1. Comment by NightHawk P. (NightHawk)— November 1,2009 @ 12:25AM
Ratings:-3+30
Kind of figured you were a lawyer John Biggers. It don't take 10 acres to grow enough vegs to feed a family of four, and you can basicly go hunting and fishing about year round in this Country right now. It doesn't take much to cut costs, and make do. If you want to. As far as the good old days. They were not all that good, and included a lot of hard work. Plus a lot of book learning.
2. Comment by Don M. (saffronbindy)— November 1,2009 @ 12:31AM
Ratings:-22+18
Each week, the People Who Spend Their Time Worrying About Political Cartoons (PWSTTWAPC-Pac) select the 20 best political cartoons published out of the 3000 or so published in the last week. Our own Fitz always sneaks one in there. Sometimes two. This week he captured 4 of the 20. All the years I've been watching the contest I've never seen anybody do that.
Love him or hate him, he is a treasure. Our treasure. He is syndicated world wide, so he is not going away. Not long ago I was perusing a newspaper in Israel and came across a Fitz cartoon. He gets around...
3. Comment by NightHawk P. (NightHawk)— November 1,2009 @ 1:16AM
Ratings:-4+28
Got to talk to my brothers son out in Calif. Friday. With the price of milk so bad they had to send over two thousand cows to the slaughterhouse. Cost more in feed than they get for in milk now. My brother-in-law up in Minn. all ready sold all his over to Cooperatives Working Together, or CWT. Five cents on the dollar. Costs and taxes just got to much.
4. Comment by NightHawk P. (NightHawk)— November 1,2009 @ 1:34AM
Ratings:-4+42
Faleh Almaleki believes in his religion of Peace. He's a Muslim, and because he felt his daughter was becoming to Westernized he ran her and another lady over in the Peoria parking lot. Then the brave man ran to Mexico, and caught a flight to the U.K.. Who sent him back here Thursday where he was arrested at the airport in Atlanta. He was returned to Arizona Saturday to face aggravated assault charges, and he should be facing attempt murder charges. Plus a lot more. This should also be front page news.
5. Comment by NightHawk P. (NightHawk)— November 1,2009 @ 2:23AM
Ratings:-3+25
I'll have you know when I'm doing research, study, or writing I have music on. Most of the time older Country music or Long Hair music. For some reason I tend to like the Romantic period the best, and very loud for Latin. Brahms can be very good for this. Just the Hungarian Dances can make plaster come off the walls or the Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 turned low put me in a mello mood. For those that don't know the last one is Bram's Lullaby.
7. Comment by james d. (james a d)— November 1,2009 @ 7:41AM
Ratings:-21+11
Now with all the uproar in that certain district in NYstate, it appears that the Republican party as we all know it has now become for lack of a better description the URRepublican, (ultra rightwing). The moderates of that party have been kicked to the curb, the we don't want you's (URR) doesn't like or appreciate your ideology.
With the latest available data released only a wk or so ago that those who now identify themselves as R's has shrunk to it's lowest level in some 26years and now with that district in NYstate, it appears they are shrinking faster than any of us ever realized, extinction now comes to mind.
9. Comment by Charlotte P. (arizonagramma)— November 1,2009 @ 8:38AM
Ratings:-2+25
Ross #8: I think you misunderstood Nighthawk's comment. The price of milk from dairy farmer to the dairy is so low that the cows cost more to feed than the milk is worth. The cows are still producing milk, it just isn't worth much at the current market price.
10. Comment by Herman O. (No party affiliation)— November 1,2009 @ 8:58AM
Ratings:-13+26
"In the meantime, nearly a quarter of our society is scrambling just to stay alive at near-empty tables, in foreclosure-threatened homes and on the streets."
John Biggers
Retired attorney, Tucson
11. Comment by Zane17 .. (Zane17)— November 1,2009 @ 9:09AM
Ratings:-2+9
Time to pay up
Cut taxes. Reduce spending. Let's just go back to the good old days when everybody had 10 acres
Replace today's standard plot with 10 acres...then cut taxes and reduce spending.
To drive what today is 20 miles would mean ... what? 200 miles? ... or more? Because Tucson's square miles would increase exponentially "housing" all those 10 acre lots.
