In the state of Alabama our property taxes are a joke (my yearly
property taxes are what some of you pay monthly) but we do pay it
through the nose on sales tax, 9% on everything but prescription
drugs and services.
Wow. It's good to know there are other people happily paying more in sales
You mean it's patriotic to not pay you taxes!?
Why didn't I think of that!
No wonder the radical right loves the lying Joe the non-plumber.
Larry Sacks wrote:
Interesting statistic floated by MS to flog Silverlight.
While Adobe claims that the Flash Player is installed on 98% of
computers, MS
Well the gentleman at the Boston Tea Party certainly thought so, and
there was a rebellion (Called a revolutionary war) fought over that concept.
Stewart
At 07:58 AM 10/18/2008, you wrote:
You mean it's patriotic to not pay you taxes!?
Why didn't I think of that!
No wonder the radical right
You mean it's patriotic to not pay you taxes!?
Well the gentleman at the Boston Tea Party certainly thought so, and there
was a rebellion (Called a revolutionary war) fought over that concept.
It's not patriotic to pay taxes to a government in which you have
no representation.
Wait a
The whole issue of taxes is complicated if you dig into it very deeply.
At dinner last night, the only known McCain voter at the table, the
part owner of a custom manufacturing business, was complaining
bitterly that high taxes were destroying the entrepreneurial spirit in
our country.
This is the kind of food fight that nobody can win. But there is a BIG
difference between the nominal (35%) corporate tax rate and the amount
of taxes actually paid by most corporations. There are loopholes and
deductions in the tax code that make the effective tax rate very much
less than the
Why don't they focus more on corporate taxes?
Because there are more than enough corporate tax breaks to effectively
lower that marginal rate to acceptable levels?
If US corporations were actually paying 35% across the board
there wouldn't be business in the US.
It's high on paper, and I'm
Come on Stewart. You know that they were protesting a tax imposed
by fiat by King George. You know, the whole Taxation without
representation thing.
Taxes are the dues you pay for living in relative safety and freedom.
Paying taxes is also the Christian thing to do, if I understand the
I know that many list participants are business owners. Just how bad
is the problem? Are the numbers misleading? Why did this happen, and
who is to blame? It seems to me that when Republicans rail against
high taxes, they usually cite income and capital gains taxes as the
primary evil. Why
Assuming the information on this site is accurate, I would say it goes
a long way towards answering my question.
What I mean is, (some) big corporations are able to dodge their tax
responsibility, whereas Joe in Manufacturing from last night is
probably paying every cent, because he is a little
Interesting statistic floated by MS to flog Silverlight.
While Adobe claims that the Flash Player is installed on 98% of
computers, MS claims that 25 percent of computer users have access to a
computer with Silverlight installed.
What does that mean? Does living within 500 yards of a computer
So, if I lived near a large office building with many computers inside,
I'd have tons of access!
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
Interesting statistic floated by MS to flog Silverlight.
While Adobe claims that the Flash Player is installed on 98% of
computers, MS claims that
Interesting statistic floated by MS to flog Silverlight.
While Adobe claims that the Flash Player is installed on 98% of
computers, MS claims that 25 percent of computer users have access to a
computer with Silverlight installed.
What does that mean? Does living within 500 yards of a computer
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