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Posted on September 7 at 12:11 a.m.
That is all well and good Kevin, and congratulations on your wedding. However, you will have to be especially vigilant in this relationship for I have already noticed that against Democrat policy earlier this year Julie allowed you to announce your candidacy for mayor of Natchez before you had actually qualified. Perhaps it was a simple mistake but to some it could have seemed a case of favoritism allowing you to get your name out well in advance of all others.
Be sure you let her drive that red sports car you said is likely in your near future!
Posted on September 6 at 11:56 p.m.
Look here, 3on23, at this World Bank Research paper that explains "If society is on average averse to poverty, then the optimal income tax schedule displays negative marginal tax rates, at least for less skilled individuals. Negative marginal tax rates play the role of a Pigouvian earnings subsidy, fostering the supply of poor individuals to provide labor." http://econ.worldbank.org/external/defau...
What this means is that programs like earned income tax credits for poverty stricken individuals creates a supply of "poor individuals for providing labor". If we didn't have taxes and tax subsidies to the poor labor rates would rise and corporations would have to pay more for labor and we would have to pay more for the goods we buy. It has all been thought out very well by helpful institutions like the World Bank so yes, I do feel blessed they are only taking 40% at this point. (or maybe 50%, depending on how you figure it)
Posted on September 6 at 4:42 p.m.
Well, that is the income tax plus half the social security. Of course if you figure in the other half of social security plus medicare you get close to 50% but that is still more than fair considering they could take all our money if they wanted to. I for one feel blessed.
Posted on September 6 at 4:18 p.m.
It's been that big since 1861 30n23 and so far so good. It only takes about 40%.
Posted on September 6 at 4:05 p.m.
It's the American way 30n23. "From he to whom more is given more is expected"- Thomas Jefferson
Or something like that.
Posted on September 6 at 3:30 p.m.
If that's so ladybuggs it's only because he knows how tight the government is with all those piles of money.
Posted on September 6 at 1:19 p.m.
Fenwick, you are absolutely right. Time has proven your wisdom, this post proves it. The government has piles of money they could use to help everyone with, all they have to do if they get low is run some more off the presses at the Treasury Department. It doesn't cost them anything so they should be a lot more free with it.
I am sorry your dogs had to eat meat that had gone bad too. That is disgraceful in a country as rich as America, but what can we expect in a country where specieism is so rampant? I hope you have medical insurance for them in case they get sick from eating it because it looks like the government isn't going to be helping with any medical bills either and it will still be a few more months till we get universal health care.
Good luck with filling your freezer back up. In some countries those dogs freshly fattened on spoiled meat would likely end up in there.
Posted on September 6 at 12:48 p.m.
andy, call the St. Catherine Creek Utility Authority. They are responsible for solid waste removal in Adams County and economic development as well. Seems to me you have two claims, solid waste and damaged economic development. I am sure they will be willing to help you out.
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Posted on September 7 at 3:36 p.m.
Don't mind me 3on23, I've just been agitating. I was trying to point out, though, that the concerns you have are a willfully designed product of our monetary system which is set up to favor finance capitalism as opposed to a true free market system based on sound money- and by sound money I mean currency issued which has no interest attached to it.
Our social welfare system was created using our aversion to the misery of others against us, that is the subject of the World Bank paper I referenced. If you read that paper you will see that our values in regard to rights and our aversion to misery have been assigned values in a mathematical formula that attempts to calculate the optimal tax we will tolerate for the benefit of the central bank collecting the interest off the currency loaned to our government for issuance to us. The interest would not be needed if the Treasury Department issued the currency directly as the constitution intended, instead of borrowing the money from the Federal Reserve. This is the core problem with our economy.
Our system is set up to work against people like you, and me, and most people we know. This has been done by rational calculation and the aim of it is to disempower the middle class by steadily decreasing our financial independence. The same values you are proud of, along with most of us, are the weapon used to disenfranchise you and us. Our system is also harmful to the people it purports to help, those lowest on the economic spectrum, by taking away incentive to work toward becoming part of the middle class. This is to the benefit of finance capitalists who thereby gain a steady pool of people willing to work for very low wages and this pool puts a steady downward pressure on all other skilled and unskilled labor. Until people relearn the basic concepts of money and how it works and force congress to reincorporate these concepts into our monetary system we will remain locked in this present system of middle class erosion and growth of a two class system of poor and very rich.
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