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Post by lucy on Apr 2, 2009 9:33:02 GMT -5
All of that being said my 5th grade teacher Mr Rockwell always told us that "Life isn't fair"
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Post by lucy on Apr 2, 2009 10:22:58 GMT -5
could someone explain this to me, I'm confused?  ? Establish Tax Preparer Fee. Creates a new fee of $100 to be paid by all persons who are compensated for the preparation of 10 or more tax returns. |
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 2, 2009 10:35:14 GMT -5
It's called "stealing your money." The government does it all the time.
Sounds like a business tax.
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Post by frankcor on Apr 2, 2009 11:15:32 GMT -5
Every nickel of pork spending goes to fund something that somebody believes is worthy. That doesn't make it right.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 2, 2009 12:21:34 GMT -5
I see your point of view Lucy, but the budget will cover many different areas of spending, and I am sure that the ramp at the curling club will not come out of the funding for education. Cutting is the key word, not eliminating totally such projects as this. There is are special moneys available at the federal level for handicap access, and the states take advantage of them, and then decide at a state level where the money will be spent.
There are many less deserving places for state money to be spent. Take a close look at your state legislators and their pet projects and you will find pork projects with little to no benefit to anyone but a chosen few benefactors and patrons of their campaigns.
The rug in Patterson's office is a prime example of stupid spending, as was remodeling the Utica Mayor's office. Roefaro could have gotten by quite well with new office furniture and some paint. It is a pompous ass that buys such a rug when he has the visual acuity 2 points higher than Helen Keller.
Don't ever think that they have anything in mind but to feather their own nests. Larry Tanoury Jr is the first politician I have come across in a long time that actually has an upright and honest mission in holding office.
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Post by lucy on Apr 2, 2009 13:59:00 GMT -5
Honestly Clipper it really pisses me off. To think about all the pork that goes around, and it doesn't even taste good. I just feel like NYS has lost touch of the real world. Maybe it is all of United States, but you can't keep spending that you don't have. If the money isn't there then back off of all projects until we have the money. I'm really bothered by the education, and raising the taxes and prices on everything little freaken thing. I hate that two parties can't work together. I hate politicians sorry to Larry but really I feel that each of them have their own agenda, and are always trying to sell themselves to someone else. That is just how I feel right about now.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 2, 2009 14:26:47 GMT -5
I understand how you feel Lucy, although I can't agree with ALL that you say, I do agree that funding for education is a necessary item, and much of the pork is BS. I don't drink, so I am glad that they added the tax to Malt Liquor instead of coffee, haha. They have taxed everthing else, so why not malt liquor. Pretty soon there will be measuring devices on public toilets, and they will send you a bill for eliminating the malt liquor from you bladder too, LOL.
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Post by lucy on Apr 2, 2009 15:09:35 GMT -5
That Malt Liquor tax made me laugh. Honestly good for them, it will keep the kids away from the kool-aide. hahaha... when I was 17 we would make a trip out to Cornhill to get our malt liquor. ahhh to be young again with my boones farm. hahaha..... I'm more of a wine drinker now.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 2, 2009 15:32:50 GMT -5
Malt liquor was just becoming popular when I quit drinking. Maximus Super was the poison of choice in Utica. I tried it a couple of times, but it tasted pretty nasty to me, haha.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 3, 2009 5:56:25 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 3, 2009 6:20:35 GMT -5
Hahahahaha! An interesting thought and he's a funny guy. Back in my student days I wanted to do a short audio production about the capsule sent out into space to announce ourselves to any other intelligent civilization that might exist in the universe. In my story, the night before the launch a technician secretly removes the copy of "A Shakespeare Reader" from the capsule and replaces it with a copy of "Ray Stevens' Greatest Hits." Which includes: Along Came Jones, Ahab The Arab, Indian Love Call and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight.
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