Tennessee Sales Tax Holiday

Eliminating taxes is stimulating.

Customers line up outside the Apple Store at The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville to take advantage of the sales-tax holiday.

Shops are expected to be even busier today.

Items exempt from the state sales tax through Sunday:

• Clothing priced at $100 or less per item, including shirts, dresses, pants, coats, gloves and mittens, hats and caps, hosiery, neckties, belts, sneakers, shoes, uniforms and scarves.

• School supplies priced at $100 or less per item, such as binders, book bags, calculators, tape, chalk, crayons, erasers, folders, glue, pens, pencils, lunch boxes, notebooks, paper, rulers and scissors.

• Art supplies priced at $100 or less per item, including clay, glazes, acrylics, oil paints, paint brushes for art, sketch or drawing pads, and watercolors.

• Computers $1,500 or less: That includes a central processing unit, along with other components, if purchased in a bundled computer package such as monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables and preloaded software.

Now let's imagine for a moment how the economy would begin to flourish if only one other tax was rescinded. That would be the federal income tax on personal labor.

And where does this forced taxation money go? To pay the interest to the Federal Reserve on the forced debt.

Looking at our collective credit card statement, I see that our balance is a whopping $11.6 Trillion Dollars!

The interest paid on the National Debt is the third largest expense in the federal budget. In 2008 the government spent $412 Billion of our money on interest payments to our creditors. At the midway point of this year (June 2009), the interest expense so far for this year is $321 Billion! At the half way point! {more}

There is a better way. Eliminate the criminal syndicate that the Fed is and take back our control of the money. It's been done in the past and can be done again.

We won't even go into the costs of the bogus foreign wars, the 'war on terror,' the 'war on drugs' and the bloated excesses of the federal government.

I think most of us are willing to pay a fair amount of state and local taxes if that revenue is used without corruption but there is very little honesty in the federal government's unconstitutional theft of our income from labor.

Is anyone listening?