Sidney Greenstreet wrote:
"Peter" wrote in message
oups.com...

So, you're in favour of repealing all laws pertaining to mandatory
qualifications for all professions, then? After all, this is nannyism
at its worst. Why should people be forced to study for years and pass
exams to be a doctor? You're just - in theory - protecting people from
making a bad decision about who they consult.

PDW


Great idea! Bad doctors would go out of business sooner. Medicine would
advance rapidly due to choice of therapy. Should do it for lawyers too.

I was working up to that. Come on, I'm trying to give Max enough rope
to hang himself.

PDW

"John Phlegm" wrote:
Isn't Neal traveling the country with his Airstream? I
heard he had his colon resectioned and it is difficult for
him to move about or in and out of his sailboat so he sold
it.

"resectioned"? Does that mean he can poop out of both ears
now?

Seahag

"katy" wrote in message
...
DSK wrote:
Charlie Morgan wrote:

I'm not afraid of Gilly in the least.


Whistling in the dark?

He claims to know who I am, and I have
invited him to post that information here.


That would make him no better than you.

... You also have more of less claimed to
know who I am


Have I? All I've claimed is that you don't spend nearly
enough time or effort hopping proxies, and you're not
nearly as smart as Gilly.

DSK


Isn't anyone even close to smart as Gilly except for
Taddy...

Yeah, and they're both real manly men !

swoon

Seahag

Seahag wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
...

DSK wrote:

Charlie Morgan wrote:


I'm not afraid of Gilly in the least.


Whistling in the dark?


He claims to know who I am, and I have
invited him to post that information here.


That would make him no better than you.


... You also have more of less claimed to
know who I am


Have I? All I've claimed is that you don't spend nearly
enough time or effort hopping proxies, and you're not
nearly as smart as Gilly.

DSK



Isn't anyone even close to smart as Gilly except for
Taddy...


Yeah, and they're both real manly men !

swoon

Seahag




yeah...double swoon eat your hearts out, all you other guys...

Sidney Greenstreet wrote:

It's ridiculous to tax income. Everyone should pay the same fee to the
government every year. If everyone over 18 paid something like $3,000
regardless of income it would be the most equitable.


Glen, shut the **** up.

The adults are trying to have a conversation.

// Walt

"Seahag" wrote
Yeah, and they're both real manly men !

swoon


You'd better watch out, Seahag. Katy says women don't giggle. Next she'll be saying they
don't swoon either... Maybe if Katy doesn't giggle it means she's lost her sense of humor????
I bet you giggle.

Cheers,
Ellen

Maxprop wrote:
"Walt" wrote in message


A guy who busts his ass working as a plumber or a ditch digger pays a
higher rate than a guy who makes much more flipping condos or bonds.

Oh really??? Did you conveniently omit the capital gains tax, or just
forget about it.

No. The tax on capital gains is lower than the tax on labor. Look it
up in the tax tables. Don't forget to include payroll taxes.


And the guy who makes money flipping condos in turn pays a higher rate
than the lucky offspring of the well to do who "earn" their fortune simply
by virtue of outliving their parents.

The heirs don't "earn" anything. They inherit the money their progenitors
have *already paid taxes upon.* So you'd tax that money again? Why?

Every time money changes hands, it's taxed. If I pay a plumber to
unclog my drains, he pays income taxes on it. Yes, I've already paid
income taxes on the money I used to pay him, but that's the way it
works. And if he uses the money to tip a waitress at lunch, she pays
taxes on it. And if she hires a gardener, the gardener pays income
taxes on the money he's paid. And if he hires somebody for something,
that person pays too. etc. etc. etc.

That's the way income taxes work. Why you want to make a special
exemption for the progeny of the idle rich is beyond me. Is it because
they don't "earn" it? Are you really so gullible that you think
you're going to be one of them some day?

Oh wait--you're in favor of punitive taxation. I almost forgot.

WHACK that strawman, Max. WHACK it like you mean it. C'mon, you can
do it.

// Walt

Mine is definitely not sailing. :-)

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"DSK" wrote in message
...
Capt. JG wrote:
No, actually, I've complained about everyone. That's how I spend my day.


Well, everybody needs a hobby.

DSK

He's deliberately nymshifting which is probably a violation of his TOS. Of
course, he'll now claim that I reported him.

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www.sailnow.com

"Walt" wrote in message
...
Sidney Greenstreet wrote:

It's ridiculous to tax income. Everyone should pay the same fee to the
government every year. If everyone over 18 paid something like $3,000
regardless of income it would be the most equitable.


Glen, shut the **** up.

The adults are trying to have a conversation.

// Walt

I said "I think it's somewhere between 10 and 50 percent." Not sure how more
clear I can be.

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www.sailnow.com

"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:48:23 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

No idea. I'm not an economist nor do I work for the IRS. I think it's
somewhere between 10 and 50 percent.

Bzzzt. Wrong answer. The question didn't call for any economic expertise,
Nor did it call for any knowledge of facts. Since you asserted that
citizens
should pay their "fair share," it called for your individual judgment as
to
what shares would be "fair." That's a matter on which an economist has no
more qualification to pass on than the man in the street.