What happened to those dreaded 1099 forms we were going to receive from Paypal?

jerry, aka errol flynn, skypunk, etc. is the most cantankerous troll extant. One would think vacationing trolls with their new brides would stay the heck away from the internet and enjoy their honeymoon under some remote jungle bridge, taking in the local flora and fauna and occasional, unsuspecting tourist, but no, not jerry. He has to pollute this site even when away with his bride. She must be so jealous of his spending time on these threads. 

Speaking of which, this is not the only thread the vacationing troll is working on ruining. He's busy insulting everyone he comes in contact with. Not being that familiar with trolls, I thought it wasn't an all consuming thing for them. Some vacation, huh?

All the best,
Nonoise

Paying more for diesel is price gouging by a private company. Paying PG&E 36% more than usual is also price gouging. PG&E may be a public utility but it’s privately run by investors. Too bad it’s not entirely run by the state like in the good old days.

There is no 4% medical tax at any restaurant in San Francisco. It’s a charge levied by the restaurant owner to cover his costs of providing some basic medical care to their employees.

As for the tax on tobacco, they’re there to discourage use since they’re bad for your health and the taxpayer who helps picks up the bill through your insurance costs being spread out. Yes, you worked and paid for your benefits but the costs of care are socialized, like they’ve always been. It’s how insurance works.

Being in law enforcement, you most likely have an excellent retirement payout that’s much higher than the average state worker has. It’d be nice if most companies would go back to having pensions.

Paying a $1 fee for ammo and signing for it doesn’t bother me. I’m not a criminal or an insurrectionist, bent on kidnapping a governor, storming the capital or go on a killing spree, which is now par for the course in this country.

This all sounds like a list of talking points assembled like a wish list of grievances. Took some time to research and put it out so good on you for that.

All the best,
Nonoise

Remember that sky punk, errolflynn​​​​​​​ jerry gets off on this.

All the best,
Nonoise

skypunk, errolflynn jerry must not be hitting it off great with his wife if he has to constantly reach out to me. What an obsession he has with another man. Should I tell him I'm not interested in him that way?  

Does he do lines of nitroglycerin between posts to keep him going? Ease up dude: you've already had one major event. What he needs to do is calm down, ring the nurse his wife to change out his bedpan come cook the fish he caught while in Jamaica and maybe he'll feel better. And, what's with all the old man projection that he's doing? He needs to age gracefully.

All the best,
Nonoise

For a senile person, Biden did right by increasing the IRS budget to go after the top earners who criminally evade paying their taxes. But the House Republicans killed the funding to protect their donors. That leaves the ordinary citizen to pick up the slack. 

By the way, he didn't create this inflation and taxing doesn't add to inflation. What it does is bring down the deficit which helps a heck of a lot to fight inflation. But try telling that to people who don't want to listen.

All the best,
Nonoise

@mtrot I brought up California because it invariably comes up when taxes are discussed and someone shoots off about how there's no income taxes in Texas. In fact, I'd wager that here, on A'gon, it's de rigueur and a casual look at past threads will prove it out. Just wanted to cut 'em off at the pass. Everyone enjoyed the silence.

When you think of it, imagine how much your contribution would go down if you did have a state income tax. If the top 1% paid your rate, yours would come down, considerably, all things being equal. Might even ease up on the property taxes as well. So many ways to reorganize and reorient priorities.

As for the "everyone's leaving California in droves" meme, that's been beaten to death here already. All states have ups and downs with those moving in and others moving out. If that were really true and indicative of a real, trending and permanent thing, then I'm all for it. In fact, when you do leave California, take a friend.

All the best,
Nonoise

And that's one reason why it's nice to live in Texas with no state income tax!

Tell me where California ranks when it comes to taxing it's citizens and, get a lead of the breakdowns.

All the best,
Nonoise

Uh....make that the top 1%. I had forgotten just how far they've come.

1) Nope. Nowhere near the top 10%

2) No, I'm down with the other 229 Million who support them.

1) Rather confusing sentence (expected)

2) What is your point?

No one in the top 10% ever says that. They just smile and live their lovely lives knowing you're taking up the slack.

All the best,
Nonoise

Oh look....skypunk, errolflynn jerry just had another of my posts deleted. Must have woken up from his meds midday nap and read it.

@jcoehler I completely forgot about that one!

We've got some thin skinned snowflakes here. Post a correction to a bunch of misinformed (and I'm being polite) talking points and it gets deleted. Well, it was up long enough for everyone to read so there's that.

All the best,
Nonoise

I thought the troll went to Puerto Rico?