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The number of NG vehicles in the rest of the world is astounding. In poor Malaysia, about 40% are NG. Fuel milage is better, you don't have the carbon build-up in the engines and therefore, your engine oil change frequency is reduced. Its not a ba...
Depending on your system, six squares (600 square feet) of PV will cost the installer about $50,000 ( $60-75,00 to you). Depending too on your location and sunshine quotient, you'll need 4-6 squares for a 2,100 sq. ft. home. Cost is best rolled in...
The optimum way to purchase solar would be as part of a mortgage, initially with a new home, or with a remodel/second mortgage or a refinance. "The best of the best" would to purchase a new home with solar and geothermal installed.
With the market at record lows, in my humble opinion, you need to invest now. Dollar cost average if you must, but now is the time to start. You could look back in 12 months and say, "Gee, I should have..." Or, you could say, "I'm glad I didn't......
Dr. Hans, could you please send me the picture you have in your posting below? I'd appreciate it!
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Paul E. Kopper
pekopper1@yahoo.com
Comment Wall (28 comments)
- At 5:10pm on March 24, 2009,
Daar Fisher said… - Paul, this is the trouble: everyone's "hooked" on what has been. They don't yet understand their captivity. As long as that remains, truly, our elite Oligarchs will remain our masters. Remove your shackles. There ARE politicians who are pointing the way: Mike Gravel (D), Mike Huckabee (R), Ron Paul (Libertarian R)
- At 4:50pm on February 1, 2009,
Daar Fisher said…
- Paul, just a note on JoAnn's msg below: Both the League of Human Svcs, and the Michigan Chamber are organizations whose clients rely on lobbyists to feed from the public trough (either directly, or through favors of variance from the tax code). Why else would the Michigan Chamber be opposed to a tax plan that basically eliminates business income and payroll tax? JoAnn took immediate opposition to my posting, and went on a crusade against it. Why? Beats me. Maybe she's among the "tax takers" as opposed to a "tax payer." I don't know, and I probably never will.
- At 1:16pm on January 17, 2009,
Daar Fisher said…
- Okie, doke. I'll re-activate it, and attempt to re-email you. Thanks for the get back.
- At 6:18am on January 17, 2009,
Paul Kopper said… - Hmm, that's the address I've used for about five years now. It should be good.
- At 9:11pm on January 5, 2009,
Daar Fisher said…
- Hi Paul, Noticed that we got a message back from Constant Contact (our official mifairtax.org emailer) that pekopper1@yahoo.com was a "non-existent address." ? If you have an alternate address, we'll re-send.
- At 6:58am on January 4, 2009,
Home Wind Turbine said… - Hi Paul, Our wind/solar kits start at $2450 and go up from there depending on what size of system you want. Email me for more info.
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turbines@WindEnergy7.com
- At 11:15pm on January 3, 2009,
JoAnn Musser said… - MiFairTaxAvalancheC.pdf
MiFairTaxCommittee21-5-21-2008.pdf
Hi Paul, I'm leaving you this message to make you aware of the OTHER SIDE of the Michigan FairTax Proposal that Daar Fisher is attempting to introduce you to in the below message. There are MAJOR problems associated with this tax proposal that people need to consider. Please click on the above links to review the information. This Tax would greatly burden the middle class.
- At 6:37pm on January 3, 2009,
Daar Fisher said…
- I used to be for a flat tax, until I learned, and studied, the FairTax. The flat tax preserves the structure that politicians will eventually screw backwards. But the following Mastromarco comments really bring the picture home:
Apparently, this type of misinformation is a long-standing tradition by Mr. Bartlett.
Witness:
(Paraphrased) Reply by Dan R Mastromarco (LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown, principal in the Argus Group, adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, International Management Program, and research consultant to Americans for Fair Taxation - FairTax.org) to:
"A National Sales Tax Doesn’t Add Up" by Bruce Bartlett, December 29, 1999
Many engaged in true tax reform find Bartlett-type attacks exasperating, if not embarrassing. I'd like to convey perspective of both flat taxers and sales taxers who believe that such attacks are counterproductive, but first provide some political history by which to frame said perspectives.
For years Conservatives have posited that a VAT is bad policy (when liberals were discussing it), fearing it would become additional to an income tax (it was called a "money machine"). Circa 1980, conservative intellectuals touted Hall-Rabushka "subtraction method"[ H-R ] VAT which taxed business value added at the business side and labor value added at the labor side. Unlike European VATs (identical in scope), H-R became favorite of Dick Armey and Steve Forbes. It eliminated steeply progressive tax rates and tax on savings. Because of the prior VAT criticisms, H-R was packaged as the "flat tax" and is sold as an income tax to this day, rather than the VAT that its DNA characterizes it as being.
Some conservative commentators have called for the repeal of the 16th Amendment and for the adoption of the flat tax, (despite the fact that it is styled as a direct tax and could not be adopted with such repeal). Mr. Bartlett has called the national sales tax [ie, the FairTax] a VAT (which it isn't), castigated VATs as evil, and has said that sales taxes have become VATs in Europe (which they didn't). In the next breath, he "throws his arms around" the flat tax (which is a VAT). He quotes Bill Gale that the [FairTax] would have to be imposed at 60 percent, but glaringly fails to recognize that if the two bases are the same, he would have to impose that rate for the flat tax to be revenue neutral. In truth, all economists know that the two plans differ NOT in economic effect or base, but in administration.
