> CP wrote --
>> Even if you're not officially in charge, you know it'll make your job easier
> in the long run, eh?
> Anything to make my life easier I'm all for.  :)

I'm with you on thaty one!

I prefer to be efficient ("intelligently lazy")

> I once read the difference between a politician and a statesman is the
> politician looks to the next election, the statesman to the next generation.

There you go -- & businessowners are like this, too -- there are true  entrepreneurs, & then there are venture capitalists.. .

> I am currently double dipping.  I am on SS and working.

It's not "doubledipping" per se, if you're within the defined caps & other  parameters.

They go after us with a vewnmgrerance for collecting earned moneyt along with  government m,omney,. but these same gungho hunters, retire to do the same,  working 2 or more government fluff jobs simultaneously, with a 6-figure "golden parachute" for each.

> With Social Security one can earn extra money with a cap, go over that
> and the feds take it.

Samewith our types of income assistance (social programs)

> I was talking with some of the cops at work the other day and said that
> "Big Daddy" (my nickname for the owner, whom they know, who is a cop in a
> nearby town) is looking out for us by paying very little so this doesn't
> happen.  :)
> I'm not sure what the cap is but I'm under it.

Oh, me, too, but I declare when asked to. . .

I don't pay taxes -- I collect them -- much better, from my point of view. . .

I pay some taxes; just not income taxes. . .

>> So you get taxed by akll 3 levels of goverbment?!
> And not just that.
> Say you buy a car or house.  You are taxed first for the car/house.  Then
> each year you are taxed on it again as personal property.

I thought the big dea;l in the US was they can't tax wealth (property)?!

Oh, that's only for the wealthy, not for average Joes, eh?

> Plus in WV a car is considered a luxury, and there is a luxury tax.

Bloody hell!

Even here, your first car is considered a necessity, not a luxury, unless it's  worth over $80K or some thing. . .

Even people on welfare can own a home & car, but I  think total value at used  selling prices must be under $100K.

> Cities in WV are not allowed to have a city tax, per se.
> They get around this by having "business and occupation" taxes.  These
> are passed on to the consumer and such things as a gas or electric bill will
> list this, that and the other tax (fed/state) and list the B&O tax as well.

They have as many loopholes as they need to do as they please. . 

Them & their wealthy buddies. . .

> Oh, and WV also taxes one unemployment money when drawn on.  Money one
> has already been taxed on as well.

Ditto here -- ludicrous, but established fact now.

My brother had evidencde that the income tax & fecdferal sales taxes were  illegasl, so he refused to pay them when he could (like only paying the  perecentage of gas price that didn't include federal direct taxes); several gas statiojns called the co9ps & my brother would stand his grond & ask them under  which statute they were going to arrest him for & were they sure they had a  legal sdtanding to do so -- btw, here's a copy of our Constitution, by which  all laws must comply.

I believe your federal income tax is also illegal, but under a defintion of  "person" & they are not taxing according to legally allowable methods of  defining you.

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