Preserving The American Political Philosophy: The Lepage Plan- Filled with Inconsistencies

Recently Governor Lepage of Maine has been sending out cues that he wants to eliminate the state income tax and replace it with a consumption tax (sales tax). Word has it that in his budget Lepage is radically expanding the sales tax while merely lowering the income tax. In this post I begin an analysis of the Lepage Budget starting with the section on Revenue Outlook and Forecast. http://goo.gl/dp9zpP
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Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: First Mugs from New Molds In- Many Beautiful Seconds Available While They last !

First batch of Mugs from new molds are here. I seconded most because they were cast a little thicker than I want to be the standard for a first, but still nice. Get the seconds while they last !
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Koons & Hillary- The Joke is On You & it's China Laughing!

In 2012 International art rock star Jeff Koons was awarded the first United States Medal of Art by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the introductory speech Hillary tells the world that public-private relationships are at the core of what everything the United States does. Jeff Koons is the highest paid living artist in the world. Koons is also a minimalist artist who has reduced the content of his art to pure marketing. Should Hillary and Koons be surprised that when Koons delivered a speech to 1000 Chinese listeners that the response from the eternal international dialogue was to copy Koons work and produce and sell it for less? How does Koons's marketing art interact with the Maine art world?
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Bait & Switch at The New England Foundation For The Arts

This Post has not been receiving much attention but it should, especially since you will not find this written about anywhere else but here- to my knowledge and this reveals what is clearly a willful attempt to mislead the very people that the New England Foundation For The Arts purports to serve- and every state art bureaucracy in New England partners with the New England Foundation For the Arts and through those agencies major streams of tax payer monies flow from the National Foundation For the Arts.
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Why Two Terms Of Agreement on The New England Foundation For The Arts Website ?

In 2007 I found the New England Foundation For The Arts website and data base and went to sign up but when I looked at the Terms of Agreement I was shocked as it literally claimed rights over what was published through its services for all of eternity, everywhere with no exit .In addition it claims the right to change the work while insisting that the user forgo all rights to sue and any moral rights and more. Since then I have been off and on again corresponding with NEFA, only to be dismissed. Recently I learned that there are now two Terms of Agreement on the NEFA website.- one which displays when one registers and another- the one I have been protesting for seven years- in the footer- both claiming to be the ultimate authority-and both appearing at first to be identical, except for one subtle difference in the two paragraphs. This post includes some observations about the difference and thoughts on what it means and why.- from a layman's view.
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Art World Entitlements

I engage in two interchanges on Maine Artist Facebook page, defending unpopular positions with an art world entitlement society, One discussion counters Maine art world rage over Maine's art world publishing empire transforming itself into a marketing venue for its own gallery enterprises.The other discussion encounters a lobbying effort to benefit artists functioning in non-profit venues. The interface of the two shows that the whole indeed is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: Andersen Studio Special Edition: The Tall Pelican Glazed in White

Available Now- a Special Edition Of The Tall Pelican Glazed in White
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Senator Rubio's World Views VS the Canonized World View Of The Maine State Legislature

Post contrasting Mark Rubio's speech on United States national defense and the Maine legislature's rationalization for passing a statute affirming the friendship between Maine and China.
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Christmas Banned at The University of Maine ( A Corporate Instrumentality of the State! )

WBAI reports that the Christmas decorations at the University of Maine were up a few days ago and have now all come down. An anonymous university "spokesperson" has issued a statement. The media cannot identify who issued the directive. In 1981 the Maine State legislature deemed the University of Maine to be a corporate instrumentality of the state. In 1995 the Maine legislature authorized itself to have jurisdiction over education at the University of Maine. Since about 2002 a minor in Marxist and Socialist Studied has been instituted at The University of Maine. In 2013 the Maine legislature sold a piece of the University of Maine to the Confucius Institute and passed a statute affirming Maine's friendship with Communist China declaring "shared values". Is the Maine State legislature also behind the banning of Christmas at the University of Maine?
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Governor Longley's Architects Of Transformation

Added more to this post about the Architects of Maine s transformation from state functioning as a free enterprise system to a state centrally managed by a power elite and a deeply entrenched system of state corporation which is fundamentally repugnant to the Maine State Constitution. This post goes back to 1976 when Governor Longley brought in the heads of Maine industry to reinvent Maine's governing system. While the Governor and the Legislature had taken oaths of loyalty to the Maine Constitution, the heads of Industry had not. This powerful faction advised the heads of government to pass legislation allowing the tax system to be appropriated to the benefit of the profit motives of private investors.
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Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: The Western Mountain Bluebird Small Special

