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"Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances."

Sorry, I'm not very particular in my terminology. I believe, however, you might be able to call it articles of incorporation, since an LLC is sometimes refered to as a Limited Liability Company, and others as Limited Liability Corporation.

For example, this state revenue document, in Illinois, refers to Limited Liability Corporation on page 13: http://www.revenue.state.il.us/LegalInformation/up ia2005.pdf

IIRC, depending on the state, you can define what happens to the LLC when a member dies in the articles of organization.

In the past year I've formed 5 LLCs, IIRC. They are significantly easier to run than an S corporation.

I remember there being a Volton recall in the 80s because the paint or metal used was toxic in a batch of toys. Ah, memories.
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Problem: Certain paints on the metal parts on both sizes of Voltron Lions contain levels of lead which are higher than that which is allowed by law creating a potential lead paint hazard.

http://www.idph.state.il.us/childsafety/toys.htm

I suggest making a complaint against this individual here:

http://www.ag.state.il.us/about/email_consumers.js p

He lists many words and phrases that he claims to own the rights to, which does not, and then tries to get people to pay licensing fees.

In case you're wondering who's in your neighborhood...

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Should the government charge you every time you utilize the education system or the police force? Of course not. Therefore, they have to assess taxes on something else, and the general sales tax is the primary source that state governments use. It's the cost of living in a civil society.

What the government spends the money on is precisely not the point of this discussion. Let's try to stay on topic.

California's so called "use tax" is the sales taxes by another name. The primary problem with use taxes is that there are no general, reciprocity agreements between states for the refund of sales/use taxes for out-of-state buyers. For example:

I visit Illinois from California and purchase a television, which I bring back to California. According to the Illinois Department of Revenue's FAQ, I must pay Illinois sales tax at the point of sale, with no provision of getting it refunded once I'm back in California with my purchase. At the same time, as many posters have already pointed out, California expects me to tell it that I've purchased this television, and to pay "use" tax on it.

This is the kind of double-dipping that is not allowed for personal state income tax, and I don't see why it should be allowed for "sales" tax. As I've advocated elsewhere, set the sales tax at the seller's home rate, and apply it to all sales: brick-and-mortar, catalog, internet. Businesses and their customers will only have to deal with one rate, and states can compete on sales tax rates, along with personal income tax, and other measurable differentiators.

Those who suggest that "use" taxes are more fair should consider that any business operating under this tax regimen automatically accounts for "use". E.g., if I sell a million dollars' worth of physical merchandise from my store, that's a million dollars' of inventory that has to be shipped to me, processed, unpacked, stored, packed, and shipped back out. What makes that possible is the infrastructure ostensibly provided/regulated/promoted by the state, which is really what "use" means.

On the other hand, if states really intended the "use" tax to be some sort of tax on spending, then they can simply apply a formula based on the difference between someone's income and savings/investment. Obviously, what you didn't save or invest you must've "spent".

Suggestions for enancement...
1) Different colored location icons for "Sexual Predator" and "Sexually Dangerous" and "Sexually Violent" people.

2) Include thumbnail image from the state's list in the popup bubble.

3) Simple link for pulling all ~19500 registrations:
http://www.isp.state.il.us/sor/search_all.cfm , just submit the blank form (after changing # per page to 500).

I have not seen the show, but I have read about what you are talking about. A current theory is that Lake Agassiz, a 'super great lake', catastrophically drained into the upper Atlantic causing a shift in salinity, thus a shift in the temperature current flow, thus a shift in climate. Ref: http://scienceweek.com/2003/sw030627.htm

All this talk about historic climate change is like an ant talking about the nature of an elephant. We are too small, and the details are too big. To hear environmentalists talk about it, we are on the verge of disaster, but to hear geologists talk about it, we are just barely coming out of the last ice age. From a geological standpoint, everything I have read about says that our planet should be about 10 degrees warmer than what it is today. We're coming out of 'abnormal' climtes, and apparently inching back toward 'normal'. A google on "cenozoic ice age" will be instructive, as is this page: http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/ "During most of the last 1 billion years the globe had no permanent ice." North and south pole ice is an anomaly.

