Hey Possum like to see you or anyone try to disect this.

[Possum]

Sniperchoke - 12/10/2009 6:07 PM

Possum, there are no tax deductions for sale tax, splost, property tax, Social Security tax, and inventory tax. So yes i can deduct some expenses but I believe we pay too much. That being said if I felt like our politicians did anything halfway smart with our tax dollars I wouldn't complain but their track record speaks for itself.

What type of business are you in?

 

[Sniperchoke]

Durable Medical Equipment

 

[Possum]

Sniperchoke - 12/10/2009 8:33 PM

Durable Medical Equipment

As in what, I am very close to the medical field here in Chattanooga, my wife will be in Cleveland,Ohio learning to use new xray equipement for cath lab at the hospital she works at here in Chattanooga next week. I will be a bacherlar for the week, can't wait.

 

[Possum]

Sniperchoke - 12/10/2009 6:07 PM

Possum, there are no tax deductions for sale tax, splost, property tax, Social Security tax, and inventory tax. So yes i can deduct some expenses but I believe we pay too much. That being said if I felt like our politicians did anything halfway smart with our tax dollars I wouldn't complain but their track record speaks for itself.

Property tax I pay that on my house for education, fire, and police, and etc., Sales tax, doesn't customer pay that? Social Security, we all pay and look forward to that know matter what you believe. If you break it all down you are getting out cheap. An educated work force, you do not have to watch you business 24/7. A millitary that protects your investments with blood and money. A road, airport, wiring, bridges, damns that allows you to move product. Provided with cheapest electricity you can basically find. So tell me if you had to choose, with no way to move product, a work force that could not read or write, so poor they could not be depended on to make it to work. Would you put someone on a bicycle, to move product. Put your business next to a creek so you could run a mill for electricity. What if a fire breaks out. Robbery. How in the world would you compete with developed nations with high tech infrustuctures. Inventory tax, you are going to pay a up front tax on it, but claim it as loss next year aren't you? It is all so complicated and so easily twisted I know.

Surely you are not saying you should have access to all the things that are paid for with tax payer dollars, but exclude yourself from paying your part while you profit from the very things that make you successful. That might be nice, but what if every one did that? Am I way off in my thinking here?

 

[Sniperchoke]

Even though I believe the private sector could and would do all those things better, quicker, and cheaper I would be happy to give tax dollars for infrastructure. The following are the things I don't want my tax dollars to go to first groups like Acorn that are corrupt and receive millions. Failing public schools like Detroit and DC which is a waste of money. Bridges to no where. 13 more Stealth fighters than we need. Abortion Funding. John Murtha municipal airport. Sen Byrds public library. Locally our gov't just spent 1.15 million for land for a ball field that they didn't even appraise. I could go on and on.

 

[Possum]

Just like the private sector, nothing is perfect and not everyone is going to be satisfied.

 

[Sniperchoke]

But as you know in the private sector I get to pick and choose who or what I want my money to go to. But with taxes the gov't chooses for me.

 

[Possum]

Sniperchoke - 12/11/2009 10:55 AM

But as you know in the private sector I get to pick and choose who or what I want my money to go to. But with taxes the gov't chooses for me.

Are you saying do away with gov't and let the private sector do everything. Count me in. I choose to retire and go fishing.

 

[Possum]

Possum - 12/11/2009 11:14 AM

Sniperchoke - 12/11/2009 10:55 AM

But as you know in the private sector I get to pick and choose who or what I want my money to go to. But with taxes the gov't chooses for me.

Are you saying do away with gov't and let the private sector do everything. Count me in. I choose to retire and go fishing.

By the way I think I found me a Ranger Bay boat, 23 ft, 225 optimax in Fl. Used, but new to me.

 

[Sniperchoke]

Those bay boats are nice and you can't go wrong with a Ranger with Optimax. I think you will be happy with it very versatile.

 

[Bubbakat]

Possum go look at ERICM's bay boat powered by honda. That is a nice boat. and he should turn himself in for stealing that boat. emoLaugh

 

[Buoy-Master]

outcaster - 12/10/2009 12:21 AM National parks.... socialized nature, police and fire dept's...... socialized protection, public schools......socialized education, bridges and roads.... socialized travel, US post office....socialized mail, the military... socialized armed forces, health care coverage....socialized medicine. I could go on and on with this. Some things are too important to be left up to the free market system. Greed creeps in when left un-check, as history tells us. Maybe we should have the former ceo's of AIG, GM, Chrysler, Enron (oops, he's in hell already), JP Morgan and Bear Sterns running our federal agencies. Our founding fathers got it right. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America". The "promote the general welfare" part often gets overlooked or omitted when arguing the libertarian view

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Wheres our apology at? I cant believe your posting here. </p>

 

[beetlespin]

I'm pretty sure your socialists argument isn't very sound. The free market system should dominate.

 

[Possum]

beetlespin - 12/11/2009 4:28 PM

I'm pretty sure your socialists argument isn't very sound. The free market system should dominate.

Those social programs mentioned, are aimed at supporting a free market. A free market cannot exist without stability, outcaster was just demonstrating that there are a lot of things people take for granted as far as the service the government provides. I have no idea what he has to apologize for. So does working for the government somehow make you a socailist now?

 

[beetlespin]

Nope

 

[JDK]

did you guys hear the fish are biting

 

[Possum]

Where? I froze my candy but off today around the docks, nothing.

 

[shootkrt]

SNUFFY - 12/8/2009 12:26 PM so when that 22 year old cuts his foot off with his new lawnmower......what do you do ???? Kick him over in the ditch and let him bleed to death????

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Since he started his new landscaping business he is required to carry workers comp ins. He then files a claim gets his medical bills paid and a comp check until he gets back on his feet. emoPoke emoPoke </p>

 

[tie1on]

shootkrt - 12/17/2009 1:12 AM

SNUFFY - 12/8/2009 12:26 PM so when that 22 year old cuts his foot off with his new lawnmower......what do you do ???? Kick him over in the ditch and let him bleed to death????

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Since he started his new landscaping business he is required to carry workers comp ins. He then files a claim gets his medical bills paid and a comp check until he gets back on his feet. emoPoke emoPoke </p>

Dont you mean FOOT! emoLaugh