Your Tax Dollars at Work. Funding Sex Change Operations, e.g. (Infuriating!)

They say that if you stack the US Tax Code one page upon another, the pile of paper will reach into the heavens. I’m sure that’s true, for two very simple reasons.

First, like most laws written in Washington, those seeking special consideration in the code have lobbied for language that addresses their individual concerns, and nearly everyone is seeking special consideration these days. Second, if “we the people” knew exactly what Washington was doing with all of our hard earned money, there would be a lynch mob on the steps of congress before sundown…so keeping the details buried in a mountain of legal jargon might be a matter of life and death, at least for a few politicians.

As an example, most American taxpayers are aware of that little piece of case law known as Roe vs. Wade, which has resulted in the senseless murder of more than 40 million innocent American children and most US taxpayers oppose this inhumane affront on the Constitutional Right to Life.

But most are not aware that every taxpayer in America is subsidizing the practice. That’s right; atop the list of legitimate Medical Expense Deductions in the IRS Code is Abortion, which means every US taxpayer is picking up the tab.

In addition to written tax code, we have the equivalent of case law, (activist administrators, just like activist judges), whereby a single individuals interpretation is often used to expand the scope of the written law, providing special consideration for special interests not specifically addressed in the written code itself.

Such is the case with a recent taxpayer funded Sex Change Operation. Generally speaking, elective, specifically cosmetic surgeries such as breast augmentations, face lifts or liposuction, are not deductible as a medical expense from ones personal taxes, appropriately so.

However a tax examiner’s refusal to allow the medical expenses related to Rhiannon O'Donnabhain's sex-change operation was recently overturned and allowed by IRS Commissioner Mark Everson. "This important decision recognizes that sex reassignment can be as medically necessary for some people as an appendectomy or heart bypass surgery,” said GLAD attorney Karen Loewy, Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.

What some argue is a physical birth defect; others argue is simply a mental malfunction. Either way, “we the self-governed”, have a Right to decide if our tax dollars will be used to pay for things such as abortion or sex change operations.

On December 14, 2004, the Traditional Values Coalition issued a letter to IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, urging him to reverse his decision which allowed the use of tax dollars to fund sex change operations.

They have also prepared an E-Mail Campaign asking American taxpayers to join in their effort to stop the IRS from funding gender-reassignment procedures with taxpayer money. The same should be done regarding public reimbursement of abortion expenses.

This is just the beginning. Over the years, our tax dollars have been increasingly redirected from there legitimate intended purposes, to literally thousands of misguided special interest programs that the taxpayers themselves would never knowingly support.

This is accomplished by quietly altering tax code to provide a deduction, a reduction in tax obligation for those having an abortion or sex change operation in this case, at the ultimate expense of taxpayers who predominantly oppose these procedures.

If congress introduced a law asking for direct public support by means of specifically funding such programs, the bill would never make it to a floor vote, and any member of congress who supported the bill would likely have a very short political career.

So instead, these funding modifications are done by means of tax deductions, hidden in mountains of tax code that even tax preparers don’t fully understand. The American taxpayers only see a growing federal budget, and a shrinking paycheck, having no real idea where all that money is going.

For every deduction in the tax code, there is a politician who is responding to the demand of a constituent somewhere. There are thousands of them today and not even those who make their living as tax preparers know them all.

When the Bush administration talks about simplifying the tax code, many taxpayers jump for joy. But many others dependent on public financial support, even those seeking public financial assistance with their abortion or sex change, cringe at the thought of anyone opening the tax code for scrutiny.

The 2004 election was decided largely on the basis of restoring traditional American moral values. But we can’t just stop at the voting booth once every four years, returning to our couch and TV remote as though our work here is done.

As we have seen over and over, even alleged conservatives in Washington often find themselves on the wrong side of these issues, pressured by Hollywood, a media with an “everything goes” left-wing agenda, and the very squeaky wheel of secular special interest activists.

It will take years to unravel and reverse all the damage done to our society as we slept peacefully assuming our elected officials were standing watch. True conservatives must now finish what we started in the 2000 and 2004 elections. We must remain engaged and involved for the duration, taking personal responsibility for returning America to its heritage of traditional moral values.

