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Post #76,330
by boxley
1/23/03 10:41:19 AM
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New I find it hard to beleive that the price of gas in HK
is due to cost. Other countries buy on the same spot market from the same countries we do. The cost of gas at the pumps is due to our population refusing to accept the criminally high taxes imposed by other nations on their subjects.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]

You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
Post #76,592
by Ashton
1/23/03 11:47:54 PM
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New Yeah, criminal all right -
Pissed away on health care even for the dregs, schools which kick our ass - and resulting generally fewer despicable acts of violence -- which the people with no hope tend to ramp up, as the toffs begin to flaunt their haul.

(Why.. they coulda spent it for all new nukes! like US.)

Funny idea of a 'criminal' voted-for taxation, all right.


Ashton
Post #76,594
by boxley
1/23/03 11:50:48 PM
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New taxes of 7 to 8 times value is criminal
and encourages civil disobedience of bad laws, prohibition comes to mind.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]

You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
Post #76,811
by a6l6e6x
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1/24/03 7:13:30 PM
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New Re: prohibition
A major difference is that you can make your own liquor but not your own gasoline. On the other hand, one similarity is the occurrence of [link|http://www.indianexpress.com/fe/daily/19990409/fma09006.html|smuggling].
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
Post #76,871
by Ashton
1/25/03 6:06:27 AM
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New Nothing 'immoral' in that -
A society makes all kinds of laws and statutes to 'encourage' the direction of change. The sin-taxes fare the worst, as cheating on those is OK by the folk-consensus.

Using gas taxes to repair infrastructure, subsidize other services to all -- makes just as much sense as making evryone buy a tenth of a nuke. And in those countries mentioned: if the populace didn't Like It - they could change it.

Here - we'd rather have our juvenile car-fetish subsidized by all - rather than vice versa. And it shows.


Ashton
     Smiley's creator speaks - (rcareaga) - (24) - Jan. 22, 2003, 09:38:53 PM EST
         Smiley has an apt turn of phrase - (boxley) - (20) - Jan. 22, 2003, 09:46:54 PM EST
             Re: Smiley has an apt turn of phrase - (deSitter) - (19) - Jan. 22, 2003, 10:09:03 PM EST
                 oops got gelt mixed up with welt -NT - (boxley) - Jan. 22, 2003, 10:20:04 PM EST
                 Re: Smiley has an apt turn of phrase - (rcareaga) - (17) - Jan. 22, 2003, 10:36:37 PM EST
                     The depth of that observation is lost on too many - (dmarker) - (8) - Jan. 22, 2003, 11:35:38 PM EST
                         Nit - (boxley) - (6) - Jan. 22, 2003, 11:41:51 PM EST
                             Adjustment - (dmarker) - (5) - Jan. 23, 2003, 01:47:35 AM EST
                                 I find it hard to beleive that the price of gas in HK - (boxley) - (4) - Jan. 23, 2003, 10:41:19 AM EST
                                     Yeah, criminal all right - - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 23, 2003, 11:47:54 PM EST
                                         taxes of 7 to 8 times value is criminal - (boxley) - (2) - Jan. 23, 2003, 11:50:48 PM EST
                                             Re: prohibition - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 24, 2003, 07:13:30 PM EST
                                             Nothing 'immoral' in that - - (Ashton) - Jan. 25, 2003, 06:06:27 AM EST
                         Field / Ground - (Ashton) - Jan. 23, 2003, 05:46:08 AM EST
                     OmiGawd.. Debbie Does Dallas _|_ IWE Does Wittgenstein - (Ashton) - (7) - Jan. 23, 2003, 05:08:45 AM EST
                         Re: OmiGawd.. Debbie Does Dallas _|_ IWE Does Wittgenstein - (rcareaga) - (6) - Jan. 23, 2003, 10:05:43 AM EST
                             Dude, you a DLI'er? - (screamer) - (2) - Jan. 23, 2003, 01:28:24 PM EST
                                 Re: Dude, you a DLI'er? - (rcareaga) - (1) - Jan. 23, 2003, 04:21:54 PM EST
                                     Santa Cruz? -NT - (screamer) - Jan. 24, 2003, 11:34:22 AM EST
                             Ah.. clearer. - (Ashton) - (2) - Jan. 23, 2003, 11:22:02 PM EST
                                 Not one shred of evidence - (mhuber) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2003, 02:24:58 AM EST
                                     How regularly we forget the Bard... - (Ashton) - Jan. 27, 2003, 03:52:13 AM EST
         Re: Smiley's creator speaks - (deSitter) - Jan. 22, 2003, 10:00:18 PM EST
         Richard Cohen's OpEd response. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 23, 2003, 11:06:59 AM EST
         It hasn't been a complete transformation. - (Brandioch) - Jan. 23, 2003, 02:32:04 PM EST

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