Comments on: You are collectively my “It’s Complicated” http://behnnie.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/you-are-collectively-my-its-complicated/ "Variety is the soul of pleasure." A. Behn Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: behnnie http://behnnie.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/you-are-collectively-my-its-complicated/#comment-90 behnnie Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:36:13 +0000 http://behnnie.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-90 *pffft* Cleeeeearly you've never seen the resorts available at St. Kitts! Ghastly. Actually-- with the crap job the government seems to do no matter how much of our money it takes, I'm hesitant to see it take SIX of my dollars, let alone SIX HUNDRED. *shudders* Though at this point I'm so deep in the hole I probably wouldn't even notice it was gone. :P As for the fire and the ferrets and the balls-- my plan is to get a job and then bring home two ferrets from either the Milwaukee shelter or the one up by Appleton. Hooray ferrets! I'm so excited!! :D I'll have to throw a "Check It Out-- Ferrets!" party, of course, and you and Jenna are so invited. ;) Don't bother penciling anything in on your calendars just yet, though. That "get a job" part seems to be a rather long time in coming... *pffft* Cleeeeearly you’ve never seen the resorts available at St. Kitts! Ghastly.

Actually– with the crap job the government seems to do no matter how much of our money it takes, I’m hesitant to see it take SIX of my dollars, let alone SIX HUNDRED. *shudders*

Though at this point I’m so deep in the hole I probably wouldn’t even notice it was gone. :P

As for the fire and the ferrets and the balls– my plan is to get a job and then bring home two ferrets from either the Milwaukee shelter or the one up by Appleton. Hooray ferrets! I’m so excited!! :D I’ll have to throw a “Check It Out– Ferrets!” party, of course, and you and Jenna are so invited. ;)

Don’t bother penciling anything in on your calendars just yet, though. That “get a job” part seems to be a rather long time in coming…

]]> By: legoucheviolin http://behnnie.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/you-are-collectively-my-its-complicated/#comment-89 legoucheviolin Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:18:50 +0000 http://behnnie.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-89 i finally got a chance to check out the funny stuff (loved great balls of fire) and some of the not so funny stuff - was actually pissed off enough by "bar stool economics" to post to it. frankly i get pretty sick of rich bastards whining about how much they pay in taxes. at 60K a year a 1% tax increase for someone like me would cost me $600 dollars a year (and the reverse in terms of a tax break) - meanwhile if Biff the rich guy making 60M a year got a 1% tax increase it would cost him $600,000 - let's say he's already paying something stupid like 50% in taxes (which, by the way he isn't) - at a 51% tax rate he would still clear 29.4 MILLION DOLLARS - poor widdle rich guy - whereas I might have cut back on going out to dinner occasionally - the poor widdle rich guy might have to change which south sea island resort he's buying! Not going to, BUYING. Rich guy: "Oh Muffy! The horror! Another 1% in taxes - looks like we'll have to forego buying that resort on Antigua...we'll have to get the one on St. Kitt's instead!" Rich wife: "Oh Biff! It's all the fault of those horrible horrible democrats, they're worse than communists!" And if the gov wanted to pay for stuff it would get an additional 600 from me (drop in the bucket) but a LOT more for the rich guy. And with enough rich guys paying into stuff we could have free health care, a good (and free) educational system for everyone and freaking money left over. (If we didn't flush it down the military-industrial toilet). i finally got a chance to check out the funny stuff (loved great balls of fire) and some of the not so funny stuff – was actually pissed off enough by “bar stool economics” to post to it. frankly i get pretty sick of rich bastards whining about how much they pay in taxes. at 60K a year a 1% tax increase for someone like me would cost me $600 dollars a year (and the reverse in terms of a tax break) – meanwhile if Biff the rich guy making 60M a year got a 1% tax increase it would cost him $600,000 – let’s say he’s already paying something stupid like 50% in taxes (which, by the way he isn’t) – at a 51% tax rate he would still clear 29.4 MILLION DOLLARS – poor widdle rich guy – whereas I might have cut back on going out to dinner occasionally – the poor widdle rich guy might have to change which south sea island resort he’s buying! Not going to, BUYING.

Rich guy: “Oh Muffy! The horror! Another 1% in taxes – looks like we’ll have to forego buying that resort on Antigua…we’ll have to get the one on St. Kitt’s instead!”
Rich wife: “Oh Biff! It’s all the fault of those horrible horrible democrats, they’re worse than communists!”

And if the gov wanted to pay for stuff it would get an additional 600 from me (drop in the bucket) but a LOT more for the rich guy. And with enough rich guys paying into stuff we could have free health care, a good (and free) educational system for everyone and freaking money left over. (If we didn’t flush it down the military-industrial toilet).

]]> By: legoucheviolin http://behnnie.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/you-are-collectively-my-its-complicated/#comment-87 legoucheviolin Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:00:40 +0000 http://behnnie.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-87 i'm checking these out tonight 'cause they all look really interesting! and...um....mrs legouchviolin is in a play and i'm not and i have WAY too much free time in the evenings now...and i'm youtubepooped...and...and...yeah. i’m checking these out tonight ’cause they all look really interesting! and…um….mrs legouchviolin is in a play and i’m not and i have WAY too much free time in the evenings now…and i’m youtubepooped…and…and…yeah.

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