1. The poorest people get hit the hardest. Outside of very large cities, public transportation is the USA is a joke or nonexistent. Where I live there are no alternate means of travel.
2. Everything in the USA is shipped by truck. Higher gas taxes mean higher prices for nearly everything; it is very damaging to the economy. And the poor get hit here again.
This whole thing is really getting ridiculous. I wonder how long it will be before the laws that support this kind of nonsense are seriously reworked and/or simply gotten rid of.
Unfortunately, not anytime soon. Not as long as the American Bar Association and the trial lawyers have a major political party in their pocket.
in this country are so damn ignorant. I don't want the lazy, uneducated, mindless slobs who can't be bothered to wait in a line one night every two years for fear of missing that Full House re-run to have any sway in an election.
The voters are ignorant because elected officials are not held accountable for the corruption, enormous waste, hypocrisy and pork, regardless of what political party is in power. It is the one constant in the political landscape.
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Raising the gas tax is bad idea for two reasons:
1. The poorest people get hit the hardest. Outside of very large cities, public transportation is the USA is a joke or nonexistent. Where I live there are no alternate means of travel.
2. Everything in the USA is shipped by truck. Higher gas taxes mean higher prices for nearly everything; it is very damaging to the economy. And the poor get hit here again.
involved or we might end up with Hungarian Astronomical Notation.
Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO, isn't after money from licinses, he's after a seat on Microsoft's board of directors.
Unfortunately, not anytime soon. Not as long as the American Bar Association and the trial lawyers have a major political party in their pocket.
How about Cary the Coder -- the skinny geek... or Compile Kile a dapper, leather jacket cool-dude? or Jimmy the Bug a vile insect of software-flaws..?
Is this a call to bring back 'Microsoft Bob'?
But for your music to be truly free, you should distribute the sheet music with the songs. ;-)
in this country are so damn ignorant. I don't want the lazy, uneducated, mindless slobs who can't be bothered to wait in a line one night every two years for fear of missing that Full House re-run to have any sway in an election.
The voters are ignorant because elected officials are not held accountable for the corruption, enormous waste, hypocrisy and pork, regardless of what political party is in power. It is the one constant in the political landscape.