Calling all Design Divas!!!

Okay friends, most of you know that I am not very confident in my decorating skills. I am constantly asking my friends to come over and make decisions for me. Well, today I went out of my comfort zone and tried a new thing. I had the opportunity to go to a Hobby Lobby today where florals were 50% off. I also found a pretty red container that was on clearance. My foyer is very blank even though we've been in this house since March. I wanted to add a little color, but I'm not sure it looks right. I also don't know what else to add to the area if this is approved by my viewers. Please comment and let me know what you think and give me advice on what else I should do to this space. Thanks!

My blank space

in the corner?

Or centered on the wall?

Come on Design Divas, don't let me down!

musical cousins

Here are some pictures from the last board meeting. Our cousins from Mississippi were in and the girls had so much fun playing with the boys. Bradley and Addie Leigh are exactly a year apart and play well together. Piper loves playing with babies, so she just loved little Michael. We spent two weeks with them in Florida, and thought it would be Thanksgiving before we would see them again, but what a wonderful surprise we got when they were able to come hang out with us during and after the board meeting.

Piper's storytime with Meemama

I love this one!

Between Two Worlds: Martin Luther King Response to \"You Can\'t Legislate Morality; You Have to Change Hearts First\"

Between Two Worlds: Martin Luther King Response to "You Can't Legislate Morality; You Have to Change Hearts First"

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Why Our Tax System Has to Go!!

Ok, finally a non-partisan (kind of) post about our income tax system.

Here are the reasons we need to trash our current system and replace it with a whole new one, which I will outline in a future post.

1. Our current system is terribly inefficient- We currently pull in approximately $1.7 Trillion dollars a year in income taxes. It costs us about a third of the total revenue to do the accounting, and pay the IRS to bring in these taxes. In other words, it costs us a $1 to pull in $3. This has got to change. 

2. It is so complicated that no one can fully understand it- The IRS tax code has over 600,000 pages. It is estimated that less than 1% of tax returns are perfectly right. When people ask complicated tax questions to accountants the differences in the answers received are always significant. Even when getting a ruling or clarification from the IRS itself, they are rarely consistent.

3. It is used by politicians and special interests to give breaks to their people and tax everyone else. The current system has infinite possibilities for being manipulated so that it has become a tool used by politicians to stay in power.

4. It punishes success and has pushed over $10 Trillion dollars worth of businesses off shores by it's oppressive structure. Entrepreneurs are punished for making more money, hampering their ability to create more jobs. Since it is an income tax, it is flawed from the ground up.

These are the biggest reasons why our current system will not work in the long run.