And we'd cut taxes and reduce spending for what now? Dirt foot trails for the vet to medically treat our cows?
13. Comment by Michael P. (powersmf)— November 1,2009 @ 9:15AM
Ratings:-8+19
Time to pay up
Cut taxes. Reduce spending. Let's just go back to the good old days when everybody had 10 acres and a garden, a shotgun to hunt rabbits and raccoons, a fishing pole and a flock of kids to help around the house, but not too much time for book learnin'.
A new day has arrived. Right now our national government and legislatures have no alternative but to say to those of us who have two or more helpings at the table, bigger and fancier cars, even many with more than enough space at home, it's time to pay up.
It's popular to fire up the middle classes by clamoring for lower taxes, but the folks who should be willing to dig deeper are standing by with legislators, cheering crowds to go to "tea parties."
In the meantime, nearly a quarter of our society is scrambling just to stay alive at near-empty tables, in foreclosure-threatened homes and on the streets.
John Biggers
Retired attorney, Tucson
-- Your letter is nothing more than wealthy envy. Most "rich" people pay more than their fair share (check out the treasury website) in income taxes. They are mostly self made with hard work. What you are proposing to take away the incentive to work hard (i.e. Redistribution of wealth).
16. Comment by Lindsey S. (Lindsey TS)— November 1,2009 @ 9:38AM
Ratings:-2+17
"I applaud the Tucson Police Department for developing a special unit to deal with the graffiti problem."
Alvin D. Lewis
I would hope the special unit developed by the police department emphasizes placing the responsibility of graffiti removal on those who have been found guilty of defacing property. They should also pay for the materials used to clean up the mess.
17. Comment by Phillip D. (pdavid)— November 1,2009 @ 9:41AM
Ratings:-13+10
A pleasure to read a group of thoughtful Letters to the Editor this week.
John Biggers' letter was to the point. What he didn't say, I'll fill in:
Since 94, we have cut the taxes to the rich in Arizona by 30%, and shifted the tax burden down to those least able to afford it. Regressive, instead of Progressive. The current republican plan is to cut taxes for the wealthy and for courporations even more...but it is time to pay up, because our economy can't run on such a financial scheme, nor can the state budget.
If we had the tax code of 1993 right now, the state would have 3 billion more than it has now. Sounds like a balanced budget to me. Plus, it sounds like the kind of social services many people need in these hard economic times.
Speaking of hard economic times, I looked up info from the Tax Foundation and discovered that even with all the types of tax cuts republicans used, our incomes wern't affected much. In other words, they didn't work to make life better, spur the ecomomy, or raise our incomes (unless you were already rich, then you got richer).
In 1993 the Tax Foundation ranked Arizona 29th (50=lowest) and our per capita income level was 14 percent less than the national average. In 2006 at the height of the boom, Arizona had dropped to 40th, but our relative per capita income level was still 13 below average. Not much bang for the buck.
And now they want more of the same. Idiocy. John Biggers is right: Time To Pay Up.
"Robb Column from Arizona Republic": http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/04/02/20090402robb03.html
"Cost of Tax Cuts Spreadsheet": http://www.makedemocracywork.org/columns/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/state-finance-from-hoffman-and-rex-with-adjustments.xls (utilizes a table from a November paper by Dennis Hoffman and Tom Rex of W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU)
18. Comment by Lindsey S. (Lindsey TS)— November 1,2009 @ 9:44AM
Ratings:-7+18
"It's popular to fire up the middle classes by clamoring for lower taxes, but the folks who should be willing to dig deeper are standing by with legislators, cheering crowds to go to "tea parties."
John Biggers
You obviously haven't noticed that we are in a recession and to raise taxes now would set this country back even further than where Obama seems willing to take us.
I have to live within my budget and I suspect most other folks do also. Tell me, why shouldn't Big Government also be required to live within the budget they agree to?
When dollars are tight (or non-existent) belt-tightening is in order - for everyone.
19. Comment by Lindsey S. (Lindsey TS)— November 1,2009 @ 9:49AM
Ratings:-10+17
"A public option should not be optional. It is perhaps the most important component of a real change in health-care coverage."
Richard Park
The so-called public option isn't about insuring folks who are without health insurance. It is all about the grab for more power by the current occupant and his minions who simply want to grow Big Government in order to control the lives of Americans.
