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| ivorythumper | Feb 20 2009, 09:35 AM Post #26 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Good idea. I'll forward it to Obie. |
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| Larry | Feb 20 2009, 09:39 AM Post #27 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Don't EVEN talk to me about taxes....... I'm in the middle of calculating personal property taxes. I don't know about other states, but here businesses have to pay a personal property tax on every @@@(*&&$$&&#(@@$$ thing the business owns, right down to the paper in the copy machines.. You buy the stuff in order to run a business which generates revenue for them, and they tax you on the stuff you have to spend your money on in order to accomplish it. You hire people, they tax you to death for hiring them. Makes me mad as hell. I bought and paid for the stuff. It's mine. I paid sales tax on it when I bought it. It's mine. It allows me to run the engine that employs people and generates tax. It's my stuff. Why should I have to pay the government year after year after year a penalty tax on it... |
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| musicasacra | Feb 20 2009, 10:09 AM Post #28 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Mikhailoh | Feb 20 2009, 10:33 AM Post #29 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yep. I'd charge those money grubbing hybrid driving bastards double. Cheap sumbitches. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| QuirtEvans | Feb 20 2009, 10:40 AM Post #30 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Same in most places for your car ... there's both sales tax and property tax on that. And you don't even use it to earn revenue! But, let me ask you a question. A serious question. Forget for the moment the amount of the tax, or what it's spent on. Government has to collect taxes on something, right? Even if the amount is a lot smaller, it has to be collected on something. Mark argues all the time that the primary method of federal taxation ... income tax ... is [insert a string of pejoratives here]. You obviously don't like the personal property tax. So, how should tax be assessed? Income? Real property? Sales? Value added (a la Europe)? Personal property? Some combination? It has to come from somewhere, and each method has its flaws. [Cue Mark to enter with a diatribe against income tax. Mark, where do you think taxes should come from? Again, don't tell me about how we collect too much, or spend too much, or how the Federal Reserve is evil incarnate. Taxes have to come from somewhere. If you were King of the Universe, on what source would you assess taxes?] |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| JBryan | Feb 20 2009, 10:47 AM Post #31 |
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I am the grey one
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Everyone else. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Luke's Dad | Feb 20 2009, 10:53 AM Post #32 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Consumption, in this scenario, doesn't work. Often times, the people that drive the most are often in rural areas, where it's more necessary with fewer alternatives. They would be spending the most in taxes, yet getting the least back as rural areas and highways often receive the least maintenance and care. Easiest answer, IMO? Build some of it into the costs of getting and renewing your license. Average cost of a license these days is what, $5-10 a year? Pop it up to what you charge for vehicle registration, $40-50 a year. It averages out, after you reduce/repeal some of the gasoline taxes. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Improviso | Feb 20 2009, 10:56 AM Post #33 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hey...
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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