Car Tax Property Tax (Directly or included in rent) Telco Luxury Tax Telco USF Tax State Sales Tax. County Sales Tax. City Sales Tax. Sales Tax. Gas Tax.
And a host of other taxes are taxes that the poor do pay. Why is it that when people say the poor pay not tax they always leave those out?
Seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno, Nev., to collect the money it got from PC manufacturers that installed Windows and Office on the computers they sold. In the years since, Microsoft has sheltered more than $60 billion in royalty revenue in Nevada, a state with no corporate income tax, costing Washington an estimated $327 million in unrealized tax revenue.
That should be easy to verify, contact the SecState of Nevada
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Designer of infamous butterfly ballot loses re-election bid
HILARY ROXE
Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore, the inventor of the butterfly ballot that became a national joke during the 2000 presidential recount, lost her re-election bid.
With all precincts reporting, challenger Arthur Anderson had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while LePore had 85,601 votes, or 48 percent.
Despite the loss, LePore will remain in office until Jan. 3 and will oversee the November election in the county.
LePore spokesman Marty Rogol said a "media blitz" by Anderson supporters over the last week, including appearances by some out-of-state Democratic heavyweights, was partly responsible for her showing.
LePore refused to meet with reporters early Wednesday, but as the polls closed Tuesday she said she was too busy overseeing the counting of ballots to think about her own race.
"I just want to win so I can continue doing the job I love," LePore said.
Anderson said voters remembered the criticism LePore, and by extension their county, received four years ago.
"The public had lost trust in the operation and management of this particular office," Anderson said. "There were too many glitches... people just lost confidence in the voting process."
LePore, 49, has worked in the elections office for more than three decades, and in the top job since 1996. A Democrat when she ran unopposed in the 2000 election, she was angered by statements party leaders made during the recount and had since declared herself independent.
She became the focus of national attention and the subject of death threats in 2000 after some Palm Beach County voters said a confusing butterfly ballot, which listed the names of presidential candidates on opposing pages, led them to mistakenly select conservative third-party candidate Pat Buchanan instead of Democrat Al Gore. The design provided fodder for political cartoonists and late-night comedians. Gore lost the election in Florida to President Bush by 537 votes.
Still reeling from that narrow defeat, Democrats rallied behind Anderson, a professor and former county school board member. Florida U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Gore's running mate, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, all stumped for Anderson.
Despite all the trouble in 2000, LePore's supporters pointed during the campaign to more recent history. In 2002, LePore ran a smooth election on new touchscreen voting machines while her counterparts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties again made Florida the punchline of national jokes because of voting problems in the gubernatorial election.
Miami-Dade elections chief David Leahy resigned after being heavily criticized for weeklong delays in tallying the votes and opening precincts hours late. In Broward, Gov. Jeb Bush suspended election chief Miriam Oliphant for incompetence, including opening polls late, never counting absentee ballots and failing to maintain accurate voting rolls. She lost badly Tuesday in an attempt to reclaim her position.
Anderson, 63, has no experience overseeing elections and was criticized during the campaign for failing to pay federal taxes for years. He said the tax problems are being resolved and that his past management positions qualify him for the supervisor's job.
Speaking of a "continuous erosion" in citizens' confidence in the voting process, he said he ran against LePore to protect "the right to have our votes count."
Anderson's chief campaign issue was also Wexler's focus - adding printers to the county's voting machines to ensure a paper trail exists in case of a recount. Wexler has sued LePore and others to add the printers. LePore, who doesn't oppose the printers but thinks they are unnecessary, needed state approval to add the paper trail.
Some people in that movement think that too many people currently inhabit the earth. Crop failure would just help the population level get back to normal.
The fact remains that you can not change what he said. Sorry the facts bother you so.
"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.
It is a DIRECT QUOTE OF WHAT HE SAID. Just because you do not like what he said doesn't change the fact that he said it.
If he had such a fucking conscience he would not have done what he said he did in the first place. He would have disobeyed the orders and faced the results of his actions.
He didn't.
If you are GOP everything that the GOP does is PERFECT and they can do no wrong.
If you are DEM everthing that the DEM does is PERFECT and they can do no wrong.
Well, that's bullshit. Somethings are still flat out wrong and what kerry did in Vietnam falls under that catagory.
No, he was an officier and he knew better and damn right I would have went to jail before I followed illegal orders.
It was, and still is, the correct and legal thing to do. And you know nothing about me so you do not know if I have stuck my neck out or what sticking my neck out has cost me.
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These are worse, at least Britney is somewhat nice to look at.;->
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Car Tax
Property Tax (Directly or included in rent)
Telco Luxury Tax
Telco USF Tax
State Sales Tax.
County Sales Tax.
City Sales Tax.
Sales Tax.
Gas Tax.
And a host of other taxes are taxes that the poor do pay. Why is it that when people say the poor pay not tax they always leave those out?
For some reason Nevada will not play along ;->
But hell, if WashState gives MSFT too much trouble they are welcome to more to Texas.
Seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno, Nev., to collect the money it got from PC manufacturers that installed Windows and Office on the computers they sold. In the years since, Microsoft has sheltered more than $60 billion in royalty revenue in Nevada, a state with no corporate income tax, costing Washington an estimated $327 million in unrealized tax revenue.
