Taxachusetts wrongly named? - Tax burden per US state

[Atahualpa]

...favor football

[Atahualpa]

One might wonder what's up with Italy these days....

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
One might wonder what's up with Italy these days....

Berlusconi is in power ?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Then how would you generalize the differences between the parties? You can't say they're exactly the same. It's clear one is pro-business while the other leans towards the common man. That is the main philosophical difference in a nut shell. You know, I know, JohnT knows it.

No, it's one of the perceived philosophical differences between the two parties. Imran knows it, I know it, Che knows it, Ming knows it, but you apparently don't.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by JohnT

Imran knows it, I know it, Che knows it, Ming knows it, but you apparently don't.

Mmm, you could start up a band, call yourselves 'The True Perceivers'.

Who gets to be grouchy lead guitarist who attacks the amps ?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Frankychan
They fail to mention that the cost of living here only adds to the burden. High taxes, high COL.....ah, it might be paradise but it's expensive as a mofo to live here.

You forget to mention that, to balance out the high cost of living, Hawaiian employers pay lower salaries.

[pchang]

Republicans are for big business, but so are Democrats.

[MRT144]

and thus the problem with the current state of politics.

[Odin]

Neither party favors the little man, both favor thier client special intrest groups over the common person. The Democrats used to be for the little man to some extent when the unions were powerful, but that ended when the DLC took control of the party and turned it into Republican-lite.

[TCO]

Comrade Don Camillo!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Then how would you generalize the differences between the parties?

The GOP wants to deregulate business and regulate personal behavior.

The DP wants to regulate business and deregulate personal behavior.

Both like handing money to big business.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by pchang
Republicans are for big business, but so are Democrats.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That's right, there were a couple of scandals forty or fifty years ago, weren't there. I compliment you on your great memory.

Um no. There are unions that steal pension money to this day. The government just brough suit agains the IUIIW for doing that to their workers.

Unions need a vote before they can spend money.

And when the big say to vote one way... it gets done. You think Hoffa with the Teamsters didn't get his way when he wanted? Come on!

I'm trying to figure how how the Teachers' Union is a front for the mob.

Ever hear of the Teamsters?

Yeah, I hear people all the time complaining about those blasted overpaid school teachers. BTW: "reform" of what?!? Teachers are some of the hardest working, most underpaid professions around.

Any reform! Such as firing bad teachers. Test teachers so they know what they are teaching. The states that have given teachers the same test they give kids find that the kids do better on them! How is that acceptable? Tenure has ruined education in this country and the Teachers Union won't give it up.

We spend how much for education? And we get less than proper value.

Laying of American in order to export their jobs to countries like Haiti with child labor or to China with prison labor benefits the common man...how again?

The consumer gets cheaper goods and better goods. Tariffs eventually destroyed cities like Flint and Detroit, when people were willing to pay thousands more for better cars. The American auto industry is just recovering. Because of tariffs we got deathtraps like the Ford Pinto.

Remind me again of how the common man benefitted from Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, Lincoln Savings & Loan, etc.?

Remind me how they benefit from the Teachers' Unions blocking any reform of the system so that their kids don't get the education they deserve? Remind me how they benefit from peace of **** cars protected by high tariffs? Remind me how they benefit from jacking up the prices of better foriegn goods?

[KrazyHorse]

The problem isn't the US' education system; it's that Americans are stupid and lazy.

[Odin]

Just because the teacher's unions are scummy, doesn't mean all unions are bad, BAM.