Along with the Cap and Trade tax, Obama will accomplish exactly what he warned us about last year - he wants to "spread the wealth".
20. Comment by Lindsey S. (Lindsey TS)— November 1,2009 @ 9:53AM
Ratings:-3+13
#5
NightHawk, I agree - music in the background is something I can't do without. Even when I'm reading, I have to have country, the classics or soft rock keeping me company.
21. Comment by Phillip D. (pdavid)— November 1,2009 @ 9:54AM
Ratings:-3+14
Nighthawk #3:
Cost more in feed than they get for in milk now. My brother-in-law up in Minn. all ready sold all his over to Cooperatives Working Together, or CWT. Five cents on the dollar. Costs and taxes just got to much.
Of course, high taxes are the dairy farmer's problem. That explains it.
I pay attention to the news and notice a plethora of lawsuits brought by dairy producers against milk processors and distributers. Lawsuits in the Northeast and in the South have been getting a lot of press recently because certain companies now control 90% of the market, and are making very large profits, while the dairy producer is getting less and less for the milk they sell and many are going bankrupt.
So monopoly and antitrust suits now abound in the milk industry.
22. Comment by Frank G. (goudy1)— November 1,2009 @ 10:28AM
Ratings:-3+13
Obama's real goal is to have one national health plan for all in the future. Hence, the public option the letter writer so dearly wants.
He has said it might take 20 years to achieve that goal, but that is his goal.
Thus, he is not really interested in reform but merely change as he wants it.
If he had truly advocated real reform - and that means controlling costs- to make health care less expenssive for EVERYBODY, then I would have supported him. A good start for him would have been to prove that he could control costs in Medicae and Medicaid that are government programs and that are severely financially strained.
But that is not his real goal and deep down everyone knows it.
25. Comment by Lindsey S. (Lindsey TS)— November 1,2009 @ 10:55AM
Ratings:-9+13
#23
No, I don't - didn't even realize there was a playbook available. We conservatives don't need talking points - that's something the Dems invented and use daily. I just happen to read many newspapers and keep my ears open - even listening to the current occupant's promises of spreading the wealth.
That is the one promise that he is really trying to make good on -
26. Comment by Herman O. (No party affiliation)— November 1,2009 @ 11:43AM
Ratings:-5+10
#17-"And now they want more of the same. Idiocy. John Biggers is right: Time To Pay Up."
You just don't get it, nor will you ever?
Have you ever looked at the rate of taxation between the rich and the not so rich? Percentage wise, the rich pay more and that is the rub. Why punish success? Why reward failure?
Per-capita income is useless when a big portion of our state is Indian Reservation land. Their population counts towards per capita, but so also does their income which is not a fair inclusion. They are a sovereign Nation, but for population they add into AZ totals.
You can hoot and holler about taxing those evil profit makers, but as they keep leaving our state, their tax income to the state leaves with them. You would think you'd want to attract high paying businesses, not drive them out. Having it your way, they would be taxed at 75% and then you'd complain they are leaving and your tax rates going up. You can't have it both ways.
27. Comment by michael s. (arizona native)— November 1,2009 @ 11:59AM
Ratings:-2+15
Those of us who have two or more helpings at the table, nice cars and more than enough space at home have it for a reason. We worked hard and saved our money.
28. Comment by D N. (imyz2u)— November 1,2009 @ 12:03PM
Ratings:-6+12
Public option is most important
A public option should not be optional. It is perhaps the most important component of a real change in health-care coverage.
We do not need more of the same from the very people who have been robbing us blind for too long.
Richard Park
You mean the Dems??? That's where the thieves live.
29. Comment by NightHawk P. (NightHawk)— November 1,2009 @ 1:22PM
Ratings:-2+6
People are going to find a lot of prices going up later this year in the market. Or a large jump next year. From Milk to Vegs. While peoples wages stays the same or goes down, and taxes goes up. 65% Of the Corn and Beans are still not brought in yet because they are wet. Winter crops are yet to be planted. Large Cooperatives are buying up everything.
31. Comment by Sharon H. (sharon455)— November 1,2009 @ 2:35PM
Ratings:-1+6
I grew up in a household with 7 children and very little TV. I am one of those people who need some background noise in order to concentrate, though probably not the mind-numbing noise I hear overflow from too many iPods and Zunes.
