers and businesses, instead of serving politicians and lobbyists !
Hi Michele , As a Michigan-based entrepreneur, it is ESSENTIAL that you actively support TRUE Michigan TAX REFORM in order to make capital accumulation easier to start new businesses. For too long, Michiganders have been victims of our state's legislators. Most recently, under the guise of fixing our tax system, the legislature enacted the Michigan Business Tax. Trouble is, the MBT still remains a "gross receipts" tax, levying a tax even if a business isn't profitable - which was the problem with the Single Business Tax it was designed to replace. The MBT continues to penalize entrepreneurship and productivity, and Michigan is rapidly losing businesses, jobs, and families - daily !
The Michigan FairTax plan - a movement started by working, "salt of the earth," Michiganders - is your call to action to enact a rational tax plan that will stop legislators from being able to barter our tax system to pick winners and losers (like providing "tax expenditures" for the MOVIE INDUSTRY) - all at our expense! Our goal is to SCRAP the Michigan income tax because the system is broken. Working together, you and I (there are thousands of us), can get the word out about a fairer, progressive consumption tax - the Michigan FairTax. In order to give Michigan voters the power to choose, we are laying the groundwork for a ballot drive to get the Michigan FairTax on the 2010 general election ballot.
The Michigan FairTax will both simplify, and stimulate, Michigan's business / jobs climatein a dramatic and ongoing manner. It will replace the income tax and current sales tax, with a consumption tax (sales tax at point of retail sale) while un-taxing all purchases up to poverty level - this means no more withholding of state tax from Michigan wage-earners' paychecks.
What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on family size (.0975 x $ [ poverty level per family size] ). This will ensure that NO Michigan family will EVEN BEGIN paying the MI FairTax on goods / services unless, or until, they exceed poverty-level spending. Thus, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending up to the monthly poverty level, thereafter it would be 9.75%. A reasonable average effective rate, inferred, would be about 5.5% (that's without putting anything away!) Monies placed into savings are not available to spend, and therefore would result in a further effective tax rate reduction.
(We seldom email state-wide, generally notifying members nearby to events or initiatives.)
- - -
Under a FairTax system, points of collection will be dramatically reduced (from millions of individuals to considerably fewer retailers, many of whom are already collecting sales tax). With a Michigan FairTax, income tax-- returns, audits, interest, and penalites vanish.
Goods prices & service fees carry income / payroll tax compliance costs - "a hidden tax," ultimately paid by us. The FairTax will externalize these costs, making them visible. Michigan exporters will then be able to jettison the FairTax, prior to shipment, making Michigan products more competitive, globally. The MI FairTax is NOT applied to non-retail, business-to-business purchases, as this inseparably embeds taxation costs in prices of finished goods and services.
This plan is revenue neutral, as it-- ends "first fruit" confiscation of wages, stops the practice of hiding consumer taxes in retail prices, makes the true cost of gov't visible, and properly pays for gov't as we meet personal and family needs. Take action! - JOIN OUR TAX REFORM ARMYto bring Michigan back!
- - -
Made popular by the federal FairTax bill (H.R. 25, which was either co-sponsored or otherwise endorsed by several 2008 presidential candidates), this approach to taxation reaches across the political spectrum
Why the FairTax idea is right for America's working families.
Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff believes that it will take the FairTax to reverse unfunded U.S. gov't obligations, about $53$88 trillion and counting !!
At 10:45pm on February 2, 2009, Matt LaClear said…
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I wish you much success and prosperity here at Sup.Biz! Please feel free to add me as a friend if you would like, as we can never have enough in the world!
At 10:55am on February 2, 2009, Steve SEO UK said…
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I just wanted to introduce myself. My business helps small business owners with website marketing and promotion. If you have a question on this subject, please do ask. Helping each other is what this community is all about.
I look forward to keeping in touch with you, and please do add me as a friend.
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Adding your email to our list gives us an indication of interest and will keep you apprised of basic milestones. However, we do not email state-wide very often - and, in fact, we are moving the broader activist mission to a new private "wiki" for those who wish to help spread the word beyond family and friends.
Don't know what a "wiki" is? Take 4 minutes to view this excellent little video vignette. We're moving to a wiki, over email, because it's...
- permission-based you must "request access"
- a more powerful project-creation and coordination tool
- subscriber-run, "bottom-up" command and control
To recap: Act by "joining our army", as an interested Michigander. You'll receive an immediate confirmation email. Within a day, you'll receive our formal welcoming / orientating email which will also provide you with a link to our Community Leadership Wiki, where you can volunteer for leadership, or simply provide support in defined Functional Areas support.
Together, you and I will restore a tax system that serves Michigan's workers and businesses, instead of serving politicians and lobbyists !
The Michigan FairTax plan - a movement started by working, "salt of the earth," Michiganders - is your call to action to enact a rational tax plan that will stop legislators from being able to barter our tax system to pick winners and losers (like providing "tax expenditures" for the MOVIE INDUSTRY) - all at our expense! Our goal is to SCRAP the Michigan income tax because the system is broken. Working together, you and I (there are thousands of us), can get the word out about a fairer, progressive consumption tax - the Michigan FairTax. In order to give Michigan voters the power to choose, we are laying the groundwork for a ballot drive to get the Michigan FairTax on the 2010 general election ballot.
