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107 headed for run off

Byline Ms. Sharon Swanepoel/The patch

With 99 percent of the precincts reporting in the Georgia House District 107 Special Election, it would appear that newcomer Paul Smith and Tom Kirby are headed for a runoff on March 6. The Special Election is to fill the unexpired term of Rep. Len Walker who resigned to take a full time ministerial position.

According to the Secretary of State website, with 41.9 percent of the votes, Smith, was the top vote getter in the Gwinnett County precincts with 525 of the 944 votes cast. Kirby got 233 votes, Michael Lynch 117 and Mark Banks 71. In Walton County, however, Banks was the top vote getter with 388 votes, Smith got 299, Kirby 232 and Lynch 99. There were 1018 votes cast in Walton County. A total of 1,962 votes were cast for the district. Of those, Smith took 822 or 41.9 percent of the vote, Kirby 465 or 23.7 percent, Banks 459 or 23.4 percent and Lynch 216 or 11 percent of the vote. Kirby, with a more even split between the two counties, was just 6 votes ahead of Banks. All four candidates were Loganville residents.

Election officials said there was a very low turnout, which is usually the case in special elections. However, with the runoff coinciding with the Georgia Republican Presidential Primary on Super Tuesday, a much higher turnout is expected. The two candidates now have less than a month to solidify their support. Neither Smith or Kirby have held elected office before.

Representative Rob Woodall

Calls for elimenation of the IRS

With tax season just around the corner, I want to call your attention to a Taxpayer Advocate report that was recently delivered to Congress discussing the abject failure of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to adequately serve America’s taxpayers. Take a look at some of their outrageous (though not altogether surprising) findings: By the end of last year, it took the

IRS more than six weeks to answer nearly half of taxpayers’ letters and faxes dealing with adjustments to their returns.

Between 2004 and last year, the agency did not even bother to answer 30% of taxpayer phone calls.

Over the previous decade, 4,428 changes have been made to our 3.8 million-word tax code.

Americans already waste $431 billion per year complying with our tax code, yet the IRS is clearly incapable of doing its part by providing basic services to those taxpayers – such as picking up the phone. What does the IRS demand as a solution to its failures, More of your money. That’s right – the IRS wants an increase to the $11.8 billion they have already been given. We don’t need to reform the IRS; we need to eliminate it.

That is why I am championing H.R. 25, the FairTax, which would dismantle the IRS and replace our current tax code with a 23% consumption tax at the final point of purchase for new goods and services. Not only would the FairTax do away with the headache of income tax compliance, it would also replace all other federal taxes. Congress wouldn’t need to continue debating whether or not Americans should get another two-month “holiday” from the payroll tax – the FairTax would permanently eliminate it. We wouldn’t have to keep fighting over which industries should continue to be subsidized with federal dollars in this budget-slashing era; the FairTax would eliminate them all and level the playing field for everyone. Our current tax code is not doing America any favors. In fact, it is literally destroying economic growth and productivity. The sheer complexity of the law – taxpayers had to deal with 579 changes in 2010 alone – forces businesses to redirect precious resources from investment in new capital to tax code compliance. Instead of spending the $431 billion each year hiring new employees or investing in innovation, businesses are forced to spend the money complying with our punitive tax laws. Couple that with the fact that we have the highest book effective tax rate in the world, and it becomes clear that we need to scrap our tax code and start over.

In a speach give in April 2009

By Presidend Obama

" WE MUST SIMPLIFY A MONSTROUS TAX CODE, THAT IS FOR TO COMPLICATED FOR MOST AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND, BUT JUST COMPLICATED ENOUGHT FOR THE INSIDERS TO GAME THESYSTEM".

Mr. President, we couldn't agree more!

PASS HR. 25 the FAIRTAX

REPRESENTING WALTON COUNTY