"Bill Graham" <w...@comcast.net> wrote in message

> Sid9 wrote:
>> "Bill Graham" <w...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>> Sid9 wrote:
>>>> "Bill Graham" <w...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>>>> BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/3/2012 12:14 AM, Bill Graham wrote:
>>>>>>> Sid9 wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Bill Graham" <w...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>> BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/1/2012 9:41 PM, jim wrote:

>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Graham wrote:

>>>>>>>>>>>> jim" <"sjedgingN0Sp wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Graham wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If I own a company, and the company earns a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> profit, then I have no problem being taxed on that profit.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but to be taqxed twice is unfair and regressive,

>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you owned a company - you wouldn't be taxed twice.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> So now you have revealed that you don't own a company.

>>>>>>>>>>>> But I do. I own parts of many different companies. I have
>>>>>>>>>>>> been purdchasing shares of companies all of my working
>>>>>>>>>>>> life. And, during that time, they have all had to pay taxes
>>>>>>>>>>>> on their profits, and then, when they distributed those
>>>>>>>>>>>> profits to me and the other shareholders (owners) they
>>>>>>>>>>>> forced them to pay taxes again, on the same profit, when
>>>>>>>>>>>> there was no third party in between. - A clear case of
>>>>>>>>>>>> double taxation.

>>>>>>>>>>> And when you pay your chauffeur it is triple taxation.

>>>>>>>>>> NO but when you buy gas and pay a gas tax, then drive on a
>>>>>>>>>> toll road.... you have been taxed double for the same road or
>>>>>>>>>> for a road you didn't even use.

>>>>>>>>> Yes, and back East, where there is an epidemic of galloping
>>>>>>>>> liberalism, they have many toll roads. This is the dumbest Idea
>>>>>>>>> that the liberals have ever come up with. All the cars and
>>>>>>>>> trucks have to stop to pay the toll, and then re-accelerate
>>>>>>>>> back up to speed, wasting millions of gallons of
>>>>>>>>> gasoline/diesel fuel every year. And these are the,"global
>>>>>>>>> warming" pushers!

>>>>>>>> You're behind the times.
>>>>>>>> We drive through at highway speed with remote devices that
>>>>>>>> charge the toll to our account.
>>>>>>>> Like HW Bush who had never seen a supermarket scanner you have
>>>>>>>> not seen an electronic toll transponder

>>>>>>> That doesn't work for my wife's son who is a long distance hauler
>>>>>>> for Allied. He spent 80,000 dollars on diesel fuel last year, and
>>>>>>> he still has to stop and pay all those tools out of pocket when
>>>>>>> he drives back East. Not everyone is a commuter who can pay their
>>>>>>> tolls on a monthly basis. Face it. Its a dumb system. A far more
>>>>>>> intelligent system is to tax the fuel at the pump. But the
>>>>>>> government has to have it both ways. They are too stupid to add
>>>>>>> the cfost of both and bring it to a bottom line, so they assume
>>>>>>> everyone else is that stupid too. God save us from the
>>>>>>> liberals.....

>>>>>> Why is there still a Federal rubber tax on tires?

>>>>> The same reason why all those farm subsidies still exist, and why
>>>>> the oil companies still get a tax credit for oil exploration.
>>>>> Because the government reps are lazy bastards who just get wined
>>>>> and dined by lobbiests in Washington instead of doing their
>>>>> jobs....

>>>> Tax on tire rubber helps pay for roads.

>>> Yes, but that's like taxing shoes to pay for the sidewalks. Its
>>> basically dumb, and comes from 19th century thinking......

>> It's not wrong at all.
>> It may be old fashioned but rubber usage is a measure of road usage.
>> You're wrong again

> How was I wrong the first time? Rubber usage varies with temperature, so
> those who live in the South pay more taxes. But this is only one of many
> things that makes it wrong. Not everyone who uses tires drives on the
> public roads. some opersate farm machinery on their own property. Some fly
> airplanes. some drive on non rubber tires. some operate wheelchairs and
> bicycles. It is outdated thinking on many levels.