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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (45768)	11/25/2008 4:37:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

p.s. - I caught a bit of talk of the autos today and I think it was the woman who headed up HP (and did badly) who was saying Michigan state was partly to fault because of their tax policy, that they should be more like Alabama. If I could have reached thru the tv for her throat... wait wait... reached thru with my callllllllllllm voice and said wtf? tho another woman set her a tad straight, without however explaining why alabama is not a state to immulate. It just isn't. love it for many reasons, would die for it... however... You mean Carly Fiorina......the woman who ran HP into the ground and got a $45 million parachute for the privilege? That woman? She's another Sarah Palin. I wouldn't even listen to her......it will just confuse and anger. our state legislature is yet again taking up trying to stop taxing food. the white dems are finally getting on board. only the black dems have supported that in that past. They tax food like carrots or hamburg? Isn't that unusual? we suck. we pay in the range of 175,000 dollars for every car job created here. yet we tax food and won't raise property taxes as that upsets people with big houses and lots of land. $175000 for each person put to work. part of that is for training cause too many of our workers can't pass reading and writing tests that foreign countries expect. the worker here is a joke to foreign companies. they come because we give it all away for free. the land, the roads, the sewage, the whole shebang. The way these state inducements to a company work.......the one you make the offer to say like a BMW makes out like a bandit and the state loses big time. Where the state is supposed to make money is with the ancillary industry like suppliers who are drawn to the state because of the big fish you just landed. In theory, that is supposed to increase the amount of commercial real estate under assessment, resulting in an increase in tax revenues. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way. if it is humanly possible, or there is some drug i can drink that makes it possible, i really will go into the tv next time some ass holds Alabama up as what they want the rest of the nation to be. not cause we don't have decent people... cause we have poorly educated people, poorly paid people, people who die young for lack of healthcare and suffer too long in life for the lack of it, etc. don't think i need to tell you this... but their point is they do want the rest of the country to be Alabama... whipped serfs proud just to make a dollar a day and still scared the bossman might take the job to a country where he can pay a penny a day. Not to worry......the rest of us have no interest in becoming Down Home Alabama. ;-)