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Post by Chromeo on Jul 31, 2010 17:58:44 GMT -5
I also have a problem with people who look foreign having to carry a passport everywhere...
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 31, 2010 19:54:34 GMT -5
but they shouldn't be pulled over in the first place, they've done nothing wrong. you shouldn't be interfered by the law unless you're breaking it... A law has to be broken before they get pulled over... |
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 1, 2010 2:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 1, 2010 7:24:19 GMT -5
Taxi drivers work with the girls who are too young to get into the bars. One offers me two for the price of one and a lift to a local motel.
"They are underage, so much cheaper than the older ones," he explains as he introduces me to Sara and Maria.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 1, 2010 7:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 2, 2010 14:32:18 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 3, 2010 3:25:14 GMT -5
You know what really grinds my gears? voteup.democratandchronicle.com/story/state-estimates-go-awryLast year, the state predicted $250 million in revenue from a tax amnesty program to help close a $2.7 billion midyear budget gap.
The program brought in only $56 million.
Two years ago, state officials estimated $66 million a year from new enhanced licenses that would allow for travel between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It’s bringing in about $3 million annually.
Again and again, projected revenue in state budgets has come in well below expectations. As the state grapples with a weak economy, a decline in tax revenue and massive deficits, some rosy projections have compounded New York’s fiscal woes and have fueled delays in aid for schools, local governments and nonprofit groups. Moreover, the poor estimates have played a role in causing midyear budget gaps, like a $2.7 billion hole last fiscal year.
Last week, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reported that the state is essentially broke, ending the first quarter of the fiscal year $87 million in the red. It was only the second time in modern history that the state ended a quarter in arrears. The first? Just seven months ago in December.Makes me wonder about the estimates claiming that massive federal health care legislation will actually save money. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100802/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_medicareWait, cuts? I thought only Republicans did that, and were monsters for doing it, too. Oh nevermind here's why: Medicare spending will keep increasing, only not as fast. Under the health care law, spending will rise by 5.3 percent a year on average over the next decade, compared to 6.8 percent without the cuts.So we "save" money by continuing to increase spending, only by not as much. BS kthx |
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 4, 2010 0:05:57 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072204028.htmlDuring the past fiscal year, Britain's deficit was larger as a percentage of its economy than Greece's. Cameron's June 22 emergency budget proposed the deepest, most sustained reductions in British spending since World War II. Health programs and foreign assistance are fenced off from cuts. But other government departments will see an average of 25 percent reductions over the next five years.
Bond investors and credit raters have responded positively to Cameron's austerity budget. When the cuts kick in, other responses could include strikes, demonstrations and riots.
This is a risky strategy in a nation where "socialism" is not an epithet but a founding commitment of one of the main political parties. But Cameron's austerity has the virtue of economic responsibility. It is easy to close a budget deficit with massive new taxes -- but it is also massively destructive to economic growth. So Cameron has proposed about four pounds in spending reductions for every pound in tax increases. A recent study of 44 major fiscal adjustments in developed nations since 1975 found that a one-percentage-point increase in taxes as a portion of gross domestic product cuts annual economic growth by an average of 0.9 percentage points. Reducing government expenditures by one percentage point, in contrast, increases average annual growth by 0.6 percentage points.Sounds pretty darn good imo.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 4, 2010 6:38:22 GMT -5
I want socialism back.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 4, 2010 18:18:22 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 4, 2010 19:32:18 GMT -5
Sounds about right. Did you know 40% of Americans still think people choose to be gay.
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 4, 2010 19:42:34 GMT -5
Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 4, 2010 20:10:50 GMT -5
People do choose to be gay.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 4, 2010 20:11:36 GMT -5
Don't make me end you.
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 4, 2010 20:14:13 GMT -5
Tails knows from personal experience. <3
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