Posted on 01/23/2007 8:58:21 AM PST by John Jorsett
The tea destroyed was contained in three ships, lying near each other at what was called at that time Griffin's wharf, and were surrounded by armed ships of war, the commanders of which had publicly declared that if the rebels, as they were pleased to style the Bostonians, should not withdraw their opposition to the landing of the tea before a certain day, the 17th day of December, 1773, they should on that day force it on shore
Hey, those illegal aliens in the state have a high cost of living. SOMEONE has to support them in the manner to which they have become accustomed! [NO SARCASM!!!!!!]
"This should come as no surprise in a state unfriendly to entrepreneurship, and which deploys a punitive tax structure..."
Much like the US government.
Taxifornia. Run by socialists for socialists.
And the Californians all appear to have moved here to Texas.
Cubans own Florida, Mexicans own California and idiots live in Seattle.
And Colorado where they vote for democrats who are now implementing the same policies they fled.
They couldn't vote on their leaders. We can.
Don't worry, they would NEVER try to drag along there liberal views on land use, gun control, taxation and homosexual activity and inflict them on Texas. Just ask Colorado how easily California Marxists blend in...
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I think California, with its tourist industry, illegal aliens, and others who really don't pay the state income tax, is ripe for a universal sales tax of 10% and abolish all the other taxes.
I'm seriously considering bailing out of California and Texas is one of our leading candidates. But rest assured, I haven't let whatever is in the water out here influence me and don't plan on bringing any of it with me.
Come to Texas. I did it and will never go back.
My nephew, while at his first job after College living in apartments and working in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, continued to get some of his mail sent to his mom's apartment in New York City for three years and did not exchange his NY Drivers license for either NJ or PA. Although he did not get to his mom's apartment often (his fiancee lived in Connecticut), the mail and his unexpired driver's license was grounds enough (from NY's point of view) to claim he had full-time residency in New York during the entire period.
In spite of his employer's testimony, having paid taxes to New Jesrey and Pennsylvania, and his rent receipts from there, New York State charged him with three years of unpaid state income taxes, and they won the court case to collect it as well. Federal courts are very lenient at allowing states to make whatever basis they want to claim "full time residency" and enforce it at will.
Nope. We're getting a bunch of them here in the Peoples' Soviet of Washington.
Readily identified by their driving.
I've heard that from other Texans.
Sadly, for all that I leave tomorrow for a week in Dallas, it's all business with no time to look around.
Run, don't walk.
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