tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post3845682581909648928..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Thread drift...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-92034021207548179732010-06-17T21:50:59.159-04:002010-06-17T21:50:59.159-04:00Lewis,
Drifting along, Frederic Smetana's &qu...Lewis,<br /><br />Drifting along, Frederic Smetana's "Three Revolutionary Marches" was a rabble rousing tune in Czechoslovakia, to the point it became a capital offense to play it there. I was first exposed to the delightful ditties in the approved arrangement by Vaclav Nelhybel, in high school concert band.<br /><br />I still play the melody on recorder, waiting on red lights or the kid at Burger King - or whistling.Brad K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18378344866487206569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30444784402957960382010-06-11T09:56:00.743-04:002010-06-11T09:56:00.743-04:00"The Kennedys, for example, are very wealthy,...<i>"The Kennedys, for example, are very wealthy, and yet produce little except red tape and dead drunks, neither of which trade very well in a free market."</i><br /><br />QotD!!! Albeit a day late...<br /><br /><br /><br />tweakerSpeakerTweakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520767686388236987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77484168656676752882010-06-11T00:49:58.025-04:002010-06-11T00:49:58.025-04:00Interesting just how sour the cream an get, especi...Interesting just how sour the cream an get, especially hear in California...NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-61753517073928498362010-06-10T23:36:51.736-04:002010-06-10T23:36:51.736-04:00DirtCrashr:
Purely a random note. "Smetana&...DirtCrashr:<br /><br />Purely a random note. "Smetana" is Russian for sour cream.Hunsdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188706369004532171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23562848893716853452010-06-10T23:04:53.243-04:002010-06-10T23:04:53.243-04:00True that the Kennedys, et al, often produce very ...True that the Kennedys, et al, often produce very little themselves but their money is invested to make more money, which enterprises produce jobs for the average American.<br /><br />If that money and/or the profit from those investments goes offshore it not only hurts the tax base, it hurts the productivity of our economy and creates fewer jobs.tanksoldiernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12032376178447218262010-06-10T16:32:30.214-04:002010-06-10T16:32:30.214-04:00Oh yeh and there's sparrowhawk/macon eamil at ...Oh yeh and there's sparrowhawk/macon eamil at aol.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-91627652185017792892010-06-10T16:31:42.408-04:002010-06-10T16:31:42.408-04:00From comments on a semi-Uberpost at Kevin's so...From comments on a semi-Uberpost at Kevin's someone made a point about what Whittaker Chambers and a European once discussed: <br /><br /> "You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."<br />— Whittaker Chambers, pg. 616NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-6530788747609244122010-06-10T15:28:54.744-04:002010-06-10T15:28:54.744-04:00Just to inject some drift to this thread, pls chec...Just to inject some drift to this thread, pls check your email.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7858899095371043252010-06-10T14:26:26.050-04:002010-06-10T14:26:26.050-04:00You have to remember on income taxes, if you have ...You have to remember on income taxes, if you have an income, the libs consider you wealthy and they're determined to fix that situation.Crucishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15441911110953212619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-24959206730424207932010-06-10T14:03:09.350-04:002010-06-10T14:03:09.350-04:00Actually Kennedy-trust-owned companies produce a g...Actually Kennedy-trust-owned companies produce a great deal of useful material such as oil. That production just happens to take place very low-tax locations such as Fiji. <br /><br />The Kennedy's have never been opposed to production - they have always been opposed to sharing the income with government - even if they wrote the tax laws.Bramnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3566004042221985792010-06-10T12:59:03.384-04:002010-06-10T12:59:03.384-04:00"The Kennedys, for example, are very wealthy,...<i>"The Kennedys, for example, are very wealthy, and yet produce little except red tape and dead drunks, neither of which trade very well in a free market."</i><br /><br />Yes, but since a truly free market is only a model, both red tape and dead drunks have value. Red tape begets patronage schemes, and dead drunks are used to justify warrantless searches and asset seizure. Both are examples of profiteering that disproportionately benefit the recipients--who are already receiving compenstation--and neither are particularly useful to anyone else.TJPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-60351773920841377102010-06-10T10:10:20.808-04:002010-06-10T10:10:20.808-04:00I said they are not synonymous. Yes, there is over...I said they are not synonymous. Yes, there is overlap on the Venn diagram.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-25790921382088769642010-06-10T09:56:44.173-04:002010-06-10T09:56:44.173-04:00The investor class can be productive (funding busi...The investor class can be productive (funding businesses, crazy new ideas, buying property, inter alia).<br /><br />It is the trust fund class that is living in San Fransico, wearing sandlas, protesting that see being unproductive as some such of guilt cleanse.<br /><br />Shootin' BuddyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14434984216718019312010-06-10T09:44:44.301-04:002010-06-10T09:44:44.301-04:00Allow me a yeabut.....
Wealth in the form of '...Allow me a yeabut.....<br /><br />Wealth in the form of 'Money' is usually not left laying around. In fact, except for it's hard currency form, by definition money circulates.<br /><br />Wealthy people don't generally let their money aculumulate as MS60 St. Gaudens under the matress. It makes sleeping in after a good cocain party pretty tough. The 'money' is invested here and there and takes on a life of it's own. Income tax is only one of dozens of ways the Gubermint has of siphening wealth out of our economy and into their corruption ridden payola coffers.<br /><br />No.... the idea of wealthy people moving their 'money' offshore, and maybe themselves, as a 'going Galt' scenario is valid. The same with 'hiding' wealth. Hidden wealth is quiet, stealthy, sluggish wealth.... hard to tax simply because it doesn't surface in the economy. Again, a Galt scenario.Carteachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468700184940877315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-81104299720130658492010-06-10T09:23:08.596-04:002010-06-10T09:23:08.596-04:00Inheritance and capitol gains taxes?
GerryInheritance and capitol gains taxes?<br /><br />GerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com