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To: gg cox who wrote (23466)	10/3/2007 4:56:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217705

This is where amazing geniuses like me can come up with great ideas: <<<I'm quite happy to pay for things I buy and use. For example, roads>> Good,herd member, you pay taxes now to build and use them.Metering the use of same by GPS, a dopey idea.> The common herd can't work out what I'm about to explain, so I'll write it really slowly. I have paid to build some roads. True. As have other tax payers. We have built said roads. We are still paying income tax and tax on our spending. We could start charging for use of roads and stop paying the other tax. We could start charging for use of roads and stop paying the other tax. Here is where my great free-thinking brilliance kicks in [that first part of the idea is simple and only needs repeating once while being typed slowly]. Traffic jams would cease to exist. That would be a huge boost to productivity and efficiency in general. Even those not allowed to think, who just comply with the Kremlin Klutz Kult [KKK], should be able to figure out that no traffic jams is a GOOD thing. But, here's the real supersonic level of creative genius. Some KKK members will whine that poor people wouldn't be able to afford to go on the roads, which would then be used just by the rich. Give said poor people a preferential tax cut so they end up with the same amount of money even if they use the roads. Of course, said poor people never did contribute to road construction because they never paid much at all in taxes, but they block the road with their low value road driving - uninsured Mexican illegal invaders who are bad drivers get to block the road as much as a high-value road construction engineer trying to get to a job, or a truck full of goods trying to get from the factory to the customers, or a bus full of poor people avoiding paying the tolls, or an ambulance trying to get somebody to hospital. The poor people could then decide whether to keep the money for something such as buying nutritious food for their offspring, or waste it getting in a traffic jam. Either way, they will have the same amount of money. Here's another good point. A low-paid person would be paying less tax AND they could choose to avoid the tolls by moving closer to work, riding a bicycle, walking, catching a bus, changing jobs, travel times, or something. So they would end up with MORE money if tolls were introduced. Those who choose to travel as normal, would end up with the same. <Do you know how to change a 6 volt tractor over to 12 volt system? I need help Maurice. > Yes, that's easy. You click on Google and hire an electrical person who knows how to do it. If you do a search for "6 volt tractor conversion to 12 volt" you'll probably get a bunch of merchants advertising. Don't ask the KKK. They won't be any help. They'll send you to Siberia for wanting to do something that's not standard. What's even better than all the rest, is that I won't patent that brilliant invention, so you can enjoy better travel and lower taxes without even having to pay me. Nobless oblige, Mqurice the Amazing

To: gg cox who wrote (23466)	10/4/2007 5:58:05 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217705

gg, What kind of tractor are you trying to convert to 12V? I'm guessing it is an old English made Ford or Ferguson? If so it probably has Lucas electrics with positive earth. It is pretty easy to do. Just stick a 12V generator or alternator with the proper regulator on it. You will have to change the coil or put a ballast resistor in series with it. The old 6V starter will spin like heck and if you are careful it might last for a while. But you really need a 12V starter or have that one rewound for 12V, especially as I think you are up in cold Canada and that is tough on starters anyway. Should be a fun project. <GRIN> Slagle