Kristen Bell"s tweet advocating taxing the rich sets off Fox News

Kristen Bell"s tweet advocating taxing the rich sets off Fox News
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Actresses Kristen Bell, pictured at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Veronica Mars’ last week, caused much grumbling at Fox News over her tweet about taxing the rich.

“Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell is getting panned by her toughest critics – Fox News.

The right-leaning news network’s Neil Cavuto slammed the 33-year-old actress for a tweet that called for the rich to be taxed at a higher rate.

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“Should the star of Veronica Mars just go live n Mars,” asked Cavuto opening the Wednesday night segment of Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto.”

His guest Dave Maney, the CEO of Deke Digital, chimed in by suggesting that Bell, herself a millionaire, could donate extra money to the government if she so chose.

Maney then speculated that Bell’s real motive was to get some publicity for her latest film – “Veronica Mars” opened last Friday.

“Kristen is a pretty savvy social media promoter of herself and her film is not doing too well at the box office and I think it was a good way to get her name in the news,” he said.

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Host Neil Cavuto (l.) and guest Dave Maney slammed the 33-year-old actress for suggestion that the government raise taxes on the rich.

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Bell whipped up an Internet debate when she tweeted Wednesday:

Conservatives were not so impressed with Bell’s proposed taxation policy.

Cavuto and Maney went from deriding Bell — who also voiced the main character in Disney’s hit animated film “Frozen” — to complaining about how the federal government wasted the tax dollars that it did receive.

“But she was great in ‘Frozen,’” Cavuto concluded of Bell at the end of the segment.

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Washington State Edges Closer to Taxing Drivers by the Mile

Washington State Edges Closer to Taxing Drivers by the Mile
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Lawmakers ludicrously claim tax-per-mile needed to offset prevalence of fuel-efficient cars

Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
January 31, 2014

Lawmakers in Washington state are edging closer to implementing a new system that would monitor and tax drivers based on miles driven, under a new highway funding proposal.

Lawmakers claim tax-per-mile needed due to prevalence of fuel-efficient cars. / Image: Flickr

The Washington State Transportation Commission says the motor fuel tax, which currently pays for 76% of transportation investments, is unsustainable “over the long term.”

In a dizzying twist of logic, the Transportation Commission blames the prevalence of fuel-efficient cars as the reason the state now needs a per-mile tax, arguing that “the move to cleaner, smarter vehicles must be accompanied by a change in the way we pay for our roads.”

“According to the study, drivers could be charged three ways; either with a flat-fee, by having odometers checked, or with an electronic device installed in cars to measure how many miles are driven,” a King 5 News report states.

Last week, a committee set up by the Transportation Commission, after conducting a $ 1.4 million study, reported the fee could generate upwards of $ 3 billion. By 2015, Wasington lawmakers hope to roll out a pilot program in order to gauge the amount of public resistance to the new tax.

As expected, however, not everyone is happy with the idea of having to pitch in to help the state. “I choose to drive a car that takes less gas,” Portland resident Hayley Ramerman says, “so I think I shouldn’t have to be charged more because I’m choosing to drive a car that is more fuel efficient.”

Others are concerned the technology used by the state to monitor driving habits poses broad privacy rights violations. “[I]t’s the “black box” system in particular that’s untenable: It would force us to surrender our privacy,” Mark Perry, a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, said last year. “Each day more and more of us are required to tell government agencies more and more about ourselves. Do we really want the government collecting data about driving habits?”

Last year, Oregon launched its own tax-per-mile scheme and began charging drivers a 1.5 cent fee. And it’s going to get worse before it gets any better.

“The incentive for states to pursue this kind of program could build as cars become more fuel efficient, especially considering President Obama wants new vehicles to get 54.5 mpg by 2025, up from the average now of 23.5 mpg’s,” according to a report filed by Fox News.

Boiling frog anecdote used to convince Washingtonians that tax-per-mile is needed.

In an informational produced by the Transportation Commission, the anecdote of the boiling frog is used to relate how the rise of fuel-efficient vehicles will spell certain disaster for highway funding efforts. It also lists other states considering implementation of a similar tax, states like Nevada, Minnesota, Colorado and California and a stretch of Highway I-95 which runs from Maine to Florida.

As Infowars and others have exposed, these measures have been long in coming. Since as early as 1997, radio host Alex Jones has been warning of a plan to put GPS tracking devices in all vehicles. Now people, like the executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Governments, are claiming “This really is a must for our nation.”

Since 2004, state legislators have waged an uphill battle attempting to convince citizens to sign on to similar taxes. According to one non-scientific poll, conducted by a local TV station in California, however, 95 percent of viewers, out of 339 people who voted, were against the tax.

In the grander scheme, the plan to tax per mile ultimately follows goals set forth in the United Nation’s notorious Agenda 21 action plan, which among other things purportedly seeks to “Encourage economic policies conducive to sustainable development.”

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UPDATE 2-Britain considers taxing foreign property investors as house prices soar

UPDATE 2-Britain considers taxing foreign property investors as house prices soar
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:16am EDT





* Move could help cool London’s red-hot housing market




* Overseas buyers currently exempt from capital gains tax




* Change likely to be announced in early Dec




* Bank of England says property market driving recovery




By Christina Fincher




LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Britain is considering slapping capital gains tax on foreign property investors, local media reported on Thursday, hours after data showed house prices rising at the fastest pace in over three years.




Such a move could ease fears of a housing bubble, particularly in London, where demand from cash-rich Russian oligarchs and Middle East investors among others has helped lift prices more than 10 percent in a year.




Some Britons feel they are being priced out of the housing market, although home owners generally welcome higher prices.




Sky News said Treasury officials had costed the measure ahead of finance minister George Osborne’s “Autumn Statement” on Britain’s finances on Dec. 4.




Spokesmen for the finance ministry and Prime Minister David Cameron said Sky’s story was speculation and declined to comment further.




Overseas investors have been big buyers of London property over the past few years, lured by Britain’s safe-haven status and the prospect of capital appreciation and attractive rental yields.




Estate agents Knight Frank calculate that foreign buyers account for 70 percent of all new-build property sales in prime central London.




Figures from the Nationwide earlier on Thursday showed house prices across the country rising at an annual rate of almost 6 percent – eight times faster than average incomes.




Britons have to pay capital gains tax – typically at 28 percent – if they make a profit when reselling any property that is not considered their primary residence. But foreign property investors have hitherto been exempt, unlike in many other European countries.




“Charging non-resident property owners capital gains tax on sales of second homes in the UK would bring the UK into line with what happens on most of mainland Europe,” said Ronnie Ludwig, partner at accountants Saffery Champness.




“This could adversely affect the market for foreign second home owners in the UK, particularly in the traditionally up-market areas.”




The plight of first-time homebuyers is moving up the political agenda ahead of an election due in 2015. The government has introduced measures to help less-well off homebuyers get mortgages but has had to fend off criticism that, by pushing up prices, its “Help to Buy” scheme simply makes matters worse.




Grainne Gilmore, Knight Frank’s head of UK residential research, said it was hard to gauge how demand would be affected without seeing the small print.




“Tax is not the primary reason why global property investors come to London, but a change of this sort would have an impact,” she said.




Property consultant Savills calculates the value of London property has risen by 140 billion pounds over the last five years to stand 14.2 percent above its 2007 peak.




It says 10 London boroughs – Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Wandsworth, Barnet, Camden, Richmond, Ealing, Bromley, Hammersmith & Fulham and Lambeth – now have an aggregate property value equivalent to the total value of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined.





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