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California Considering More Internet Taxes
dcg writes "San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on how web taxes could help the states, especially California, with its budget woes. One particularly disconcerting comment is from California's Controller Steve Westly. 'In addition to sales taxes, Westly said he is considering a tax on Internet access like those that appear on telephone bills. He also is looking at a tax on software downloads.' Would this affect only purchased software, or could sourceforge.net become a source of revenue for the state..."
Man, California is sucking these days. Greg Davis sucks. (Considering California is mostly a democratic state, and Bill Simon (R) got around half the votes!) First the Energy Crisis, now Community Colleges's tuitions are being doubled (From 11 to 22, I believe). But of course, a lot of money is going to those California's prisons because those Prison Guards all agreed to vote for Davis if he gave them more money when he took office.
Taxes take the form of a DIVERGING SERIES!
And where do you suppose these retarded and disruptive children will go? Cutting the bottom tail of the curve only gives the appearance higher quality by increasing the average grade but in actuality changes nothing. In addition, I don't see how banning 'team sports' helps your argument.
The bigest part of my solution (fire half the administrators) is 70% of the problem, the rest are niggeling points.
I just don't think retards and delenquents belong in socioty, let alone in the classroom where they help destroy the education of decent people. Wherehouse them - that's what we end up doing anyways. They don't seem to mind - they have no real minds to begin with. The less money we spend on them the better.
And tax the shit out of parents of disruptive children - their crappy parenting deserves punishment.
AFAIK, 'team sports' - football, baseball et al are a money drain on our shools and help perpetuate a way of life I find disagreeable - Image is imortant, self-acheivments is worthless, respect authority (the coach), bla bla bla. Teach kids to scuba-dive, fly, or climb mountains and I think we'd be better off.
Anways - theses are just niggleing point. Either way, it doesen't matter. Right now, education is being crushed by too much administration.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
"get rid" of retarded children? what kind of coldhearted bastard are you?
:giant-room" is fucking huge - it's 10,000 sq feet huge. A small section of the room has a pit of sharp spikes with a warning sign above it - "Pit of Spikes Will Kill You!".
No, that's easy. We let them sort themselves out.
Every 1'st grade class, for it's first day, gets to spend the day in the "giant-room."
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The children are ushered in on the side of the room away from the pit of spikes, and get to spend the entire day in the room. Away from the pit of spikes are the bathrooms and eating facilities.
The stupid children fall into the pit of spikes.
The smart ones stay away.
If you're too stupid to fall into a pit of spikes, we'll, good ridance.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
So I have a new idea- we get all the parents of the children you're referring to, and your good self, and put them in this large room. We tell the parents what you suggested regarding their children.
Woah! Are you clever! Turn the tables around! Wow! I bow down to your superior intelect.
Or somthing.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.