ummh, HUH forgot the HillaMonster. That too equals Taxation. Who answers the phone at 3AM?
The TaxMan

Yes, Texas loses. That damn Texas ‘two-step’ was like a drunken bore at Gilley’s near last call.

PS to pot shot partisans on this low cloud cover Monday: Anyone elected in November=taxation because for several years (ask emeritus Wick) we had a see-no-evil spending bill congress sending earmarked baskets to a ‘sign ‘em all’ White House. We’re in gigantic debt in a financial ‘downturn’ with bills to pay for, among other things, financial-investment banking institutional ‘free market’ play day on Ritalin. We pay for a war borrowing from China and India and then use tax monies to bail out the so-called ‘mortgage crisis meltdown’ and voila…. the Visa is maxed out.

Don’t blame the three potential presidential messengers. They’re gonna be bailing water big time. You don’t have to have drinks with David Johnson to read these tea leaves. Happy ‘I’m gusessing Dow below 10 before fall’ Monday.

There are smarter ways to tax people, Brian. Increasing taxes on those who hire employees will obviously cause those businesses to operate on a tighter budget. The number one expense at most companies? Payroll. How do you decrease your number one expense? Less payroll. So, this magical plan that will give us middle to lower class a tax break, all while taxing the rich more, will backfire and mean more taxes for all of us.

And for the record, we shouldn’t get “free healthcare” or “subsidized gasoline.” People should work for money, not have it given to them by the government. It’s a GOVERNMENT, not your parents.

On a happier note, I booked a round-trip flight to Houston on Southwest a few years back. Apparently we developed hydraulic trouble. Fire trucks lining the runway greeted our return and the whole 9 yrds. About a month later I received a voucher for a free one-way ticket to anywhere Southwest flew. I told them no thanks, I’d had enough of their one way flights.