If you want to stop the regulation of the gaming industry and you live in Illinois, then please, look up and write your representatives. Let them know who you are and what you believe.

http://www.elections.state.il.us/dls/pages/DLSAddr esscrit.asp

Don't complain if you don't plan on acting.

I am continuously amazed at the ability of lawyers to run up huge bills. I've heard $200/hour quoted somewhere as an average, so I'll run with that, even though I know many charge way more.

For criminal law, the average fee seems to be about $125/hour [1,2]

For civil law, the average fee seems to be higher, about $150/hour [3]

You are off by at least $50/hour for a fee.

Now consider -- in many of the high-priced cases, you aren't paying for a lawyer to sit around all day playing golf. That fee goes for research and for expert testimony. In SCO's case, they'll need an expert on patent law, researching of all the patents in question, researching any prior art of the patents, and researching any decisions relating to similar patent cases. They will also need a research about the code in question, an expert on unix code, reviewing all unix code snippets in question and comparing their similarity to other code snippets, researching the origin of the code in question, and researching decisions about any similar code cases.

That requires specialisation, and specialisation in any field gets expensive. That also requires a huge support staff, which eats up the cost as well. In big cases, companies tend to go with the best legal advice they can find, the best lawyers, the best track records, the best education, etc, and that raises their average cost of lawyers.

Combine this with SCO's weak case, which will require more shoring up, thus resulting in more billable hours.

The legal fees seem more realistic now, don't they?

I am continuously amazed at the ability of lawyers to run up huge bills. I've heard $200/hour quoted somewhere as an average, so I'll run with that, even though I know many charge way more.

For criminal law, the average fee seems to be about $125/hour [1,2]

For civil law, the average fee seems to be higher, about $150/hour [3]

You are off by at least $50/hour for a fee.

Now consider -- in many of the high-priced cases, you aren't paying for a lawyer to sit around all day playing golf. That fee goes for research and for expert testimony. In SCO's case, they'll need an expert on patent law, researching of all the patents in question, researching any prior art of the patents, and researching any decisions relating to similar patent cases. They will also need a research about the code in question, an expert on unix code, reviewing all unix code snippets in question and comparing their similarity to other code snippets, researching the origin of the code in question, and researching decisions about any similar code cases.

That requires specialisation, and specialisation in any field gets expensive. That also requires a huge support staff, which eats up the cost as well. In big cases, companies tend to go with the best legal advice they can find, the best lawyers, the best track records, the best education, etc, and that raises their average cost of lawyers.

Combine this with SCO's weak case, which will require more shoring up, thus resulting in more billable hours.

The legal fees seem more realistic now, don't they?

If he's been recording, there's a very real chance he has footage of at least one person younger than eighteen. That's one of the big "if" questions that's not been answered yet.

My lawyer friend, who specializes in civil matters, tells me there are definite precedents set, though, specifically Benitez v. KFC in my state of residence, Illinois.

If you live where I live, it's illegal to possess or use a WiFi interface.

And you're looking for logic in the law? Technical clue?

The difference between low and high level waste isn't identified, and the use of lbs. instead of cubic feet for the high-level stuff makes me wonder...

Check out this link. Sorry, dude. Any of us could have done it.

1. Initiate sales tax on custom software: The governor estimates a business tax increase of $64 million by eliminating the distinction between canned software sold at retail (subject to sales tax), custom software (subject to service occupation tax on the value of tangible personal property transferred with the software) and software licensed or leased by the developer (currently not taxed). The Governor's proposal would either repeal the Department of Revenue regulation that distinguishes between a sale and a license of software or create an entirely new tax on revenues from software licensing.

Here is what the budget itself says (444 page document found at http://www.state.il.us/budget/FY05%20Budget%20Book .pdf):

(page 20)
Business Sales tax loopholes that will be closed focus on large businesses and luxury watercraft.
Sales taxes will increase $98 million as a result of these adjustments. The following are the sales tax changes:
Limit the farm chemicals tax exemption to include only small farms - $27.0 million
Collect sales tax on software packages (currently paid by consumers but not by business) - $64.0 million
Eliminate luxury watercraft use tax loophole - $7.0 million

(page 406)
Sales Tax Loophole Closings
. . . .
Collect sales tax on canned software - $64.0 million
Close the loophole that allows a business to purchase multiple copies of a computer program without being subject to sales tax on the licensing fee, while an individual who purchases a single copy of the software is taxed on the software purchase.

