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On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:20:21 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

BTW ... I have no dog in this fight. We don't have a mortgage.

All we pay is ridiculously high property taxes.



But you CAN afford a "boutique " Guitar Store....

YOU...are another rich pc of ****.

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On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:28:20 PM UTC-4, True North wrote:
You guys can deduct your property taxes from your information come taxes??

I'd love to have that benefit.



Go learn to backup a trailered Boat, ****head

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On Monday, September 2, 2013 7:26:07 PM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 9/2/13 8:23 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:





And how would you get to work if you had anything to carry for work, or

deliver anything for work... Trains are only good for paperpushers and

vacationers anyway...







How would that impact you? You are unemployed and unemployable. What

would you be carrying or delivering to "work," since you don't work?

It's nothing novel that many ask that same question of you, Krause.

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On 9/4/13 10:03 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ...

"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 9/4/13 7:13 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 9/4/13 6:45 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 9/4/13 4:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message

There's nothing mythical about depreciation allowances, and they
are
subsidies.

Period.

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My business made significant investments in manufacturing and
engineering equipment. They were depreciated as allowed under tax
laws
every year. I never knew they were a "subsidy".




Same sort of subsidy as homeowners get on their mortgage interest.

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How the heck is that a "subsidy"?

Does MD have an excise tax on automobiles like MA does?

Should you pay taxes on the current new value of a car, even if
it's 10
years old?

You don't think the home mortgage tax deduction is a subsidy of home
ownership?

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No, I don't. I see it as a tax credit intended to encourage home
ownership for as many as possible.
It's not like someone else is paying the amount of the tax credit in
order for you to get it.

*That* would be a tax subsidy.



Many economists, especially some of those closely affiliated with
anti-tax groups, disagree with you.

-------------------------

Good. Let them disagree. Take away the mortgage interest deduction
and watch overall tax revenues *decrease* as the economy goes from
slow forward to dead stop.

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BTW ... I have no dog in this fight. We don't have a mortgage. All we
pay is ridiculously high property taxes.

Since you can deduct those property taxes from your federal and probably
state tax return, you're receiving a subsidy there, too.

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Good. (I have no idea .... our accountant does all that stuff).

I never thought of deductions as subsidies, but I guess I can see how
you can view it that way. I'll take it.
I know I've paid my share of taxes over the years.


I'm sure your accountant finds you every deduction to which you are
entitled.

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says...

On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:43:26 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 3:40 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:41:09 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 12:33 PM, wrote:

Avis makes a profit from my rental.
CSX is not even covering their costs from Amtrak and that is actually
tax money from people who never ride a train.


Costs? What costs? Certainly not additional wear and tear, since a short
passenger train weighs only a fraction of what a freight train ways, and
there are only a couple of passenger trains a day between here and
Florida. CSX's approach to track repair seems to be to repair it when a
freight train derails.

OK you may be right Amorak takes our tax money and gives it to CSX for
the use of their track.
How is that any more than another subsidy from people who never ride a
train to the few who do?



Our entire governmental system is based upon the many helping the few.
Why should train travel be any different?

Why should we be subsidizing the cost of flood insurance for those who
purchase it?

So you admit Amtrak is a welfare program.

I admit that Amtrak receives subsidies, and never said otherwise. But I
am bright enough to know and understand that the airline industry does
as well!

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says...

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:47:04 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:47:01 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

The 3.3 million was from your cite. You really need to read these
things when you cite them

The cite is gave showed you that 17.3 percent of any population can't
swing a vote?

Not by a 2:1 margin

It wasn't even close

Really? Are you that bad at math that you can't figure out a scenario
where that could happen??

17% of the population can drive a 2/3ds majority?

Maybe you are right. old people vote, young ones don't
Shame on them but that is why they will be working 2 jobs to pay for
my Social Security.

That could very well be!

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says...

On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:08:21 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 9/4/2013 12:31 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:16:05 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

I have seen it on the beltway. In fact a guy I know wiped out on one
of these "buckles" on a Sportster and I ended up fixing the bike for
him.



Not trying to indict John... just wondering about 5", seems even outside
Boston that would be addressed somehow...

They closed the beltway a lane at a time and addressed it after
several serious accidents and stories on TV about it.



