So did you get lucky, Greg?

Post #389,439 by a6l6e6x 5/14/14 9:35:42 AM Reply	So did you get lucky, Greg? GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Officials say a computer glitch is responsible for 73 Grand Rapids residents getting two income tax refund checks from the city instead of one. Link: http://www.charlotte...e-double-tax.html But, to begin with, city income taxes suck! Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #389,445 by gcareaga 5/14/14 12:11:00 PM Reply	Commuter tax I used to live in Ann Arbor and work in that festering shit hole called Detroit. I had to pay city income tax there even though I lived 43 miles away. I never saw evidence that a single cent of my municipal taxes went toward maintaining infrastructure.
Post #389,449 by drook 5/14/14 1:36:04 PM Reply	It did ... a single cent -- Drew
Post #389,450 by mmoffitt 5/14/14 1:53:38 PM Reply	That was g's penny? I thought that was total from all.
Post #389,458 by malraux 5/14/14 5:34:18 PM Reply	Related: This happened on Monday: https://plus.google....posts/eXiUgeyCTAQ Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #389,459 by Ashton 5/14/14 6:34:21 PM Reply	Jackpot: the very Poster Child for crumbling infrastructure!
Post #389,654 by drook 5/20/14 4:25:41 PM Reply	And this happened sometime during the past week or so http://dkime.com/ima...40520_161525.jpeg From the back of our office. -- Drew
Post #389,463 by dmcarls 5/14/14 11:17:28 PM Reply	Look upon my works ye mighty, and depair! I turned down a job there recently, wonder why. http://www.bing.com/...detroit&FORM=IGRE Nothing beside remains....
Post #389,466 by drook 5/14/14 11:57:36 PM Reply	Mind boggling -- Drew
Post #389,468 by Ashton 5/15/14 2:03:39 AM Reply	I see there's a Barry St. and that it would likely take the entire funds of a medium-size normal town, just to raze and haul away [to Where?] all that debris. Eeerie the slide-show: premonitions of the dis-USA, should even one more Repo take both Houses and/or The Prez. Probably too, that tragedy would kill lots of things worldwide (not just our bombs..) in that the oil would flow copiously, further enriching the 0.001% (only a few of those shot/maimed/pied? as the others furnish their island estates, evacuate, gloat and golf. Is inculcated-intransigence incurable? (as with 8 Years of the Shogunate.) How do we 'imagine' some poor working-sod in a fly-over State ..voting-in another Repo? Surely this is a dream all shall awake-from. Tomorrow?
Post #389,476 by mmoffitt 5/15/14 10:14:11 AM Reply	It's not just the Repos. It's the multi-nationals. The Repos are just their tools.
Post #389,477 by malraux 5/15/14 10:17:33 AM Reply	Erm... I work downtown. Downtown and midtown, other than the occasional absentee landlord, are fine. Detroit's boundaries are just too big for its tax base right now. The town center is doing much better than one might think. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #389,498 by gcareaga 5/15/14 6:40:54 PM Reply	Back in the 90s WSU and environs were a shit hole in the mid 90s. I haven't been back since. Glad things are getting better.
Post #389,499 by malraux 5/15/14 6:42:26 PM Reply	Midtown is doing quite well. Several people I work with live in Midtown and love it. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #389,465 by folkert 5/14/14 11:50:41 PM Reply	Nopers. Don't live or work in the city of GRR... Oh well... perhaps I'll be winning the Power Ball tonight. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #389,473 by Another Scott 5/15/14 6:33:20 AM Reply	You too? ;-)
Post #389,488 by Ashton 5/15/14 4:18:10 PM Reply	Think the Cosmos should make me a winner.. Good Test: see if I put money-where-mouth-is. Eh? Are ya Listenin, Cthulhu??
Post #389,492 by Another Scott 5/15/14 4:40:37 PM Reply	:-)
Post #389,511 by dmcarls 5/15/14 10:56:05 PM Reply	Are ya Listenin, Cthulhu?? Be careful what you wish for... First, there was this.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust Then, this! http://www.imdb.com/.../?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Post #389,547 by Ashton 5/17/14 5:29:56 AM Reply	Ah yess.. Raquel Welch as Lust.. Love Bedazzled! But when yer dealin with creepy guys (whose fun is: opening new LPs/scratching same and resealing..) Ya gots to get yer syntax just Right or you end up like Stanley. I think I prefer Manfred, seeking the divine Astarte in the _Underworld. Lord Byron for words; Robert Schumann for music and oldest plot in the world. Perfect.

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