Another Mob Robs Light St. 7-11 and Beats Store Owner (Baltimore: gangs, safety)

[ToneGrail]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

It doesn't matter, any such tax would be just one additional rent-a-center payment.

Well if they choose to rent an xbox instead of put food on the table that's their choice. However, the govt shouldn't have a hand in it.

All I know is that if I was poor, I would choose food over the xbox but I don't speak for anyone but myself.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by ToneGrail

Well if they choose to rent an xbox instead of put food on the table that's their choice. However, the govt shouldn't have a hand in it.

All I know is that if I was poor, I would choose food over the xbox but I don't speak for anyone but myself.

It is a society of materialism, trying to look good, greed, and all kinds of stuff going on in the culture today. Well, it might have existed years ago, but it is worse today.

[HandsUpThumbsDown]

Originally Posted by ToneGrail

Well if they choose to rent an xbox instead of put food on the table that's their choice. However, the govt shouldn't have a hand in it.

All I know is that if I was poor, I would choose food over the xbox but I don't speak for anyone but myself.

I understand what you mean, I was just saying that additional taxes on frivilous goods wouldn't really act in limiting the behaviors of those for whom a long term vision is no more distant than 12 hours.

[B.K.]

Originally Posted by mrboltonman

This is one reason I'm against it.



You would have to find a way to tax items that are bought in other countries and brought back to the US like clothes, jewelry, etc.

This tax already exists is the form of import duties and tariffs. Unfortunately, determining tax rates is difficult due to different rates being applied not only to the type and quantity of goods imported, but to the country of origin of the product. You hear a lot about the unfair advantage China has when it comes to foreign trading (virtual slave labor, almost no export duties, huge import duties, currency manipulation, etc.), but when it comes down to the U.S.A. it is all our own fault. Of the top ten (in terms of total $$) Chinese-made products imported into the U.S., only one is subject to import duty, at a whopping 5% rate. All of the rest arrive on our shores scot free.

[tickyul]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Sarcasm, eh? How do you REALLY feel about this?

No, I have come to the OTHER side.........nanny state and blame everyone else for THEIR problems.

If Ray-honnie Deathrayguns and the Cia would not have injected poison into the Urban Environement all of us would be living in paradise.

These Youth should be the ones angry........oops, they already are.

[ToneGrail]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

I understand what you mean, I was just saying that additional taxes on frivilous goods wouldn't really act in limiting the behaviors of those for whom a long term vision is no more distant than 12 hours.

At that point, if someone chooses to buy an xbox instead of food, they have no one else to blame but themselves if they go hungry.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

I understand what you mean, I was just saying that additional taxes on frivilous goods wouldn't really act in limiting the behaviors of those for whom a long term vision is no more distant than 12 hours.

Then what would you say should be done about anyone whose long term vision is no more than 12 hours?

[HandsUpThumbsDown]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Then what would you say should be done about anyone whose long term vision is no more than 12 hours?

I don't know ... that's a whole different thread.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

I don't know ... that's a whole different thread.

True, but it does apply to those attackers. What that mob did shows short term thinking, or lack there of.

[davecj]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Then what would you say should be done about anyone whose long term vision is no more than 12 hours?

Increase government incentives for them to move to HOCO or MOCO so we get the harbor back.