If "ice age" is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today. Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances.

Between 52 and 57 million years ago, the Earth was relatively warm. Tropical conditions actually extended all the way into the mid-latitudes (around northern Spain or the central United States for example), polar regions experienced temperate climates, and the difference in temperature between the equator and pole was much smaller than it is today. Indeed it was so warm that trees grew in both the Arctic and Antarctic, and alligators lived in Ellesmere Island at 78 degrees North.

(See http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicact s/93/093-0080.htm.)

For those of you who _aren't_ registered to vote (those of you that are over 18, and US residents, of course), go take a look at the Federal Election Commission's webpage. Since I'm an Illinois resident, I'll also point out the page that's specifically for Illinoisians (and it's pronounced ill-uh-noy, not ill-uh-noiyz): http://www.elections.state.il.us/ElecInfo/pages/Do wnReg.htm

My generation (which is those of us who just turned 18) makes me sick. I can count on one hand the number of people I know (that are my age) who are registered to vote. Letting your country decide everything for you is most definately _not_ the American way--you should be exercising the little trace of a voice that you have as an individual in this country!

I'm not a lawyer, but it certainly appears to be that way. CDW, look out.

Yes, but fraud and error are common to *all* methods of registrations, not uniquely motor voter.

Anyone from Chicago (me) can tell you that multiple voting ("vote early, vote often") and dead people have gone on for a long time, and often that's not fixed because it benefits the politicians in power. Registration by mail has been available for some time in many states (also now required by motor voter, I didn't know that); at least at the DMV, you have the registrant face-to-face with ID in their hand. I'm intrigued by the critics who say the state can't verify identity (as opposed to eligibility to vote) at the DMV -- who the hell are the states passing out driver's licenses to? Terrorists, in the case of 9/11. Their uncertainty as to identity is a separate problem.

Voter eligibility must be verified, usually after the form is submitted, which is why most states require you to register, say, a month before the election. (ND doesn't require registration at all!) Whether they do their duty is up to them. That some complain about motor voter because they are now "overwhelmed" by applications from their own citizens is shameful. As for the ones who examined their rolls and found multiple registrations and dead peopl, well, good -- isn't examining their rolls what they're supposed to do anyway? Shouldn't they question their own procedures if such contamination continues? How is motor voter to blame for their carelessness, and how many of the bogus registrations predate motor voter? The critics drone on about how terrible registration fraud is -- and I agree -- while assuming rather than proving the act's causality.

Politicially, I can tell you that most of the (quiet) resistance in Congress to motor voter was from Congresspeople fully aware that greater registration would hurt their party (greater registration and turnout reliably favor Democrats -- quite reasonably, opponents of the law charged supporters with being politically motivated, and I'm sure they partially were). The fraud complaint was an insincere or inconsistent argument that goes more to altering some specifics of the law, not its fundamental thrust. Perhaps the best argument IMHO was that Congress shouldn't be telling the states how to handle its voting registration, though I think the law strikes an appropriate balance given historic federal intervention in voting practices to fix state tendencies to erect hurdles to maintain the status quo.

To give you an idea of the political nature of the resistance, some states read the NVRA as requiring them only to register people for federal elections, misleading some to half-register and be able to vote only a partial ballot!

More details. At a minimum the act makes life a lot easier for people like me who move from state to state and appreciate uniform requirements. I doubt the law is perfect, esp. as it is still quite young, but endorse of the basic premise that registration should be simple and convenient, as well as accurate. Increasing registration may or may not yet be producing more voters, but I can say from experience that the potential for get-out-the-vote drives is much greater when most people are eligible rather than being precluded by something they forgot to do a months earlier (and get-out-the-vote people can skip the extra get-people-registered drive). The only way to overcome voter apathy, the principal cause of low turnout, is to draw more and more citizens into the process so that voting becomes easy, familiar, and desired.

The Earth goes through periods where ice ages happen, and other periods where they don't. For the last 4 million years we have had regular ice ages. Before that the last previous period with ice ages was 350-250 million years ago. (The dinosaurs lived from 225-65 million years ago.) According to this there are 2 more such periods known in the last billion years. The first of which ended before the Cambrian explosion differentiated most of the major phyla that we still see today.

