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From: Bill Graham on 24 Sep 2009 03:04 "John A." <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote in message news:naglb51lkntth18h7ok0lf79l6434ucc66(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:24 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> > wrote: > >> >>"SMS" <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote in message >>news:4ab9f518$0$1653$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... >>> John A. wrote: >>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:19:45 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> >>> >>>>> I am just trying to get converts to my cause. I want everyone to take >>>>> his/her streets back by putting fake and/or garage sale plates on >>>>> their >>>>> automobiles or motor vehicles when they park, so their parking tickets >>>>> will go to never-never land as did mine for years and years. The >>>>> streets >>>>> belong to the people!! - Take them back!! >>>>> >>>>> Or, you can continue to be a woos, and pay your liberal government for >>>>> stealing your streets from you and renting them back to you. >>>> >>>> You are quite mad. >>> >>> Fake plates may work once or twice, but what happens in some cities in >>> California is if you have too many outstanding tickets on a specific >>> plate >>> number they will impound your car regardless of who the plate is >>> registered to. So you'd have to keep switching plates since they record >>> the plate numbers. Also you have to be careful about garage sale plates >>> as >>> they are often stolen plates since in California the plate stays with >>> the >>> car for the life of the car (unless your plates are stolen or lost then >>> you get new plates but the old plates are listed as missing in the >>> database and can't be used). The old plate could have outstanding >>> tickets >>> on it as well. If they do impound your vehicle they have no way of >>> contacting you if the plates are fake, so you're stuck trying to figure >>> out where you car is, then proving that it's yours. >>> >>> While out of state plates used to be a pretty safe bet, now the >>> computers >>> of many states are tied together, and the vehicle that the plate is >>> assigned to may show up on the officers computer in the car, and if it's >>> not the proper vehicle you'll be in a lot more trouble than just a $50 >>> parking ticket. It's just another bad idea by a communist that's trying >>> to >>> undermine the U.S.. >>> >>> Advocating illegal activity is something that Bill and other Republicans >>> may support, but in reality it contributes to higher taxes when people >>> don't pay their fair share. All the sales tax evasion by buying out of >>> state drives up taxes for everyone else and hurts small business (not >>> that >>> Republicans have ever cared about small businesses!). >> >>You have a funny definition of, "fair". but I should have expected >>that.....You are a liberal. Did it ever occur to you that sales taxes are >>not fair? They do represent double taxation, you know. Just how many times >>are you willing to let yourself be taxed on the same income? Have you ever >>heard of a "tea party"? Let's face it. You liberals are idiots. I have had >>to put up with your insanity all of my life. Today, I have found a way to >>live without your idiocy, but I still love to argue with you guys on this >>forum, just to remind myself that this world is full of illogic. > > The original tea party was about taxation *without representation*. DC > residents are about the only US citizens who have that justification > for a modern "tea party". A dollars worth of taxation with 10 cents worth of representation is taxation without representation.
From: D. Peter Maus on 24 Sep 2009 05:15 On 9/24/09 02:04 , Bill Graham wrote: > > "John A." <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote in message > news:naglb51lkntth18h7ok0lf79l6434ucc66(a)4ax.com... > >> The original tea party was about taxation *without representation*. DC >> residents are about the only US citizens who have that justification >> for a modern "tea party". > The original tea party was a tax protest only in part. There were other issues. Not the least of which that there was growing resistance to the blanket acceptance of Parliament's jurisdiction in the Colonies. Further, that the Tea Act preferrentially benefited the East India Company, and it's registered consignees in the colonies, by lowering the price of East India tea to below the prices of other teas. Putting non-East India purveyors at a competitive disadvantage, most of whom were smugglers, true, as well as legitimate non-East India registered consignees. So, though taxation-without-representation was a significant issue, the bigger issues were that the Tea Act and the Townsend Program were created by a government in which they were not directly represented to create a competitive advantage for a privately owned company through the tax code, and a complex system of rebates of duty, creating obstacles to freedom of choice by manipulating price of commodities through Governmental action. Which Govermental action restricted legitimate competition in business, favoring East India merchants, threatening the survival of legitimate and non-legitimate merchants alike. So sensitive was this issue, that the East India company attempted to have the taxes paid and rebates collected in London, out of sight of the colonists. Government putting it's fingers into business....hmmm...some things never change. In that light, while DC residents may be the only US citizens who have justification for a taxation without representation protest, everyone in the US has a legitimate, and historic, justification for a tea party.
