Hugh Conway
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Show me the stats on private versus public sector layoffs relative to their percentage of the labor force and then you'll have a case.
yawn - the demand for services is rather constant, no? Or in the next recession should we just stop having a legal system?
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Taxing people who are subject to economic realities, in order to insulate those who subsist on their taxes from the said economic realities - will only go on for so long. I suspect that simple economics will force the issue before the voters do.
Not subject to economic realities? Huh? King County had layoffs this decade!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/82930_layoffs16.shtml
http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/news/2001/061401letteremp.htm
Funny how you didn't point the finger at the one group in the public sector who could best be considering overpaid - Firemen.
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Meanwhile, the county's unionized employees receive annual cost-of-living salary adjustments and the expense of their county-supported health insurance is increasing faster than revenue. Energy costs, too, are soaring.
cost of living and health insurance! OMFG!
you want competent employees you have to pay for them. cut wages and benefits, people leave and it will end up costing you more to do less
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Now we need a plot of % of revenue spent on the military...
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2034rank.html
#173 - Iceland - 0% of GDP
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Belgium is quite the odd one - tops in taxation and liability!
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the point is the chart is incomplete. it factors in two kinds of tax. you have to include everything to get a complete picture of taxation.
shouldn't you then include the services received?
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There is something wrong with that graph, I don't think they are including Provincial tax. Moving from WA to BC would result in about a 9% increase in income tax for someone with a median salary. The sales tax is also 14% compared to 9% down here. Not sure about property taxes.
Don't bother us with the facts! Especially Hugh Conway!
You only like facts when they are wrong, eh? Provincial tax rates:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxrates-e.html
Moving from WA to California would increase your local taxes. Moving from WA to New York City doubly so because you'd then have State income tax as well as a City income tax.
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since consumption isn't mandatory consumption taxs shouldn't be included for this purpose (wage taxation dipshit!)
http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_201185_40255097_1_1_1_1,00.html
if you care.
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of course that can't be right
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Given Buckleys comments after Thompsons death:
"One can be sorry that Hunter Thompson died as he did, but not sorry, surely, that he stopped writing."
I'll further downgrade Buckley to classless pompous ass
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Don't forget the sexism and homophobia.
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tvash sees himself in me, how cute.
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Apparently she got a minor in posession of alcohol in December 2006
Seriously, WTF is she with her "parents"?
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A 14-year-old girl is being investigated for drunken driving after losing control of the Dodge Caravan she was driving on state Route 18 near Tiger Summit on Tuesday morning.
Her mother, also apparently intoxicated, was passed out in the passenger seat of the Caravan, according to State Patrol Trooper Cliff Pratt.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/354556_duikid12.html?source=mypi
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And so very untrue
true, but in matters carnal I differ to the man who wrote, err translated, the book
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sounds like your car has herpes - I reccomend sacrificing a roach to the bobcat gods
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"swiss women. cold as frogs, true mountaineers. As unfit for debauchery as any who walk the world."
-RF Burton
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le noir, le femme et le vieux
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I agree Mark. I realize the loss has hit you hard emotionally, but there's no need to get snippy.
Breaking the silence:
Monday night the REI in Issaquah was cleaned out. Every last piece of Life is Good was taken. All of the polycarbonate cocktail sets. Every last baby stroller. The horror.
No more simple words to live by
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...Valle d'osta = nicely smoggy...
Didn't have that trouble when we were there. 'course, it was in mid-April. Mebbe it gets worse in the summer?
hmmm - maybe winter inversions? Dunno - that was my impression when I dropped down from the St. Bernard. Lots of the alp valleys have smog layers now
Nice cheap wine in the Aostatal though! 
In that region - Grimentz (1 hr bus from Sion supposedly) http://www.grimentz-stjean.ch/en/Place/ is quite scenic in the traditional sense, should be some nice walking and plenty of "alpage"
Instead of stopping in St. Anton keep on going down the tracks another 2 hrs to Innsbruck. Spend the night in town then take the bus up to Stubai (regular service from the train station, bus takes 1.5ish hours in winter) - glacier walking/high alpine touring/skiing a plenty up there. The BecherHaus (www.becherhaus.com) is a half day/day climb from the lifts at Stubai.
www.postbus.at and www.oebb.at provide transport links for Austria www.sbb.ch is the swiss rail system.
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I'll know I've been gone for a long, long time when "charmingly" is the adjective that appears before the word "rude" when describing my recollections the average Bostonian...
I'm waiting for your reaction the first time someone blocks traffic and makes you miss a redlight so they could let someone travelling in the empty other direction make a left turn -
follow the yellow signs from the village, it's not exactly hard, even you could do it Climbing Panther. Every village has numerous trails, marked, with signposts that include the hiking time to pertinent destinations. The newstand in town will sell the hiking topo map of the local region.
Open Your Pockets, Seattle...
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Where do you think the Cato Institute recruits from?