[quote]rainjack wrote:
Don’t you have to have a job before you pay income tax?
I don’t think spending mommy’s money on a gym membership would qualify you for a tax break.
But I know nothing about the candian tax code.
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Maybe at 23 you were still living at home and mommy was paying your gym membership, but just because you feel massively embarrassed about that fact is no reason to project your feelings of shame onto me.
Beef
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.
[quote]whatsmybodyfat wrote:
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.[/quote]
It wasn’t someone from Texas who didn’t read Schwarzkopf the first time it was listed.
It wasn’t someone from Texas who didn’t capitalize “New Jersey” or “Texas” or the “you” at the beginning of your second sentence.
It wasn’t someone from Texas who wrote “texas’s” instead of “Texas’.”
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
What I want to know is how much tax money is being taken in by the taxes on the record profits.
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That would be interesting to learn. I would like to see some numbers on the profit companies are making, and volume of product sold. The companies are making more profit, but how much of that is because of acquisitions and an increase in total product sold? I’d wager the profit on a gallon of gas hasn’t gone up much if any.
Petrol broke the ?1 per litre mark the other day. ove a fiver a gallon. thats around $8 us a gallon.
To you lot, thats a shit load. Yet we still fill up and carry on, because we generally have no choice.
We have had fuel protests before, but these have now gone away, with the instgators being managed by the security forces no doubt. These go slows can paralyse the country, but i doubt they could effectively in the US due to its size.
So really, stop bitching and get more fuel efficient cars, something that will do over 30mpg would help.
[quote]AlbertaBeef wrote:
rainjack wrote:
Don’t you have to have a job before you pay income tax?
I don’t think spending mommy’s money on a gym membership would qualify you for a tax break.
But I know nothing about the candian tax code.
Maybe at 23 you were still living at home and mommy was paying your gym membership, but just because you feel massively embarrassed about that fact is no reason to project your feelings of shame onto me.
Beef[/quote]
I have no feelings of shame. I was living 500 miles from home, working at a real job.
I didn’t propose to know everything, unlike you.
You are a punk-assed little bitch with nothing to contribute here.
Run along, sparky.
[quote]whatsmybodyfat wrote:
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.[/quote]
Dude - learn how to spell and present your thoughts properly before telling us how stupid Texans are.
For some reason, tough talk coming from some guido bitch about a state that is smaller than my family’s land holdings doesn’t really instill much fear.
[quote]doogie wrote:
whatsmybodyfat wrote:
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.
It wasn’t someone from Texas who didn’t read Schwarzkopf the first time it was listed.
It wasn’t someone from Texas who didn’t capitalize “New Jersey” or “Texas” or the “you” at the beginning of your second sentence.
It wasn’t someone from Texas who wrote “texas’s” instead of “Texas’.”[/quote]
You just proved ?whatsmybodyfat? point.
You have time to go over punctuation on a forum post but you don?t have time to read what you are discussing or responding to.
I was born and raised in CA (not NJ which I posted above).
I butcher my posts on this forum and I am unapologetic.
*For what is worth??whatsmybodyfat? is a knuckle head but you are even more pathetic for responding. Who gives a sh!t about WMBF?
Texas does have more than its share of problems with education. Get over it.
[quote]Marmadogg wrote:
For every dollar we send to the federal goverment NJ gets $0.55 back. For every dollar Texas sends to DC they get $0.94 back.
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That’s what you get in a high-cost-of-living state with high nominal incomes when you have a federal “progressive” tax rate pegged to nominal incomes…
That and you don’t have a Senator like Teddy K. to get you a “Big Dig” fiasco to make some of that money back…
[quote]rainjack wrote:
whatsmybodyfat wrote:
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.
Dude - learn how to spell and present your thoughts properly before telling us how stupid Texans are.
For some reason, tough talk coming from some guido bitch about a state that is smaller than my family’s land holdings doesn’t really instill much fear.
I did an experiment: First, I said ‘I’m from Texas.’ Then, I said ‘I’m from New Jersey.’ The first one made me feel proud and upright. The second made me feel like a pussy and like I lived out of a garbage can. Texas wins, hands down.
HH
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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
rainjack wrote:
whatsmybodyfat wrote:
new jersey would kick texas’s ass. you rednecks can’t even read.
Dude - learn how to spell and present your thoughts properly before telling us how stupid Texans are.
For some reason, tough talk coming from some guido bitch about a state that is smaller than my family’s land holdings doesn’t really instill much fear.
I did an experiment: First, I said ‘I’m from Texas.’ Then, I said ‘I’m from New Jersey.’ The first one made me feel proud and upright. The second made me feel like a pussy and like I lived out of a garbage can. Texas wins, hands down.
HH[/quote]
I’m from California.
That phrase is a great ice breaker until they ask…why did you move here?