From: mikey4 on 24 Sep 2009 07:10 "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote in message news:4abadfd6$0$1621$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... > mikey4 <lakediver(a)dd..net> wrote: >> >>"Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote in message >>news:4aba62df$0$1606$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... >>> Bill Graham <weg9(a)comcast.net> wrote: >>>>The principal is simple and logical. When you make laws against carrying >>>>guns, only the law abiding citizens will obey these laws, and so only >>>>the >>>>criminals will carry guns, and the crime rate will go up. >>> >>> But that makes the illogical assumption that guns will continue to be >>> freely available even when illegal. Everybody knows that that is >>> nonsense. There would be vastly fewer guns and thus fewer people >>> killed by guns. >>> >>>>Why the hell the stupid liberals can't see and understand this is beyond >>>>me, >>> >>> Why you rightards canot simply look at the facts is bizarre. We see >>> that countries that have gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths. >>> It's not rocket science, but when you worship a cult then logic is the >>> first casualty. >>> >>Following this logic we should ban cars and put everyone on bicycles. > > Since I mentioned nothing about banning anything it's obvious that > you're a prime example of rightard dislogic. Note also that the rate > of deaths with automobiles is vastly lower AND automobile ownership > and use is highly regulated. Did I say you mentioned banning guns? In 2006, there were 30,896 gun deaths in the U.S: 12,791 homicides (41% of total deaths), 16,883 suicides (55% of total deaths), 642 unintentional shootings (2% of total deaths), 360 from legal intervention (1.2% of total deaths) and 220 from undetermined intent (.8% of total deaths). Now cars: 42,708 durning the same year ( from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811173.PDF) How many people commited suicide buy car ? Looks to me that more people were *killed* buy cars which by your admission are "highly regulated". So what does this prove? It only proves that in the end, laws and regulations do not prevent death by automobile any more then they prevent people of offing themselves with a hand gun. >>You are right ray this isn't rocket science and here's why. >>The following is taken from >>http://www.britainneedsguns.co.uk > > And there's another example of rightard "thinking": If it's on a web > site then it must be true. > Spin spin spin I guess you didn't read the link, if you had you would have seen the artical came from the NY Times.
From: Allen on 24 Sep 2009 10:53 SMS wrote: > stephe_k(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> But massive deficit spending did affect all of this. You can't spend >> BILLIONS on a war and at the same time LOWER taxes. You blame the dem >> for "Tax and spend" but ignore the effects of "Tax rebate but spend a >> lot more". That is EXACTLY what Regan AND both Bush's did. > > Well to be fair, George H.W. Bush did have to clean up the mess Reagan > made with the S&L's, and he did agree to a tax increase to reduce > deficit spending slightly. And no doubt this was behind his loss for > re-election. George H.W. Bush also correctly called Reaganomics, > "voo-doo economics." > >> And where exactly do you think we borrowed this money to go to war >> while lowering taxes came from? > > The deficits run up by the tax cuts for the wealthy exceed the cost of > the health care proposals. > > People complain a lot about George W. Bush because not only was his > presidency a failure in terms of domestic and foreign policy, but he > also was personally unpopular, and not well-spoken. Reagan was more > dangerous because his policy failures were not as well understood or > publicized because he was personally very popular. It's only in the past > couple of years that everyone is beginning to realize the damage Reagan > wrought. Thank you for that well-stated post, SMS. I find it difficult to believe the number of people in the US who can't understand what a mess Reagan made. Well, not actually Reagan himself, who was really just a puppet who wasn't smart enough, but the handlers and backers who got him nominated for and elected to a position that he was not capable of handling. Bush Sr's biggest mistake was in not recognizing and reversing policy of the previous eight years. Allen
From: mikey4 on 24 Sep 2009 11:13
"Allen" <allent(a)austin.rr.com> wrote in message news:qamdne8YxOx_GibXnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > SMS wrote: >> stephe_k(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> >>> But massive deficit spending did affect all of this. You can't spend >>> BILLIONS on a war and at the same time LOWER taxes. You blame the dem >>> for "Tax and spend" but ignore the effects of "Tax rebate but spend a >>> lot more". That is EXACTLY what Regan AND both Bush's did. >> >> Well to be fair, George H.W. Bush did have to clean up the mess Reagan >> made with the S&L's, and he did agree to a tax increase to reduce deficit >> spending slightly. And no doubt this was behind his loss for re-election. >> George H.W. Bush also correctly called Reaganomics, "voo-doo economics." >> >>> And where exactly do you think we borrowed this money to go to war while >>> lowering taxes came from? >> >> The deficits run up by the tax cuts for the wealthy exceed the cost of >> the health care proposals. >> >> People complain a lot about George W. Bush because not only was his >> presidency a failure in terms of domestic and foreign policy, but he also >> was personally unpopular, and not well-spoken. Reagan was more dangerous >> because his policy failures were not as well understood or publicized >> because he was personally very popular. It's only in the past couple of >> years that everyone is beginning to realize the damage Reagan wrought. > Thank you for that well-stated post, SMS. I find it difficult to believe > the number of people in the US who can't understand what a mess Reagan > made. Well, not actually Reagan himself, who was really just a puppet who > wasn't smart enough, but the handlers and backers who got him nominated > for and elected to a position that he was not capable of handling. Bush > Sr's biggest mistake was in not recognizing and reversing policy of the > previous eight years. > Allen What I find so sad is that while a president is blamed for a the financial mess congress and the senate skate by. |