33. Comment by joel t. (harperman)— November 1,2009 @ 4:13PM
Ratings:-7+1
When I want to listen to music I want to listen to music with out distractions. Back ground? Give me the wind in the trees, the birdsong and insect sounds of deep country.
If I want noise I can create it myself with large caliber weapons fire. I would rather listen to loud gunfire than what has passed for music in the last 70- 80 years or so.( I am 53.)
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Letters to the editor
Your letters countKind of figured you were a lawyer John Biggers. It don't take 10 acres to grow enough vegs to feed a family of four, and you can basicly go hunting and fishing about year round in this Country right now. It doesn't take much to cut costs, and make do. If you want to. As far as the good old days. They were not all that good, and included a lot of hard work. Plus a lot of book learning.
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Each week, the People Who Spend Their Time Worrying About Political Cartoons (PWSTTWAPC-Pac) select the 20 best political cartoons published out of the 3000 or so published in the last week. Our own Fitz always sneaks one in there. Sometimes two. This week he captured 4 of the 20. All the years I've been watching the contest I've never seen anybody do that.
Love him or hate him, he is a treasure. Our treasure. He is syndicated world wide, so he is not going away. Not long ago I was perusing a newspaper in Israel and came across a Fitz cartoon. He gets around...
Report this comment
Got to talk to my brothers son out in Calif. Friday. With the price of milk so bad they had to send over two thousand cows to the slaughterhouse. Cost more in feed than they get for in milk now. My brother-in-law up in Minn. all ready sold all his over to Cooperatives Working Together, or CWT. Five cents on the dollar. Costs and taxes just got to much.
Report this comment
Faleh Almaleki believes in his religion of Peace. He's a Muslim, and because he felt his daughter was becoming to Westernized he ran her and another lady over in the Peoria parking lot. Then the brave man ran to Mexico, and caught a flight to the U.K.. Who sent him back here Thursday where he was arrested at the airport in Atlanta. He was returned to Arizona Saturday to face aggravated assault charges, and he should be facing attempt murder charges. Plus a lot more. This should also be front page news.
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I'll have you know when I'm doing research, study, or writing I have music on. Most of the time older Country music or Long Hair music. For some reason I tend to like the Romantic period the best, and very loud for Latin. Brahms can be very good for this. Just the Hungarian Dances can make plaster come off the walls or the Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 turned low put me in a mello mood. For those that don't know the last one is Bram's Lullaby.
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Maybe if NightHawk's family would let the cows listen to Brahms while being milked, they could produce enough milk to keep the dairy farm in business.
Brahms lived in Austria much of his life, one reason Hitler was among his fans.
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Now with all the uproar in that certain district in NYstate, it appears that the Republican party as we all know it has now become for lack of a better description the URRepublican, (ultra rightwing). The moderates of that party have been kicked to the curb, the we don't want you's (URR) doesn't like or appreciate your ideology.
With the latest available data released only a wk or so ago that those who now identify themselves as R's has shrunk to it's lowest level in some 26years and now with that district in NYstate, it appears they are shrinking faster than any of us ever realized, extinction now comes to mind.
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Maybe the cows need more book learnin'.
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Ross #8: I think you misunderstood Nighthawk's comment. The price of milk from dairy farmer to the dairy is so low that the cows cost more to feed than the milk is worth. The cows are still producing milk, it just isn't worth much at the current market price.
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"In the meantime, nearly a quarter of our society is scrambling just to stay alive at near-empty tables, in foreclosure-threatened homes and on the streets."
John Biggers
Retired attorney, Tucson
Proof offered? None. Fear mongering at its' best.
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Time to pay up
Cut taxes. Reduce spending. Let's just go back to the good old days when everybody had 10 acres
Replace today's standard plot with 10 acres...then cut taxes and reduce spending.
To drive what today is 20 miles would mean ... what? 200 miles? ... or more? Because Tucson's square miles would increase exponentially "housing" all those 10 acre lots.
And we'd cut taxes and reduce spending for what now? Dirt foot trails for the vet to medically treat our cows?
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7. Comment by james d. : "Now with all the uproar in that certain district in NYstate..."
