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Amom, do you really think that is where the money is going to go? |
Yes.
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| Quote: | | where did the vending machine crap come from |
I don't know...
I get what you are saying about the payroll taxes and all that... but I distinctly remember not adding a lot to the commerce of the city of washington as a student... If there isn't any reason for regular people to go "into town" why would we think that college kids would?
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I'm strongly against this tax. I do like the conversation it sparked when Ravenstahl criticized the Universities for their four figure processing fees and what seem to be some excess add ons to tuition.
I also like where Brant went with churches paying property tax. Churches are involved in soooo many shady deals in the property and (as I"m finding out at work) the building industry. You should see the "temples" these tax exempt Hindus build around here (Monroeville).
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| ellipses wrote: | Bus... I like you... but sometimes when you say things, I hear the teacher from charlie brown  |
maybe that is why Charlie was such a puss. and we are in such a dire predicament, not only here but across this vast nation. Damn what ever happened to to people who really loved this country and went out to right the wrongs, like M.L. King, Bobby Kennedy, the Chicago Seven, ?? Now we have a nation of Charlie Browns
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That still doesn't make me know who Sal is...
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Brant
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Good point, Dick, about the colleges tacking on big charges to pad their take. But of course, they just couldn't put a $50 per student municipal services charge on there. Ohhhhh, nooooo. That would scare off prospective students. Yeah, right.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| ellipses wrote: | | Quote: | | where did the vending machine crap come from |
I don't know...
I get what you are saying about the payroll taxes and all that... but I distinctly remember not adding a lot to the commerce of the city of washington as a student... If there isn't any reason for regular people to go "into town" why would we think that college kids would? |
First, did you live at home?
Second, when a city makes it so bad to go in to town, parking meters everywhere, hiring people to enforce what is driving people away(double whammy). the very things that would make the college kids come also leave (movies, clubs, etc.) that isn't the college's fault.
Look at California, Pa. just down the road, do you hear them bitching and moaning? |
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No, I lived on campus for most of the time...
The parking meter thing was part of my comprehensive solution to WashPa
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| ellipses wrote: | | That still doesn't make me know who Sal is... |
he is the enforcer, be afraid, very afraid, he is the  boogyman and is coming for your "pot" |
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busdriver
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| dick wrote: | I'm strongly against this tax. I do like the conversation it sparked when Ravenstahl criticized the Universities for their four figure processing fees and what seem to be some excess add ons to tuition.
I also like where Brant went with churches paying property tax. Churches are involved in soooo many shady deals in the property and (as I"m finding out at work) the building industry. You should see the "temples" these tax exempt Hindus build around here (Monroeville). |
didn't he( Ravenstahl) go to W % J? |
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busdriver
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| ellipses wrote: | No, I lived on campus for most of the time...
The parking meter thing was part of my comprehensive solution to WashPa |
Yea it is 
wait a second, do you have any relatives or personal friends in any Washinton County government job? |
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busdriver
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| Brant wrote: | | Good point, Dick, about the colleges tacking on big charges to pad their take. But of course, they just couldn't put a $50 per student municipal services charge on there. Ohhhhh, nooooo. That would scare off prospective students. Yeah, right. |
why are you so hot and heavy about these having to pay taxes, brant, not your usual lines. |
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Look, W&J has taken millions of dollars worth of property off the Washington tax rolls for its benefit. It's a fairness issue.
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| amom wrote: | | busdriver wrote: |
Amom, do you really think that is where the money is going to go? |
Yes. |
Was the millions the states collected from the tobacco settlement set aside to pay for smokers croaking from lung cancer and such? or did it go into the general fund? |
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busdriver
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| Brant wrote: | | Look, W&J has taken millions of dollars worth of property off the Washington tax rolls for its benefit. It's a fairness issue. |
You have to be objective here, Brant. There are tons of "unfairness" issues we could bebate. Are there any schools across the land paying property taxes? |
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