2 Causes or Ideas

My entire motivation for creating this blog is political involvement.  My previous three posts focused on:

1. Identifying 5 people who need you to help them with political understanding and,
2. Defining the 4 R’s of restoring true conservative values.
3. Knowing the 3 elected officials that represent you in Washington D.C. and how to contact them.

Causes or Ideas

I am going to keep this post very simple.

If you are new to the political process or you do not know where to begin, start by finding or adopting 2 causes or ideas that you believe are important.  Once you have done that, take these steps:

1. Learn as much about the causes as you can.  If you study a specific idea or cause for 10 minutes a day or more, you will be an expert in the field.
2. Identify how the federal government is involved with your idea or cause and how they are impacting the cause!
3. Begin to craft a personal positions on the cause.
4. Practice articulating your positions with EVIDENCE – not EMOTION.
5. Begin to contact your 3 elected officials regularly regarding your causes.
6. Use sites like www.congress.org to learn how laws are written and moved through congress.

How to identify YOUR causes

This is simple.  Anytime you hear an idea relating to the government that causes you to think “that’s just stupid” – or – when you hear of laws or action being considered that cause you to feel helpless – chances are – these are your causes.

Example – My Specific Cause

For me – I am extremely passionate about anything that raises my taxes.  Most of you reading this blog have no idea what TAX FREEDOM DAY  - AND – you have no idea how many little taxes you pay.

So I will tell you.  Each of you pay a wide range of taxes.  You pay sales tax, property tax, road tax, hotel tax, telephone tax, cable tv tax, sin tax, school tax, emergency service tax ETC…  There are over 5000 incidental taxes.

Thus, when you are working, you are working to pay ALL of those taxes, many of which are hidden very well!!

Tax freedom day is the calendar day when your money is no longer being earned exclusively for paying your taxes.  This year it was April 13th.  This means that you worked – regardless of your age or income – until April 13th – just to pay all these taxes.  When you add all of your taxes up, it will be the amount of money you earned between January 1st and April 13th.

Also – most of you do not realize that you and your children have a tax liability to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALONE of $37,000.00 each.  This does not count your other taxes.

I have included two links in my “special cause” link section in the right menu for you to view.

My challenge to each of you is this – get involved!

Until we meet again – may God bless you and may God bless the United States of America!