esh dov ets
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you don't know what you are talking about.
Universal Basic Income; 'bout time or batshit crazy?
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sandhill larry
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That must be a popular program. When I "voluntarily" pay my income tax, I make the check out to the US Treasury. I think they may be the source of the larges you are enjoying. But I've taken my share over the years. If fact, it was cost sharing on planted pines. Got the trees free and 50 bucks an acre to help cover the planting. Thank you Uncle Sugar.
sandhill larry
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I have one of those in my hiking cook set. A good piece of gear. Well worth the weight when it comes to toasting wraps.
sandhill larry
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Guys, I've waded through 23 pages of this thread just because I figured you could all use a musical interlude.
Make good money, 5 dollars a day. Made anymore, I'd move away.
Make good money, 5 dollars a day. Made anymore, I'd move away.
sandhill larry
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There is already real cost savings in this country geared toward saving Social Security. Smokers are the biggest savers, but drinkers and fast food eaters help too. A study in one of the little Scandinavian countries found that smokers saved 4.5B yearly on the retirement plan. Image with our larger population the savings we are getting. So when you see those guys huddled outside doorways in the freezing cold, or blazing heat with a cig, shake their hand and thank them for doing their part. Anyone eating their veggies and exercising, those SOB's are going to cost us a fortune.
esh dov ets
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Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold --
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end --
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.
Feeling alone --
the army's up the road
salvation a la mode and
a cup of tea.
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold --
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end --
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.
Feeling alone --
the army's up the road
salvation a la mode and
a cup of tea.
esh dov ets
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abalonehx
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Man, EXACTLY. These are the bastards living beyond 65-70. They clog up the system as they age until
their skin is falling off the bone. 85, 95 , 100. Kept alive on all the damn meds.
Now, we smokers and drinkers will die early, but we get spat on from society at large for our vices.
Even though our vices are taxed to the hilt to keep the entire system afloat!
ttystikk
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Everyone should get it. The rich just earn enough to tax it back from them. Different and less complex approach, same outcome.
esh dov ets
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sandhill larry
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I have a Rush loving cousin who talks about the "poor" all the time. His favorite saying is without beer, tobacco and the lottery, we would never get taxes from the poor. While he doesn't smoke or dip, he does drink and buy scratch offs, so he is chipping in, even though he's pretty well off.
sandhill larry
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Not all of them. My Mamma was all the bad things old people are, but she was no Republican. She was a Democrat back when they were the racists party, and she wasn't going to change parties just because Kennedy and Johnson moved the party away from it's roots. She did live to almost 89 though, collecting SS as well as half of Daddy's VA disability. She made more not working than I made working.
esh dov ets
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esh dov ets
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I determine what my time is worth. If you aren't willing to pay me that I simply won't work for you.
Justin-case
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Yeah you did, especially when you set you partners up to get busted.
Lucky Luke
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I dont think i could get paid what i think im worth an hr, I have to settle for as much as i can.
There are plenty of people making it on minimum wage already. If even one person can do it, everyone should be able to.