Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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Look at the site. Post on in there. Pepsi is really trying to capitalize on the state of things. But I can't really decide what they are attempting to do. Venerate Brand Image? Expand brand awareness? Impressions to sales? I don't think an avid Coke consumer is going to buy Pepsi now because they want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. I mean, on the whole, do people really deep down care? "In reality, PepsiCo owns some of the most sought after brands in the world, including Gatorade, Tropicana, Frito-Lay, and Doritos. It does business in more than 200 countries worldwide, including key emerging market economies like China and India". So this global "one love" thing-how is it going to help? In this author's mind, I think it is going to raise audience involvement and make Pepsi a more personal brand. The cause is to tap into cause-related marketing or pro-social marketing, by which corporations seek to back up their talk about benefiting society.
So Coke and Pepsi couldn't compete in price anymore. Now they get to compete in who is more of a philanthropist. Pepsi points a finger saying Coke capped its donations at $500,000 and says look at us we are doing 40 times that. Coke comes back and says, "[it]will donate a dollar to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America each time a visitor to the Coca-Cola fan page on Facebook (facebook.com/livepositively) shares a virtual Coke gift" and that the 500k was only "a portion of the almost $60 million in cash and in-kind donations".
Either way it is showing innovation and evolution of the advertising industry.
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On August 15th of last year something really weird happened. A book about taxes was pronounced a #1 New York Times Bestseller. The book was called The Fair Tax Book by Neal Boortz and John Linder. Here’s the cliff notes version of the book: it covered the history of the American tax system, how the practice of withholding came to pass, put a price tag on compliance, shined a spotlight on hidden costs, and finally is showed how H.R. 25 (The FairTax) would solve it all.
Quite simply, FairTax is a progressive national sales tax at 23%. Federal income tax and payroll based taxes would be abolished (Yay.). It would tax you only on what you spend and not on what you earn. Despite what some up on the hill say, it is a nonpartisan movement. I mean, party doesn’t really come into play when you start saying things about no IRS. Think about it. The repeal of the 16th Amendment isn’t a small task and the bill does have its critics but still, the idea of take “home pay” just being-pay does seem to resonate. But how much does the average American really know about the dealing of the IRS? What are the Federal Tax Withholding Tabels?
Why is our tax code under such scrutiny? When you have 3,697,733 words to it (Title 26) it’s easy to understand. It also becomes obvious then, why so many of us have difficulty understanding the process and then attempting to file correctly every year.
The largest complaints against the plan is that the price of goods and services would increase, the tax isn’t indexed for inflation, it could open up “black markets” to avoid taxation, it doesn’t solve high taxation for government spending and that a blanket sales tax would be disastrous for our economic freedom. As I said there was quite a bit of criticism about the Fair Tax system and the nixing of the revered IRS. So Boortz and Linder fired back in 2008 with another book: FairTax: The Truth.
It is a huge movement with quite a large following. Google ”FairTax” or “fair tax“ and you will come up with 51,900,000 hits. A number of congressional committees have heard testimony on the proposed reform, the bill now has 21 co-sponsors in DC and a number of economists say it would pump life into our dying economy. There is even an organization dedicated to its implementation: Americans For Fair Taxation .
Our constitution says,
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
So they can tax us to death so long as we the people are willing to stand for it? So does it really make sense or is it just acceptance? Either way, I would advise you to do some research of your own and just hop off that fence.
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We’ve all see those commercials with the three guys jamming out in mom’s basement, in the Geo Metro, at the pirate restaurant, and at the renaissance fair. Freecreditreport.com is the name of the site. That’s exactly what we’re looking for right? A credit report that costs us nothing. Too good to be true= fine print. Those dudes with their catchy songs about credit scores and their funny outfits and atmospheres were all smoke screens! “Monitoring with Experian begins within 48 hours of enrollment in your free trial. Monitoring with Equifax and TransUnion takes approximately 4 days to begin, though in some cases cannot be initiated during your trial period. You may cancel your trial membership any time within 9 days of enrollment without charge.” Whoa! The sites called freecreditreport.com. Capitalism at its best.
There are three main nationwide consumer credit reporting companies:
· Equifax: 1-877-576-5734; www.alerts.equifax.com
· Experian: 1-888-397-3742; www.experian.com/fraud
· TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289; www.transunion.com
You are entitled to one free report from each every 12 months under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. They can be requested all at once or spread out over the year. You can request your free report online, by phone or by mail. Visit AnnualCreditReport.com, call 1-877-322-8228, or fill out the Annual Credit Report Request form and mail it to Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281. It just goes to show, consumers are only as smart as advertisers allow us to be. There are organizations in this country that make millions off a service consumers can get for free. God bless America. Why? Well, it’s because research is too complicated and tedious and advertising is too expensive for the government to indulge in. Or maybe it’s because these companies generate money that the government then get a chunk of on the back end in taxes.
Hope this has been informative and will save a couple blue and white collars out there some change.