Earmarks is the word of the day lately and I guess on the whole I'm against
'em. I'm also against lobbyists, get rid of the whole lot of 'em.
Oh and lets throw pretty much all our current crop of elected officials in
jail where they belong. Republican democrat whatever, they're all a buncha
crooks. There was an email passed around a couple years ago, might be an urban
legend about how many members of Legislature were actual criminals, drunk
drivers or whatever. IIRC it was a pretty large percentage.
-Curt
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Then of course, you have the problem of how do you run the trains and
maintain the rails without the taxes collected from the trucks to pay
for it?
In reality, the rail system is propped up by truck taxes `( aint that a
kick in the pants. back when I was an Owner Operator with a big truck
and found out that a good portion of all that insane amount of taxes I
paid every year was going to prop up the competition I felt sick ,
especially when they griped about not having enough money to fix the
roads...but they had plenty of road taxes to keep the rail system
going)
If you really want to get sick wondering why the roads are torn up, do
some digging, the federal highway taxes are the cash cow for every
politician in the country, whenever they need money for anything, they
hit up an attachment to the highway funding bill, you wouldn't believe
all the stuff thats
paid for out of that. Some I don't mind like most of the public
transit
systems are propped up by truck taxes, by the endless array of social
programs that have nothing to do with roads and cheesy things all the
way down to country club memberships a few years back for some
politicians really irks me.
------Robert
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The sad thing is that they are "elected" officials. This means that a
majority of the populace wants these crooks in office. Remember, our
founding fathers warned us about a democratic system of government (The
Federalist Papers, Madison). The sad thing is that any other system of
government has worse flaws or opportunities for abuse.
My 2 pennies worth.
Tom Potter
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Earmarks is the word of the day lately and I guess on the whole I'm
against 'em. I'm also against lobbyists, get rid of the whole lot of
'em.
Oh and lets throw pretty much all our current crop of elected
officials in jail where they belong. Republican democrat whatever,
they're all a buncha crooks. There was an email passed around a couple
years ago, might be an urban legend about how many members of
Legislature were actual criminals, drunk drivers or whatever. IIRC it
was a pretty large percentage.
=20
-Curt
=20
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:47:09 -0500
From: Robert & Tara Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT 500 PPM low sulphur ..
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Then of course, you have the problem of how do you run the trains and=20
maintain the rails without the taxes collected from the trucks to pay=20
for it?
In reality, the rail system is propped up by truck taxes `( aint that a=20
kick in the pants. back when I was an Owner Operator with a big truck=20
and found out that a good portion of all that insane amount of taxes I=20
paid every year was going to prop up the competition I felt sick ,=20
especially when they griped about not having enough money to fix the=20
roads...but they had plenty of road taxes to keep the rail system=20
going)
If you really want to get sick wondering why the roads are torn up, do=20
some digging, the federal highway taxes are the cash cow for every=20
politician in the country, whenever they need money for anything, they=20
hit up an attachment to the highway funding bill, you wouldn't believe=20
all the stuff thats
paid for out of that. Some I don't mind like most of the public=20
transit=20
systems are propped up by truck taxes, by the endless array of social=20
programs that have nothing to do with roads and cheesy things all the=20
way down to country club memberships a few years back for some=20
politicians really irks me.
------Robert
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