Sooooo....if I were to get a job in a department store ....and thanks to my talent I was able to prevent losses in the tune of $100,000 dollars.... would it then be ok for me to start taking office supplies and discretionary spending money for my own personal use...trips to the spa...lunches...whatever. I mean, it is money that *I* am allowed to use...to my discretion.... and I *did* save the company thousands of dollars.... so isn't it my right?

Phred... that is not true... EIC and Child Tax Credits...both give a return when none was paid. BUT, they are for the working poor...and *I* don't have a problem with them.... I'm just sayin'...you ARE incorrect here....sorry. :D

Very cool....thank you for the info!

Again...MOST of the extremely rich....do NOT work harder and harder...

Most of my family is of the same political persuasion as I am... but for those that are not.... I have found it is best to just refrain. Of course, if they WERE to try and argue it with me I would probably have to resort to plugging my ears and screaming nahanahnahanahanhanhanahana :lol: ETA...I don't have a blog... so I'm safe! LOL

Here in WA we pay over 8.6% sales tax....and that is just in state taxes...how much more would you think we should pay...because, I gotta tell you...I think the idea of sales tax, to replace income tax, sounds INSANE! It would have to be around 30-40% to even come close!:confused:

No federal income tax? How do we pay for Interstates...our military...our border control...our government officials...schools...

Then our society would be more balanced. And I don't know if I agree that it's penalizing the successful... for a couple of reasons...a) I don't actually consider inherited fortune a matter of success.... and b) I think the folks that can afford to... have an obligation to society to pay more than those who cannot. But, then, I'm on the same point in the socio-economic-political scale as Ghandi.:lol:

Honey, when did you start posting on my board??? Oh, wait...you aren't my husband!?! :lol:

I am not talking about ALL the time.... but in cases where they made a decision KNOWING the risks of that decision.... like during a mandatory evacuation... or climbing a mountain.... or any number of other scenarios that my sleep deprived brain cannot think of at the moment...:glare: In THOSE cases....the rescue of those people...while not only being EXTREMELY dangerous for the rescuers... is also VERY expensive. Who should have to pay for that?

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I read an article in People about the family...and it showed the tattoo the Mom and some of the other family members got in remembrance of Maria... it was a picture she had started to draw the morning of her death... it was very sweet... such a tragic loss...

I think that things that really bother some people never even cross my radar....:lol:

awwww...wouldn't it be awful if they had to sell one of their half dozen mansions? Poor dears...

I hadn't seen this before....thanks for reposting the link...I fall in about the same spot as Ghandi...LOL :D