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public policy theory discovers bicycles
On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 6:27:34 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:43:44 -0500, AMuzi wrote: On 7/26/2018 7:19 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:30:12 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-24 17:10, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 3:59:35 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-24 06:05, AMuzi wrote: Section #114 he https://transportation.house.gov/upl..._section_..pdf Which is roughly the level of current motor vehicle tire tax, a fixture of Federal budgets since 1918. That'll create lots of jobs. In Thailand and China. ... I'll hold my breath for the Skateboard Wheel Tax. How about a shoe tax? And a CO2 tax per cubic-inch of lung volume. If not paid some government goon will tape mouth and nose shut. You want all that infrastructure including bike paths and lanes. Somebody's got to pay for it. An excise tax on tires will not skip foreign manufactured goods. Sellers of those goods in the US have to pay the tax, and it gets passed on to you in the price -- like the alcohol and tobacco taxes. If you import tires directly from Thailand, it gets collected by CBP along with custom duty and the other border add-ons like the Merchandise Processing Fee. YOU'RE SCREWED! Donald Trump is personally screwing you. The liberal snowflakes love bike tires and would not screw you -- except in Oregon where the ONLY consumer product with a separate sales tax is a bicycle. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...e_only_bi.html $15 smackers. But no tire tax. You can even open-carry your tires in Oregon. The good news is that the posted discussion draft isn't even a bill yet. The commie liberals from Oregon will put the brakes on the tire tax. https://blumenauer.house.gov/congressional-bike-caucus Call me Earl. I actually know Earl and will tell him to stand up to the bike tire tax! No bike tire tax!! (continue chanting). Maybe we can get them to tax something else, like wood pellets or analog and mixed signal circuit designs. No new taxes. We pay about 10x the amount of property tax compared to where we lived before. That finances bike path among other things and it's enough. Give the state more "revenue" and they will quickly squander that on fat pensions and union boondoggles. O.K., so where does the money come from? Trees? Property taxes typically don't fund transportation infrastructure, unless you guys passed a bond for bike paths. I doubt that has happened, but who knows -- see if it is a line item on your property tax statement. In your area, funding probably comes from extorting developers, user fees, parking meters, allocated funds from the state, bake sales, church rummage sales and telethons. The proposed tax on bike tires is a federal excise tax, and that tax would go into the Highway Trust Fund along with gas taxes and car battery taxes, car tire taxes, etc. The Highway Trust Fund may fund certain "transportation alternatives" involving bicycle infrastructure, but those TAs are generally considered frivolous by the Republican administration -- so don't expect your tire tax money to be building a bike path near you anytime soon.. DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path. Watching the TdF makes me want to move to France . . . to one of those beautiful little towns where it is not clear what anyone does for a living.. No strip malls. No I-80. Just picturesque monasteries and winding roads with no traffic -- except for bicycles and support vehicles, and maybe some people dressed up like the devil. I can't imagine why you would give up the Bavarian Alps -- Alphorn and lederhosen -- for Cameron Park. I don't disagree with you overall but a bicycle tire excise tax could be viewed as catch up since the non-highway portion of the Highway Trust Fund has grown like Topsy on HGO. Nothing on heaven or earth is going to rid that fund of it's real problems, viz., -Original engineering spec of the Interstate system was 50 year life. Now that every contractor has achieved enlightenment, we're below 12 years life on average and dropping. -'Prevailing wage', which is higher than the prevailing wage. Davis-Bacon has its roots in the discovery in New York in 1931 that black labor did a better job in construction for lower wages. Shamefully, it's still law. -not only kiddie bicycle paths but HTF also diverts into financially indefensible urban bus and train systems which are so badly run they make Beirut look like Zurich. -Denny The Pervert Hastert rerouted an Interstate when he was Speaker to access land in central Illinois he bought cheap and flipped profitably after the route changed. Not an isolated case by any means. Wazza matter you? Don't you think that an individual who works hard should be compensated? And politics is an exhausting game. You gotta raise the original stake; run for election .. and win.. and then satisy all of your financial supporters. It's not all just sitting in back rooms and smokiing big ciggars. -I'm sure we all have our favorite examples as there are so many from which to choose. In theory taxing tires ought to mean taxing all tires. I get that. But in practice every dime allows the least among us to go out into the world and do evil in my name. Maybe you missed it but Trump financed his own campaign. beattie as usual passes around the socialist koolaid. |