An income tax taxes savings and investment multiple times. Both flat tax and FairTax are neutral as to savings and investment, tax income only once, and are both consumption taxes. Both are single rate taxes, have nearly the same base, and would improve the U.S. standard of living. Neither redistributes wealth.
While some have even suggested that hey are the same plans under different names, the flat tax taxes value added at each stage in the production process, but the FairTax prefers to tax it when it is added up at the end and eliminate the need to make everyone a taxpayer and collector.
Substantive commonalities between the flat tax and FairTax doesn't mean that there are NO key political and policy distinctions that could be exploited in pitting one against the other. If FairTax supporters wanted to retaliate in response to the Bartlett-type critique, they would have much material with which to honestly do so:
• The flat tax will make small firms and farmers pay the tax even if they have no profit
• The flat tax is opposed by many small business groups
• The flat taxers implicitly support big government by disguising even more of the overall tax burden as the current law
• The flat tax has been kicking around for nearly 20 years
• The flat tax makes everyone a taxpayer and collector, while the FairTax exempts 115 million filers [2000 figure] from ever having to deal with the IRS
• The flat tax is regressive, but the FairTax would enable everyone to keep his full paycheck.
• The flat tax has not only stalled, it has lost public and Congressional support.
• The FairTax is instantly understood, while even some proponents of the flat tax don’t understand it
• There are no transition rules developed for the flat tax and they would be very difficult to craft
• The flat tax taxes exports and relieves imports from tax
• The flat tax confuses tax reform with temporary tax reduction and makes both twice as hard
• The flat tax retains the entire income tax apparatus which erodes as quickly as you can say, “tax bill”
FairTaxers could advance these truthful points without resorting to bigotry associated with a cultic religious organization. However, for the most part, FairTax supporters have chosen not to attack the flat tax, but rather accentuate the commonalities between the plans - despite the above-noted differences. The reason is that, in the battle for tax reform, the real enemy is our current system.
Income tax advocates look down upon the articles of Bruce Bartlett with smug chortling, as Bruce is doing their work for them. The IRS and the liberals who want an income tax to ensure (1) taxes can be raised without the American people knowing it, and (2) wealth can be redistributed from the middle class to the poor, do not even need to fight us - we're killing ourselves!
Perhaps Mr. Bartlett believes that the flat tax will help elect Republicans, effect tax reform, and provide tax cuts; however, the real effect of his criticism is to divide conservatives, to delay serious national consideration of tax reform, and to fertilize the roots of the income tax.
( Source - Addit'l at FairTax.org Whitepaper - May republish in whole or part. - Ian)
- At 12:49am on January 3, 2009,
Daar Fisher said…
- Hi Paul , I'm the state Internal Communication Director for the Michigan FairTax Assn which works "hand in glove" with goals of the Pickens Plan because by REPLACING the Michigan income tax, families and businesses will have additional disposable monthly income to make energy utilization improvements to their homes, businesses, and transportation.
How will passage of a MI FairTax do this? It will REPLACE the income tax and current sales tax, with a consumption tax (sales tax at point of retail sale). This means that no more state tax will be withheld from Michigan wage-earners' paychecks. What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on 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.
Under the FairTax plan, points of collection are reduced to retailers many of whom are already collecting sales tax. Because service providers must account for income tax withholding and compliance costs, their prices carry a hidden tax which will become visible under the MI FairTax. (The MI FairTax EXCLUDES business-to-business purchases as this would, again, hide the cost of taxation in prices.)
Because of the prebate to ALL Michigan-resident households, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending to the poverty level; thereafter it's 9.75%. The average effective rate will be around 5.5% (see p.2 of pdf brochure).
Please, join our email list to learn how you can help advance the Michigan FairTax and facilitate Pickens Plan goals!Mike Gravel (D) - Mike Huckabee (R) - Ron Paul (Libertarian R) Why the FairTax idea is right for America's working families.
- At 9:15am on December 25, 2008,
Home Wind Turbine said…
Merry Christmas Paul,
This year I have helped so many members learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about power use, conservation, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my energy costs. Send me a friend request a to add me Paul, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Michigan: I just posted an article on my page about Home Wind Systems in Michigan. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "soft policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. You should read that article, important.
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I am trying to organize a subdivision based on Photovoltaics and Geothermal power to be "net free" of the grid, but still connected for safety and to sell power back to the grid.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I've seen windmills ALL OVER Europe, especially Germany.
- What do you want to do to help?
- E-mail. I believe wind power is just a part of the renewable energy pie. Coupled with geothermal and photovoltaic and electric/fuel cell vehicles, we'd be on the right track.
The American home uses more carbon fuels than the automobile, we need to start there to reduce our dependance on foriegn oil.
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Pickens Plan Members;
We have a home (subdivision) in the planning stages that uses a geothermal unit for heating and cooling, ccSPF (Honeywell) for insulation with the home powered by photovoltaic Atlantis Energy Sunslates. The homes also have Solar Tubes to augment lighting along with LED lighting.
Fine Homebuilding, Jan., 2008 has an article (pg. 68) about our project and it is mirrored in Mother Earth News, May or June I think.
The homes have the capability to fully power themselves, sel… Continue
We have a home (subdivision) in the planning stages that uses a geothermal unit for heating and cooling, ccSPF (Honeywell) for insulation with the home powered by photovoltaic Atlantis Energy Sunslates. The homes also have Solar Tubes to augment lighting along with LED lighting.
Fine Homebuilding, Jan., 2008 has an article (pg. 68) about our project and it is mirrored in Mother Earth News, May or June I think.
The homes have the capability to fully power themselves, sel… Continue
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