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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 11, 2021 at 1:25 pm
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I have no problem at all with gas going up $3 a gallon in taxes. Perhaps the idiots would park their bigassed Stupid Useless Vehicles and get something smaller.
Cigarettes? $10 per smoke is fine with me. Maybe the butthead cunts who dump their ashtrays alongside the road in front of my house will quit......
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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 11, 2021 at 6:57 pm
(October 11, 2021 at 12:28 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (October 11, 2021 at 12:27 pm)Brian37 Wrote: "Fernando"? He he, a little dig at ABBA there? FYI, not one on of their songs I go out of my way to listen to.
But yes, I do blurt and blurb. Did I mention my Washington Football team sucks huge donkey balls?
This really can't be the first time you noticed being referred to as 'Fernando'?
My entire life, in my youth, and teens and in college, I was as popular as lead paint and ticks. But the great thing about being 55, is that you are not obligated to give a fuck.
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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 12, 2021 at 1:13 am
(October 11, 2021 at 6:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (October 11, 2021 at 12:28 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: This really can't be the first time you noticed being referred to as 'Fernando'?
My entire life, in my youth, and teens and in college, I was as popular as lead paint and ticks. But the great thing about being 55, is that you are not obligated to give a fuck.
I empathise. Same here at school, army, work and socially.
Yair, no fucks are given at Confused Cottage. (literally or metaphorically) Almost all the people whose opinion mattered to me have died. The one exception is married to another man and lives 1000 miles north.
Some of the cliches from my youth :
When I was 14 , my mother said "Money can't buy you love". To which I replied; "Yes, but it can buy you an awful lot of affection" (precocious little turd)
At school, when I asked one of the brothers a difficult theological question, such as the existence of evil; "'Oh, that's just a mystery of faith, we just believe" ( I kid you not)
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Off Topic: The problem of evil.
In his poem 'Tyger', William Blake asks "Did he who made the lamb make thee"
The Tanakh makes it perfectly clear that the answer is 'yes':
Isiah 45:7.KJV " I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
In Judaism the devil is god's servant, not his adversary. How could it be otherwise? The Abrahamic god is omnipotent. How could an enemy exist for more than a nanosecond if not by god's will?
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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 12, 2021 at 9:10 am
I believe that Brian has a point, though it gets buried in his strange way of presentation. Yes, conservatives generally want lower taxes and some want zero tax though that makes absolutely no sense economically. But I think Brian is also getting to the point that conservatives/Republicans have totally missed the magicians hand reaching into their pockets this past half century, and that is corporate greed. Minorities, Democrats and immigrants are seen as the demons to them because that's what Republicans and Christians want them to believe. In fact, income tax rates have remained fairly steady. Increases have come more at the state and local level and in the form of sales taxes and most of those communities are run by Republicans. I live in a town where $50,000 pickup trucks outnumber people, yet every one of those truck owners would bitch and complain about how the government has robbed them of their wealth. Huh?
And I agree with OLB, gas taxes are actually a good thing as they help keep pressure on people to buy more efficient automobiles and they provide funds for roads. I don't mind tobacco taxes because I don't smoke but I sure would buy more whiskey if the price was a wee bit lower.
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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 12, 2021 at 10:24 am
Sin taxes. Definitely think those should be precisely zero dollars.
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RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 12, 2021 at 10:38 am
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(October 12, 2021 at 10:24 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sin taxes. Definitely think those should be precisely zero dollars.
What does "sin" which is a bullshit superstitious word in any case, have to do with it?
Nobody likes to pay taxes on anything, be it food, or booze, or property, or income.
It is a matter of millionaires and billionaires bitching about paying more, which they can afford. Which is why it is annoying as hell to listen to someone in the middle and working class bitch about taxes on the things they buy, when between the tax and what the producer charges, cant see that the tax on that item is minute compared to what the producer charges.
(October 12, 2021 at 9:10 am)Spongebob Wrote: I believe that Brian has a point, though it gets buried in his strange way of presentation. Yes, conservatives generally want lower taxes and some want zero tax though that makes absolutely no sense economically. But I think Brian is also getting to the point that conservatives/Republicans have totally missed the magicians hand reaching into their pockets this past half century, and that is corporate greed. Minorities, Democrats and immigrants are seen as the demons to them because that's what Republicans and Christians want them to believe. In fact, income tax rates have remained fairly steady. Increases have come more at the state and local level and in the form of sales taxes and most of those communities are run by Republicans. I live in a town where $50,000 pickup trucks outnumber people, yet every one of those truck owners would bitch and complain about how the government has robbed them of their wealth. Huh?
And I agree with OLB, gas taxes are actually a good thing as they help keep pressure on people to buy more efficient automobiles and they provide funds for roads. I don't mind tobacco taxes because I don't smoke but I sure would buy more whiskey if the price was a wee bit lower.
^^^^^^^ So much this.
Taxes are not evil by any stretch. If it were not for taxes we would not have police, fire departments, military or public schools.
The only argument to be made is how much to tax, whom to tax. Right now, and for the past 40 years for that matter, the corporate giants and their CEOs are the real welfare queens.
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