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public policy theory discovers bicycles
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 9:44:25 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 9:05:48 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-27 08:38, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:52:13 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-26 17:19, jbeattie wrote: [...] ... DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path. He is not. The tax reform alone was a major success. I could not believe the barrage of project requests I received as a consultant since January this year. It just comes at the wrong time in life for me as I am trying to reduce my project load, easing towards retirement. More brewing, more riding. I'm a clear loser under the Trump tax plan which means that I am subsidizing you. Because you can't deduct the full Oregon income tax anymore? Why should the rest of the country subsidize left-leaning states in the first place? That never made sense. Are you nuts? Why should anyone pay tax on tax? The notion of paying tax on tax has rankled true conservatives for years. Conservatives hated the AMT. I can see cutting out the mortgage deduction, but making me pay tax on money I never see . . . really? This was a punish-your-enemies move. Read the tax plan -- it targets a very specific demographic for upside and downside. It is one of the retaliatory pieces of legislation I have seen. Not just misguided or expensive like much legislation, but a clear stick in the eye to middle-income blue-staters. -- Jay Beattie. So you're again taking other people's words for the tax plan instead of actually reading it yourself. The tax cuts for 2018 are straight across the board with the lower income people getting larger cuts than the higher incomes. You really get tiresome with your socialist beliefs. Especially when you are making comments that are patently false because you believe you can get away with it. |
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On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 10:04:41 AM UTC-7, duane wrote:
On 27/07/2018 11:38 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:52:13 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-26 17:19, jbeattie wrote: On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:30:12 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-24 17:10, jbeattie wrote: On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 3:59:35 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-24 06:05, AMuzi wrote: Section #114 he https://transportation.house.gov/upl...y_section_.pdf Which is roughly the level of current motor vehicle tire tax, a fixture of Federal budgets since 1918. That'll create lots of jobs. In Thailand and China. ... I'll hold my breath for the Skateboard Wheel Tax. How about a shoe tax? And a CO2 tax per cubic-inch of lung volume. If not paid some government goon will tape mouth and nose shut. You want all that infrastructure including bike paths and lanes. Somebody's got to pay for it. An excise tax on tires will not skip foreign manufactured goods. Sellers of those goods in the US have to pay the tax, and it gets passed on to you in the price -- like the alcohol and tobacco taxes. If you import tires directly from Thailand, it gets collected by CBP along with custom duty and the other border add-ons like the Merchandise Processing Fee. YOU'RE SCREWED! Donald Trump is personally screwing you. The liberal snowflakes love bike tires and would not screw you -- except in Oregon where the ONLY consumer product with a separate sales tax is a bicycle. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...e_only_bi.html $15 smackers. But no tire tax. You can even open-carry your tires in Oregon. The good news is that the posted discussion draft isn't even a bill yet. The commie liberals from Oregon will put the brakes on the tire tax. https://blumenauer.house.gov/congressional-bike-caucus Call me Earl. I actually know Earl and will tell him to stand up to the bike tire tax! No bike tire tax!! (continue chanting). Maybe we can get them to tax something else, like wood pellets or analog and mixed signal circuit designs. No new taxes. We pay about 10x the amount of property tax compared to where we lived before. That finances bike path among other things and it's enough. Give the state more "revenue" and they will quickly squander that on fat pensions and union boondoggles. O.K., so where does the money come from? Trees? Property taxes typically don't fund transportation infrastructure, unless you guys passed a bond for bike paths. I doubt that has happened, but who knows -- see if it is a line item on your property tax statement. In your area, funding probably comes from extorting developers, user fees, parking meters, allocated funds from the state, bake sales, church rummage sales and telethons. It also comes from developer fees, of course. Cities such as Folsom where leaders are smarter than elsewhere have instituted rules that