Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Maureen
Every single proposal for a national sales tax excludes food. Gas and cigarettes already heavily taxed. Addicts will likely buy cigarettes regardless of how mad they are at the government. However, everyone will pay the sales tax, including all of those in the black market economy who currently

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
Disagree with you both on that one. Demand for some products is inelastic. You can be as angry as angry gets and you will still need to buy food, for example. Gas is a necessity in most rural areas as well as in some urban ones, for another. Addicts will still buy cigarettes no matter what, for a

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Maureen
I agree 100%. And it cannot happen too soon. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Anyway, the only true fair tax would be a national sales tax.  No loop > holes to jump through and everyone pays.  Also, a built in mechanism to > punish bad government.  Reduced spending by ang

Re: Wisconsin - recall election

2012-06-09 Thread Jerry Barnes
"riots in the streets means that people are actually paying attention to how much the government taxes out of your paycheck" There have been toned down version with the Tea Party and OWS. It seems like they lost their focus rather quickly though. Can't wait to see the protest at the DNC later t

Re: for the love of god, world

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
Make up your mind, dude. Is it fury or is it apathy? Why do you even care what I think of what's his name with the overbite? Charlie boy that wants to be a tampon in Camilla's wassis? *Or* his "mummy", for crying out loud? You're like that rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter, dude. Just plain weird.

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Jerry Barnes
"First, there is no way the super-rich are going to admit they owe taxes or pay any more than they absolutely have to. " I think we can agree on that. Makes it amusing to watch politicians talk about raising the taxes on the wealthy since they will end up avoiding the new taxes by various means

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
please do not put words in my mouth, Larry. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Dana you may think its OK for us to permanently live with cranial > recto-inversion I do not. The possibilities of two nearly identical > satellites operating at the same time opens the possibil

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-09 Thread PT
Well, the new Hubble is already under construction. This would be an unplanned addition. The NASA folks said if they got both, they could use one to look at wide area views of the universe and the other to really zoom in on something interesting when they find it. I believe the term ideal w

Re: Where is MySQL

2012-06-09 Thread Maureen
What type of server are you trying to install it on? I've never had any problems getting it to install. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Yes that's what I have on my desktop but it would not install on a server. > Even a play server in my own house. That limits me to being

RE: Where is MySQL

2012-06-09 Thread Scott Raley
Yes that's what I have on my desktop but it would not install on a server. Even a play server in my own house. That limits me to being able to use it in my cloud unless the provider is willing to pay the minimum $2k. -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:webmas...@sstwebworks.com

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Maureen
First, there is no way the super-rich are going to admit they owe taxes or pay any more than they absolutely have to. But if in some alternate reality that happened, If Soros actually paid 200 million, so would the Koch Brothers, and they would cancel each other out. You'd have the taxpaying wars

Re: for the love of god, world

2012-06-09 Thread Larry C. Lyons
That has become obvijous. frankly I see no need to communicate with that sort of apathy. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Dana wrote: > > you've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a shit. > > Or perhaps you confuse "I really don't want to hear about this three to > five times a day" with

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-09 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Dana you may think its OK for us to permanently live with cranial recto-inversion I do not. The possibilities of two nearly identical satellites operating at the same time opens the possibility for instance of a system with an aperture the size of the earth effectively. We've been good at detectin

Re: Top reasons to fear Canada!

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
LOL, just saw this thread. Had a good laugh, thanks ;) On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > Plus, they are hogging all of the letter a. > > The 3 in Canada is not enough for them, they randomly toss out extras, eh? > > Wasteful. > > ~~~

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
It would pay for a telescope or two... On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Maureen wrote: > > The government would have the 200 million in taxes instead of the > politicians? > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Larry C. Lyons > wrote: > > > > Still so the Koch brothers decide that the best way to

Re: for the love of god, world

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
you've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a shit. Or perhaps you confuse "I really don't want to hear about this three to five times a day" with "fury", which is the sort of emotion that makes people say things like "come off it" -- in any event your reaction is very telling, and I pity

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-09 Thread Dana
whatever. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > A couple of dollars? I'd kick in a couple of hundred, its that important. > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Dana wrote: > > > > I'd kick in a couple bucks for that. > > > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Maureen wrote: > >

Re: Wisconsin - recall election

2012-06-09 Thread Cameron Childress
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > There would be riots in the street if payroll deduction were removed > from checks. Imagine paying in cash and then immediately saying give me > back 30% of the cash to pay taxes. > Wow this email was from three days ago when the list was

Re: Wisconsin - recall election

2012-06-09 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Well, I guess Wisconsin will remain one of the only states where a non-governmental entity cannot apply a state sanctioned tax on worker's incomes. Aside from all the political funding bullshit, that's kinda nice." As a consequence . . . Wisconsin's second-largest union, American Federation of

Re: Collective Bargaining

2012-06-09 Thread Cameron Childress
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Maureen wrote: > Eastern Airlines failed due to bad management - very, very bad > management - who then blamed it on the unions. The fact that so > many years later you still think the unions killed the company shows > how successful their propaganda was. They

Re: Brown Shirts Wannabes on the Move

2012-06-09 Thread Jerry Barnes
"The government would have the 200 million in taxes instead of the politicians?" And the government would be ran by the politicians put into office by Soros. At this point now, politicians use tax dollars to pay off their contributors/cronies. It would be ten times worse under your revised syst