tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post4808742492338725346..comments2023-11-02T06:56:57.999-04:00Comments on Saurly Yours: Florida's Natives Left Holding the TabSaur♥Krauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160101729455178399noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-39901276134871841142008-12-01T23:49:00.000-05:002008-12-01T23:49:00.000-05:00Well - I did not vote for the CARPETBAGGER Yankee ...Well - I did not vote for the CARPETBAGGER Yankee who bought a Florida home than ran for Governor some 6 or 7 months later. <BR/><BR/>Chiles kicked his ass. <BR/><BR/>But he won the following election. <BR/><BR/>So when you allow a non native carpetbagger to be the man, you get what you deserve. <BR/><BR/>Florida will never have a state income tax. I just do not see that happening. It would never pass a popular vote. Hell the measure to allow Counties to propose a 1/2 cent sales tax for community colleges which would have to be approved by another election failed. It was not even a tax. It was just a proposal to allow another vote for a 1/2 cent sales tax. <BR/><BR/>The current Governor and his tax cut plan has bankrupted many communities. As I predicted. This is why I had to vote no on the plan. Not because I am opposed to the idea, I was just opposed to that plan. <BR/><BR/>Why should a $1 million luxury condo get a property tax cut? Can't afford the tax? Sell the condo to someone who can and move into some other home. Maybe even a home that does qualify for a cut. You know - a house closer to the median value? <BR/><BR/>Regular people get a few hundred bucks, multimillionaires get thousands back. Thousands they do not really need to make any end meet. This is "relief"? <BR/><BR/>It really makes me laugh when idiots who live in tin cans go on and on and on about how "unfair" taxes are and that not everyone "pays their share" and that a flat tax is needed. <BR/><BR/>I guess they do not realize that they would end up paying MORE so the asshole on the radio they listen to can pay a lot less? Or that their low property value home will get back a pittance, while the huge mansion on the beach gets back tens of thousands? <BR/><BR/>In the meantime, public schools had to cut back on just about everything. The promised teacher pay raise (which was not much - less than $1k a year) is off the table. <BR/><BR/>The rich who can afford a $10,000 a year tuition to a fancy private school will not see any cutbacks for their idiot kids. They do not care if public schools fall off the face of the Earth. <BR/><BR/>So enjoy your even MORE underfunded public schools Central Florida! I hope your vast $200 property tax cut can pay for the elite private school tuition! <BR/><BR/>And if it cant, well then feel better that the rich living on Star Island in their $10 million + homes are able to make ends meet now that they have a pretty big property tax cut. No doubt in my mind that they will not "expand their business" and create more jobs - or hand out raises to existing employees. <BR/><BR/>By the way, I would LOVE to see the sin tax. Really. Bring it. These kinds of taxes are always popular with people who claim to not have any vices. <BR/><BR/>But I bet when they hit - a LOT of the pure people without any vice at all because sin is evil will be bitching a lot over the price hike on their 6 pack. And somehow blame people like me for it. <BR/><BR/>Because even in small towns that have a Church on every street corner and everyone goes to Sunday services and everyone pretends that drinking is this big major sin and I will surely go to hell for wanting a beer on Sunday have a lot of stores that sell smokes and beer. So someone buys it.The Lazy Iguanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12826083852416577162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-72409887479763400522008-12-01T21:55:00.000-05:002008-12-01T21:55:00.000-05:00Speaking as only a true partisan can, I'm against ...Speaking as only a true partisan can, I'm against asthma AND condoms littering Florida's beaches.Whistle Britcheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01896698165547735903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-53999158308268969562008-12-01T21:38:00.000-05:002008-12-01T21:38:00.000-05:00Dave, Oh so very true. And yeah, you're right - I ...<B>Dave,</B> Oh so very true. And yeah, you're right - I shouldn't have missed it, but never the less, I did. I guess I always assumed 'expected' profits were profits. Period.Saur♥Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160101729455178399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-18482596423418104852008-12-01T17:35:00.000-05:002008-12-01T17:35:00.000-05:00I'm not sure how you could have missed the constan...I'm not sure how you could have missed the constant growth thing. I'd have thought that the stock plunges and teeth-gnashing whenever some company announced that it's profits were <I>lower</I> than expected (not a <I>lack</I> of profits, <I>lower</I> profits) would have told you something was up. After all, the people who've run Washington are pro-business folks who think we ought to run government like a business.<BR/><BR/>Funny thing about the current "crisis": sales are down about 1% compared to last year. In other words, the national economy is down this year about the same as the Daveawayfromhome economy has been every year since the new millenia. <BR/>Funny how it was never a crisis until the bankers were feeling it, huh?