traffic mitigation must include bicycle riders and pedestrians. For smaller projects the developers get away with bike lanes, for larger ones they must provide class I paths. That then spills over to neighboring communties because their leaders see all this work well. I thoroughly enjoyed the results yesterday again like I do almost every week. On my road bike. Of the 41mi trip there were, at most, 2mi on roads without bike lanes. The proposed tax on bike tires is a federal excise tax, and that tax would go into the Highway Trust Fund along with gas taxes and car battery taxes, car tire taxes, etc. The Highway Trust Fund may fund certain "transportation alternatives" involving bicycle infrastructure, but those TAs are generally considered frivolous by the Republican administration If paid for with gas taxes bike paths shall not be a priority. When a highway is built that cust off cyclists from their usual access to an area though altenatives must be provided. Mitigation is the word. ... -- so don't expect your tire tax money to be building a bike path near you anytime soon. If tax is collected from bicycle tire sales then that shall be used for bike infrastructure. ... DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path. He is not. The tax reform alone was a major success. I could not believe the barrage of project requests I received as a consultant since January this year. It just comes at the wrong time in life for me as I am trying to reduce my project load, easing towards retirement. More brewing, more riding. I'm a clear loser under the Trump tax plan which means that I am subsidizing you. Welfare queen! It will take me a year or two before I can truly game the system and get in on the pass-through boondoggle. The real shoe will drop when all the temporary cuts are reversed -- except the corporate rate -- to pay off the ballooning debt. Then you will see a huge wealth-shift to stake-holders in pass through entities, and specifically, Donald Trump. The tax plan was basically written for him. Yet another reason for buying income producing real estate and running it through a LLC. -- Jay Beattie. The shoe will drop for me soon since I will shortly be looking to cash in on those "entitlements" that I've been paying for for the last 40 years. Speaking of welfare queens... As long as they don't grab my SS money to pay the 12 billion for the farmers that they screwed with the easily won trade war that trump started. They've already moved the bar to collect and they seem to be passing bills to whittle away at it further while everyone is distracted by trump's constant noise. Another socialist that knows neither what the tariffs were for or what ensued. Too bad you people believe that if you invent something other people that actually know better will believe you. |
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On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 11:18:52 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-27 09:44, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 9:05:48 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-27 08:38, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:52:13 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-26 17:19, jbeattie wrote: [...] ... DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path. He is not. The tax reform alone was a major success. I could not believe the barrage of project requests I received as a consultant since January this year. It just comes at the wrong time in life for me as I am trying to reduce my project load, easing towards retirement. More brewing, more riding. I'm a clear loser under the Trump tax plan which means that I am subsidizing you. Because you can't deduct the full Oregon income tax anymore? Why should the rest of the country subsidize left-leaning states in the first place? That never made sense. Are you nuts? Why should anyone pay tax on tax? You don't. This would be fair: You pay x percent on you full AGI in Oregon and then xx percent to Uncle Sam. It is not Uncle Sam's fault when some states and sometimes even cities take an additional cut. People have the option to move to places where that isn't the case. ... The notion of paying tax on tax has rankled true conservatives for years. Conservatives hated the AMT. I can see cutting out the mortgage deduction, but making me pay tax on money I never see . . . really? This was a punish-your-enemies move. So please explain: Why does Oregon not let you deduct your federal tax payment to calculate what you must pay to the folks in Salem? You can deduct your federal tax payment in Oregon, although it's capped and it phases out at higher earning levels. There is no cap on deducting property tax, which is the killer. And two wrongs don't make a right! Read the tax plan -- it targets a very specific demographic for upside and downside. It is one of the retaliatory pieces of legislation I have seen. Not just misguided or expensive like much legislation, but a clear stick in the eye to middle-income blue-staters. Nope. They are free to move to states with better fiscal behavior. I live in a blue state but I fully understand that a guy in WA state (another blue state!) is not willing to subsidize me by giving me a tax break that he