Saturday letters
Readers weigh in on taxes in today’s letters to the editor.
Pick of the day: Awaiting divorce, redneck style
Re: “One nation — divisible,” Nov. 25 commentary on splitting red states from blue:
I second the noble idea of bringing to fruition President Obama’s dream of dividing America. Since we reds will finally be free of the federal government, its taxes, regulations and other interferences with our rights, we’ll do very well.
Finally, we’ll have the capital to build charter schools, pave pot-holed interstates, build a military supported by the people it protects, and be even more charitable to the truly needy and unfortunate.
While the blues get Charlie Rangel, Bernie Madoff (he’ll be pardoned, right?), Eliot Spitzer, Eric Holder and Anthony Weiner, can we have Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Al Gore? They’ll give us all the entertainment we need as we sit around clinging to our guns (in case you decide to annex our religion, upon which the principles of America were founded) and sipping our sour mash whiskey (as we wean ourselves from chardonnay).
These towers of leadership and legality will help us turn away from Hollywood’s finest. We rednecks marvel at the innate ability of uneducated comedians to tell us we just don’t get the “new” America. Editorial constraints prevent me continuing, but it’s a start, right?
JON L. PALMER
HUDDLESTON
December 1, 2012 - 4:50 AM
Finally, we’ll have the capital to build charter schools, pave pot-holed interstates, build a military supported by the people it protects, and be even more charitable to the truly needy and unfortunate.
Of course you will. All you’ll have to do is to increase your taxes by 30% to make up for the excess you are getting back in federaql funds over the amount your state pays in so that you can pay for theses bennies. Good luck with that. Sayoonnara.
That was just hilarious! I suppose he thinks the red states will just leave their poor, working poor, disabled, and uneducated behind? Good luck with that.
I can only figure; “arriverderci”….(?)!
As opppsed to “Sayoonara” (sic)?
Would really like to know. Very curious.
#1 “All you’ll have to do is to increase your taxes by 30% to make up for the excess you are getting back in federaql funds over the amount your state pays in so that you can pay for theses bennies.”
All? Or just those already carrying the bulk of the tax burden?
As to the implied paying more than taking in arguement (of some states) once again, this is debunked by per-capita consideration.
(RTEB) “Waiting for Godot”, Samuel Beckett.
(It’s good to be the King), all of them, regardless of the size or direction of one’s “realm”, and Mel Brooks.