There is evidence of ice ages that are even older than those. For instance look at this one when the Earth was less than half its current age!

Go talk to you local geologist and he will explain to you that we are STILL in an ice age right now. Here is some more info.

I think the move toward corporate education at the university level is a good one. Perhaps now that the people being fed the lies are at a cognitive level where they can see through it, they'll fight back. The little ones have been handed this kind of crap for years.

The logo is pretty good. I've looked at the loser logos and what strikes me is that none of them refer to water. Some nice ideas for logo's are shown in these pictures:

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"During the current ice age, which began slightly less than 3 million years ago, several large land masses have been at high latitude. These include Antarctica, much of North America and much of Eurasia. This continental configuration led to extensive glaciation of both North America and Eurasia." http://www.museum.state.il.us

Just one example: In 1989: Total CO2 Emissions from Illinois cement production was 1,345,950 tons[short tons]. The Space Shuttle can transport a max. of 29 (metric) tons into orbit. I guess you can all calculate how many starts it would need to ship all this CO2 to Mars. (AFAIK to terraform Mars we'd need much more CO2 than that anyways).

Maybe we can come back to that plan when we can beam CO2 to Mars ;-)

Unfortunately, the periodic elements usually cite as contributing to an Ice Age usually vary over tens of thousands of years, not Millions. Check out thies graphs on Orbital eccentricity, Axis Tilt, and Precession of the Equinoxes. There is a Composite Graph as well.

End result is that we do knot know what actually causes the Ice Ages; these variations seem to be operating at the wrong time scale. More realistic factors include Plate tectonics (the forming of Panama as a link block off the Pacific from the Atlantic) - Solar activity also indicates global warming on Mars, which would indicate that the sun is slowly warming up.

All of which puts the nature and duration of the current "warm period" into confusion.

But then, I find pictures like this of Mars fascinating, since it looks so much like standing water, when this is of course impossible. I don't know what to make of it. Damn good illusion, if nothing else

Unfortunately, the periodic elements usually cite as contributing to an Ice Age usually vary over tens of thousands of years, not Millions. Check out thies graphs on Orbital eccentricity, Axis Tilt, and Precession of the Equinoxes. There is a Composite Graph as well.

End result is that we do knot know what actually causes the Ice Ages; these variations seem to be operating at the wrong time scale. More realistic factors include Plate tectonics (the forming of Panama as a link block off the Pacific from the Atlantic) - Solar activity also indicates global warming on Mars, which would indicate that the sun is slowly warming up.

All of which puts the nature and duration of the current "warm period" into confusion.

But then, I find pictures like this of Mars fascinating, since it looks so much like standing water, when this is of course impossible. I don't know what to make of it. Damn good illusion, if nothing else

Unfortunately, the periodic elements usually cite as contributing to an Ice Age usually vary over tens of thousands of years, not Millions. Check out thies graphs on Orbital eccentricity, Axis Tilt, and Precession of the Equinoxes. There is a Composite Graph as well.

End result is that we do knot know what actually causes the Ice Ages; these variations seem to be operating at the wrong time scale. More realistic factors include Plate tectonics (the forming of Panama as a link block off the Pacific from the Atlantic) - Solar activity also indicates global warming on Mars, which would indicate that the sun is slowly warming up.

All of which puts the nature and duration of the current "warm period" into confusion.

But then, I find pictures like this of Mars fascinating, since it looks so much like standing water, when this is of course impossible. I don't know what to make of it. Damn good illusion, if nothing else

Unfortunately, the periodic elements usually cite as contributing to an Ice Age usually vary over tens of thousands of years, not Millions. Check out thies graphs on Orbital eccentricity, Axis Tilt, and Precession of the Equinoxes. There is a Composite Graph as well.

End result is that we do knot know what actually causes the Ice Ages; these variations seem to be operating at the wrong time scale. More realistic factors include Plate tectonics (the forming of Panama as a link block off the Pacific from the Atlantic) - Solar activity also indicates global warming on Mars, which would indicate that the sun is slowly warming up.