People move from CA to NJ for 2 reasons:
Love or money.
I moved here for money and met my wife here.
I’m stuck for now.
I could be worse…I could have move to Texas. j/k
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Marmadogg wrote:
For every dollar we send to the federal goverment NJ gets $0.55 back. For every dollar Texas sends to DC they get $0.94 back.
That’s what you get in a high-cost-of-living state with high nominal incomes when you have a federal “progressive” tax rate pegged to nominal incomes…
That and you don’t have a Senator like Teddy K. to get you a “Big Dig” fiasco to make some of that money back…[/quote]
Our senators are almost as bad and Corizine (sp?) is now our governor.
I moved here for a job that has worked out better than my wildest dreams.
I think the world, particularly the USA should stop using so much GAS. They did pretty well embracing the European and Japanese cars with efficient engines which filtered down to mainstream US production too, but there are still a rift of V8 pickup driving people, as there is in Europe (its more SUV) and they should be taxed into the ground. If you can give me a good argument for wasting petroleum then pipe in.
[quote]jasonigor wrote:
I think the world, particularly the USA should stop using so much GAS. They did pretty well embracing the European and Japanese cars with efficient engines which filtered down to mainstream US production too, but there are still a rift of V8 pickup driving people, as there is in Europe (its more SUV) and they should be taxed into the ground. If you can give me a good argument for wasting petroleum then pipe in.[/quote]
Define wasting petroleum.
I have an SUV. It is a necessity where I live. I could buy a hybrid, but I would have to make 4 trips (about 800 miles total) to get groceries. When we go get groceries, we also run all of our errands. It is a 200 mile round trip to do that.
You do the math. I could make one trip getting 20 mpg, or I could make 4 trips getting 50mpg (if I am very lucky carrying 4 people in the car).
Are there folks that waste gas? Yep. Should all of them be punished because someone doesn’t think they should be allowed to drive a car bigger than theirs?
Taxing people you don’t understand, or dislike for no apparent reason is sorta like class envy. We already have enough of that.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
Define wasting petroleum.
I have an SUV. It is a necessity where I live. I could buy a hybrid, but I would have to make 4 trips (about 800 miles total) to get groceries. When we go get groceries, we also run all of our errands. It is a 200 mile round trip to do that.
You do the math. I could make one trip getting 20 mpg, or I could make 4 trips getting 50mpg (if I am very lucky carrying 4 people in the car).
Are there folks that waste gas? Yep. Should all of them be punished because someone doesn’t think they should be allowed to drive a car bigger than theirs?
Taxing people you don’t understand, or dislike for no apparent reason is sorta like class envy. We already have enough of that. [/quote]
Had a bad day did you ?
[quote]jasonigor wrote:
Had a bad day did you ?[/quote]
Not at all. You make assumptions and pass judgement on those you know nothing about.
I asked you for a simple clarification of your position.
Why is that equal to a bad day?
[quote]rainjack wrote:
jasonigor wrote:
Had a bad day did you ?
Not at all. You make assumptions and pass judgement on those you know nothing about.
I asked you for a simple clarification of your position.
Why is that equal to a bad day? [/quote]
Whatever.
Required reading on why gas prices differ in different jurisdictions:
EXCERPT:
[i]Often, the distance between locations with different prices is not so great. Prices can range by as much as 25 cents a gallon between gas stations on opposite ends of a city, and often those prices vary from block to block within the same neighborhoods.
So what gives?
The reasons, say those who study the gasoline industry, are varied and often complex. Some experts cite a costly emissions-reducing additive that is used in gasoline sold in some parts of the country. Others blame varying gasoline taxes and a technique known as zone-pricing, essentially raising wholesale prices in areas that can absorb it.
And a few note that the market for setting prices, which is virtually unregulated, changes because of little more than the whims of gas station managers based on their own finances and street-level evaluation of supply and demand.
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[quote]jasonigor wrote:
I think the world, particularly the USA should stop using so much GAS. They did pretty well embracing the European and Japanese cars with efficient engines which filtered down to mainstream US production too, but there are still a rift of V8 pickup driving people, as there is in Europe (its more SUV) and they should be taxed into the ground. If you can give me a good argument for wasting petroleum then pipe in.[/quote]
Any gas saved by the U.S. would simply be bought and burned in China or India.
A lot of countries could use more oil than they do now, if only they could afford it. If the prices went down, they could afford it and they’d buy it; thereby negating any savings made elsewhere.
Unless a revolutionary way of using fossil fuel, or a workable alternative comes along, demand is not going anywhere but up.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
I did an experiment: First, I said ‘I’m from Texas.’ Then, I said ‘I’m from New Jersey.’ The first one made me feel proud and upright. The second made me feel like a pussy and like I lived out of a garbage can. Texas wins, hands down.[/quote]
Have you tried “Je parle français et je viens du Québec?”