Comments on: More common sense out of Marin

By: suek

suek — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:25:10 +0000

Heh. Laugh for the day. Comments are funny too…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/time_to_legalize_counterfeitin.html

>>“Well, just write a check,”>>

My lame attempt at humor when asking a customer how they are paying for product is “magic card??” – a take off on Master Card, of course. One parent with an accompanying child hissed at me “Don’t say that…she already thinks money ‘grows on trees’! I sure don’t need her thinking that she can just wish for it!”

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:00:40 +0000

You remind me, suek, of my thinking when I was a little girl. I asked my parents for something and was told I couldn’t haven’t it, because there was no money to pay for it. “Well, just write a check,” I said. Liberals have never grown up. They have exactly the same disconnect as a 5 year old.

By: suek

suek — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:58:43 +0000

I think the issue to note here is that people are all in favor of “something” if “the government” pays for it, but if it’s going to hit their pocketbook directly, they reconsider. Of course, the cost will come to them eventually, but somehow, this doesn’t seem to make any impression on them, and in fact, I suppose if you were to build massive plants funded by the government, and pay for them over 20-30 years, plus tax everybody – even those who don’t use them – and take that money out as taxes in withholding each paycheck, it wouldn’t seem to be as much or as painful…but it would still be the same overall.

It does say something about the withholding tax, and something else about budgeting. If we had to pay taxes all at once, there’d be a much greater outcry about how high they are. If we – individually and personally – budgeted for various big ticket items by setting aside small amounts of money each paycheck, the cost wouldn’t be so painful. So…the government is smart, and many among the populace are foolish. And the populace proves their foolishness by not recognizing the amount they pay in taxes each year.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:23:31 +0000

do.not.understand

In many areas, you can pay extra and get “green energy” anytime you want…the utility buys the power from Ye Olde Windmill Farme, and delivers an equivalent amount to your house. No government bureaucracy is involved. Why would these counties need 20-person energy bureaucracies to do the same thing?