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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- A long drive through California exposed me and my family to thousands of wind turbines. We had never seen such an enormous wind farm. I realized how incredible and very real renewable energy is. I have always been fascinated by solar power, and hope to see more of these types of renewable energy in Michigan.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I have always followed and researched alternative energy. This campaign is the product of a challenge that I can remember as far back as my high school years. (class of 1987)
Dreams are becoming realities. This excites me the most.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I will do whatever I can to help this campaign.
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The piece on Mi Fair Tax is right on. I have been advocating a consumption tax since the 60's. Was a charter member of the liberty amendment committee, and early member of citizens for an alternative tax. We did this prior to 1913, and it worked very well. The federal reserve in 1912, and federal income tax in 1913 really changed our country's landscape. Our current economic crisis will cause us to revisit some old but proven values.
FYI, my deceased mother was named Charlotte Laura, and my niece is Lorie. Have been busy working on radio, tv, and print media for Earth Day on the Mountain, April 18th , at Lake Arrowhead, it is posted on events. Also have been working to get politicians on board using Wayne Bowsers Radio Show as a launching platform. Wayne is a terrific guy and a real shaker and mover. Hopefully we will see a political breakthrough in California real soon. My individual recruiting has suffered somewhat due to these and some medical activities, but next week without fail I will be visiting the colleges. As far as California Pickens goes, we are behind the curve for the moment. Maybe the media, events and cold calling will start to pay dividends. Just getting started but am optimistic! Just transferring from CA 41 to CA 43, so it is ground zero! Kim Anderson is so right, "America respects and listens to big numbers.
Best wishes,
John Wesley Nobles
760-961-1312
Please stop by and CONGRATULATE and THANK our 2 newest 100CLUB members. These folks are building our members, and our influence, one new supporter at a time!
PAMELA BARNES and TOM SETTER are our 2 newest 100CLUB members. Pamela is an Arizona district leader, and Tom is in her district! What a team.
http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/PamelaBarnes77
http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/ThomasJSetter
Hope you will thank them for their amazing efforts. Hope you will be iunspired by their success and join us in the 100CLUB.
Best to you!
Kim
Best wishes,
John Wesley Nobles
Apple Valley, California
760-961-1312
Thank you for the friend!
Hope you will manually add a few freinds this evening to put us over the 1.4 million number. Go to TAKE ACTION/upload signups. It only takes a few seconds. Many folks get more involved when they get Boone's updates.
Best
Kim
WE CAN DO THIS!
The onshore and offshore installation of wind turbines in Denmark and Germany are producing 20% of all their electrical needs; in Spain, as much as 38% (please see examples in the photos on my page). We are 10 years behind in implementation compared to these countries!
I mention these examples to give us a direction for inspiration and point to where we could be heading with the Pickens Plan. The technology is already there and we do not have to reinvent the wheel. These are a few of the websites I would suggest you visit to see what others around the world have done and are doing:
1) The Solar Village – Freiburg, Germany. See: http://www.thesolarvillage.com/
Watch the video in the upper left corner of the page. It tells a great story.
2) The Folkecenter for Renewable Energy – Denmark.
See: http://www.folkecenter.net/gb/overview/publications/
Under VARIOUS, read: The transition from Fossil Fuels to the Renewable Energies
The whole website is excellent and you could spend hours there.
3) Google: Samso, Denmark. This is an island off the coast of Denmark that is completely
self-sustaining. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert
4) Read the article written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. titled: “Global Warming: A Real Solution”
Here are a few great videos to see: “Saved by the Sun” a PBS NOVA video, and “A Crude Awakening” by Basil Gemlpke, et al. Americans need to mobilize and pressure our government representatives both on the state and national level. The Pickens Plan is a good place to foster discussion and share ideas and PUSH this plan! We can all share in this vital common cause. By the way, I use to work in Garden City a long, long time ago!!! I am in your area (Troy, Clawson, Warren) about once a month visiting family. Good luck in your quest for a better and more secure America….. Please ask 5 of your friends to join the “PLAN”……> Lee Ewald
I’m a volunteer for the Michigan FairTax Assn, inviting you to join us. Our goal is to REPLACE the Michigan income tax because the system is broken. We've been working hard to get the word out about a fairer, progressive consumption tax plan known as 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.
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(We seldom email state-wide, generally notifying members nearby to events or initiatives.)
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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). Michigan wage-earners will no longer experience income tax collectors adding interest and penalties to tax bills they only found out about after their return was prepared (and PAID for) at the end of the year. With a Michigan FairTax, income tax-- returns, audits, interest, and penalites vanish.
Currently, goods / services prices and 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!
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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 !!When you say you are continuing your education in alternative energy where are you taking courses? Very interested. Thanks. Jim
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