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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
Waa Waa Waa...Americans are the lowest taxed people in the entire industrial world. You've got the same thing in Europe, like the UK has VAT, Council Taxes, Inland Revenue, Road Tax, Fuel Tax (from hell), National Insurance, State Pension Tax (Social Security), etc. I've worked in Israel and 55% of my gross income was taken out of my paycheck, then they have VAT from hell, blah blah blah.... Rant over... Account frozen... |
Captain Avatar Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0 |
For a government that's supposed to get off of your back, they sure like getting into your uterus... Yes sorta kidding, But we lone money to other contries but we dont have loans to pay back to other countries,,,If I owe the bank money then I have to pay it back. But our deficet is ours the american people, If we wiped out the Debt, we would loose a little in the world's eyes and some credit ratings somewhere but it would be better in the long run, Wouldn't it? |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Chile: 18% on everything and a 0-deficit import legislation. That means that in order to buy a $2000 computer made in Japan, you've got to export at least $2360 of grapes to France. I don't know what the personal income tax is.[/font] |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Chile: 18% on everything and a 0-deficit import legislation. Exporting grapes to France??? :-O I suppose you're sarcastic as this would be just as easy as selling sand to Sahara! And freezers to Siberia! So no Japanese computers sold to anyone in Chile, huh? "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Having seen the Chilean idiosyncrasies firsthand? Yes - Very sarcastic. I don't wanna hijack the topic... just move on from here, folks.[/font] |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Fusion project is dealt big blow The Senate voted early yesterday to stop construction of the nation's costliest science project, a laser roughly the size of a football stadium that is meant to harness fusion, the process that powers the sun... |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
Agents raid Cunningham home, MZM office, yacht He has been one of our customers at work. He baught a plane from us. Morgan Freeman looked into buying one, Lorrenzo Lamas baught one, Harrison Ford baught one, the acter who played Moses [name escapes me] baught one, among others. CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Agents raid Cunningham home, MZM office, yacht charlton heston? |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
Whoop...whoop...whoop (blue lights flashing)...the spelling police have pulled you over. "Baught" is spelt "bought." And don't try telling me that's the way they spell it on Vulcan...tell it to the judge. Account frozen... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
LOLLL!!! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
Whoop...whoop...whoop (blue lights flashing)...the spelling police have pulled you over. But ociffer, "baught" looks like it would sound like 'bawt', while "bought" looks like it would sound like 'boat' or 'bowt'. >;-) Thanks for setting me straight, ociffer. Now get these damned cuffs off! There is no Vulcan word for "bought". The closest would be mahr-tor which is "buy". >:-) CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
"Now get these damned cuffs off!" [b]Never, they excite you too much. Account frozen... |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Pon farr, again?[/font] |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Pon farr, again?[/font] Every 7 years or 7 days? |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
[font='courier,courier new']Probably every 7 seconds, like most human males...[/font] |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Cunningham skips holiday events July 4, 2005 ENCINITAS – Embattled Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham canceled his public appearances at community events scheduled for today, his spokesman said. Cunningham, R-Rancho Santa Fe, was to attend a pancake breakfast here this morning, among other holiday events. His speech at the Encinitas Fourth of July Community Celebration and Pancake Breakfast was to be his first public appearance in the two weeks since he has become the subject of investigations by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office and a grand jury in connection with his financial dealings with a defense contractor. "It is clear from all the advanced publicity that any Fourth of July celebration he is scheduled to attend will become a media frenzy," Cunningham's press secretary Mark Olson said last night. The eight-term congressman and his wife, Nancy, did not want "to detract from community events celebrating our country's freedom," Olson said. |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
Cunningham skips holiday events Don't feel bad Misfit for your congressman, that's just the tip of a very large iceberg. Here in Clark County, Nevada 4 of the 6 commissioners in the last two years are under Federal inditement, or were convicted of Racketeering in one form or another. 4 of the 12 city councel persons have met the same fate. Business as usual in government. On the bright side of things, the Democrates and Republicans were evenly split in screwing the tax payers and lining their pockets. Now only if the Feds would do something about the police department, health inspectors, and building inspectors... Account frozen... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Don't feel bad Misfit for your congressman, that's just the tip of a very large iceberg. I don't. I'm not in his district. :P me@rescam.org |
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