A misguided uproar at that.
The PEOPLE of NY state select a LOCAL candidate.
However, the GOP (Federal) trumps state's rights with a federally selected candidate.
Something is missing here; like ... say ... the GOP's platform of +STATE's RIGHTS_
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Time to pay up
Cut taxes. Reduce spending. Let's just go back to the good old days when everybody had 10 acres and a garden, a shotgun to hunt rabbits and raccoons, a fishing pole and a flock of kids to help around the house, but not too much time for book learnin'.
A new day has arrived. Right now our national government and legislatures have no alternative but to say to those of us who have two or more helpings at the table, bigger and fancier cars, even many with more than enough space at home, it's time to pay up.
It's popular to fire up the middle classes by clamoring for lower taxes, but the folks who should be willing to dig deeper are standing by with legislators, cheering crowds to go to "tea parties."
In the meantime, nearly a quarter of our society is scrambling just to stay alive at near-empty tables, in foreclosure-threatened homes and on the streets.
John Biggers
Retired attorney, Tucson
-- Your letter is nothing more than wealthy envy. Most "rich" people pay more than their fair share (check out the treasury website) in income taxes. They are mostly self made with hard work. What you are proposing to take away the incentive to work hard (i.e. Redistribution of wealth).
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Romeros office should be responsible for the graffiti removal.After all, she gave our tax dollars to teach the vandals how to vandalize property....
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Hmmm, Bush gets a shoe chucked at him and Clinton gets a 9ft statue
Wonder which group actually feels liberated?
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"I applaud the Tucson Police Department for developing a special unit to deal with the graffiti problem."
Alvin D. Lewis
I would hope the special unit developed by the police department emphasizes placing the responsibility of graffiti removal on those who have been found guilty of defacing property. They should also pay for the materials used to clean up the mess.
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A pleasure to read a group of thoughtful Letters to the Editor this week.
John Biggers' letter was to the point. What he didn't say, I'll fill in:
Since 94, we have cut the taxes to the rich in Arizona by 30%, and shifted the tax burden down to those least able to afford it. Regressive, instead of Progressive. The current republican plan is to cut taxes for the wealthy and for courporations even more...but it is time to pay up, because our economy can't run on such a financial scheme, nor can the state budget.
If we had the tax code of 1993 right now, the state would have 3 billion more than it has now. Sounds like a balanced budget to me. Plus, it sounds like the kind of social services many people need in these hard economic times.
Speaking of hard economic times, I looked up info from the Tax Foundation and discovered that even with all the types of tax cuts republicans used, our incomes wern't affected much. In other words, they didn't work to make life better, spur the ecomomy, or raise our incomes (unless you were already rich, then you got richer).
In 1993 the Tax Foundation ranked Arizona 29th (50=lowest) and our per capita income level was 14 percent less than the national average. In 2006 at the height of the boom, Arizona had dropped to 40th, but our relative per capita income level was still 13 below average. Not much bang for the buck.
And now they want more of the same. Idiocy. John Biggers is right: Time To Pay Up.
For Herman O - Sources:
Tax Foundation data
Income data from Bureau of Economic Analysis
"Robb Column from Arizona Republic": http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/04/02/20090402robb03.html
"Cost of Tax Cuts Spreadsheet": http://www.makedemocracywork.org/columns/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/state-finance-from-hoffman-and-rex-with-adjustments.xls (utilizes a table from a November paper by Dennis Hoffman and Tom Rex of W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU)
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"It's popular to fire up the middle classes by clamoring for lower taxes, but the folks who should be willing to dig deeper are standing by with legislators, cheering crowds to go to "tea parties."
John Biggers
You obviously haven't noticed that we are in a recession and to raise taxes now would set this country back even further than where Obama seems willing to take us.
I have to live within my budget and I suspect most other folks do also. Tell me, why shouldn't Big Government also be required to live within the budget they agree to?
When dollars are tight (or non-existent) belt-tightening is in order - for everyone.
Report this comment
"A public option should not be optional. It is perhaps the most important component of a real change in health-care coverage."
Richard Park
The so-called public option isn't about insuring folks who are without health insurance. It is all about the grab for more power by the current occupant and his minions who simply want to grow Big Government in order to control the lives of Americans.
