[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread John OConnor
The taxes are *there*, just calculated differently; hidden" I consider this in the tax category altho perhaps I have been lucky so far. Received notices from credit card company and the banks that they are now charging a 'fee' of 3% of total amount of any foreign currency charge or withdrawal at

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Mar 22, 2005, at 21:33, Martha Krieg wrote: then if you add on a six percent sales tax on maybe half of what you spend, that's probably about 35% Sales tax varies from state to state. Ours (in VA) used to be straight 4.5% on everything but prescription drugs (plus 2%? 2.5%? local tax in

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Martha Krieg
41%... I suppose it depends on how you calculate it. If you fall in a 28% federal bracket, and then 4.something for state, you're already up to about 32%, and then if you add on a six percent sales tax on maybe half of what you spend, that's probably about 35%and more if you have city or c

[lace-chat] Fw: Fw: "Jesus is watching you."

2005-03-22 Thread Lynn Weasenforth
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables, and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, "Jesus is watching you." He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:30, Margery Allcock wrote: Each year, the Adam Smith Institute in London calculates the date of Tax Freedom Day; this year it falls on May 31. This means that until that date the average British taxpayer is working in order to pay taxes. After that date, his earnings are

[lace-chat] Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Margery Allcock
Each year, the Adam Smith Institute in London calculates the date of Tax Freedom Day; this year it falls on May 31. This means that until that date the average British taxpayer is working in order to pay taxes. After that date, his earnings are his own. In 2005, this is three days later than it

[lace-chat] Re: FW: Fwd: What does love mean?

2005-03-22 Thread David Collyer
>A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.

[lace-chat] RE: lead for Playstation

2005-03-22 Thread Ian & Chelle Long
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[lace-chat] Newbie

2005-03-22 Thread Jean Nathan
Sue wrote: good place be from which to buy it?> Why would you want to buy one yet, if you've just made one? You may well find that the one you made is far superior to anything you can buy anyway. And where you buy equipment depends where in the world you live - you didn't say. Your questuion wo