What Do You Think You'd Change?

[dmiravalle]

Taxes come to a state near you :

Tax to breath
Tax to walk
Tax to think (cause they don't want us doing that)
Tax to eat ( oh wait Montsano is paying that one for us)
Tax to live
Tax to die
Tax to have kids (but of course you will get a tax credit on your returns)
Tax to sleep
Tax to hmmmm, anyone else??

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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I'm 90% sure that won't happen. The general populace isn't stupid enough to let that pass.

 

[dmiravalle]

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I'm 90% sure that won't happen. The general populace isn't stupid enough to let that pass.

LOL!! Umm, I think that depends where ya live, sometimes it feels like it!! Jerry Brown just announced the state cannot afford to support the fairs and are looking at closing 39 of them even though the fairs turn around a HUGE profit for them every year!

 

[debilorrah]

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I'm 90% sure that won't happen. The general populace isn't stupid enough to let that pass.

LOL!! Umm, I think that depends where ya live, sometimes it feels like it!! Jerry Brown just announced the state cannot afford to support the fairs and are looking at closing 39 of them even though the fairs turn around a HUGE profit for them every year!

Jerry Brown is a facebook subject, so please lets not stir up the Californians with Govenor Moonbeam stories.

 

[dmiravalle]

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LOL!! Umm, I think that depends where ya live, sometimes it feels like it!! Jerry Brown just announced the state cannot afford to support the fairs and are looking at closing 39 of them even though the fairs turn around a HUGE profit for them every year!

Jerry Brown is a facebook subject, so please lets not stir up the Californians with Govenor Moonbeam stories.

OK, sorry I will slap myself, don't think they have that smiley though!

 

[Robo]

Well the president has yet to give an official birth certificate, but please don't start that debate over old me. Well I would change the taxes on small business. Big cooperations are shutting down (if they already haven't) and destroying small business which I am a big fan of. I think they should quit giving them a bailout and save small business that is crucial in America. When they can't compete with the prices they get a job with the competitor thus feeding the giant. There's hardly a main street left in America except for Disney World, try to buy a gun there.

 

[gryeyes]

If I was all-powerful, I would fix the cosmos so that "governments" could only purchase what there was money in the bank to cover. Money, not credit. Balance the budget like regular folks. Don't propose new projects until there is money to fund them. Cut out the projects running in the red.

Yup, that would change a whole lot. Be very painful. From the top on down to the bottom.

"Governor, can we have a pony?" No, there is no money available for ponies. You want ponies, raise the money first. If you cannot raise the money, live without the pony. The money you raised that wasn't enough, give it back - find an equitable way to do so.

"Governor, our prisons need more money. Can we have some?" Nope, no money for you. Cut out all the stuff you can't pay for any more, like conjugal visit trailers, cable TV, stuff like that.

"Mayor, we need some cameras for our cop cars, can we have the money to pay for 'em?" Sounds like a great idea, but we don't have the money for them. You'll have to raise the money first. Try some bake sales. Or we could float a bond issue for it, but you will have to wait to see if that works and it will take time. Got any other project on the books you can give up to fund the cameras? That might do it.

(Please don't think I'm anti-law enforcement - I am most decidedly pro. But there's a lot of money going to things that are far less important than operational and/or enforcement related. That should change.)

 

[debilorrah]

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Like $15 staples......

 

[HHandbasket]

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Hopefully it can be improved. In CA, you now have to pay back all the benefits you receive and your limit on welfare is 5 years. Which still does not address putting uneducated people back into the non-existent work force.

Since when do they have to pay it back?

If you're not educated enough to even get a fast-food job, how are they expected to pay it back?

I dunno, my sister was on it for 20-some-odd years and has never been requested to pay it back. I know people whose kids had to go on it within the last five years for a couple of years (my friend's daughter was on it but she was going to school, and as soon as she graduated, she got a job and got off of it)... she graduated about 18 months ago and has never heard of it having to be paid back.

When did they start that out here, Debi?

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Those that are trying, I don't mind helping. I have a problem helping people who refuse to help themselves though.