<BR/><BR/>No one in business is happy anymore when just making a living, they all want to make a <I>killing</I>.daveawayfromhomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06237313399294302353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-5123962961570066062008-12-01T15:38:00.000-05:002008-12-01T15:38:00.000-05:00Scott, really? You haven't found that people cut b...<B>Scott, really?</B> You haven't found that people cut back on their 'sins'? Very interesting - I wonder if that will hold true here. There are studies that indicate that they will cut back, but they're by no means infallible, of course, and times change. <BR/><BR/>As for your taxes: Good grief! But of course you do have additional goodies, such as socialized medicine (which overall I approve of, despite some of my friends' disagreement).<BR/><BR/><B>Daniel,</B> I didn't like Obama <I>before</I> he won, remember? And as I said, if it was McCain, I wouldn't like him much better, either, and you'd hear me howling like a wounded lion if (and probably when) he brought on all of the Bushanistas to flush out his staff. <I>Neither</I> one was a good choice, IMHO, but I surely hope and pray that I'm proven wrong. When and if I am, I will be shouting it from the rooftops and will do entire posts marvelling at how wrong I was.<BR/><BR/>...and I KEEP my campaign promises, unlike most.Saur♥Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160101729455178399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-56016357949926038002008-12-01T14:39:00.000-05:002008-12-01T14:39:00.000-05:00You could always move to Ontario where we currentl...You could always move to Ontario where we currently play 13% sales tax. 8% to the Province and 5% to the Federal government. Then on top of that we pay a Provincial income tax and a Federal Income tax, and if that is not enough we have insanely high 'sin' taxes. I am not a smoke so I could care less but I believe that a pack of cigarettes up in these parts costs almost $10. What is interesting though is that these 'sin' taxes have in no way slowed down the consumption of said products. It is so counterintuitive to believe that but it is our reality.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>ScottScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16177305700247905809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-24703094392953707052008-12-01T14:22:00.000-05:002008-12-01T14:22:00.000-05:00I only started disagreeing with Saur when she lost...I only started disagreeing with Saur when she lost her mind when Obama won.<BR/><BR/>Normal service is resumed perhaps and hopefully when Obama takes power and the US doesn't become a Muslim state we can all get down to having fun again.<BR/><BR/>You should read his books if you haven't all ready.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-90101274837549229102008-12-01T13:06:00.000-05:002008-12-01T13:06:00.000-05:00M@, ;o)And yes, retrenchment can be very good, as ...<B>M@,</B> ;o)<BR/><BR/>And yes, retrenchment can be very good, as long as wise heads prevail. I hope.Saur♥Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160101729455178399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-57023742209432619592008-12-01T11:25:00.000-05:002008-12-01T11:25:00.000-05:00Daniel may find some way to disagree with you on y...Daniel may find some way to disagree with you on your concern about asthma and the environment.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes, retrenchment can be a good thing. It's a reality check.M@https://www.blogger.com/profile/11907796642043083093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-1726876824426851652008-12-01T09:29:00.000-05:002008-12-01T09:29:00.000-05:00Ed, Guess it was a blind spot. I had no idea.I agr...<B>Ed,</B> Guess it was a blind spot. I had no idea.<BR/><BR/>I agree - I do not see growth as "all that". I am more than happy with the status quo. As is the case in your town, a new school is not always necessary - sometimes all that's needed are modifications. Too often the government is spend-happy and loves the shiny new toys when the old ones still work just as well.Saur♥Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160101729455178399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687945.post-66623591591592076032008-12-01T09:25:00.000-05:002008-12-01T09:25:00.000-05:00I'm kind of amazed you missed that one about the g...I'm kind of amazed you missed that one about the government budget being based on continual growth. Although I don't know who started that ideology, I think it has been around since at least Reagan. <BR/><BR/>Iowa is just has bad and always wails and gnashes teeth whenever some report shows our population declining. Yet our budget keeps increasing every year. <BR/><BR/>And it doesn't stop there. It trickles right down to the local economy where our city budget keeps increasing every year while our town slowly shrivels up and dies. They've been trying to shove a new school down our throats to replace the 40 year old one we have now for several years. Fortunately the economic downturn has sidelined that though I doubt it is for good.<BR/><BR/>For once, I wish we would be happy with what we have and not seek out growth in population, city sizes, budgets, etc. Let's just stay in this era for awhile and turn it into a couple decades worth.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.com