All of which puts the nature and duration of the current "warm period" into confusion.

But then, I find pictures like this of Mars fascinating, since it looks so much like standing water, when this is of course impossible. I don't know what to make of it. Damn good illusion, if nothing else

Unfortunately, the periodic elements usually cite as contributing to an Ice Age usually vary over tens of thousands of years, not Millions. Check out thies graphs on Orbital eccentricity, Axis Tilt, and Precession of the Equinoxes. There is a Composite Graph as well.

End result is that we do knot know what actually causes the Ice Ages; these variations seem to be operating at the wrong time scale. More realistic factors include Plate tectonics (the forming of Panama as a link block off the Pacific from the Atlantic) - Solar activity also indicates global warming on Mars, which would indicate that the sun is slowly warming up.

All of which puts the nature and duration of the current "warm period" into confusion.

But then, I find pictures like this of Mars fascinating, since it looks so much like standing water, when this is of course impossible. I don't know what to make of it. Damn good illusion, if nothing else

>Illinois: Jim Ryan, 217-782-1090

I live in Illinois and I've been pretty unhappy about Ryan in general and his stance on favoring the Microsoft settlement in particular.

I've been calling his office since news of the deal broke to express my dissatisfaction with the terms and to ask him to oppose it. I've gotten nowhere by phone, I've sent a letter, but there is also a link on his website to send 'email'.

http://www.ag.state.il.us/abouttheoffice/ag_emai l. htm

Plants have been doing this for millenia. Algae in the sea have been doing this for eons. Personally I dont think we need any "new" species doing what can be done already. If we focus on using what we already have wisely, we should have no reason to "create" new/better ones.

I think it is very haughty of us to presume that we know what is better for the world. Why don't we develop ways to better take advantage of those species already present? Estuaries and coral reefs are some of the most productive biological systems on the planet, and also two of the most fragile. The amount of carbon fixed by those sytems rivals the other sytems combined (including rainforests). But we as humans don't care much for them. We instead try to come up with systems suited to our needs when we should be figuring out how to protect the systems we already have.

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Governor Mel Carnahan Missouri Capitol Building, P.O. Box 720 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0720 United States of America phone 1-573-751-3222, fax 1-573-751-1495 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.mo.us/guest.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.mo.us/

Governor Marc Racicot State Capitol Helena, Montana 59620 United States of America webpage http://www.mt.gov/governor/governor.htm

Governor Mike Johanns State Capitol, Executive Suite, PO Box 94848 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-4848 United States of America phone 1-402-471-2244, fax 1-402-471-6031 e-mail jodee@mail.state.ne.us webpage http://www.state.ne.us/

Governor Kenny Guinn State Capitol Carson City, Nevada 89710 United States of America phone 1-702-687-5670, fax 1-702-687-4486 webpage http://www.state.nv.us/

Governor Jeanne Shaheen State House Concord, New Hampshire 03301-4990 United States of America phone 1-603-271-2121, fax 1-603-271-2130 e-mail nhgov@nh.com webpage http://www.state.nh.us/

Governor Christine Todd Whitman Office of the Governor State House, 125 West State St., CN-001 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0001 United States of America phone 1-609-292-6000, fax 1-609-292-5212 e-mail page http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.nj.us/governor/officeo .htm

Governor Gary Johnson State Capitol Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 United States of America phone 1-505-827-3000, fax 1-505-827-3026 e-mail gov@gov.state.nm.us webpage http://www.state.nm.us/

Governor George Pataki State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 United States of America phone 1-518-474-8390, fax 1-518-474-1513 e-mail gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us webpage http://www.state.ny.us/governor

Governor James Hunt, Jr. State Capitol Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 United States of America phone 1-919-733-4240, fax 1-919-733-2120 webpage http://www.sips.state.nc.us/

Governor Edward Schafer 600 E. Blvd, State Capitol, Fl. 1 Bismark, North Dakota 58505 United States of America phone 1-701-328-2200, fax 1-701-328-2205 webpage http://www.ehs.health.stat e.nd.us/gov/governor/index.htm

Governor Bob Taft State House Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States of America phone 1-614-466-3555, 1-614-466-9354 webpage http://www.state.oh.us/gov/

