Posted on 04/12/2011 12:55:13 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
Haven’t we all had that funny feeling about new taxes being foisted on us?
And what better “wealth” to tax than internet transactions?
So, the packages fly to the customers’ homes by balloon, good to know.
well put.
I don’t think Brady has a statewide future after losing the unlosable race, even though it was stolen, it’s the perception.
I’ll throw out a name though, our young Lieutenant Governor in exile Jason Plummer.
Just like in 2008 the combine will work hard to make sure he gets a pass just like Kirk got in the GOP primary. We need someone real to have the stones to defy them and run anyway.
We really needed him to be elevated to rat leader to raise his vulnerability.
I hope that Rep. Roskam will run for the U.S. Senate, in 2014. Two of the last three times that Illinois elected a new U.S. senator, that candidate was a state legislator. Those two were Barack Obama and Peter Fitzgerald. The exception was Mark Kirk. Since Roskam has been a state senator and congressman, from the Chicago area, that experience would help him win the primary and general elections.
I agree that State Sen. Brady shouldn’t run, statewide, but I hope that he’ll run for Congress, in 2012. In 2000, when then-State Rep. Tim Johnson ran for Congress, he promised that he wouldn’t be a congressmen for more than three terms. He later broke his promise, and, in 2010, he won his sixth term. In 2012, he probably won’t run, and Brady could win his seat.
Sounds good. I wouldn’t mind seeing Brady primary Johnson if Johnson does run. Johnson is not conservative enough for a safe GOP seat.
Of course 1 GOP will be eliminated. Maybe Johnson’s, but I hear that Aaron Schock’s seat is the considered by many to be easiest to draw out, there’s talk of tossing him and Bobby Schilling in the same district.
Robert Borkish, one of my facebook friends who lives in Rockford, predicted that Reps. Dold (my congressman) and Roskam would be in the same district. If I was a democrat state legislator, I’d want to eliminate the most conservative congressman, Roskam, by giving parts of his district to Schakowsky, Quigley, and Davis. They could give Maine and Niles Townships to Dold, instead of Schakowsky. They could give Waukegan Township to Walsh, instead of Dold. If that happens, Dold and Walsh would probably lose.
No, smarta$$, but the road taxes are paid by the shipping companies like FedEx or UPS already - that is not what the sales taxes are for, at least not in California. So there is still no good reason to charge sales taxes on Internet sales.
There are plenty of good reasons, they just don’t happen to meet your approval, so, rather than returning a personal insult, I’ll close with we’ll have to agree to disagree.
And if you are going to make a smarta$$ remark, don't take it as a "personal insult" when someone calls you on it.
You referred to me as smartass, which is the personal insult. Nice try though.
Here in MA we have everything shipped to our family and friends in NH and pick it up whenever we happen to be visiting. Oh, and of course we also do all of our major purchases there as well, saving the odious MA sales tax.
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