People we don't vote for we shoot at. Much more satisfyingly.
Bob W wrote:
>> What torques me more than
>> anything else is we vote for the a**h***s.
>>
>
> you really shouldn't be upset about that. After all, the Boston Tea
> Party was all about no taxation without representation. It's better to
> be taxed by people you vote for than by people you don't vote for.
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of P. J. Alling
>> Sent: 01 January 2008 21:01
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
>> Subject: Re: The last hamburger...
>>
>>
>>> The taxes involved were a
>>> form of economic coercion.
>>>
>> And thats different from today in what way?
>>
>> Lets see, you get a tax break for buying a house, ( but only
>> on credit,
>> not with cash), you get a tax break for being married, (and having
>> children). You get taxed more if you use alcohol, or smoke
>> tobacco.
>> The tax system is used to punish for improper behavior, or in
>> some cases
>> proper behavior. Federal income taxes are so complicated
>> that you need
>> an expert to even find out what some of the tax breaks and
>> pitfalls are,
>> and even then the contradictory parts can bring you to grief.
>> Nothing
>> coercive about our current tax system. What torques me more than
>> anything else is we vote for the a**h***s.
>>
>>
>> graywolf wrote:
>>
>>> It's all those foreigners who have moved here <GRIN>.
>>>
>>> What works when the taxors are more then a month away does
>>> not work so good when they are just next door(Revolution v.
>>> Civil War). In neither case was it the amount of the taxes,
>>> it was the unfairness of taxes. The taxes involved were a
>>> form of economic coercion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse)
>>> Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com
>>> Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/
>>>
>>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---------
>>
>>> P. J. Alling wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> They will increase all fees to make up for "lost" revenue.
>>>>
>> After what's
>>
>>>> your's is theirs, at least in their minds. In Canada
>>>>
>> that's not so bad,
>>
>>>> when you consider the US revolted over a tax that by
>>>>
>> todays standards
>>
>>>> would be considered modest in the extreme. We put up with
>>>>
>> a Tax Code
>>
>>>> that if it were imposed by another country would be
>>>>
>> considered an act of
>>
>>>> war.
>>>>
>>>> David J Brooks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Well, happy New Year any way Tom.:-)
>>>>> Our Government(feds)will drop our GST by 1% tomorrow.
>>>>>
>> Just wondering
>>
>>>>> what our provincial Government will up to make the difference
>>>>>
> up.
>
>>>>> Its a visous circle my friend
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 31, 2007 4:46 PM, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ...and potato chip crumbs were my New Years Eve dinner. Made
>>>>>> it through the year with a dollar and some change left over.
>>>>>> Yeh!!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Next year Mr Bush and company are giving me a whole $15/mo
>>>>>> raise. I will be living high off the hog then, I tell you.
>>>>>> Who would have thought life was going to be so good?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse)
>>>>>> Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com
>>>>>> Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/
>>>>>>
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