Governor Frank Keating State Capitol Bldg., Rm. 212 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 United States of America phone 1-405-521-2342, fax 1-405-521-3353 e-mail governor@oklaosf.state.ok.us webpage http://www.state.ok.us/

Governor John Kitzhaber State Capitol Salem, Oregon 97310 United States of America phone 1-503-378-4582, fax 1-503-378-4863 webpage http://www.governor.state.or.us/

Governor Tom Ridge 225 Main Capitol Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 United States of America phone 1-717-787-2500, fax 1-717-772-8284 e-mail governor@state.pa.us webpage http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exe c/Governor/overview.html

Governor of the Commonwealth Commonwealth of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 United States of America webpage http://fortaleza.govpr.org

Governor Lincoln Almond State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 United States of America phone 1-401-277-2080, fax 1-401-273-5729 webpage http://www.doa.state.ri.us/info/exec.htm

Governor James Hodges State House, PO Box 11369 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 United States of America phone 1-803-737-9540, fax 1-803-737-9507 webpage http://www.state.sc.us/

Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html

William Clinton President The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia 20500 United States of America phone 1-202-456-1414 fax 1-202-456-2886 or 1-202-456-2461 (busy, keep trying) e-mail president@whitehouse.gov webpage http://www.whitehouse.gov/

House Majority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

House Minority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Speaker, House of Representatives House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Senate Minority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Governor Don Seigelman State Capitol, 600 Dexter Ave. Montgomery, Alabama 36130 United States of America phone 1-334-242-7100, fax 1-334-242-4541 webpage http://www.state.al.us/

Governor Tony Knowles P.O. Box A Juneau, Alaska 99811 United States of America phone 1-907-465-3500, fax 1-907-465-3532 e-mail office_of_the_governor@gov.state.ak.u s webpage http://www.gov.state.ak.us/

Governor Jane Dee Hull State House Phoenix, Arizona 85007 United States of America phone 1-602-542-4331, fax 1-602-542-7601 webpage http://www.state.az.us/

Governor Mike Huckabee 250 State Capitol Bldg. Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 United States of America phone 1-501-682-2345, fax 1-501-682-1382 e-mail mike.huckabee@state.ar.us webpage http://www.state.ar.us/governor/gover nor.html

Governor Gray Davis State Capitol Sacramento, California 95814 United States of America phone 1-916-445-2841, fax 1-916-445-4633 e-mail hometeam@ca.gov webpage http://www.ca.gov/s/

Governor Bill Owens 136 State Capitol Denver, Colorado 80203-1792 United States of America phone 1-303-866-2471, fax 1-303-866-2003 webpage http://www.state.co.us/

Governor John Rowland State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave Hartford, Connecticut 06106 United States of America phone 1-860-566-4840, fax 1-203-524-7396 e-mail governor.rowland@po.state.ct.us webpage http://www.state.ct.us/governor/

Governor Thomas Carper Legislative Hall Dover, Delaware 19901 United States of America phone 1-302-739-4101, fax 1-302-577-3118 e-mail ssnyder@state.de.us webpage http://www.state.de.us/governor/index.htm

Governor Jeb Bush State Capitol Tallahassee, Florida 32399 United States of America phone 1-850-488-4441, fax 1-850-487-0801 e-mail page http://www.state.fl.us/eog/govmailform. html webpage http://fcn.state.fl.us/gsd/

Governor Roy Barnes State Capitol Building, Room 203 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 United States of America phone 1-404-656-1776, fax 1-404-657-7332 e-mail governor@gov.state.ga.us webpage http://www.state.ga.us/

Governor Benjamin Cayetano State Capitol, Executive Chambers Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 United States of America phone 1-808-586-0034, fax 1-808-586-0006 e-mail gov@gov.state.hi.us webpage http://gov.state.hi.us

Governor Dirk Kempthorne State Capitol PO Box 83720, 700 West Jefferson, Fl. 2 Boise, Idaho 83720-0034 United States of America phone 1-208-334-2100, fax 1-208-334-2175 e-mail governor@gov.state.id.us webpage http://www.state.id.us/gov/govhmpg.htm

