[Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables

[Jim Connolly]

When my boat is registered, the state will take 5% for sales tax and the
town will take a few hundred in excise tax (every year) on the boat and
trailer AND motor.

They never believe that the motor is used, either ;-)

put me in for 10:00 PM tonight

Jim Connolly
under a foot of snow in Taxachusetts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Todd Tavares
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:59 PM
> To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables
>
>
> Same disclaimer as everyone else.....delete if not interested.
>
>     I am so poor, I can not afford to pay attention to this thread.
>
>    Boo hooo,  it's the poor ones like me who are discriminated
> against by the tax laws.  I just want to grab a case of beer and
> go sailing.   But I have got to first pay my sin tax on the beer,
> and the luxury tax on my boat.  ;^(  sniff.... sniff    lmao
>
> (JOKING of course)
>
> Todd
>
> P.S.  who wagered it would be Thursday?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:57:20 -0600
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables
>
> > Same disclaimer as everyone else.....delete if not interested.
> >
> > Ahh....the ever controversial Bill
> >
> > I hope this truly was said "tongue in cheek". If not, then you and your
> > neighbors have much to be proud of.
> >
> > It's things like this, that make me favor doing away with
> personal income
> > tax altogether and instituting a pure sales tax, with an
> exemption for the
> > basic staples in the grocery store and a few other things like maybe
> > clothing (conservative) and medical care (non-elective). With a
> system like
> > this, if one insists on having the fancy and expensive things normally
> > associated with the rich, he pays the taxes that should be
> assessed from the
> > rich. Those who choose to live conservatively and save for later, or are
> > unable to do more than "just get by" would pay very little, just as they
> > should. But there's one thing that's for sure, no matter what
> you make....as
> > soon as you spend big money, you pay big taxes.
> >
> > Spoken as someone who contributes his fair share and the shares of a few
> > others too.
> >
> > Probably contributing to the eventual blow-up, but...........oh well.
> >
> > Rik
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Effros" <bill@effros.com>
> > To: "R22 List" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:50 AM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables
> >
> >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > Keep those fables coming!
> > >
> > > Here in Greenwich, Ct. my neighbors and I can't believe how
> many people
> > seem
> > > to be willing to pay our taxes for us!  Tax law revisions
> don't change the
> > > total amount that must be collected to pay for what the
> government spends,
> > > they only change the proportions of who pays how much.  So if
> our taxes go
> > > down, somebody else's taxes are going up.
> > >
> > > So far, Mr. Bush has already saved most of us, here in Greenwich,
> > literally
> > > millions of dollars in taxes.  Each.  The "Death Tax" fable
> worked like a
> > > charm.
> > >
> > > Now we get to belly up to the trough yet again, with the
> "Double Taxation"
> > > fable.  Make no mistake, most of our money has never been
> taxed even once.
> > > We are among the four diners who have always eaten for
> nothing, because
> > > under the current tax law system we have been able to show the other
> > > diners that we are the poorest by repeatedly deferring our
> income from one
> > > year to the next. (We can do that because we don't take home
> > > regular paychecks--according to our tax returns we don't earn a cent.)
> > >
> > > The only problem is that, eventually, we stand to get hit
> with a tax that
> > is
> > > actually proportional to what we have earned.  But no!  Fables to the
> > > rescue!  It worked once--could it possibly work again?  If
> this tax law
> > > revision passes as proposed, neither we, nor our families,
> may ever have
> > to
> > > pay
> > > federal taxes on most of the money we have earned so far in our entire
> > > lives!  We can dine for nothing forever!
> > >
> > > Thank you, thank you, thank you,
> > >
> > > Bill Effros
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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