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Old 04-14-2005, 02:56 PM   #2656
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Death Tax Relief for America's Farmers. All 50 of them. The rest? Bonus!

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Old 04-14-2005, 02:58 PM   #2657
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tax question

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Sheesh, chill for a minute. I meant "more aggressive" in the legal grey zone sort of way. Isn't that the way the game is supposed to be played?

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Because tax law, especially on permissible deductions, is full of grey areas. It's not like there are thousands of pages of detailed rules. I understand your uncertainty here, and admire the strong ethical code that appears to underlie your decision-making process. I mean, hell, how likely is it that you'll get caught? And if you don't get caught, you deserved not to pay the tax. Because you are smarter than those schmoes who don't push the lines, and don't make Congress pass ever-more-detailed laws, and the Treasury to issue ever-more-detailed guidance, to keep people from doing things that anyone with any common sense could see were not intended to be done under the rules, but if the applicable rules and other, really not related rules are read in an overly legalistic, twisted way, an argument that what really isn't permissible might be OK can be made by moron consultant assholes.

That was quite the run-on sentence. Good times!
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Old 04-14-2005, 02:59 PM   #2658
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This reminds me of a chat I had with a colleague the other day, moderate republican who does some work with the state party and who voted for Bush. He told me that the whispers are the chances to retain the WhiteHouse in 2008 are melting away faster than a scoop of vanilla on the devil's hotplate. I have to agree. How does one party go from capturing the WH and Congress to ineffectual disarray in 4 months?
2. I am a longtime Republican- but I won't be voting Republican next time. These guys have gotten us into a quagmire in Iraq and have destroyed the universal love America had around the world, plus ruin the economy. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm voting Dem next time
 
Old 04-14-2005, 03:08 PM   #2659
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2. I am a longtime Republican- but I won't be voting Republican next time. These guys have gotten us into a quagmire in Iraq and have destroyed the universal love America had around the world, plus ruin the economy. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm voting Dem next time
Good to hear from you. How is your inner Hispanic Marine?
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:11 PM   #2660
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Because tax law, especially on permissible deductions, is full of grey areas. It's not like there are thousands of pages of detailed rules. I understand your uncertainty here, and admire the strong ethical code that appears to underlie your decision-making process. I mean, hell, how likely is it that you'll get caught? And if you don't get caught, you deserved not to pay the tax. Because you are smarter than those schmoes who don't push the lines, and don't make Congress pass ever-more-detailed laws, and the Treasury to issue ever-more-detailed guidance, to keep people from doing things that anyone with any common sense could see were not intended to be done under the rules, but if the applicable rules and other, really not related rules are read in an overly legalistic, twisted way, an argument that what really isn't permissible might be OK can be made by moron consultant assholes.

That was quite the run-on sentence. Good times!
so was that a yes or a no?
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:17 PM   #2661
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Good to hear from you. How is your inner Hispanic Marine?
this is a mess, but its a damn fine concept- its just there no longer a reason to work on it- plus I've gone to just copying from GTA radio rants.....
  • to the tune of BUS STOP
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    Bus stop, NO WAR, Juan's there, I say
    Would you like a Peace button
    Bus stop, bus goes, Juan stays, peace march
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    All that Monday aztec dancing blind
    That peace button, we employed it
    By noon, Juan was mine
 
Old 04-14-2005, 03:19 PM   #2662
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2. I am a longtime Republican- but I won't be voting Republican next time. These guys have gotten us into a quagmire in Iraq and have destroyed the universal love America had around the world, plus ruin the economy. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm voting Dem next time
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:27 PM   #2664
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:31 PM   #2665
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puriTY and BT are me, evil twin is GGG, but who is colonel Jessup?
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:36 PM   #2666
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:41 PM   #2667
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puriTY and BT are me, evil twin is GGG, but who is colonel Jessup?
I have no idea. Must be an evil mastermind. A puppeteer, perhaps?
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This reminds me of a chat I had with a colleague the other day, moderate republican who does some work with the state party and who voted for Bush. He told me that the whispers are the chances to retain the WhiteHouse in 2008 are melting away faster than a scoop of vanilla on the devil's hotplate. I have to agree. How does one party go from capturing the WH and Congress to ineffectual disarray in 4 months?
Which state party?
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Old 04-14-2005, 03:56 PM   #2669
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Which state party?
New York. A Patakiite. Talk about disarray-the NY Republicans are really on the ropes.
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New York. A Patakiite. Talk about disarray-the NY Republicans are really on the ropes.
How could you not see the trainwreck coming? Too many unholy alliances. Or too many holy ones.
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