while the poor must pay when they go to the local stores
funny but i would be considered on the poor side too, but i'm one of those people who dodges sales taxes. because truthfully, if i had to go to the store, using my gas that is outrageously high in price (and this is the cheap shit!), to go pay them for their overhead and then give the state all my change in taxes, i'd be living out of a cardboard box eating out of the dumpster behind mcdonalds.
a luxury I could live without
yea but what about those individuals whom their lives depended on it. ever thought about that. or the kids who have interest in it, but since it cost more and more for them to get connected they end up going to something else? figuring that i've made myself name near completely broke pushing to advance myself in this field, just to have this as everything else to be shot down by taxes and some crazy californian's will to fuck the rest of us....
and for those talking about current taxes that apply.. most places only charge sales taxes if you're in the same state (which i can understand). but if u r being charged taxes, theres always another company that sells the same exact product (watch, it'll even be cheaper!) and no taxes if ur really trying to avoid it.
but personally.. i'm just going to laugh my ass off when this whole thing flops... somebody's not getting re-elected....
ok.. this enrages me. now i've got an idea of why the colonies fought for their independence from britian. 'no taxation without representation!'
as it is, they already tax us from every direction possible. sometimes i'm scared to breath just because i feel like i'm going to get taxed for inhaling the air. i get my paychecks and its like i'm owing money to my job just because theres so much being taken out in taxes. and now they want to make the internet their next tax haven?! so sad but true 'there are only two constants in life... taxes and death'
ok.. personally, i'm all for space exploration. former (and still silently burning) ambitions were to be an astronaut. but for some reason, the ideas of creating biospheres on other planets and moons seems a lil wild. not impossible, not crazy, but wild to the extent that it reminds me of a quote from "The Matrix," about how we as humans are nothing but leeches, destroying all of our resources and moving on to the next. i mean seriously, we can't even get it right on one planet. we fight over stupidity, we destroy our precious planet because we want to advance ourselves. we've crippled tons of viable land because we wanted to make a buck or didn't feel like going through all of the safety precautions (Chernobyl ring a bell to anyone). and we're talking about creating civilizations elsewhere. what will we do there, rob those planets of every natural resource until we have to move farther and farther on? i'm not trying to be negative about this all, i'm just trying to point out the other point of view.
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while the poor must pay when they go to the local stores funny but i would be considered on the poor side too, but i'm one of those people who dodges sales taxes. because truthfully, if i had to go to the store, using my gas that is outrageously high in price (and this is the cheap shit!), to go pay them for their overhead and then give the state all my change in taxes, i'd be living out of a cardboard box eating out of the dumpster behind mcdonalds. a luxury I could live without yea but what about those individuals whom their lives depended on it. ever thought about that. or the kids who have interest in it, but since it cost more and more for them to get connected they end up going to something else? figuring that i've made myself name near completely broke pushing to advance myself in this field, just to have this as everything else to be shot down by taxes and some crazy californian's will to fuck the rest of us.... and for those talking about current taxes that apply.. most places only charge sales taxes if you're in the same state (which i can understand). but if u r being charged taxes, theres always another company that sells the same exact product (watch, it'll even be cheaper!) and no taxes if ur really trying to avoid it. but personally.. i'm just going to laugh my ass off when this whole thing flops... somebody's not getting re-elected....
ok.. this enrages me. now i've got an idea of why the colonies fought for their independence from britian. 'no taxation without representation!' as it is, they already tax us from every direction possible. sometimes i'm scared to breath just because i feel like i'm going to get taxed for inhaling the air. i get my paychecks and its like i'm owing money to my job just because theres so much being taken out in taxes. and now they want to make the internet their next tax haven?! so sad but true 'there are only two constants in life... taxes and death'
ok.. personally, i'm all for space exploration. former (and still silently burning) ambitions were to be an astronaut. but for some reason, the ideas of creating biospheres on other planets and moons seems a lil wild. not impossible, not crazy, but wild to the extent that it reminds me of a quote from "The Matrix," about how we as humans are nothing but leeches, destroying all of our resources and moving on to the next. i mean seriously, we can't even get it right on one planet. we fight over stupidity, we destroy our precious planet because we want to advance ourselves. we've crippled tons of viable land because we wanted to make a buck or didn't feel like going through all of the safety precautions (Chernobyl ring a bell to anyone). and we're talking about creating civilizations elsewhere. what will we do there, rob those planets of every natural resource until we have to move farther and farther on? i'm not trying to be negative about this all, i'm just trying to point out the other point of view.