 happy new year 2011 higher taxes  we always look forward to a new year in anticipation of a renewed spirit and the hope that our future will be brighter however as we approach 2011 we are faced with the stark reality that we will have less money to live on because of our gift from the progressive democrats and the president these gifts come in the form of a number of tax and fee increases scheduled to take effect in the new year early next year for many of us federal state and local tax rates will go up and with the expiration of the bush tax cuts we will see the personal income tax rate increase to the previous levels that were in effect before bush came into office there will also be increases in the capital gains tax from 15 to 20 and the estate tax from 0 to 55 these increases are just a few of the changes that will be taking place in the tax code because of the sunset provisions of the bush tax cuts the elimination of the bush tax cuts is the known change that will take place in 2011 it is the unknown that is potentially more disconcerting we know the new health care law will have a deleterious effect on our income and increase our tax burden as well as would passage of the cap trade bill before congress it would seem we are all caught in the vice between the government s rising taxes and our employers asking us to forgo wage and benefit increases my conclusion is the government feels we are responsible for its out of control spending and lack of fiscal responsibility the solution isn t to bleed us to death but to resolve the problem by looking to be responsible itself the problem is that we currently have career politicians in office who have become so enamored with themselves that their only interest is their self interest only by replacing these narcissists with people who will represent our interests and uphold the constitution will we be able to restore responsible government in lansing and washington elect constitutional conservatives who will represent your rights submitted for publication to the dewitt bath review the clinton county news the st johns dewitt informer the laingsburg independent the perry independent on june 16 2010 published in  