Surprised more people didn't die.. I know if I hit a 5 inch edge with my
Jeep, at anything over say, 30 miles an hour, there is no way I would
maintain control... Knowing what I know about cars, I can say with
almost certainty that that five inch "curb" at speed would collapse the
front end of my jeep... I imagine the bike you fixed must have busted in
half up near the neck...

Fortunately it wasn't on the leading edge side. It was a ski ramp. 11
guys made it, one guy, a fairly new rider, didn't. He squirreled out
on the landing and went into the swale.
Broken leg and a beat up bike.

What's amazing to me is that Scotty's Jeep won't withstand that 5" jump!
Hell, I've flew much higher than that in old beat up cars of my youth!
Usually the end result is lost hubcaps!

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says...

On 9/4/2013 4:09 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:11:59 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 2:08 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 9/4/2013 12:31 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:16:05 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

I have seen it on the beltway. In fact a guy I know wiped out on one
of these "buckles" on a Sportster and I ended up fixing the bike for
him.



Not trying to indict John... just wondering about 5", seems even outside
Boston that would be addressed somehow...

They closed the beltway a lane at a time and addressed it after
several serious accidents and stories on TV about it.



Surprised more people didn't die.. I know if I hit a 5 inch edge with my
Jeep, at anything over say, 30 miles an hour, there is no way I would
maintain control... Knowing what I know about cars, I can say with
almost certainty that that five inch "curb" at speed would collapse the
front end of my jeep... I imagine the bike you fixed must have busted in
half up near the neck...


I suspect the boys here who are talking about 5" curbs across an entire
highway are the same boys who tried to convince their wives that 2" was 5".

This was whole slabs of the beltway, maybe 20'x30' that were just
tilting up.
That heave we went over was every bit of 5-6"

It was only in a few areas but it was real. There may even be some
archived stories about it on the Post web site mid 70s. (75-76?)
I might have a dated picture of that sportster somewhere.
They blamed it on construction problems on the new lanes.


And as much fun as this has been, it still doesn't prove anything about
the libs assertion that everything is bad because we haven't spent
enough money on union pension fun..... er, uh, infrastructure, yeah,
that's it... Infrastructure....

Yeah, right, idiot. I guess we should do nothing, let the roads go back
to nature, the train tracks, the airports, everything, just let it go.

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In article ,
says...

On 9/4/2013 8:20 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:




"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 9/4/13 7:13 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 9/4/13 6:45 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

On 9/4/13 4:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message

There's nothing mythical about depreciation allowances, and they are
subsidies.

Period.

----------------------------

My business made significant investments in manufacturing and
engineering equipment. They were depreciated as allowed under tax laws
every year. I never knew they were a "subsidy".




Same sort of subsidy as homeowners get on their mortgage interest.

-------------------------------------

How the heck is that a "subsidy"?

Does MD have an excise tax on automobiles like MA does?

Should you pay taxes on the current new value of a car, even if it's 10
years old?

You don't think the home mortgage tax deduction is a subsidy of home
ownership?

---------------------------

No, I don't. I see it as a tax credit intended to encourage home
ownership for as many as possible.
It's not like someone else is paying the amount of the tax credit in
order for you to get it.

*That* would be a tax subsidy.



Many economists, especially some of those closely affiliated with
anti-tax groups, disagree with you.

-------------------------

Good. Let them disagree. Take away the mortgage interest deduction
and watch overall tax revenues *decrease* as the economy goes from
slow forward to dead stop.

------------------------------

BTW ... I have no dog in this fight. We don't have a mortgage. All we
pay is ridiculously high property taxes.



5500 a year for 1/2 acre.. Hey, somebody's gotta' pay for that SWAT
Team... :)

Not to worry, it's not like you pay it or anything.

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says...

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:57:09 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:33:28 -0400, John H
wrote:

Our cabinet doors were opened, crap all over the floor, and shelves broken.
What a mess.

===

Been there, done that, but we were in 8 to 10 foot waves at the time.
All of our galley cabinets have heavy duty latches now.

Well crap! I wasn't out in the middle of the damn ocean! This was I-95 going around Boston.

We traded in the trailer. Got a bigger one. Pay a *lot* more attention to cabinet storage. Live and
learn.

John (Gun Nut) H.

Those soft semi-sticky cabinet liners work well!