NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

Larry Dighera wrote:


Be that as it may, they don't move to Dubai to escape paying income
taxes they made by profiteering during time of war like Halliburton
apparently has.[1]

Good. Anyone that can escape from income taxes should get a medal.
What makes you thing government deserves any more of people's
money? They have demonstrated very poor stewardship of what they
rip off from the economy as it is.

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:



Sounds like one term should be the limit.



I like it. Anyways.. if term limits won't work
I'm open to other suggestions... HEY! How about
lets just do AWAY with them (all the lawyers while
we are at it).

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On Apr 26, 1:37 pm, kontiki wrote:

. On top of that, the BIGGEST benefactor
odf rising gas prices IS government. Federal and state governments
make more off a gallon gass through taxes than the oil companies do.

Huh? I see tax stickers on a per gallon basis. This is not affected
by the price itself.

Unless of course the price gets high and the use of gas therefore
drops, in which case the tax collected also decreases.
IIRC, this was actually the case during the '73 gas crunch.

The taxes are likely higher than the profit.

By about 3-4:1

The oil companies don't
have to pay for the roads.
If you've followed the thread, the governemtn doesn't either. The majority
of fuel taxes, both state and federal, goes into the general fund, and that
which does get spent on roads goes for pork barell project.

I've seen a mile of one lane on a four lane road cost well over $2 million
and take nearly a year to merely resurface. Recall the recent Alaska "Bridge
to Nowhere", or all the pork projects in Senator whatshisface in West
Virginia, the mass transit fiascos all over the country...

I'm sure others can offer similar "horror stories".

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On Apr 26, 6:32 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

There is also a huge change in the definition of "starter". Once upon
a time, it was under 1,000 sf, had electricity and gas, a washer in
the laundry, one bathroom, and perhaps an attached carport. Now it's
wired like a computer business,
,,,
has AC (but is not any better
insulated than in 1950),

Really?


--
Matt Barrow
Performace Homes, LLC.
Colorado Springs, CO

"Sylvain" wrote in message
t...
wrote:

The nice thing is that it has a very decent sized back yard.
Which is exactly what I was looking for,

The "market" says people prefer smaller yards, as they don't want the
maintenance. No, that is predominanate in larger metro areas.

When land costs are $100K per acre and up, only the custom homes are going
to have larger lots. Another funny item is having four or five bedrooms that
are 8x9 except for the master suite.

except that it is difficult
to find, everything on the market (either to buy or rent) strives to
be exactly the opposite: tiny/no backyard, as many built square feet as
possible (you know, for the 'formal dining room', the
'imposing hallway', the 'vaulted ceiling', the 'three cars garage' which
can fit three massive SUVs with room to spare, and all that crap museum
space that nobody really use except to impress each others -- or to
store vast amount of junk); I mean is it really what people want or
what they think they want because of massive advertising/tv brain washing?

Big yards are not desired because kids today typically play INDOORS.

Open space gives a less clastrophobic sensation. As for "junk", recall the
adaage that one mans junk is another mans treasure.

or am I a dying breed?

Not necessarily, but you might want to consider a custom home since you so
detest what your neighbors prefer.

The most homesI build on a ance is five, typically four...and the
overwhelming majority of what we build costs less than $160K at 1500sf.


--
Matt Barrow
Performace Homes, LLC.
Colorado Springs, CO

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Not that I disagree with you -- but your statement seems incredibly
ironic given that you are the beneficiary of a tax-funded retirement
plan that is far more generous than Social Security.


How so? The retirement plan was there when I was hired, and I didn't seek
the job because of the retirement plan.

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:50:22 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:
Actually, what you describe was a starter home in the 1970s (except for
the
whirlpool tub), and it still cost only about 1.5 times a person's annual
salary.

As I remember it that era was the start of the big expensive starter
homes.

That would depend on the employment/income market in the area.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Teacher's unions are a large lobby and can get special treatment
from politicians.

Boy, ain't *that* the truth?

Every teacher in the State of Iowa was unilaterally granted a FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLAR PER YEAR raise this past week, with the stroke of our
new governor's pen. No improvements required, no added work -- just
pure, hard cash doled out to each and every teacher, regardless of
performance.

I, of course, expect my children's education to improve
commensurately...

Silly person.

OTOH The number of
discrete values in the set can easily skew the median.

Yes, and so which one is most appropriate would depend on whether a
=value= is likely to change much, or whether the =number= of values is
the important consideration. In the case of income distribution, the
former is probably more important. In the case of school test grades
from year to year, the latter might have more significance.

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:

The cost of the US health system can be blamed on the ABA as much if not
more than the AMA.

They're both in the same racket along with the drug and insurance
companies.

Both of whom are getting raped by the trial lawyers.

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