Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What happened to all that cruising in the gas-guzzling truck with the sweet stereo? Off-road on a farm?

he is typically legally drunk so it's not government sanctioned use.

[dtb]

Does Hamlet.

That Shakespeare had some talent!

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're a neo-Nazi?

He's just a big fan of the Republican Flute Band scene.

But even they're cooperating with the government these days.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sign my name to the secession proclamation.

Government benfits used by me - $0

There should be an "opt out" clause for people to walk away from the govt. We'd get no benefits and pay minimal taxes for things like roads, police and the military. It'd be like ordering a coach seat instead of business or first class. We get nothing special and in return have no right to claim any of the Cadillac benefits like social security or medicare. Alternatively, we should have the option of giving the money we'd be assessed in taxes to charity. At least I'd feel good doing that.

I undertand taxes are factor in wages, and that I got what I got in part because the market realizes how Uncle Sam assfucks the upper middle class. But it's still terribly annoying. I wanted to buy a really, really big television.

I believe that in some ways we are our brothers' keepers. I just don't want to be the middleman's (Uncle Sam) keeper as well.

This is America. Love it or leave it.

TM

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sign my name to the secession proclamation.

Government benfits used by me - $0

There should be an "opt out" clause for people to walk away from the govt. We'd get no benefits and pay minimal taxes for things like roads, police and the military. It'd be like ordering a coach seat instead of business or first class. We get nothing special and in return have no right to claim any of the Cadillac benefits like social security or medicare. Alternatively, we should have the option of giving the money we'd be assessed in taxes to charity. At least I'd feel good doing that.

I undertand taxes are factor in wages, and that I got what I got in part because the market realizes how Uncle Sam assfucks the upper middle class. But it's still terribly annoying. I wanted to buy a really, really big television.

I believe that in some ways we are our brothers' keepers. I just don't want to be the middleman's (Uncle Sam) keeper as well.

Quit your whinin'. I paid enough in taxes this year to buy a house cash, basically anywhere in the country (except where I live).

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sign my name to the secession proclamation.

Government benfits used by me - $0

There should be an "opt out" clause for people to walk away from the govt. We'd get no benefits and pay minimal taxes for things like roads, police and the military. It'd be like ordering a coach seat instead of business or first class. We get nothing special and in return have no right to claim any of the Cadillac benefits like social security or medicare. Alternatively, we should have the option of giving the money we'd be assessed in taxes to charity. At least I'd feel good doing that.

I undertand taxes are factor in wages, and that I got what I got in part because the market realizes how Uncle Sam assfucks the upper middle class. But it's still terribly annoying. I wanted to buy a really, really big television.

I believe that in some ways we are our brothers' keepers. I just don't want to be the middleman's (Uncle Sam) keeper as well.

This makes a lot of sense, actually. Why should we have to pay taxes to provide benefits like welfare and medicare that we don't use? The people who partake in those types of government benefits should be forced to pay for them themselves.

BUT DON'T LET ME CATCH YOU IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're a neo-Nazi?

Oh please, this is not a time for name calling. We both agree that the federal and state governments have no right or basis to be levying taxes. I'm just saying it's time to stop complaining about it and time to start doing something about it. Fly up to Minneapolis, and we'll take a little drive to visit some "friends" in the Dakotas and Montana. The movement needs people like you.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
This makes a lot of sense, actually. Why should we have to pay taxes to provide benefits like welfare and medicare that we don't use? The people who partake in those types of government benefits should be forced to pay for them themselves.

BUT DON'T LET ME CATCH YOU IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY!

Come on now, this is the classic argument used by single people to protest paying taxes for schools.

We are all paying into Social Security and all the media is predicting dire circumstances for when we turn of age. There will be nothing left, that type of thing. Doesn't mean you stop paying into it....

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Quit your whinin'. I paid enough in taxes this year to buy a house cash, basically anywhere in the country (except where I live).

Oh, boo HOO. With the taxes I paid I couldn't even pay for a kitchen remodel around here.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Come on now, this is the classic argument used by single people to protest paying taxes for schools.

We are all paying into Social Security and all the media is predicting dire circumstances for when we turn of age. There will be nothing left, that type of thing. Doesn't mean you stop paying into it....

I read your post, stunned by the impossible words I see before me. Slowly, I swivel my chair away from my screen and toward the window. I look out upon the endless flat frigid horizon, trying to find some solace in the swirls of smoke and steam rising from the buildings on the outskirts of downtown, struggling through the bitter cold air. I shake my head slowly as a single tear runs down my cheek. I am haunted by three words that repeat themselves over and over in my head. "Thurgreed was right . . . . Thurgreed was right . . . ."

[Replaced_Texan]

When you read the words "Stripper Clipper" do you think a) art car that features, tucked behind the baby grand piano, stripper poles or b) personal grooming device or c) something that the Minnesota Vikings would want to cruise on?

R (advocate of "Vroom Vroom Room") T

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I read your post, stunned by the impossible words I see before me. Slowly, I swivel my chair away from my screen and toward the window. I look out upon the endless flat frigid horizon, trying to find some solace in the swirls of smoke and steam rising from the buildings on the outskirts of downtown, struggling through the bitter cold air. I shake my head slowly as a single tear runs down my cheek. I am haunted by three words that repeat themselves over and over in my head. "Thurgreed was right . . . . Thurgreed was right . . . ."

plus the government built the internet with tax dollars. you use that.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When you read the words "Stripper Clipper" do you think a) art car that features, tucked behind the baby grand piano, stripper poles or b) personal grooming device or c) something that the Minnesota Vikings would want to cruise on?

R (advocate of "Vroom Vroom Room") T

c.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
When you read the words "Stripper Clipper" do you think a) art car that features, tucked behind the baby grand piano, stripper poles or b) personal grooming device or c) something that the Minnesota Vikings would want to cruise on?

R (advocate of "Vroom Vroom Room") T

B. One with attachments to assist in the creation of various novelty looks.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
B. One with attachments to assist in the creation of various novelty looks.

2.