HELP I’M BEING TAXED TO DEATH … or at least it feels that way sometimes. Each day I awake anticipating the mysteries of what the day might have in store for me and while it will keep me guessing, there’s always two things I have no doubt about: God has once again blessed me with a new day - and my government will come up with a new way … to add taxes to something else.

Most of us don’t really give much thought to the amount we pay annually in taxes and we tend to think of taxes in the context of our annual Federal Income Tax Returns. Or, for those of us required to file State Income Tax Returns, we pat ourselves on the back once we have completed this task (big job) with a sigh of relief, until the next tax filing season rolls around.

Business owners don’t fall prey to this folly, they know all too well the task is a regular aspect of doing business. I won’t go into that lion’s den today though, because we are talking taxes and not Business.

Have you ever stopped to think about how much of your hard earned dollars go to taxes? Do you think you know what your ‘tax bracket’ really is? For most of us, our most generous ‘guestimate’ is probably an understatement. I’m sure there are many of us who deliberately avoid any thought on the topic, for it would depress us to death. Those are some options folks - let me see … do I want to be taxed to death or depressed to death? Decisions, decisions!

Here’s a small sample of some of the taxes we pay in our (USA) country:

• Accounts Receivable Tax
• Boating License Tax
• Building Permit Tax
• Capital Gains Tax
• CDL License Tax
• Cigarette Tax
• City Tax
• Corporate Income Tax
• County Tax
• Dividends Earned Tax
• Dog License Tax
• Excess Earnings Tax
• Federal Income Tax
• Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
• Fishing License Tax
• Food License Tax
• Fuel Permit Tax
• Gift Tax
• Gasoline Tax
• Hunting License Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Interest Earned Tax
• Inventory Tax
• IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
• IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
• Liquor Tax
• Local Income Tax
• Luxury Tax
• Marriage License Tax
• Medicare Tax
• Per Diem Tax
• Personal Property Tax
• Real Property Tax
• Service charge taxes
• Social Security Tax
• Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
• Sales Taxes (Alabama taxes almost everything)
• Recreational Vehicle Tax
• School Tax
• State Income Tax
• State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
• Telephone Federal Excise Tax
• Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
• Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
• Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
• Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
• Telephone State and Local Tax
• Telephone Usage Charge Tax
• Usage Tax
• Utility Tax
• Vehicle License Registration Tax
• Vehicle Sales Tax
• Watercraft Registration Tax
• Well Permit Tax
• Workers Compensation Tax

I don’t know about you, but I want to know where all that tax money is going? For those who have fallen upon hard times, they know all too well, it can’t be going toward any type of services we can collect. If you want some of those tax dollars back via government programs to the needy, you have to lose everything you own first. And for those whom find themselves that unfortunate, if they ever manage to get back on their feet - the government is going to come knocking, to ensure they get back everything you collected from them, and then some.

So just where are all those tax dollars going? I’m sure if you polled one hundred people, you would get at least thirty different answers, with explanations that all boil down to the same basic analysis … “I don’t know, I just pay what I’m told I owe.”

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Predicted as the final day of mankind, December 21, 2012 has grabbed a lot of attention in recent years. From Mayan calendar predictions, The Free Masons, and even Hollywood movies; the debate is on and how it’s debated depends on whom is doing the debating. Wow what a debate!

But what do we actually know about December 21, 2012?

We know an astrological event will take place. One that hasn’t occurred for approximately 26,000 years (a half cycle) - Galactical Alignment. [Boy, could I get into some number games here: half year=26 weeks, etc.]

When the sun is in Leo or Aquarius it is in Galactical Alignment: The Sun appears to rise directly in the center of the galaxy. While the Sun will be in Leo on December 21, 2012; we will be in the ‘Age of Aquarius’ once again.

Approximately 26,000 years ago, when the Sun was in the ‘Age of Aquarius’, that Galactical Alignment resulted in an ‘Ice Age’. Major climatic changes take place during these alignments, as history has shown us.

