Ireland revolts against taxes

Science Chic wrote: If you want to get to know a poster, all you have to do is search their previous posts and notice their pattern of behavior. A person's nic tells you a lot about what they think of themselves. Your nic indicates that you care most about politics, and being a contradiction, which is evident by the fact that you hardly ever leave the Courthouse, even though there's a lot more to 285Bound than this one forum.

RT loves to do the drive-by, single sentence slams of liberals and to goad people. He thrives on being a troll. I've never really seen anything blatantly racist from him, but don't get him going on gays...

Thanks for selling me the troll bait. Gays. Another area of prejudice that sets me off.

Science Chic wrote: If you want to get to know a poster, all you have to do is search their previous posts and notice their pattern of behavior. A person's nic tells you a lot about what they think of themselves. Your nic indicates that you care most about politics, and being a contradiction, which is evident by the fact that you hardly ever leave the Courthouse, even though there's a lot more to 285Bound than this one forum.

RT loves to do the drive-by, single sentence slams of liberals and to goad people. He thrives on being a troll. I've never really seen anything blatantly racist from him, but don't get him going on gays...

And honestly... you don't want me hanging around any other sections of 285 Bound... really.... I can be contrarian talking about bird seed.

JSG wrote: You're comparing apples to oranges when you compare the US tax rate to European countries. For their higher tax rate, the government provides additional services (such as healthcare) that the U.S. doesn't provide.

12 Countries With The Highest & Lowest Tax Rates

http://www.businesspundit.com/12-countr ... tax-rates/

But the US taxpayers have been paying for the defense of Europe, Japan, & Korea since the 1950's.

Yes, our money would have been MUCH better spent taking care of our own citizens, providing them universal healthcare, building new roads/bridges, and doing any number of things other than propping up the Military Industrial Complex and providing defense to nations that could have used their own budgets and resources to do it.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, our money would have been MUCH better spent taking care of our own citizens, providing them universal healthcare, building new roads/bridges, and doing any number of things other than propping up the Military Industrial Complex and providing defense to nations that could have used their own budgets and resources to do it.

Russia, China and Cuba agree with you.

Y'all missed the point. Ireland passed a law demanding citizens pay a property tax. 1/2 refused to pay.

Europe doesn't like property taxes for some reason. $130 ?

We pay more than that to register our cars in Colorado.

Joe wrote: Y'all missed the point. Ireland passed a law demanding citizens pay a property tax. 1/2 refused to pay.

Europe doesn't like property taxes for some reason. $130 ?

We pay more than that to register our cars in Colorado.

I could have something to do with the exisiting tax rates...

Married Couples: One Income
20% on first 41,800 41,800
41% on balance

Married Couples: Two Incomes*
20% on first 65,600 65,600
41% on balance

http://www.finfacts.com/taxfacts.htm

Ya think?

Yeah, pointing out that a nation made up of a majority of white folks is racist. Wow!