Governor George Ryan 207 Statehouse Springfield, Illinois 62706 United States of America phone 1-217-782-0244, fax 1-217-524-4049 e-mail governor@state.il.us webpage http://www.state.il.us/gov/

Governor Frank O'Bannon Statehouse, Rm. 206 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 United States of America phone 1-317-232-4567, fax 1-317-232-3443 e-mail page http://www.ai.org/gov/gov_mail.html webpage http://www.ai.org/gov/index.html

Governor Thomas Vilsack State Capitol Des Moines, Iowa 50319 United States of America phone 1-515-281-5211, fax 1-515-281-6611 e-mail general.office@igov.state.ia.us webpage http://www.iowaccess.org/

Governor Bill Graves State House Topeka, Kansas 66612 United States of America phone 1-913-296-6240, fax 1-913-296-7973 e-mail page http://www.state.ks.us/public/g overnor/comment.html webpage http://www.state.ks.us/public/governor/

Governor Paul Patton State Capitol, 700 Capitol Ave. Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 United States of America phone 1-502-564-2611, fax 1-502-564-2517 e-mail governor@mail.state.ky.us webpage http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/go v/govmenu6.htm

Governor Murphy Foster, Jr. State Capitol, P.O. Box 94004 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 United States of America phone 1-504-342-7015, fax 1-504-342-7099 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.la.us/governo r/contact2.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.la.us/

Governor Angus King, Jr. State House Station 1 Augusta, Maine 04333 United States of America phone 1-207-287-3531, fax 1-207-287-1034 e-mail page http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ gov_form.htm webpage http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ homepage.htm

Governor Parris Glendening State House Annapolis, Maryland 21401 United States of America phone 1-410-974-3901, fax 1-410-974-3275 e-mail governor@gov.state.md.us webpage http://www.gov.state.md.us/

Governor Paul Cellucci State House, Room 360 Boston, Massachusetts 02133 United States of America phone 1-617-727-6250, fax 1-617-727-9725 e-mail goffice@state.ma.us webpage http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/gov/gov.htm

Governor John Engler State Capitol, PO Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 United States of America phone 1-517-335-7858, fax 1-517-335-6863 email page http://www.state.mi.us/MIGOV/ gov/ContactGovernor.shtm webpage http://www.state.mi.us/migov/

Governor Jesse Ventura 130 State Capitol, 75 Constitution Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 United States of America phone 1-651-296-3391, fax 1-651-296-2089 e-mail Governor.JesseVentura@state.mn.us webpage http://www.mainserver.state.mn.us/gover nor/

Governor Kirk Fordice P.O. Box 139 Jackson, Mississippi 39205 United States of America phone 1-601-737-9540, fax 1-601-737-9507 e-mail governor@govoff.state.ms.us webpage http://www.state.ms.us/

Governor Mel Carnahan Missouri Capitol Building, P.O. Box 720 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0720 United States of America phone 1-573-751-3222, fax 1-573-751-1495 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.mo.us/guest.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.mo.us/

Governor Marc Racicot State Capitol Helena, Montana 59620 United States of America webpage http://www.mt.gov/governor/governor.htm

Governor Mike Johanns State Capitol, Executive Suite, PO Box 94848 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-4848 United States of America phone 1-402-471-2244, fax 1-402-471-6031 e-mail jodee@mail.state.ne.us webpage http://www.state.ne.us/

Governor Kenny Guinn State Capitol Carson City, Nevada 89710 United States of America phone 1-702-687-5670, fax 1-702-687-4486 webpage http://www.state.nv.us/

Governor Jeanne Shaheen State House Concord, New Hampshire 03301-4990 United States of America phone 1-603-271-2121, fax 1-603-271-2130 e-mail nhgov@nh.com webpage http://www.state.nh.us/

Governor Christine Todd Whitman Office of the Governor State House, 125 West State St., CN-001 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0001 United States of America phone 1-609-292-6000, fax 1-609-292-5212 e-mail page http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.nj.us/governor/officeo .htm

Governor Gary Johnson State Capitol Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 United States of America phone 1-505-827-3000, fax 1-505-827-3026 e-mail gov@gov.state.nm.us webpage http://www.state.nm.us/

Governor George Pataki State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 United States of America phone 1-518-474-8390, fax 1-518-474-1513 e-mail gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us webpage http://www.state.ny.us/governor

