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One ass whoop'n, last for years. From then on until they think they are big and bad again, all you have to do, is give them the look....
My daughter has had 2 spankings in her life, she is now 15 and getting that attitude again. Her future looks like we are going to have to have another board meeting, unless she straightens up and quits thinking, the world revolves around her.
According to the Tax Foundation - which looks at all taxes: property, income, alcohol, sales, etc, etc, etc - Delaware is right about average when it comes to the amount of state and local taxes paid: 23rd at 9.6% of income (New Jersey is the highest at 12.2% and Alaska is the lowest at 6.3%).
Actually you are closer to being right, although I found Delaware to be ranked 36th, 24th and 23rd. Those who live in northern Delaware also pay county taxes, which I don't. Since I make over $60,000 I do however pay the higher 6% income tax, however my property and school taxes are $479.00 for the year and 0 sales tax except on cars " of course".
Another little tidbit, to register and fully inspect a car or truck in this state costs $40.00 a year, that includes emissions. Also moving to lower Delaware my car insurance dropped $1000 per year compared to rural SE Pennsylvania and $500.00 per year compared to northern Delaware.
Consider some states surrounding Delaware where $8000.00 property taxes and up are the norm, much higher car insurance, sales taxes and close to 100 bucks a year just to register a car.
Last edited by James420; 09-21-2012 at 10:12 PM..
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Only the weak need the government to tell them how to live their lives.
Would you care to point to any time in American history or world history in which a government did not tell its citizens how to live its lives? By definition, laws instruct citizens on how they ought and must live.
Pretty sure I'd still beat my kids inside my home. Besides, I can't fathom not hitting kids. Kids need the rod of correction. Without it, they will go crazy and wreak havoc on society when they don't get what they want. That's why they turn into teenagers and adults who shoot up schools and kill their parents when things don't go their way. They have no fear of an authority figure. And I don't give a crap what some people believe. Kids need to fear some type of consequence or authority figure to behave right. Without that, your kid is basically doomed.
Well, I raised three boys, and i think I spanked each one of them maybe a dozen times, and never after they were five years old. If they did reach for the frying pan, the knife, light socket, stray dog, they would get a hand swat. If they ran out into the street, they got one swat for each step from the road, to the sidewalk, and since they wore a diaper, all it was, was a loud noise from all that padding. They may have also got a swat on the diapered butt for sassing back to mom, or any other adult. but like i said, less the n a dozens instances, and i never remember spanking any of them after five years old.
One of my brothers and two of my sisters never spanked, and their kids were disciplinary problems until they were adults. when work got out that they were coming to visit any of our relatives, the person being visited would dread it, because these kids were unruly. Even when each of them visited each other, they'd confide to me how dreadful the other's kids were. But oddly, they never complained when I or my other sister came to vist, because our children were well behaved. funny how that was, eh?
Anecdotal evidence is not conclusive... I could say the opposite, my parents never spanked us, and we were all well behaved despite it.
In short, y'all have been had again simply because you uncritically accepted the story as offered, just as people like that depend upon you to do.
You haven't provided any new information at all, and the text of the bill changes nothing that was in the linked story.
Either "any pain" means "any pain", or it doesn't. If it does, a parent could go to jail for two years for spanking a toddler. That's what the bill says.
Will it be enforced? Is that the intent of the law? I don't know - hence the question mark in the title of the OP, and the careful language in OP itself.
Last edited by WesternPilgrim; 09-22-2012 at 12:39 AM..
My sister used to be horrified that I would swat my childrens behinds once in a while when they needed it. Parroted the same nonsense I'm seeing here. Then she had her own. She has changed her view. You set limits with em when they are young you don't have these spoiled little whiners who disrespect any and all authority when they become teenagers. Most lefties were raised like that so they think that's the way to go when in reality they should have gotten a few smacks here and there to set em straight.
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