Eddie Farr

I want to be in control of what I spend my money on. In today's age where the government leadership has demonstrated their inability to control spending, stop the tax funds from being spent on foolish programs, I think it's time that Americans start to make the decision. Why not ask the tax payers (us!) what we want our tax dollars to be used for?  I propose a 10 year plan to The Tax Choice. Whenever we do taxes, we also fill out a form about where we want our tax dollars to go. The first 3 years is a non-binding plan to see what and where people chose to place there money and see how close it matches our current balance.  At first, we can have broad areas to chose based on the different departments, but depending on what we want, we can decide on as much detail as we want. For starters, I an chose to put 25% of my taxes towards the Department of Defense budget, 25% towards Department of Energy, 25% towards Department of Labor, and 25% towards NASA. How much deta...

I wanted to give a shout out to some great musicians that I've had the pleasure to listen to throughout Maine. These are some great artists with some creativity and ability to play their own style and music.  Found these guys accidently: Midnight Ramblers or Midnight Riders. They rock the house with awesome stage presence: https://www.facebook.com/MaineAcousticMidnightRamblers/ Tom  https://www.giordanomusic.com has been around a few years. He's got a great sense of looking back at times gone by with his deep melodic voice. Martin is a songwriter's songwriter with vocals that drop low before bouncing back up.  www.martinswinger.com Martin is as much aapostle for the greatness of music and singing, he inspires just by being in the same room. The Boneheads are a band with some of the most amazing musicians I've seen. Why they aren't a household name across the country, I don't know. They should be.  Bob Colwell - Keyboards, Steve Jones - Guitar...

What would have to happen for you to change your mind about who you voted for? If you voted for Trump last election, what have to happen for you to no vote for him again? -Lies to you? -Increases your taxes? -Gets us into a war? -Damages our economy? -Gets charged with collusion? -What else? Anything? If you didn’t vote for Trump, what would have to happen for you to vote for him? -He create national healthcare system? -He creates a simpler tax code system? -Improves economy? -Reduces your taxes? -Anything?

What's the  best way to get a  discount on all your music equipment? This is not an advertisement. It's the law. Every rich person in America does this. Everyone should. If you play music and you want to play music live or you want to sell your music, then you want a music business.Start your own business now. It's extremely easy to do. 100% legitimate. It is even encouraged! So all those beers you drank while watching a great musician play? That's business. That new Les Paul Guitar? Business There's no law that you're business can't be fun! It doesn't mean that you get all this for free, it just means you can deduct your expenses from your income. The only catch is if the total deducted is less than the basic deduction then you're better off taking the basic deduction. The only other catch is that you will need to track it. You can deduct: Auto expenses: every mile you drive is money back Phone, hotels,  Food is 50% deducted from meal...

Incentives and priorities need to be aligned. If you pay someone 5 cents to return a bottle, you get more bottles returned. If your boss pays you for making more widgets, you'll concentrate on making more widgets. This works very well until the incentives and what we want are different. Would you want someone to be paid a ten dollars for hitting you in the nose? No thank you. I see the government doing this in a couple of cases. The two that stand out to me are 1. Healthcare and 2. Prisons. Prisons are easy to fix. Get rid of private prisons. Private prisons get paid per prisoner. They don't get paid for how well they do in recovering or whether they are treated with respect or provided a way to successfully integrate back into society. Just paid per prisoner. So the government (government being you and me) pays someone to open build and run a prison that is incentivized to have more prisoners. Bad model. Some things the government should be doing themselves and not priva...

The  U.S. Military is awesome. The people of the military are doing incredible things to keep us safe. The weapons we've developed are amazing. From nuclear weapons that can destroy a country to miniature flying bugs for reconnaissance. The Soldiers are provided incredible guns and protection.  The people in the military do a lot of things right. But they have the wrong job. Because we gave them the wrong job. To keep people safe, you need to keep them healthy. While the military keeps us safe from people from other areas of the world, our people in our country are dying and getting sick. Deaths from heart attacks, cancer, and other diseases continues to ravage our country. Just for cancer, i n 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 609,640 people will die from the disease. That's more than the 400,000 Americans who died in World War II.  Let's refocus what we want from our Military. We want to be safe and he...