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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (504508)	8/13/2009 1:03:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575399

"Of course my state also pays more in federal taxes than it gets in return." So does mine. Your point?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (504508)	8/13/2009 1:52:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575399

Ted, > Meanwhile you all don't pay state income taxes and keep your sales taxes low while poaching industry from blue states. You don't pay state income taxes, either. Must be nice to live in the same state where Bill Gates made his billions. I'm from a blue state. I probably pay higher income and sales taxes than all you guys and probably just as much in property taxes thanks to inflated real estate prices. Of course my state also pays more in federal taxes than it gets in return. That's not the point I am making. We all pay the same income tax rate depending on our salaries. Those of us in some states are paying more into the federal pot then we are getting back. CA is one, WA state is another.....TX, MN, NY and FLA are still more. Meanwhile states like Arkansas are getting more than they put in. That's fine.......that's what you do in a community....the more fortunate help the less fortunate. However, asshole Ray doesn't want to help the less fortunate. He lives in Arkansas and takes advantage of CA's largesse and WA State's largesse etc but when its his turn to put out, he says no. Please explain to me why, in hell, I should put up with that sh*t and let the status quo continue? Yet no left-winger wants to listen to what I have to say. Maybe all this whining about "blue states" and "red states" means jack. Maybe you and all the other liberals are the crybabies here. At least I can understand if you bust a vein. Maybe Alghieri too. But the others? We're listening......as long as you don't talk crap like you have been doing.