Pledge/Prayer: - President Peter
Song: - Andy Anderson
Brents Flim/Flam: - Low hand won by President Peter.
Sergeants Report: -
Guests: Officer Sam Barnes, DARE Program Coordinator, Principal Mike Rafferty,
Approximately 20 kids and parents.
Dan Dyer - Today's Program
Raffle Winners: - Paul Moore, Lee David and Sam Barnes
Happy $'s: - Many for DARE group visiting us. Many for great Golf Tourney & Brent
and Sandy's role in it. President Peter for winning the Flim/Flam.
Announcements: - John Donnelly has books for Ghana on tables again today.
Gerry introduced Sam Barnes who had all the DARE kids come forward
and 3 read excerps from their essays. Principal Mike Rafferty spoke on
how well the program is working in O.S.
Brent indicated we probably made between $22-23K on golf tournement.
Program: Bill Bernhart introduced Dan Dyer who spoke on the "Fair Tax System"
Dan is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School. His topic
was "the Fair Tax Act of 2007" (HR25/S1025) which is in committee and has 72
co-sponsors. He claims families are facing a large financial hole because
federal revenues and GDP are not in sync. We also have a $345 billion gap of
uncollected taxes. The "Fair Tax" proposal would abolish all federal taxes in place
today and would be replaced with a progressive 23% retail sales tax on all goods
and services and a nominal 'prebate' (a small refund to everyone to cover a small
portion of basic needs). Anticipated benefits would be to pump up the GDP,
make our goods and services more affordable to us and abroad making us more
competitive in world markets. Another major benefit would be no individual tax
filings! Hooray, sorry John D.! The idea is to fairly tax consumption and not the
production of wealth. For more information go to www.Fairtax.org.
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