Monday, January 23, 2006

Taxes...and ramblings

Ramble ramble ramble...

Why is it that some states can get by with no income tax and balance a budget and others tax you to death and still don't have enough money to pay the sanitation engineers.

Did you know the Congress and the House agreed almost unanimously on a topic of vote a month ago. It was to give themselves a raise. Thats right, they talk about tax increases and budget deficits, but when it comes to the pockets of a political leader, $ is number 1.

All government officials should take a pay cut. There is no reason why the mayor of Cleveland should be making more than the Governor of NH.

Take Ohio's restaurant tax. Its 8% on Eat-in orders 0% on take-out or to go. Lower that to 4.5% on all orders and the state could more than triple its business. (all the Drive-thru stores and people "saying to go" just to get a better price.

more later...

3 comments:

Jennifer said...

people saying "to go" pay less tax? sweet!
i totally agree w. the whole taxes thing!

Unknown said...

I agree, Jim. Did you know that in our city you cannot park on a residential street between 9-4 on weekdays? If your driveway is full, the law does not apply to you though. How dumb!

Jennifer said...

really, dawn? so if you want to park on the road, you can just pick a part of the street that has lots of full driveways and park outside of THEIR house???