Governor James Hunt, Jr. State Capitol Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 United States of America phone 1-919-733-4240, fax 1-919-733-2120 webpage http://www.sips.state.nc.us/

Governor Edward Schafer 600 E. Blvd, State Capitol, Fl. 1 Bismark, North Dakota 58505 United States of America phone 1-701-328-2200, fax 1-701-328-2205 webpage http://www.ehs.health.stat e.nd.us/gov/governor/index.htm

Governor Bob Taft State House Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States of America phone 1-614-466-3555, 1-614-466-9354 webpage http://www.state.oh.us/gov/

Governor Frank Keating State Capitol Bldg., Rm. 212 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 United States of America phone 1-405-521-2342, fax 1-405-521-3353 e-mail governor@oklaosf.state.ok.us webpage http://www.state.ok.us/

Governor John Kitzhaber State Capitol Salem, Oregon 97310 United States of America phone 1-503-378-4582, fax 1-503-378-4863 webpage http://www.governor.state.or.us/

Governor Tom Ridge 225 Main Capitol Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 United States of America phone 1-717-787-2500, fax 1-717-772-8284 e-mail governor@state.pa.us webpage http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exe c/Governor/overview.html

Governor of the Commonwealth Commonwealth of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 United States of America webpage http://fortaleza.govpr.org

Governor Lincoln Almond State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 United States of America phone 1-401-277-2080, fax 1-401-273-5729 webpage http://www.doa.state.ri.us/info/exec.htm

Governor James Hodges State House, PO Box 11369 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 United States of America phone 1-803-737-9540, fax 1-803-737-9507 webpage http://www.state.sc.us/

Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html

Let's get real, they have to let you get one shot off at your intended victim before it is attempted murder? I don't think so...

The states are free to assign any form of tax their legislatures or citizenry desire.

No, the rule is that anything not spelled out in the Constitution is given to the states, intrastate commerce taxes, what flags a state flies on its capitol, etc. What is exactly spelled out in the Constitution, is the law for every state, no slavery, interstate commerce taxes, free speech, a census to divide up House seats (not to determine the number of toilets in your house, nor an approximate statistical guess) etc.

Sure the Income taxes are probably the worst. When switching to self-employment, I sat down reading the regs. If you owe more than $1000 at the end of the year, you "may" be subject to fines (they don't say exactly what, if any. I guess it's whatever the IRS agent feels like that day). And if there is one thing this 20th century government has shown us it is that no way in hell will they make substantial changes to it, let alone a minor tax cut like Bush (or what Dole had planned in '96) propose. Not just Income taxes, but any tax, as the Senate demonstrated this week with their failure to remove the 4.3 cent Algore gasoline tax. Sure it doesn't mean much for most Americans, but the motion would take us strides in the right direction. The saddest thing in all this though has got to be the Democrat party's position than any tiny tax cut, giving you a few extra hundred a year, will immediately kill poor/children/elderly and you are pure evil for thinking of it.

Speaking of state vehicle fees, here in Illinois the Assembly passed increases in many of them 50%-100%. License plate renewals go from $48 to $78, transfer of titles went from like $30 to $65. What's funny though is the Secretary of State (a Democrat of all things) went and plastered signs telling he opposes these increases in all the DMV sites. I see he even added it to his web site. I wouldn't blame folks living along the border if they go to the neighboring states.

Of course, on a practical level, it's not the end of the discussion. The issue is mainly a state taxing its own residents (not "citizens"), not taxing those of another state. Some states have implemented de facto Internet taxes already. In the People's Republic of Illinois, recently the topic of another Slashdot article and where I used to live when I was living in the USA, you have to pay a "use tax" on things you buy from other states. Note that it's not a sales tax... if you use items bought from other states you are supposed to pay the difference between that state's sales tax and Illinois sales tax. However, this cannot be systematically enforced, so you're supposed to list all of your out-of-state purchases (used in Illinois) at the end of your Illinois income tax return. Really. Check it out. This rule actually pre-dates the widespread use of the Internet, so it wasn't designed as a net tax measure, but it happens to fall in that category. Of course, nobody I know ever reported "use tax" or had even heard of it.

Herbie J.