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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 6 13:26:26 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 12:12:39 2008.

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Yahoo's kinda boring, but at least they aren't pro jihadi on their software and subsites

That's because Red China's fighting their own fight against radical religionists. In fact, they're fighting against all religion. And Yahoo is probably helping them in that cause as well. We're not multicultural – we're multipolar.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by SilverFox on Sun Jul 6 15:01:35 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by Nilet on Sun Jul 6 09:29:16 2008.

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But there weren't so many nuisance taxes, sales taxes, fees, tolls, fares, excises, levies, etc. that we do now. And their rates weren't as confiscatory as they are now.

Income tax is only a small part of the tax bite Americans suffer. And while the top rate back then may have been 90%, something like only one in five people paid income taxes back then. Exemptions and deductions were so rich that the average Joe remained whole.

And the government, and humanity, hummed along just swell.


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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 15:31:49 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by SilverFox on Sun Jul 6 15:01:35 2008.

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There were far more tolls down south than now. Most of the causeways and bridges were privately built prior to wwii.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jul 6 18:23:11 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by Fred G on Sun Jul 6 03:07:03 2008.

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I use it even when I don't need it because it has voice control which is fun and it's not my car so I want to enjoy it while I can.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jul 6 18:34:58 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 6 09:59:47 2008.

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I like watching TV and if you're on the subway or otherwise away from your house a small screen is the only way to watch TV. Maybe I'll get a pair of these.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by JohnL on Mon Jul 7 13:44:20 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by SilverFox on Sun Jul 6 15:01:35 2008.

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But there weren't so many nuisance taxes, sales taxes, fees, tolls, fares, excises, levies, etc. that we do now. And their rates weren't as confiscatory as they are now.

Because politicians had real budgets and set basic taxes, such as income tax and capital gains tax, at a rate which would cover them.

Now, politicians are afraid to raise income tax, capital gains tax is a joke, so there are a billion user fees, each with its own collection bureaucracy.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by RonInBayside on Mon Jul 7 14:23:28 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by JohnL on Mon Jul 7 13:44:20 2008.

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And being flat, they affect the poor more than the rich.

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Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 14:49:45 2008, in response to Re: Google is *NOT* your friend ... part 1?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jul 6 18:34:58 2008.

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Nice toy! Me WANT! :)

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