Day: July 10, 2012

GOP Seeks Vols

The Delaware County Republican Party is seeking volunteers for this year’s fall campaign. Those interested should contact Aaron Summers at 484-222-1388 or asummers@pagop.org

The office is on the second floor of the Springfield Shopping Center, 1001 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, next to the old Borders bookstore.

Voter ID Or Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

The old media tools of the Democrat Party are screaming now that Pennsylvania’s new law requiring voters to present photo identification at polling places is going to disenfranchise 750,000 voters.

They claim that  750,000 registered voters have no photo identification. 
In other words, they are saying that in a state with 12.7 million persons,  750,000 adult Pennsylvanians’ can’t either:
1. Drive or
2. Cash a check or
3. Get treatment from the Veterans Administration or
4. Open a bank account or
5. Go to their classes or events at an accredited college or
6. Enter their job site as an employee with the county/state/federal government or
7. Buy booze or cigarettes if they look under 30 or
8.  Get a library card or
9. Get a supermarket rewards card or
10. Use the nursing care facility to which they belong.
In other words, the Democrat propagandists are claiming that there are 750,000 Pennsylvanians ineligible to do at least one of these things — these are “or” statements we are talking people not “and” statements.
So is this true or were there 750,000 thousand people registered to vote in this state that did not exist?
Just one of those things that make you go hmmmm

She’s A Rich Girl And She’s Left America

Denise Rich, the wealthy liberal socialite who convinced Bill Clinton to give a pardon to her ex-hubby Marc, has renounced her American citizenship to save tens of millions in taxes.

Marc, by the way, was not suffering in some dingy prison when he got the papers telling him he was a free man. He was in Switzerland where he had been staying when the indictment came down that he was being charged with tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He naturally never returned to the U.S.

How Denise got him the pardon is a matter of some speculation.

As Sir John Harrington once said,  “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

Corbett Returns To Family Farms Protection Taken By Rendell

The governor has signed into HB 761 into Act 85 and transfers of family farms for corporate liability reasons are now exempted from the realty transfer tax reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

Excluded from the tax is the “transmission of real estate devoted to agriculture if the transfer is to a family farm, general, limited or limited-liability partnership by a member of the same family and the family directly owns at least 75 percent of the interests in the partnership,” says Cox. It would also exempt a transfer between members of the same family of an ownership interest in a real estate company, family farm corporation, general, limited or limited-liability partnership which owns real estate. 

It further exempts the transfer of certain agricultural real estate and property to a surviving child or sibling from the state’s inheritance tax by exempting from the realty transfer tax a transfer of real estate used for agriculture by a family member to family farm business controlled by the same members of the same family. In other cases, the realty transfer tax is imposed at 2 percent of the value of the property being transferred. 

The law reverses a policy change enacted during the Rendell administration which allows the state to collect taxes from a farm owner who reorganizes his or her agricultural business for corporate liability reasons. A 2000 court decision established the principle that a conveyance of realty owned by a general partnership to a “succeeding” limited partnership would not be considered a “transfer of realty” if the partners and proportionate share of ownership interests among the partners remains the same.