Along with the Cap and Trade tax, Obama will accomplish exactly what he warned us about last year - he wants to "spread the wealth".
Now do you get it?
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#5
NightHawk, I agree - music in the background is something I can't do without. Even when I'm reading, I have to have country, the classics or soft rock keeping me company.
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Nighthawk #3:
Of course, high taxes are the dairy farmer's problem. That explains it.
I pay attention to the news and notice a plethora of lawsuits brought by dairy producers against milk processors and distributers. Lawsuits in the Northeast and in the South have been getting a lot of press recently because certain companies now control 90% of the market, and are making very large profits, while the dairy producer is getting less and less for the milk they sell and many are going bankrupt.
So monopoly and antitrust suits now abound in the milk industry.
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Obama's real goal is to have one national health plan for all in the future. Hence, the public option the letter writer so dearly wants.
He has said it might take 20 years to achieve that goal, but that is his goal.
Thus, he is not really interested in reform but merely change as he wants it.
If he had truly advocated real reform - and that means controlling costs- to make health care less expenssive for EVERYBODY, then I would have supported him. A good start for him would have been to prove that he could control costs in Medicae and Medicaid that are government programs and that are severely financially strained.
But that is not his real goal and deep down everyone knows it.
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#19, you must have a copy of the rush limbaugh playbook on how to speak to the ultra rightwing republican, of course it to is fiction.
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6. Comment by Ross J. (5973) — November 1,2009 @ 5:34AM
Ratings: -18 +2
Maybe if NightHawk's family would let the cows listen to Brahms while being milked, they could produce enough milk to keep the dairy farm in business.
Brahms lived in Austria much of his life, one reason Hitler was among his fans.
...........
BHO is a huge fan of the Bulls and the White Sox...
So what's your POINT??
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#23
No, I don't - didn't even realize there was a playbook available. We conservatives don't need talking points - that's something the Dems invented and use daily. I just happen to read many newspapers and keep my ears open - even listening to the current occupant's promises of spreading the wealth.
That is the one promise that he is really trying to make good on -
Bring on 2010!!
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#17-"And now they want more of the same. Idiocy. John Biggers is right: Time To Pay Up."
You just don't get it, nor will you ever?
Have you ever looked at the rate of taxation between the rich and the not so rich? Percentage wise, the rich pay more and that is the rub. Why punish success? Why reward failure?
Per-capita income is useless when a big portion of our state is Indian Reservation land. Their population counts towards per capita, but so also does their income which is not a fair inclusion. They are a sovereign Nation, but for population they add into AZ totals.
You can hoot and holler about taxing those evil profit makers, but as they keep leaving our state, their tax income to the state leaves with them. You would think you'd want to attract high paying businesses, not drive them out. Having it your way, they would be taxed at 75% and then you'd complain they are leaving and your tax rates going up. You can't have it both ways.
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Those of us who have two or more helpings at the table, nice cars and more than enough space at home have it for a reason. We worked hard and saved our money.
I don't own anybody anything.
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Public option is most important
A public option should not be optional. It is perhaps the most important component of a real change in health-care coverage.
We do not need more of the same from the very people who have been robbing us blind for too long.
Richard Park
You mean the Dems??? That's where the thieves live.
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People are going to find a lot of prices going up later this year in the market. Or a large jump next year. From Milk to Vegs. While peoples wages stays the same or goes down, and taxes goes up. 65% Of the Corn and Beans are still not brought in yet because they are wet. Winter crops are yet to be planted. Large Cooperatives are buying up everything.
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I just pass over those comments Charlotte as not worth my time.
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I grew up in a household with 7 children and very little TV. I am one of those people who need some background noise in order to concentrate, though probably not the mind-numbing noise I hear overflow from too many iPods and Zunes.
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Crying babies can reach zones an ipod can only wish. Yet when they are grown you wish that stage of their life could have lasted longer.
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When I want to listen to music I want to listen to music with out distractions. Back ground? Give me the wind in the trees, the birdsong and insect sounds of deep country.
If I want noise I can create it myself with large caliber weapons fire. I would rather listen to loud gunfire than what has passed for music in the last 70- 80 years or so.( I am 53.)
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I knew that one would get you folks!
Sheeple, sheeple everywhere.
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