What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on family size (.0975 x $ [ poverty level per family size] ). This will ensure that NO Michigan family will EVEN BEGIN paying the MI FairTax on goods / services unless, or until, they exceed poverty-level spending. Thus, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending up to the monthly poverty level, thereafter it would be 9.75%. A reasonable average effective rate, inferred, would be about 5.5% (that's without putting anything away!) Monies placed into savings are not available to spend, and therefore would result in a further effective tax rate reduction.
- - -
(We seldom email state-wide, generally notifying members nearby to events or initiatives.)
- - -
Under a FairTax system, points of collection will be dramatically reduced (from millions of individuals to considerably fewer retailers, many of whom are already collecting sales tax). With a Michigan FairTax, income tax-- returns, audits, interest, and penalites vanish.
Goods prices & service fees carry income / payroll tax compliance costs - "a hidden tax," ultimately paid by us. The FairTax will externalize these costs, making them visible. Michigan exporters will then be able to jettison the FairTax, prior to shipment, making Michigan products more competitive, globally. The MI FairTax is NOT applied to non-retail, business-to-business purchases, as this inseparably embeds taxation costs in prices of finished goods and services.
This plan is revenue neutral, as it-- ends "first fruit" confiscation of wages, stops the practice of hiding consumer taxes in retail prices, makes the true cost of gov't visible, and properly pays for gov't as we meet personal and family needs. Take action! - JOIN OUR TAX REFORM ARMY to bring Michigan back!
- - -
Made popular by the federal FairTax bill (H.R. 25, which was either co-sponsored or otherwise endorsed by several 2008 presidential candidates), this approach to taxation reaches across the political spectrum
Why the FairTax idea is right for America's working families.
Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff believes that it will take the FairTax to reverse unfunded U.S. gov't obligations, about
$53$88 trillion and counting !!Hello ! Glad to see you plugging in here at Sta.rtup.biz!!
If you feel flustered with your social networking skills don’t be too hard on yourself. This is a new genre for almost all of us too.
In order to help you get up to speed with all this web 2.0 stuff I have a free resource I'd like to give you right now.
The Social Marketing Directory is a Master Resource List - with three categories of social (Web 2.0) sites that you can use to create your very own streams of highly targeted traffic/subscribers/sales for your websites and affiliate links.
I'm giving it away for free because it is the 2008 version and am in the process of putting the 2009 version together. So instead of deleting the older version in to cyberspace I thought you may enjoy it as a special gift from me to you.
To be clear: This is a Master Resource List - just because it's a year old doesn't mean you won't be referring to it time and time again!
This resource guide contains:
Over 100 Social Networking Sites (i.e. MySpace, Squidoo, etc..)
Over 150 Social Bookmarking Sites(i.e. StumbleUpon, Digg, etc..)
And Over 180 Video Sharing Sites (i.e. YouTube, AOL, etc..)
... PLUS - not only do you have the URL, but you also will have the Alexa Ranking and Google Page Rank for EACH SITE!
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In light of the selfish times we are experiencing,
I pray this offer will be received in the spirit of giving
I would like to invite you to a free, full access membership
to the fastest growing Internet Marketing University online.
Enrollment is 100% complimentary. Absolutely no upgrades.
Simply visit this site and click join now:
http://www.universityofinternetscience.com/?capecodder
Live training webinars daily...Create 1000 posts on Craigslist...
Learn the popular Google me now system... Access thousands
of free marketing resources...Web 2.0...Attraction Marketing
Email me when you enroll to: MeetMikeHall@yahoo.com
and I'll give a free copy of the best selling ebook on the planet.
In the spirit of sharing,
Mike Hall
http://www.MeetMikeHall.net
PS:
If you already have an existing business, this will definitely bring your business
to the next level. Improve results by 50% or more.
PPS:
If you do not have a business and are looking for one....you definitely should
be a member of the University Of Internet Science.
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Welcome to the group! I hope you have a chance to meet some great people, get good ideas for your business, and connect with the right customers. Check out the Law of Attraction section - I'm learning the most there.
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Hi Michele,
If, I can assist you in your endeavors please let me know.
I wish you much success and prosperity here at Sup.Biz! Please feel free to add me as a friend if you would like, as we can never have enough in the world!
I just wanted to introduce myself. My business helps small business owners with website marketing and promotion. If you have a question on this subject, please do ask. Helping each other is what this community is all about.
I look forward to keeping in touch with you, and please do add me as a friend.
All the best for your future success,
Steve SEO UK - Website Marketing and Promotion
I just stopped by to say, "Hi & Welcome" to Sta.rtUp.Biz, the Best Social Networking Site for Business Professionals and Entrepreneurs. I am All about Helping Empower Others to Reach for & Achieve Their Goals! If I can be of assistance to you, do not hesitate to let me know!
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