It isn’t enough to simply block repeated attacks on our entire value system, leaving a vacuum of non-values in our wake. We have to be pro-active, replacing immoral and inhumane values with virtues that protect Life and promote a healthy society.

Getting behind this effort to stop public funding of Sex Change Operations is as good a place to start as any. We can’t afford to shrink from our personal responsibility to act every time an opportunity arises; we have to be in this for the long haul.

We also can’t afford to worry about what names we will be called as a result of our efforts! We are “conservatives”, and in most cases “Christians”. There’s not much worse one can be called these days anyway…other than maybe “rich” too, a lethal combination that makes you everyone’s target!

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"However a tax examiner’s refusal to allow the medical expenses related to Rhiannon O'Donnabhain's sex-change operation was recently overturned and allowed by IRS Commissioner Mark Everson.

I lived in San Francisco and it's even worse than a simple tax deduction there. All public employees have, as a "Normal" part of their City paid health benefits the inclusion of sex change operations. I decided that, after watching "Ebonics" espoused as the preferred method of Public School instruction, this was the last straw - I left and haven't looked back!

That's how I feel about Virginia. And despite what others may say, it wasn't about 'skin color'. Its a cultural movement that's left no one out. Dumbed down language, crass behavior, drug dealers ruling the streets, and a welfare system that ties all but those with the most initiative to it forever while teaching the recipients that they are owed it.

I moved to Colorado and haven't looked back.

Amen - Were they doing this Ebonics nonsense in Virginia too? If so, I'm surprised. I thought only the super Dumba$$es of the Bay Area in CA were interested in making sure their high-school graduates wouldn't be able to participate in a simple job interview!

Boy gymnast wants to be on girls' team
Student challenges sport rules because no male competitions

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41984

A Wisconsin boy looking to compete on his school's girls' gymnastic team is now taking legal action to gain access.

The teen's school does not have a boys' gymnastic team, and he feels officials have no right to exclude him from the girls' team – especially since girls, he says, have been allowed to compete on male teams, like football and wrestling in recent years.

They weren't doing Ebonics but were absolutely dumbing down language... And dumbed down language was certainly acceptable. There were office workers at my son's school who's conjugation of verbs, and sentence structure would make your eyes bulge.

But it was more than that that made me give up and just let the animals have that area. Its a combination of all those things I mentioned in my earlier post, and that I have 2 kids that I didn't want to grow up saturated by that culture (I'm using that term in its loosest sense).

What is really sad, and frustrating, is those amoung us who encourage that mindset of entitlement and low achievement. They are hurting not just the folks on whom they foist this mentality. They are hurting the country as a whole...Every taxpayer, and every future generation.

Once you acquiesce, its all downhill from there.

We had a speicialized form of Ebonics here in east Texas, called Etonics. It did not have the proper syntax of Ebonics but was culturally derived and worked well here in this part of the country. Seriously, can you believe we had a serious national debate about Ebonics? Hope you didn't move to the Boulder area. Very politically correct.

Yes. In one of my past incarnations I used to go to Campuses to interview potential hires for a top tier Management Consulting Firm. I was at the same time amazed and depressed at the very evident lack of academic preparation these students possessed - many of them postgraduate and from the so-called top schools.

I also had the misfortune of running my own business in Marin County CA and, I can tell you as evidenced by the scars on my back (Figuratively, of course!), that was where the rubber met the road in terms of low standards and failures of the educational system as exhibited by many employees on the one hand and government obstruction and overall impediment on the other.

Both phases of my career were eye openers and definitely raised alarm bells re: The future of the Society. I think it was at this point that I determined to get the H*ll out of California and, as I indicated in my previous post, I haven't looked back since.

One question: Is giving a tax deduction for a medical treatment, the same as publicly funding it?

If this is a a medical condition, having its origins in prenatal endocrine factors, it would seem the condition should be treated like any other medical condition, for tax purposes. The medical literature does report a very high suicide rate (greater than 50%) for patients afflicted with the condition. Conventional therapy has not worked for these patients. Wasting lives seem to be of little value.

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