I used to be a staunch conservative but all I see form the Right today is hatred and meanness. I truly do not want to be associated with them any longer.They are not interested in discussion. They are not interested in cooperation. The conservatives are bringing this great nation down with lies and deceit.

If we are going to succeed as a nation and a people, we need to talk to one another and listen to one another. Benjamin Franklin said “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”. That’s what our conservative brethren have lost sight of in their rush to secure their own wealth.

Don’t believe the Conservative Con.

If something is purchased for resale, the sales tax is paid upon final sale.

Imagine it were not so. Imagine buying a fence. The fence company would pay sales tax to the steel mills, then the local fence company would pay sales tax on the fence materials the fence company (fabric, top rail, line posts, terminal posts, tie wires, tension cable, tension bars, J bolts, etcetera etcetera etcetera) sells them. Then the purchaser pays sales tax on the final product.

This is only assuming a three sale sequence, but just imagine how much you would have jacked up the final price if you tagged just five percent onto the cost at each step. Nearly 15.8 percent sales tax total.

Now assume 7.5 percent at each step yields over 24 percent sales tax cumulative (since you would be paying tax on the previous tax on the previous tax…..).

It would be interesting but most would consider it unreasonable.

David for reasonable taxation–if at all

Truth be told, no matter how much income tax corporations “pay,” the fact is that they simply collect it from their customers. That makes it a hidden tax, people don’t realize they are paying. They think the corporation is paying. Since they don’t think they are paying, they figure it’s okay to spend it, not realizing it’s still coming out of their own pockets.

David for truth in taxation

When I purchase something I pay 7.5%

Corporations do not have to pay sales tax when purchasing anything for their business.

Many corporations not only do not pay federal income taxes, but they actual get federal and state “rebates”.

Finally, the simple plan. Make the corporations pay the same amount of tax as the rest of us. Problem solved. No more free ride for the corporations.

No more corporate welfare. I’m sick of it.

Good or bad, it isn’t the same. One is a limitation on the power of the Federal Government, the other is a limitation on the power of the State Government. It usually doesn’t seem that way, but in intrastate affairs, the state government is far more powerful than the Federal Government.

So the real matter to address, is one of whether or not something is a good idea and of convincing legislators of whatever you decide.

David knowing the state Senate isn’t the US Senate

Not that people are necessarily cheating when they see things differently and present it in a viewpoint with which you disagree. But, even if they did, Paul Newman would understand.

David remembering Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(finally even remembering the name)