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Originally posted by neo96
Yeah someone has no valid arguement here.
Originally posted by neo96
Blah California has more people on welfare than the entire population of Indiana
Productive my arse.
Originally posted by FallenWun
I have no clue what you are talking about. What am I number 9 in? Where are you getting this? What does New Jersey have to do with it? I am lost.
Originally posted by apacheman
reply to post by macman
If you're not in the US you aren't paying taxes anyway, so it's none of your business in the first place.
If you're serving militarily overseas (using your avatar as a guide), then you are being paid out my tax dollars for doing stuff I heartily disapprove of, like killing folks neither of us knows for reasons that can't be articulated well, blowing up crap that I'll have to pay to rebuild.
I find the hypocrisy of your position a stench in my nostrils.
You dare to complain about constructive endeavors that would employ Americans and build useful infrastructure while your contribution to humanity and our nation is killing in an unnecessary war and destroying other people's infrastructure?
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by FallenWun
I have no clue what you are talking about. What am I number 9 in? Where are you getting this? What does New Jersey have to do with it? I am lost.
You (and other posters) had mentioned that California is subsidising other states through its Federal taxes as you do not receive the same that you put in. California ranks 9th, New Jersey has the good fortune of being first, or last as I see it.
Originally posted by macman
But, you want other states to foot the bill.
That single position is the defining statement of you.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Would there be a way to snake around it?
Originally posted by FallenWun
I am not in California as I stated.
Thus the confusion.
Originally posted by neo96
The Los Angeles Times editorial board almost got the big picture on the state's high-speed rail plan this week. The editors decried the sadly predictable results of sinking vast amounts of money into government boondoggles, with consequences including political decisions on routing and location, spiraling costs, and bad management.
California's high-speed rail project has lots of problems, but its most basic is purpose. The project proposes to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with an express train that will take two hours and 40 minutes from beginning to end. That sounds good in comparison to the drive, which is approximately six-and-a-half hours, when there is no traffic, or the existing Amtrak service, which takes almost 10 hours to go from Union Station to Moscone Center — and uses two buses.
Originally posted by xuenchen
California should be happy and gleeful that they pay federal tax to support others and get less "cash back".
After all, they voted along that platform.
U.S. Senators;
Barbara Boxer (D)
Diane Feinstein (D)
2008 election;
61% for Obama (D)
34 house seats are Dems.
19 House seats are Repub.
The Dems love it when you do your duty to mankind......
Especially when the duty is truly a "duty" as in tax to pay somebody else
But, it is just not fair because it doesn't directly benefit them.
It is only good when it benefits who they see fit.