Comments for A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com Quam bene vivas referre, non quam diu. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:40:55 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on “I Do Think at a Certain Point You’ve Taxed Enough Money” by eehines http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/24/i-do-think-at-a-certain-point-youve-taxed-enough-money/#comment-8467 eehines Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:40:55 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5916#comment-8467 It is ugly for those who live in many states. An interesting exercise is to check the unemployment rates and the poverty levels by state tax levels.

Eric Hines

]]> Comment on “I Do Think at a Certain Point You’ve Taxed Enough Money” by Michael Robertson http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/24/i-do-think-at-a-certain-point-youve-taxed-enough-money/#comment-8456 Michael Robertson Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:22:48 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5916#comment-8456 Besides Federal taxes there’s state taxes too. State taxes are now equal to Federal or more for many people.

Please check out http://TaxBalloon.com which chronicles in painful detail the hundreds of taxes people pay. The site specializes in CA so enter a zip code like 90210 to get a glimpse at a complete tax picture.

]]> Comment on The Boston Lockdown by Bad Cyborg http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/23/the-boston-lockdown/#comment-8413 Bad Cyborg Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:26:50 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5908#comment-8413 I hadn’t thought of that aspect of the “shelter in place” order – excuse me “request” – but your points are absolutely valid. My concern was in the Governor’s (? Mayor’s? SOMEbody’s) instruction to only open their doors to “properly identified” law enforcement personnel. I was figuring on a scenario something like this:

[doorbell rings]
Voice from outside the door: “Police! Open up!”

82 year old Widow homeowner: “May I see some identification, please?”

Voice: “I SAID it’s the police. Now OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR!!!”

Homeowner: “But the Governor said not to open the door except to properly identified law enforcement! Could you PLEASE show me some identification?”

Voice: “We don’t have TIME for this bull$$$t! Open the F$$$$$G DOOR, LADY! NOW!”

[from outside the door a voice "That's IT! Get the f$$$$$g ram!" CRASH The door flies open throwing the frail homeowner backward to fall and hit her head on the coffee table. The coroner will later list her cause of death as intracranial bleeding.]

Just as the heavily armed police rush into the home and see the tiny homeowner lieing in a pool of blood from a massive would to her old gray head, a voice is heard from outside “Back off, guys. The radio just reported a possible sighting on the other side of town.”

At the old woman’s funeral are her 5 children with spouses, 18 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Not wishing to tarnish the outstanding work done by combined local, state and federal law enforcement, no local media outlet carries anything about the incident. Her obituary only mentions a fall in her home resulting in her death.

]]> Comment on More PRC Sea Grab by Are We Projecting? | A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/01/more-prc-sea-grab/#comment-8288 Are We Projecting? | A Plebe's Site Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:54:23 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5693#comment-8288 [...] currently engaged in a massive sea grab.  Things would be much more stable if we’d just abandon our allies, friends, and trading partners, and let the PRC get on with [...]

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]]> Comment on The European Union and the Articles of Confederation by Germany and Eurobonds | A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com/2011/11/18/the-european-union-and-the-articles-of-confederation/#comment-8216 Germany and Eurobonds | A Plebe's Site Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:01:05 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=555#comment-8216 [...] nations of Europe were never equal states, though, and a common currency cannot make them so.  All a common currency can do is facilitate [...]

]]> Comment on This is Foolish by And Here Come the Concessions | A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/09/this-is-foolish/#comment-8100 And Here Come the Concessions | A Plebe's Site Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:51:52 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5784#comment-8100 [...] as predicted [...]

]]> Comment on A Cyber First Strike by YGTBSM, Again | A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com/2013/03/20/a-cyber-first-strike/#comment-7928 YGTBSM, Again | A Plebe's Site Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:05:06 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5566#comment-7928 [...] If this is typical, our Army seems wholly unprepared for its role in a cyber strike. [...]

]]> Comment on Tax Reform, CBO Scoring, and Revenue Neutrality by Progressives, Tax Scoring, and Economic Growth | A Plebe's Site http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/05/tax-reform-cbo-scoring-and-revenue-neutrality/#comment-7700 Progressives, Tax Scoring, and Economic Growth | A Plebe's Site Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:43:17 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5742#comment-7700 [...] ← Previous [...]

]]> Comment on The Arrogance of Government by eehines http://aplebessite.com/2013/04/02/the-arrogance-of-government/#comment-7633 eehines Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:32:43 +0000 http://aplebessite.com/?p=5715#comment-7633 Don’t be too sure. We were once a Blue state, and the pendulum can swing back. Jefferson had it right: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Eric Hines

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