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To: mware

We ate at a Maid Rite for the first time in at least 40years. I had forgotten what their specialty was. OK with mustard and pickles.
Where do we send the tip. I tipped the waitress $5 at Maid-Rite. My wife says I over tip,,but the people working in that kind of place are usually living pay check to pay check. They are competition for jobs with illegals..especially in health care, like this lady in Iowa.
Hillary will only make this ladies life worse and she started with the visit.
Where do we send the tip?
Let’s make this lady famous for a year.


28 posted on 11/08/2007 7:33:46 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: Oldexpat

I’ll have to see if I can find some sort of way of getting money to her. I dont want to post her address or anything like that. Maybe her place of employment.


32 posted on 11/08/2007 7:37:04 AM PST by mware (Americans in armchairs....doing the job of the media.)
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To: Oldexpat

I’d send her a tip.....but only WITH THIS STORY....

Explaining Taxation

When explained like this, it is much easier to understand our current tax code.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

*The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
* The fifth would pay $1
* The sixth would pay $3
* The seventh would pay $7
* The eighth would pay $12
* The ninth would pay $18
*The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59

So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20.”

Dinner for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share?”

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to eat their meal. So, the restaurant owner suggested:

* The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings)
* The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings)
* The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings)
* The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings)
* The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings)
* The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings... the least proportionate savings)
Each of the six paying customers was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings: “I only got a dollar out of the $20,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got $10!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than me!”

“That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”

As a consequence, the first nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start eating overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY......


83 posted on 11/08/2007 8:36:12 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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