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Corporations buy them up. The best possible way to transfer assets from individuals to corporations is a death tax. Corporations never have to pay them. People do. The estate tax is the corporatist dream. No doubt! I'm seeing several ranches in my area on the block right now. The for sale signs all read: 'Will Divide'. Much of it is due to the drought we are experiencing but 3-ranches I know of ar due to death of the owner and the kids have to sell to pay the tax. There's been a movement to put an end to the 'inheritance tax' but it doesn't seem to have gotten very far. Chuck

Perry is out for Perry! He's real good at covering his tracks but I believe, a good search into him would show he's bought-off. Merck comes to mind as well as Dollar General and a few others! Chuck

One thing about it... he gets to the point! Chuck

there's more than one walton kid - and even a 99% inheritance tax would still leave them all with a decent unearned fortune. yet still they whine they want more - and you pander to their whinings... So you don't think a person who has earned, aquired, and saved what was left of their income after the government took what they wanted has any right to say what becomes of that wealth after they die? You think it is ok for the government to tax the shit out of high income people and then take what's left of that already taxed wealth after the person dies? That's just fucked up, dude. Just plain fucked up. Might as well just put all industry under gov control, asign each person a job for life, then the gov can give each person what the gove thinks they need to live on. What I don't like about the inheritance tax is, it's so high, I'm seeing ranches sold-off by descendants to pay the tax. Instead of family ranches and farms staying in the family, they usually wind-up in the hands of land speculators and pasture land and farm land is suddenly 'housing developements'! Chuck

I'll never eat salad again. It'd be about the same as putting anchovies in salad! Chuck

We're free enough to let anyone who doesn't like it here to allow them to GTFO. Free enough? How 'bout 'spoiled'? Like Merle Haggard said; "If, you don't love it... leave it!" I remember when the "America - love it or leave it" slogan was current during the Vietnam War protest days. I've always thought it was one of the stupider political slogans of American discourse; one that made conservatives look like silly caricatures. In a free, democratic society, we have just as much right - indeed, duty! - to try to improve our country by constructively criticizing our government and society, as we do to improve the kids we raise when we reprimand them for doing stupid, irresponsible shit and tell them how to properly behave themselves. I, for one, am sick to death of criticism of the government, or criticism of social conditions that need improvement, being slandered as "un-American" or "tearing the country down", etc., whether by Merle Haggard, Richard Nixon, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich or anyone else. I am sick of it too. Like you said, it's just a slogan from a by gone era. I put that out there, a bit tongue-in-cheek. What I get tired of is people complaining about our government and not doing something about it. We keep voting into office the very causes of many of our problems. We don't press them to really do their jobs the way they were meant to be done. Just wanted to add... Just from my own observation, it appears to me that we in this country are spoiled and wasteful. We spread the word to 'NOT' litter yet, I've seen people throw trash out their window while their vehicle bore a 'Don't Litter' bumper sticker. Yup! I gave the guy's license number with veh. description to the Sheriff. We 'expect' everything yet give-back little. We tend to have an 'It's all about me!' attitude. We stretch our rights to the breaking point. We demand respect but don't 'earn' respect. So-on and so-on. If, folks would open their eyes and 'really' look around them, they might see things a bit differently. Chuck

That's what I thought! Chuck

If and when I ever get sick, my wife thinks I'm a freak because I want sex. Chuck

We're free enough to let anyone who doesn't like it here to allow them to GTFO. Free enough? How 'bout 'spoiled'? Like Merle Haggard said; "If, you don't love it... leave it!" Chuck

Sam Walton's idea was to sell only American made goods. The kids took over when he passed away and went totally Chinese products. I cannot stand going to a Wal-Mart. You get run-over or crashed into. People tear-up the aisles and kids run around like it's a playground. Like you said, when Sam was running it, it was a good place to buy. Chuck

Just bein' good ol' boys! Chuck

...or 4Q Chuck

Seen on the back of a DZ miniRV DILLIGAF That acronym seems to have gained a good deal of popularity here in the forums lately! YHNIHLIC! Chuck

Yes. Which brings us back to the original issue. He is not a criminal. He was judged insane. He is now (perhaps in the process of) being judged no longer insane. Should he enjoy the franchise. I would say yes BUT the question at hand is: should he have enjoyed the franchise whilst judged insane? I think not. Rocket thinks so. It is not an easy question. Yes, that is a tough decision to make. Hmmmm... Chuck

I tried to tell him! Chuck

That's good, you do! F.U.B.A.R. is pretty strong in regard to our country. Seems as though, too many give a shit about too many inconsequential things. As in OWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chuck

In Hinckley's case, since he is 'cured', he should now graduate to the penitentiary! Chuck Of course not. He was judged not guilty. Thank you. I stand corrected. Chuck

He's not "cured" any more than a diabetic is "cured" by insulin and diet. However, he was adjudged "not guilty." Why are you thinking that a person adjudged "not guilty" should be put in the penitentiary? Oops! Looks like I messed-up, there. Having not really followed Hinckley over the years, I called that one wrong. I wasn't aware, he was found 'not guilty'. Was that a 'not guilty by reason of insanity'? thanks for enlightening me. Chuck

Even gear-up warning tones Oops... Wow... just fucking WOW More money than brains! You got that right! There seems to be a lot of that going around. Chuck

As 'young people', we get riled-up over things we feel are so important. We march, protest and in general spread the word. Then, in our later years we just don't give a shit. Chuck

In Hinckley's case, since he is 'cured', he should now graduate to the penitentiary! Chuck

I think we all would love to see the look on the Myth Busters guys faces when the realization came to them. Their rectal sphincters probably slammed shut, audibly. Couldn't drive a straight-pin up em' with a sledge hammer! I did think it was cool of Jeremy and Adam to go the peoples houses and apologise! Chuck A Golden Straight pin......!!! That's right! Chuck

I think we all would love to see the look on the Myth Busters guys faces when the realization came to them. Their rectal sphincters probably slammed shut, audibly. Couldn't drive a straight-pin up em' with a sledge hammer! I did think it was cool of Jeremy and Adam to go the peoples houses and apologise! Chuck

to sum up... the ball took a bad hop! Chuck

Oh yeah...... There will be a wide loop thrown to include all depths of pockets. Make no mistake about that. Let's see... the foundry that forged the cannonball, the steel mill where the steel for the cannonball came from. the manufacturer of the cannon, the gunpowder plant, the automobile manufacturers who made the vehicles to get them to the bomb range and... Yup! Gotchya'. Chuck