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What a rosy picture. Yes, taxes provide for some of the necessities of community. For instance, the grocery cart full of Twinkies, Pepsi, and frozen pizza in front of you at the store - paid for with food stamps. Chances are, the woman pushing the cart has several fatherless kids, so we get to pay for their existence too. And the illegal immigrant who took your job has kids who don't speak English, but the neighborhood school has special ESL classes - your taxes pay for them. And when the same fellow's wife gives birth to yet another rugrat, you get to pay for that too. Yes indeed, taxes are wonderful. Please don't ever cut them.
On Guest column: Why do we pay taxes anyway?
It would be useful to know exactly why they are striking. The article is otherwise incomplete.
On Workers at GM's Kansas City plant go on strike
How long will it be until all of our earnings are required to pay for entitlement spending? 20 years? 40 years? Our nation's collapse will occur in this century and will be entirely due to it's inability to pay for the entitlements the citizens have voted to provide for themselves.
Hats off to Lt. Smith!
On CHS grad achieves success in Annapolis
The writer failed to consider that a small outfit is just as likely to be shady as a large corporation. Consider the low-end user-car salesman who is your best friend until you drive off the lot, but doesn't know you when the car stalls a block away. Or the shady home-repair contractor who took your check for $5G and hasn't been back to do the work. Just as there are plenty of honest car dealers & contractors, there are plenty of honest large corporations for which integrity is a core value. To assert that large corporations are by their very nature dishonest is intellectually dishonest.
On No love lost for big companies
Fascinating. When I arrived in St Joe 30 years ago, the consensus was that you go to KC unless your emergency is so severe that it can't wait.
Last month, I received a forwarded email titled "You know you're from St Joe if..." and it went on and on with items that would make you chuckle. And on the list was the poor care from Heartland.
Sad to see that it's still the case, but glad I live elsewhere and don't have to worry about it.
On Heartland ‘not hitting the mark,’ official says
Don't take it personally St Joe. Kids everywhere can't wait to grow up so they can be somewhere else.
The much larger concern is making St Joe a place that can offer a professional career so that college grads can return there and start a family after college. We aren't looking to work in a slaughterhouse or a factory.
On Top city students leaving region
"Now Barney, you just put down that taser. Opie ain't gonna hurt you."
On First wave of Tasings a shock to the system
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On Benton student held after nine hospitalized
You need a special event to count mullets? ;)
On Trails West! announces 2008 headliners
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