The whole concept of internet tax is a joke. And to the delusional fweeb that said we need this tax? Get a clue for starters no tax is constitutional unless voted on and ratified by the people,go read YOUR constitution. Secondly why should I pay a tax for public schools if my children are in private schoool? Last time I checked that would be unconstitional taxation. There is only one way to handle crap like this,contact your senator and ask his/her opinion of the bill be sure to reference the Sentaor who posed it and then state your opisition. Email is great too,however only about 50% of the senators of HOR Reps actually check it, so do both. If enough oppisistion is shown something will happen.
BTW. If your in Atl Senator Coverdale opposes this tax
I hate to say it but there is such a thing as justifyable fear, and no it has nothing to do with racism. It is a hard cold fact that there are higher crime rates in dense urban areas and cities than there are in most areas known as suburbs, the FBI will be happy to furnish you with a copy of the FBI uniform crime report, a summary of ALL criminal activity noted by any police or sherriff's department in the U.S. The fact is simple, when you bunch people together as in a city there is MORE crime in that geographic area,thus a fear by many of the dense area of population known as the city. When you spread people out as in the suburbs and lower that density you may still have crime but it is spaced out over multiple municipalities and this a lower perceived crime rate. Crime happens everywhere its just where you see it that forms your opinions.
First off, let me say I think the review content,that which truly reflects on the content of the book, was well written and a good read in itself. However One of the things that Katz has put in the review to further illustrate one his points is wrong. That point of contention is the association he makes with people going to "shopping malls" to save money. The fact is people don't go to malls to save money they go there because they want to go to the "mall". Price thoughtful shoppers go to (shunnn) Wal-Mart or better yet...Ebay..With regards to the book, it talks about people driving for miles to avoid the high end retail district of Celebration,that is in effect the same as the people who drive to SAM's or costco rather than go to the local mall. The ebays and onsale.com's of the world illustrate this point even better,because now people dont even have to drive,and thus save gas(providing shipping and handling cost more than their gas costs).
Just wanted to let everyone know in the Atlanta metro area who are serviced by Bellsouth that Gwinnett.com is also offering ADSL service in competition with Bellsouth for the Atlanta Metro area not to mention they are also cheaper. their URl is as above the Ph. # is 770-623-6374. One final note I just talked to Gwinnett on the phone,it seems they RUN LINUX on some of their servers.
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The whole concept of internet tax is a joke. And to the delusional fweeb that said we need this tax? Get a clue for starters no tax is constitutional unless voted on and ratified by the people,go read YOUR constitution. Secondly why should I pay a tax for public schools if my children are in private schoool? Last time I checked that would be unconstitional taxation. There is only one way to handle crap like this,contact your senator and ask his/her opinion of the bill be sure to reference the Sentaor who posed it and then state your opisition. Email is great too,however only about 50% of the senators of HOR Reps actually check it, so do both. If enough oppisistion is shown something will happen.
BTW. If your in Atl Senator Coverdale opposes this tax
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I hate to say it but there is such a thing as justifyable fear, and no it has nothing to do with racism. It is a hard cold fact that there are higher crime rates in dense urban areas and cities than there are in most areas known as suburbs, the FBI will be happy to furnish you with a copy of the FBI uniform crime report, a summary of ALL criminal activity noted by any police or sherriff's department in the U.S. The fact is simple, when you bunch people together as in a city there is MORE crime in that geographic area,thus a fear by many of the dense area of population known as the city. When you spread people out as in the suburbs and lower that density you may still have crime but it is spaced out over multiple municipalities and this a lower perceived crime rate. Crime happens everywhere its just where you see it that forms your opinions.
First off, let me say I think the review content,that which truly reflects on the content of the book, was well written and a good read in itself. However One of the things that Katz has put in the review to further illustrate one his points is wrong. That point of contention is the association he makes with people going to "shopping malls" to save money. The fact is people don't go to malls to save money they go there because they want to go to the "mall". Price thoughtful shoppers go to (shunnn) Wal-Mart or better yet...Ebay..With regards to the book, it talks about people driving for miles to avoid the high end retail district of Celebration,that is in effect the same as the people who drive to SAM's or costco rather than go to the local mall. The ebays and onsale.com's of the world illustrate this point even better,because now people dont even have to drive,and thus save gas(providing shipping and handling cost more than their gas costs).
Just wanted to let everyone know in the Atlanta
metro area who are serviced by Bellsouth that
Gwinnett.com is also offering ADSL service in competition with Bellsouth for the Atlanta Metro area not to mention they are also cheaper.
their URl is as above the Ph. # is 770-623-6374. One final note I just talked to Gwinnett on the phone,it seems they RUN LINUX on some of their servers.