Posted on 04/26/2006 4:42:34 AM PDT by unionblue83
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Heck, psychologists and other faux-scientific therapy-mongers do no productive work and get government subsidies.
BFLR.
But church property is also exempt from the tax base.
In places like LA, where illegal immigrant enabler Mahoney operates, that would be a significant amount of money if they were taxed at current market value.
The Left has won in Canada. I don't know why....maybe the US stopped supporting its values, maybe Canada did. The Conservatives are poised for a majority in the next government, however, there is not a youth under 25 who votes Conservative. I am 40 and I see ominous trends in our country. Take your blinkers off folks, the success of the Conservative movement is more than Hillary winning or losing, its about other parts of the free world as well. If America can't withstand the left, how can your allies? And, like it or not, we all need allies. I am probably the only person in a 1000 miles who knows about jveritas or the connections associated with McCarthy. Is there noone on this board who can a(e)ffect change in the media? Sorry about the rant but I am really pissed off right now.
If comedians were at all balanced in their approach, there is enough material in this book to keep Jon Stewart in business for a year. Another year's worth of material could come from "zero-tolerance" cases at schools around the country. These comedians could increase their potential audiences substantially. But they won't.
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The Kennedys domiciled Merchandize Mart, with more than $600 million, on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Has Ted Kennedy ever been to Fiji? I don’t think there’s any record that he has. But they picked Fiji because it avoids IRS scrutiny, the sort that you would get if you domiciled the trust in the United States.
The reality today is that Ted Kennedy receives money from trusts ...designed to avoid paying the inheritance tax.
What does this actually mean in practical terms?
Ted Kennedy supports an inheritance tax of 49%... Now, what rate did the Kennedys pay?
The Kennedys have transferred $300 million... from one generation to the other, and out of that, they have paid $132,000 in taxes, which is nowhere near 49%? Actually it’s .004 percent.
The Kennedys, like a lot of other people on the left, love the idea of paying taxes for other people. When it comes to themselves, they’re not so interested.
Nancy Pelosi, her commitment to organized labor essentially ends when it comes to her own businesses. Nancy Pelosi and her husband own a Napa Valley vineyard...
They grow very expensive grapes for very expensive wines, and they don’t use members of the United Farm Workers to pick their grapes.
This winner of the Cesar Chavez award hires only non-union contractors.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband also own a chain of restaurants and a hotel in Napa Valley, California. Despite her public commitment to the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, you better not join that union and work for the Pelosis, because you will end up getting fired.
Another big issue is the environment. She always makes statements that, with us, the environment is not an issue, it’s an ethic, it’s a value. Which is a nice way of saying, “I love the environment, but not when it comes to our own businesses.”
in 1996, Nancy Pelosi and her husband and fewer than 10 other partners wanted to build a golf course and country club outside of San Jose, California, called the CordeValle Country Club.
They never followed the environmental regulations. The ponds were never built for these endangered species. For seven years, they also failed to file any of the environmental reports required by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission.
A 2004 County Environmental Compliance Report found all kinds of environmental problems on the Pelosis’ golf course.
What does that actually mean in practical terms? Did they turn around and build this habitat and comply?
No, they solved the problem the old-fashioned way: they hired lobbyists and they got the environmental regulations changed.
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