But, I personally believe we hold the key to ‘how’ December 21, 2012 plays out. While there will be profound change, I do not believe it will be the end of civilization. Rather, I think it will be the end of how we know all things to be and a new beginning of what can come to be.

I DO believe our path can be predicted by our actions and that, in essence will determine our future. I also believe the fear concerning our Electro-Magnetic Shield is well founded, but not in the sense predicted - I believe we have more control over that, then first suspected.

I do not believe a total flip will occur, but do suspect a shift of might occur.

I suspect also, that on December 21, 2012 time will start a slowing process - once again - but this will only  afford us every opportunity to heed these warnings. For those of us over the age of forty, the phrase “Time just keeps going faster, doesn’t it?” is all too familiar. The skeptic will say time ’seems’ to go faster as we get older, but in reality measures at the same occurrence. Seems? Or maybe the more we try to cheat time, the more we get cheated of that time?

The Hopi Indians have the Blue Star and the ‘Rock’ drawing depicting a choice of two paths. “Those who cannot celebrate change… will drop dead from their own fear.”

In addition to Nostradamus and Robert Fuller, there is Edgar Cayce - The greatest foreseer of our time.

Edgar Cayce (14,000 readings over 45 years) Diagnosed diseases in his sleep. Born March 18, 1877, near rural Hopkinsville, Kentucky - he was born to a family of dedicated, Church going farmers.  It is said he could memorize an entire book, simply by sleeping on it.

March 30, 1901 he did his first reading, for his own health - describing his ailment and the cure. Cayce’s reading were done during a relaxed or sleeping [trance like] state. Oddly enough, Cayce did not remember what his ‘readings’ were in his waking state.

After suffering severe migraines from doing these readings, Cayce moved to Selma Alabama in 1912 and took up photography again. After being badly burned in an accident, he was told he wouldn’t be able to see well enough to continue pursuing this career. Again he would overcome.

Gladys Davis is the stenographer responsible for the recordation of Edgar Cayce’s predictions and readings, and the reason we are aware of these 14,000 readings today. From ‘reading’ the cure for his dying wife to the prediction in 1935, foretelling World War.

Edgar Cayce moved to Virgina Beach in 1925, where he lived until his death on January 3, 1945; but his prophecies continue to live to this day.

But truly, the most amazing of all these things (Nostradamus, predictions, prophecies, Cayce, etc.) is the Bible Code.  The Cities Experiment, was a secret project to debunk the Bible Code by one Harold Gans, A senior code-breaker at the US Department of Defence; but instead proved the theory via science and logic. Read more about Bible Code here.

Since I am not a Scientist nor Mathematician, my definition [or attempt] to define this coding will most likely appear fallible to the expert, however I will make a layman [woman] attempt, we the average people will understand:

Bible Coding: Conceptually related words are encoded within the writings using a mathematical pattern. The ‘code’ or encoding theory is tested by challenging the repeat occurrence odds and probabilities - against the actual repeat of occurrences of that ‘pattern’ within the writings. When the results defy the odds of probabilities of “chance occurrence” in repeated pattern, science and logic must conclude such as deliberate as opposed to coincidence.

In other words, if the odds of a single occurrence were 1 in 10,000; and the odds of two like occurrences of the same increased to 1 in 50,000; when the same pattern was witnessed several or numerous times within the same context, the odds then defy anything other than a deliberate occurrence.

All these facts and theories have the commonality of astrological reference. Looking to the stars doesn’t seem so foolish anymore - does it? As to what December 21, 2012 holds for mankind, our days of guessing are near an end and the answers are close at hand. Which path will you choose?

Try your own free search on Bible Code.

Other sites of interest:

Bible Code II

The Ice Ages

History of the Universe

Astrology in History

Mayan Calendar

Mayan Calendar & Gregorian Calendar Tools - Kewl Site

2012: Mayan Calendar does not predict the end, but rather a new beginning.