Posted on 04/28/2018 2:27:00 PM PDT by nwrep
You amoral types end up going to hell.
Disgusting.
They couldn’t bring themselves to mention heterosexual couples. Just the perverted ones.
I don’t blame you for taking them, you did nothing wrong.
But it is a financially unsound system and it is not moral for public employees to live like nobility while workers in the private sector have to pay for their own retirement and also that of the public employee.
The system is going to imblode anyway.
The problem is most people confuse charity with socialism.
Heck within reason, I think the Government should help people who truly need help as well as private charity.
But Socialism is about control and not charity. If you don’t own the fruits of your Labor then you are really just a slave.
Recently I heard an interesting discussion comparing capitalism and socialism. After listening to it and making notes, it confirmed something I have been thinking for some time. It started with my liking of the saying, “give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach him to fish he eats for life.” The Christian impulse to help others is important in our culture, but has been perverted by totalitarian Communism. Making people dependent on the state for all their safety and comfort is weakening. On the other hand the basic goal of Capitalism is controlling production and amassing as much profit as possible destroys the social contract. Our political parties seem to be in major crisis. I am thinking the perhaps we need a new party—the Entrepreneurs Party. Such a party would have the basic goal of using the creative spirit to create something of value to other people, and using profits to help self and family. But once one has a reasonable level of comfort, then using one’s business and energy to teach and help others build and be creative as well. The end goal being a comfortable life where one also takes pleasure in aiding the growth and comfortable life of others. The end goal of amassing huge amounts of money does not seem to make very many happy super rich people.
On the subject of super expensive cities. I notice several trends. It seems that in some cities big national developers promote legislation to push poorer people out and increase the rate of gentrification. One way of doing this is by increasing property taxes 10% a year and more even if no improvements have been made on one’s home, but based on one or two sales of super renovated properties. If you live in such a city, fight back, demand that unimproved property only be taxed using the inflation rate which is typically 2 or 3%. In one city, I know, failure to pay property tax on time causes a 12% penalty in the first late month. In surrounding jurisdictions the one month late rate is only 1.5 to 2%. I could go on, but you get the idea, watch for such tricks by big developers in your own area. This harms many other types of businesses as workers have to live way out in the suburbs where homes are cheaper. Incidentally, regarding NY City prices, property taxes in New Jersey are higher than in most other places.
About on a par with Texas, I'd say.
They forgot to point out racial makeup though. Unless it wasn’t what they wanted to see.
Had to read them a couple times, those two didn’t look right when I scanned over it.
When janitors are paid $270K a year—how can the middle class be middle class for less than $300K?
A little research shows this is all probably BS. I did a quick search on banking jobs in San Francisco, Most pay moderate salaries not like the "$150K" reported: Here is the link. Check it out for yourself:
I’m awaiting what a True Scotsman believes.
And he didn't WRITE it!
Yet we get REALLY upset when illegal aliens border invaders take advantage of US laws that they had no hand in writing.
Really?
I think you mean 'fair'.
Nice pic.
Being in my stroller on the Brooklyn promenade is, literally, the first thing I remember.
But; if I supply my labor to rearrange these very same materials into a certain pattern; I'll re-pay taxes on them yearly until I croak.
Don’t you renters be so smug; thinking that YOU are avoiding property taxes.
Your landlord figures his cost into your rent; taxes and all.
ALLbusinesses pay NO taxes; as they are rolled into what the final customer pays.
Ain’t it grand?
Did the price of widgets go up that are used in what you bought? Yep; you just paid for them.
Did the cost of labor go up due to a strike? Yep; you pay for that; too.
Did the gummint just raise ‘taxes’ on the company because of Green Laws? Yep; you just...
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