The Emporia Gazette

Candidate favors cutting taxes, trying new ideas

You have my vote reddog!!!!!!

February 17, 2011 at 10:43 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Possum holds residents hostage

"Then again, you're still working and are still eligible for pay raises."

Not if the company freezes pay. That and cutting hours and benefits.

"I hope you've not gone without a pay raise in three years."

Coming up to three years but not quite. More like 2 3/4.

My income has declined steadily the last three years. That is with four mouths to feed including my big mouth. Things have gotten so bad we had to eat our pet possum, Chaps.

November 13, 2010 at 11:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Possum holds residents hostage

The only COLA raise I've gotten since getting out of the Army was the price of cola being raised in the vending machine at work. As a matter of fact I have brought home less money the last three years than previous years.

November 13, 2010 at 9:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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open-eyes

Yeah the only reason that the liberal dems couldn't push through everything they wanted with hrc was because of the blue dog dems and the rest of the dems painted the blue dogs as traitors to the cause that is why I say that it's hillarious to say that the dems are center right. There are moderates in the dem party but to say that the party as a whole is center right is just ..... um .... not true. There are moderates in the repub party also but it seems that people can paint that whole party as a bunch of right wing nuts but they say you can't paint the dems as a bunch of libs because of the left wing nuts in their party. I know I often painte the dem party as all liberal but I only do it for effect, in reality I acknowledge and appreciate the blue dogs. They are the anchor that keeps that party from going off into left field.

November 12, 2010 at 2:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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"Could you also please point out some examples of my 'Hilarious is the fact that in your hurry to quantify a group as either conservative or liberal you fail to investigate whether what I said makes any sense at all. '?"

I think he was talking to me with that one.

November 12, 2010 at 12:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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"democrats as a whole have moved in the moderate or even right center"

That is hilarious! ROFL

November 12, 2010 at 10:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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Overseas profits don't have to be produced overseas. Produce it here sell it overseas, that is how other countries do it, from what I've read. We need to make it easier and more profitable for production in this country and easier and more profitable to sell globally. If the companies know that they aren't going to have to pay taxes on overseas sales the price can come down making our products more attractive to prospective buyers because of that lower cost. I agree that if the companies had to move production else where to benefit from the tax break it would be disastrous but I don't think that is the case.

November 11, 2010 at 9:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Should landowners have to connect to city sewers?

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November 11, 2010 at 9:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

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"We'll both be in a witness protection program when this is all over, so look us up," Simpson quipped to reporters. Bowles said: "We're not asking anybody to vote for this plan. This is a starting point."

First of all, how do you look someone up if they are in a witness protection program? That would kinda defeat the purpose wouldn't it? These guys need to work on their jokes a little more or better yet give them up all together.

Seriously though, this is just a starting point and it will probably be whittled down to basically nothing and the money being spent to do this will just be more wasteful spending. I hope this isn't the case but it seems to always turn out that way.

"The Social Security proposal would ....... reducing annual increases." Yes.

"The plan would also raise the regular Social Security retirement age" Yes.

"Better-off beneficiaries would receive smaller Social Security payments than those in lower earning brackets" Pay more in, get less out? I don't know about that.

"Increasing the gas tax by 15 cents a gallon" That's a real kick in the tenders. It will probably happen though.

"A three-year freeze in the pay of most federal employees and a 10 percent cut in the federal work force" Yes and no. Freeze pay but do it for 5 -10 years. I hate to see any workforce get cut right now.

"Eliminating all congressional pet projects, known as earmarks" DUH!! Of course!! Yes!!

"Their plan also calls for a major overhaul of both the individual income tax and the corporate tax systems with the idea of lowering overall tax rates, simplifying the Tax Code and broadening the taxpayer base" This could be good or bad depending on how it's done.

"For individuals and families, the proposal would eliminate a host of popular tax credits and deductions" Bad timing on this, people need all the help they can get right now.

"The deduction that companies take for providing health insurance to their employees would be eliminated" That's ok they'll(the companies) just reduce the workforce to make up that money. Not good.

"the corporate income tax rate would be reduced from 35 percent to 26 percent, and the U.S. would stop taxing overseas profits of U.S.-based multinational corporations" From what I've read this will help us compete globally since no other country in the world taxes overseas profit.

November 11, 2010 at 9:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Possum holds residents hostage

"imarun_r2 (anonymous) says...

Seriously? Why the heck is this posted as a HEADLINE...and even worse, more ppl are commenting on this crap than real news!"

I'm sure I don't know.

Seriously R. Folks

November 11, 2010 at 8:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )