Legally, he's only required to release 2 year's worth of returns. This whole hullabaloo is simply to find fodder to demonize him with & to deflect attention off of Obama

Unlike almost every other country in the world, the US requires (and has always required, as far as I know) ALL its citizens (and indeed green card holders) to file tax returns every year; and they tax or attempt to tax unearned income (including very small pensions) over about $10,000 a year. The earned income allowance is something like $90,000 a year. I don't remember exactly, because my wife, who is a US citizen, don't earn more than a tiny fraction of that. But each year, she dutifully file taxes. The only way to get out of it is to give up US citizenship; or, in my case, to return my green card, which I did as soon as I found out about this ridiculous requirement.

I paid every cent of tax that was due when I lived in the US, as I have in the other countries in which I have lived, but you need to be a lunatic to pay tax in a country where you don't live, and of which you are not a citizen. Here's a simple message to those who wish to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, which applies in every country in the world, regardless of where you choose to make your home: GO AWAY. WE DON'T NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

Cheers,

R.

An ancient Mayan calendar has been discovered that predicted that the end of the world would be on this date. I don't know about you but I am so tired about hearing people predict the end of the world based on something or another. Isn't it time we learned to live fully in the hear and now and stopped worrying about the future.

A letter from Jim DeMint, one of our representatives from South Carolina

Dear Friend,

The Supreme Court may have failed to stop this government takeover of health care, but the American people will not. Since the day this law was rammed through Congress, the American people have demanded repeal, and today’s ruling doesn’t make Obamacare any less dangerous to our nation’s health. Freedom-loving Americans are disappointed, but we cannot be discouraged.

The President's health care law must be fully repealed as all of its promises have proven false. We were told it was not a tax hike, but this ruling confirms it is an unprecedented and enormous tax on the poor and middle class Americans. President Obama needs to explain why he is enacting this middle class tax hike over the objections of the American people during the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression.

We were told it would lower health costs, but health care premiums are exploding. We were told that Americans could keep their personal health plans, but millions will now lose it. We were told it would improve our economy, but it is now the largest obstacle to employers hiring new workers.

This government takeover of health care remains as destructive, unsustainable, and unconstitutional as it was the day it was passed, unread, by a since-fired congressional majority. Now as then, our first step toward real health care reform and economic renewal remains Obamacare's full repeal, down to the last letter and punctuation mark.

I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges that would help implement the harmful effects of this misguided law. Americans have loudly rejected this federal takeover of health care, and governors should join with the people and reject its implementation.

The Presidents health care law will not reform anything, but is already undermining what does still work in America’s health care system. We cannot build a free market health care system on this flawed structure of centralized government control, we must repeal all of it and start over with commonsense solutions that make health care more affordable and accessible for every American. We can allow Americans to purchase lower cost plans from other states, support state high-risk pools to cover those with pre-existing conditions, medical-malpractice reform to end frivolous lawsuits, and tax equity so Americans who don’t get their health insurance from an employer are not penalized.

Today's decision, however unfortunate, nonetheless represents an opportunity to all Americans, to claim their right to create a health care system of, for, and by the people, not government or special interests. The American people now have the chance and Congress has the responsibility to fully repeal this Washington takeover and reform health care ourselves, together, around the principles of individual liberty, not government mandates.

The same freedom that made America strong and prosperous will make us healthier, too, so long as politicians remember that the health care system is supposed to serve our people, and not the other way around.

Sincerely,

Jim DeMint (R-SC)

It is probably true that Democrats cheat, as they did in Cook County, Illinois, 1960. However, the ones who get away with cheating are those who are in control. They make the rules and have most of the key posts manned by their own people. Currently, the Republicans have most state and local offices.

It is not easy for Democrats to cheat in too manny places. In fact, the Republicans are notorious for sending their goons to primary Democratic precincts to intimidate everyone they can into not voting. They also challenge people's right to vote, often without the slightest pretext, other than profiling. So where have the Democrats cheated lately on a massive scale, such as the Republicans did in Florida 2000, and Ohio, 2004?

One other point; it is true that strict laws on voter identification eliminate a few illegal votes, but that is not their purpose. Republican internal memos have repeatedly leaked, revealing an overt campaign to suppress the voter turnout. The truth is that despite the plutocrats and twisted-thinking average wage earners who vote for them, the Republicans still have the support only of a minority of Americans. If they can keep most of the voters at home they win. Democratic voters are not as diligent about their right/duty to vote, and can more easily be kept away from the polls. For every attempted Democratic voter fraud that Republican rules stop, they stop dozens of legitimate voters, and that is their real, often admitted purpose.