doesn't get and doesn't need. So how exactly is this disfavoring middle-income blue staters? Move to the blue state of WA. That fixes your problem. But you'd have to by more rain coats for cycling. Well, good point, WA is the exceptional blue state with no income tax, although it has a high sales tax. Property tax is high-ish but not insane like Portland. And I AM moving to Washington when I retire -- to a place with either the same weather (Vancouver area) or drier-but-colder weather across from Hood River. https://dz50uvolvwipn.cloudfront.net..._full-sail.jpg Drive across the bridge and shop tax free! Talk about being suckers, Oregon subsidizes the Washingtonians who shop here tax free. And with global warming, Oregon/southern Washington is the new Mediterranean -- dry, hot but not scorching. I'm actually starting to miss the rain. I'm still pondering France, but then I'd have to learn French and buy a devil suit. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 2018-07-27 12:13, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 11:18:52 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-27 09:44, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 9:05:48 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-27 08:38, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 7:52:13 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-26 17:19, jbeattie wrote: [...] ... DONALD TRUMP IS AGAIN SCREWING YOU PERSONALLY! Stealing your money and not giving you a path. He is not. The tax reform alone was a major success. I could not believe the barrage of project requests I received as a consultant since January this year. It just comes at the wrong time in life for me as I am trying to reduce my project load, easing towards retirement. More brewing, more riding. I'm a clear loser under the Trump tax plan which means that I am subsidizing you. Because you can't deduct the full Oregon income tax anymore? Why should the rest of the country subsidize left-leaning states in the first place? That never made sense. Are you nuts? Why should anyone pay tax on tax? You don't. This would be fair: You pay x percent on you full AGI in Oregon and then xx percent to Uncle Sam. It is not Uncle Sam's fault when some states and sometimes even cities take an additional cut. People have the option to move to places where that isn't the case. ... The notion of paying tax on tax has rankled true conservatives for years. Conservatives hated the AMT. I can see cutting out the mortgage deduction, but making me pay tax on money I never see . . . really? This was a punish-your-enemies move. So please explain: Why does Oregon not let you deduct your federal tax payment to calculate what you must pay to the folks in Salem? You can deduct your federal tax payment in Oregon, although it's capped and it phases out at higher earning levels. See? And why are you complaining that the Federales now do it the same way? ... There is no cap on deducting property tax, which is the killer. And two wrongs don't make a right! Read the tax plan -- it targets a very specific demographic for upside and downside. It is one of the retaliatory pieces of legislation I have seen. Not just misguided or expensive like much legislation, but a clear stick in the eye to middle-income blue-staters. Nope. They are free to move to states with better fiscal behavior. I live in a blue state but I fully understand that a guy in WA state (another blue state!) is not willing to subsidize me by giving me a tax break that he doesn't get and doesn't need. So how exactly is this disfavoring middle-income blue staters? Move to the blue state of WA. That fixes your problem. But you'd have to by more rain coats for cycling. Well, good point, WA is the exceptional blue state with no income tax, although it has a high sales tax. Property tax is high-ish but not insane like Portland. And I AM moving to Washington when I retire -- to a place with either the same weather (Vancouver area) or drier-but-colder weather across from Hood River. https://dz50uvolvwipn.cloudfront.net..._full-sail.jpg Drive across the bridge and shop tax free! Talk about being suckers, Oregon subsidizes the Washingtonians who shop here tax free. That is what people from as far as the area north of Seattle did when they were in need of pricier goods. They mounted a van on the weekend and drove down to Oregon to shop. And with global warming, Oregon/southern Washington is the new Mediterranean -- dry, hot but not scorching. I'm actually starting to miss the rain. I'm still pondering France, but then I'd have to learn French and buy a devil suit. No need for a suit in Southern France but yes, you would need to learn French. It's not that difficult though. Though as I said, as a cyclist I'd stay off the Routes Nationales and also their sections that go through small towns. Soon you may also have to learn Arabic though :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On 7/27/2018 2:50 PM, wrote:
Maybe you missed it but Trump financed his own campaign. Huh?? https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/c...s?id=N00023864 beattie as usual passes around the socialist koolaid. And what are you drinking? -- - Frank Krygowski |
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