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Owning in retirement
Robert M. Gary wrote:
On Apr 25, 5:55?pm, wrote: Robert M. Gary wrote: On Apr 25, 3:55?pm, wrote: Better than 99% of roads are build and maintained by government agencies, mostly state, with a big portion of the money and standards coming from the Federal government. Yes, that's the problem we need to stop. Many states allow some roads to be built, maintained, and owned by private companies. Yes, the term for them is "Toll Road". Since they are private, they don't have to adhere to current standards. Locally, we just managed to get rid of one of those pieces of crap and get it under state owenership. I guess you don't like anything unless you are paying more for it with the gov't running it. Maybe they'll start making McD's for you. You can get a $20 Big Mac and feel better about it because it certified by the US gov't. Think about the line at DMV, that will be the line for your Big Mac. Bunch of babbling, irrelevant, nonsense. Public roads are built and maintained at cost. Private roads need to show an ROI on the capital construction cost, plus return a profit higher than the maintenance costs. In addition, you still get to pay the taxes. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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"RG" == Robert M Gary writes:
RG You understand. Before we had gov't firefighters in the US we RG had figher fighter insurance. Private companies would provide RG fire protection for a fee (less than your taxes). It worked RG great Even a simpleton should be able to understand why, in fact, it didn't work great: house A pays the fee, house B doesn't. B catches fire, it's allowed to burn, then catching A on fire, which is put out, but with B completely destroyed and A partly. Putting out fires, like so many things in civil society, works a lot better (read: cheaper overall) when everybody is involved, not just some. In fact government can and does many things more efficiently than for-profit private. Here in Sacramento the public utility SMUD has much cheaper electric rates than the for-profit PG&E. -- I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' ~ Annie Dillard |
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"DD" == Drew Dalgleish writes:
DD Hey he's retired . What's the rush to get there? The RV 12 DD will get way better miles per gallon Not necessarily. It's been demonstrated often that RVs with different size engines get similar mpg when operated at the same power (hp) settings. What the bigger engine gets you is a much better reserve for climb and cruise, if you want to use it. -- Why can't the ant and the caterpillar just get along? One eats grass, the other eats Caterpillars... Oh, I see now. - Jack Handey |
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Probably a couple of dozen people built my Cherokee..
......and then got somebody else to test fly it.. Dave On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:55:56 GMT, (Drew Dalgleish) wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:39:00 GMT, Darrel Toepfer wrote: Bob Fry wrote: "RG" == Robert M Gary writes: If you don't mind flying something an unknown person built. As opposed to flying a 40-year old antique that many unknown persons have hacked at over the years.... 55 years young, but whose count'n... All "hack"ers are listed in the logbooks... I'm but the 3rd owner... The builder planned to fly it himself |
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I retired a couple of years ago, but after an unusually expensive
annual on my Arrow, just decided to work enough part time to cover my flying cost so the flying wouldn't hit my investment income/social security. |
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Paul kgyy wrote:
I retired a couple of years ago, but after an unusually expensive annual on my Arrow, just decided to work enough part time to cover my flying cost so the flying wouldn't hit my investment income/social security. I started the post and I am coming to the same conclusion. -- Regards, Ross C-172F 180HP KSWI |
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Ross wrote:
We in TX do not pay state income tax either. Nor the coveted and much sought-after "use tax". That's got to be the most abhorrent money-grab ever conceived by man. |
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Clark wrote:
Nope, that's not my reasoning at all. All I'm saying is that government does have value and so we do owe some taxes. Don't even try to read anything more into it. Yes. We need them to build and maintain our interstate highway system and keep the country secure from the towelheads and anyone else who wants to do us in. But that's it. All the rest of the crap they try (and usually fail) to do, we ought NOT to be paying for that. |
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