Click to get 20% discount on the Western Mountain Bluebird small with code WBB at checkout. Through December13th 2014 at andersenstudio.com http://goo.gl/9DlW0q
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Governor Longley's Architects Of Transformation

In 1976 Governor Longley Of Maine gathered together the leaders of Maine's industry to redesign the political governing system of Maine via economic development policy. Unlike the legislature and the Governor, the architects of Maine's transformation were not required to take an oath to uphold Maine's Constitution. The question is had the architects read the state constitution as they blatantly treated the rule of law, established by the consent of the governed, as a nuisance to their designs of a new centrally managed economy of Maine?
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Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: Preview "Join The Email List and Save!"

Sign Up For Andersen Studio's Email List and receive the news and specials too. American made ceramics since 1952. Wild life sculptures and contemporary functional designs- original designs and original glazes. Andersen Studio is one of a kind!
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: 1977 The Maine Capital Corporation - Seeding The Hegemony

A report procured from the Maine law Library dated 1976 and on the subject of chartering by a special act of legislation, The Maine Development Foundation Corporation reveals that contingent to that was another corporate charter by special act of legislation - that of the Maine Capital Corporation- chartered as a private corporation with special access to taxpayer money in the form of tax credits given to those who purchased stock in the Maine Capital Corporation
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Fiscal Information Required by Maine Constitution to Accompany Bond Questions

Following up on the research I have been doing on the Maine constitutional requirements for bond ratification and statutes written by our legislature which make the constitutional requirements optional at best, - In this post I located the information in two very short paragraphs found on the Maine State Treasurer's report to the Maine legislature in February of 2014.
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: Made in America VS Global Capitalism

The philosophy of Andersen Studio ( Andersen Design) Ceramics has long been committed to being a made in America product, but the philosophy of the centrally managed economy of the state of Maine is to embrace global capitalism. Andersen Design is well aware of what global capitalism is because ceramic is one of the first western industries to be exported over seas to global low wage labor markets. And so as Andersen launched a new website dedicated to crowdfunding a mold renovation product of its extensive line of wild life sculptures and contemporary functional forms, with a goal of having our product produced through a network of American ceramic slip casters- the question arises - Is Andersen Design naive- OR are the central managers of Maine's economy short sighted?
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Andersen Studio Evolution Diaries: Announcing The Great American Ceramic Artist Designer Craftsmen Network Crowdfunding Web Site !

I Have been talking about my vision to transform our family busines, Andersen Studio Ceramics, established in 1952 into The Great American Ceramic Artists Designer's Craftsmen Network for quite some time now. With the launch of AndersenDesign.biz, a website dedicated to creating a revolving fund from both crowdfunding and bootstraping activities to create the capitalization of such a network- we are now off an running ! You can help us to manifest our vision and at the same time get a unique set of American handcrafted mugs at a discounted price !- Join The Evolution by supporting our crowdfunder!
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy

As I continue to research the widening gap between constitutional bond ratification requirements and incremental changes in the statutes, it is revealed that there exists significant discrepancies in the wording of the legislation as passed and signed by Governor Lepage and what is published in the official Maine statutes. Mr Gruber has competition for manipulation from the Maine legislature!
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy: LEGISLATING A RUN AROUND THE MAINE CONSTITUTION

I added some new information to this blog post about the fundamental transformation of the Bond ratification process in Maine. The 2011 law shoes how the process of transforming constitutional requirements from mandates to optional has been planned all along as an incremental process which is complete in the 2011 statutes which are written to say that complying with the constitution is optional! The UNCONSTITUTIONAL corporate state of Maine at work!
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Preserving The American Political Philosophy

Jonathan Gruber, an architect of Obamacare bragged about how the United States legislature passed ObamaCare , turning over a sixth of the U.S. economy to the government, Gruber admitted that the Obama administration went through "tortuous" measures to keep the facts about the legislation from the American people, including covering up the redistribution of wealth. The Architects of Obama Care don't have anything over the Maine Legislature which has likewise taken over massive portions of the Maine economy and in the process embedded a vast unconstitutional network of state corporations which redistributes the wealth of the people using equally manipulative ethics codified into statutory law. 5 out of 6 bonds recently voted in by the people of Maine will be distributed through the unconstitutional corporate state network. To avoid having to provide a fiscal statement with the bond questions, In 2013, the Maine legislature passed a statute that says, in effect- You can comply with the
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