That should be easy to verify, contact the SecState of Nevada
Isn't that list private?
Do not donate via the CFC and mail the EFF a check directly.
Why? People on /. all the time blame the GOP for the design. Funny, I do not see you correcting them.
osted on Wed, Sep. 01, 2004
... people just lost confidence in the voting process."
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Designer of infamous butterfly ballot loses re-election bid
HILARY ROXE
Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore, the inventor of the butterfly ballot that became a national joke during the 2000 presidential recount, lost her re-election bid.
With all precincts reporting, challenger Arthur Anderson had 91,134 votes, or 52 percent, while LePore had 85,601 votes, or 48 percent.
Despite the loss, LePore will remain in office until Jan. 3 and will oversee the November election in the county.
LePore spokesman Marty Rogol said a "media blitz" by Anderson supporters over the last week, including appearances by some out-of-state Democratic heavyweights, was partly responsible for her showing.
LePore refused to meet with reporters early Wednesday, but as the polls closed Tuesday she said she was too busy overseeing the counting of ballots to think about her own race.
"I just want to win so I can continue doing the job I love," LePore said.
Anderson said voters remembered the criticism LePore, and by extension their county, received four years ago.
"The public had lost trust in the operation and management of this particular office," Anderson said. "There were too many glitches
LePore, 49, has worked in the elections office for more than three decades, and in the top job since 1996. A Democrat when she ran unopposed in the 2000 election, she was angered by statements party leaders made during the recount and had since declared herself independent.
She became the focus of national attention and the subject of death threats in 2000 after some Palm Beach County voters said a confusing butterfly ballot, which listed the names of presidential candidates on opposing pages, led them to mistakenly select conservative third-party candidate Pat Buchanan instead of Democrat Al Gore. The design provided fodder for political cartoonists and late-night comedians. Gore lost the election in Florida to President Bush by 537 votes.
Still reeling from that narrow defeat, Democrats rallied behind Anderson, a professor and former county school board member. Florida U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Gore's running mate, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, all stumped for Anderson.
Despite all the trouble in 2000, LePore's supporters pointed during the campaign to more recent history. In 2002, LePore ran a smooth election on new touchscreen voting machines while her counterparts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties again made Florida the punchline of national jokes because of voting problems in the gubernatorial election.
Miami-Dade elections chief David Leahy resigned after being heavily criticized for weeklong delays in tallying the votes and opening precincts hours late. In Broward, Gov. Jeb Bush suspended election chief Miriam Oliphant for incompetence, including opening polls late, never counting absentee ballots and failing to maintain accurate voting rolls. She lost badly Tuesday in an attempt to reclaim her position.
Anderson, 63, has no experience overseeing elections and was criticized during the campaign for failing to pay federal taxes for years. He said the tax problems are being resolved and that his past management positions qualify him for the supervisor's job.
Speaking of a "continuous erosion" in citizens' confidence in the voting process, he said he ran against LePore to protect "the right to have our votes count."
Anderson's chief campaign issue was also Wexler's focus - adding printers to the county's voting machines to ensure a paper trail exists in case of a recount. Wexler has sued LePore and others to add the printers. LePore, who doesn't oppose the printers but thinks they are unnecessary, needed state approval to add the paper trail.
IOW, it is used by people who have no real skills who wish to look smart?
Mr. Bush, shouldn't you be on the campaign trail? ;->
Did the DEMS design it? After all they did design the florida one.
None of those other people are running for president, are they?
When you run for the most powerful elected office in the world you open yourself up to great scrunity.
GOogle for the damn quote, it ain't that fscking hard. He did say it, and he was talking about him self.
Believe it or not, he did give other talks about the subject other than the one before congress.
No. Search google for that quote, it was Kerry talking about Kerry on a tv show 3-5 days before his statements before congress.
Would someone please explain to me why, in 2004, the color of your skin matter?
Some people in that movement think that too many people currently inhabit the earth. Crop failure would just help the population level get back to normal.
And this is different than the white 3rd party canadites how?
The fact remains that you can not change what he said. Sorry the facts bother you so.
"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.
-John Kerry, Meet The Press, April 18, 1971
It is a DIRECT QUOTE OF WHAT HE SAID. Just because you do not like what he said doesn't change the fact that he said it.
If he had such a fucking conscience he would not have done what he said he did in the first place. He would have disobeyed the orders and faced the results of his actions.
He didn't.
If you are GOP everything that the GOP does is PERFECT and they can do no wrong.
If you are DEM everthing that the DEM does is PERFECT and they can do no wrong.
Well, that's bullshit. Somethings are still flat out wrong and what kerry did in Vietnam falls under that catagory.
So pointing out a mans own words is now dishonorable?
Damn, did I wake up in Bizarro world this morning?
He didn't take a strong stance against war crimes, he commited war crimes.
Unless he is lying.
No, he was an officier and he knew better and damn right I would have went to jail before I followed illegal orders.
It was, and still is, the correct and legal thing to do. And you know nothing about me so you do not know if I have stuck my neck out or what sticking my neck out has cost me.
These are worse, at least Britney is somewhat nice to look at. ;->
I am saying that they war is bad crowd is supporting a person who goes against everything they say the stand for.
He should not have done what he says he did.
I love how the antiwar left supports a self admited war criminal, I really really do.
What did sony do to criple the minidisk?