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Jan 20, 2006 19:20:34 GMT -5
Post by bsutravis on Jan 20, 2006 19:20:34 GMT -5
Gesh mbogo....you send me a PM saying my text had been edited by you......You didn't say the entire thing was deleted!!!!
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Jan 21, 2006 11:49:45 GMT -5
Post by solohunter on Jan 21, 2006 11:49:45 GMT -5
I have a registerd ATV, pay for the tag. Then I have to pay personal property tax on it. I just paid the yearly tax bill on it, what a double tax. Stupid. The death tax ix stupid also. One reason I voted for GW, it is being phased out, but then it will come back. At least the phasing out portion is helping me now. I have lived/worked in different states. Ohio.Colorado.New Mexico.California.Arizona.Louisiana.Mississippi. There was up side to each and a down side. Indiana is the best for us. As a family, CA had the most activity diversity, but to own any land is very expensive. You can do ALOT of stuff, but you will be 3 ft. from your neighbor. Anywhere you live/go or work they will get their taxes, somehow, somewhere.... Solohunter
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Jan 22, 2006 13:46:06 GMT -5
Post by Russ Koon on Jan 22, 2006 13:46:06 GMT -5
I voted for Mitch, and support him in some of the measures he has taken. Like his overall attacks on waste in government spending, for example. And is sounds like he's certainly done a great job of fixing the financial mess his perdecessors had put the state in.
However, I think he really dropped the ball in regard to Daylight Saving Time, an idea that's time came and went somewhere between Benjamin Franklin and WW I.
I also think the new-terrain routing of the Highway to Nowhere sucks in a major way, even without making it a toll road. It won't even make a good NAFTA highway, because it doesn't hook up to anything on the south end! Maybe KY will want to see it continue in the future, and maybe it would eventually tie in with something else headed south, and get some benefit from NAFTA. Then it would bring some high-paying jobs at truck stops, fueling bigrigs and making making tortillas for the drivers. US 41 is already there and already nearly interstate in structure, and would be helpful to the SW corner of the state in business with Chicago and points north as well as with Indy, and could be upgraded for a tenth the money and without destroying a whole lot of good hunting territory.
As to the time situation, I think we should put the enitire state on one time, for simplicity. If they want it to be on Central, that's cool by me as long as we go YEAR-ROUND DST at the same time! Let's get ahead of the curve and be REALLY modern (even if it does mean we'd be exactly where we already were before they mucked it up, two hours ahead of AZ).
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Jan 23, 2006 3:16:26 GMT -5
Post by cambygsp on Jan 23, 2006 3:16:26 GMT -5
After reading some of the posts here, you would think that Daniels was in his 6th term as Govenor.
He has been in office exactly 12 months.....I think he is just getting started!!!!!
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Jan 23, 2006 7:35:03 GMT -5
Post by drs on Jan 23, 2006 7:35:03 GMT -5
I also think the new-terrain routing of the Highway to Nowhere sucks in a major way, even without making it a toll road .( YOU'RE RIGHT!) It won't even make a good NAFTA highway, because it doesn't hook up to anything on the south end! Maybe KY will want to see it continue in the future, and maybe it would eventually tie in with something else headed south, and get some benefit from NAFTA. (The State of KY already has a highway into place going south; and N.A.F.T.A. will NOT benifit us but rather transport all the jobs into Mexico, while insure the steady flow if illegal drugs and illegal Aliens to our Country.) A new Highway (I-69) will destroy countless acres of wildlife habitat and misplace many Farms, Businessses, and Homes. Of course it won't go through Senator Luger's Farm, he saw to that!
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Jan 23, 2006 8:41:58 GMT -5
Post by hoyt1166 on Jan 23, 2006 8:41:58 GMT -5
Well, now you're going to have to wash your hands again, DRS.
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Jan 23, 2006 9:49:52 GMT -5
Post by drs on Jan 23, 2006 9:49:52 GMT -5
Well, now you're going to have to wash your hands again, DRS. I guess so!
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Jan 23, 2006 10:19:55 GMT -5
Post by raporter1 on Jan 23, 2006 10:19:55 GMT -5
Please refresh my memory. Wasn't this route put in place by the former administration? I am not against progress but sure hate to see this road take this route when existing roadways could be used.
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Jan 23, 2006 11:29:22 GMT -5
Post by hoyt1166 on Jan 23, 2006 11:29:22 GMT -5
I heard they want to make 37 a toll road to(which happens to be two miles from my house and I drive several times a day)I really wouldn't like that to happen.I remembered when Mitch was down here campaigning,he promised to get jobs down in this part of the state,seems like he's more concerned over daylight savings time and the cigerette tax hike.Is indiana really in a bad as shape as they say we are? It depends on the who "they" are. Some will tell you the sky is falling, others will tell you everything is peachy. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Jan 23, 2006 11:43:18 GMT -5
Post by turkeyscout on Jan 23, 2006 11:43:18 GMT -5
i love being a hoosier, paying taxes and being a u.s. citizen, i might have to pay a lot of taxes to go hunting too. but least ( while hunting)for a little while i can block out the distractions of government.i also like trees, no i love trees, the hickorys ,oaks, beech, and wild cherry. now the state of indiana are cutting down our forest, to me , indiana would not be the same place i love if there were no trees and a lot of strip malls! we do need to harvest some of our mature trees, i realize that, but the money that generated should go back to the enviroment for our future generations.
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Jan 23, 2006 11:48:00 GMT -5
Post by mbogo on Jan 23, 2006 11:48:00 GMT -5
Often that seems to be the case.
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Jan 23, 2006 12:06:55 GMT -5
Post by turkeyscout on Jan 23, 2006 12:06:55 GMT -5
From the indiana outdoors news 2006, the timber is sold to local industry through a bid process. indiana law requires that 15% of the net revenue from those sales must be shared with the counties in which the revenue was generated. up to half of the revenue shared with the counties is available for local volunteer fire departments that have a cooperative agreement with the dnr division of forestry. for the 2004-2005 fiscal year,gross revenues from the sale of some 3.4 million board feet of state forest timber totaled $970,000. twelve counties will share a total of $131,000 from the sales. YOU DO THE MATH
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Jan 23, 2006 12:22:50 GMT -5
Post by hoyt1166 on Jan 23, 2006 12:22:50 GMT -5
Often that seems to be the case. And here I thought I was letting out a huge secret There goes my Nobel ;D ;D ;D
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Jan 23, 2006 15:25:54 GMT -5
Post by camoham on Jan 23, 2006 15:25:54 GMT -5
at what point do we get to scream....................... "taxation without representation !" (again) ? ? camoham
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Jan 23, 2006 15:29:05 GMT -5
Post by hoyt1166 on Jan 23, 2006 15:29:05 GMT -5
Not sure what you mean by that camoham, can you expound?
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Jan 23, 2006 19:04:02 GMT -5
Post by solohunter on Jan 23, 2006 19:04:02 GMT -5
"taxation without representation !" (again)
Who in history said this, or what was the quote that became the battle cry"no taxation without representation.."!!! Solohunter
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Jan 24, 2006 10:24:31 GMT -5
Post by camoham on Jan 24, 2006 10:24:31 GMT -5
general cry of the founding colonies...................... when we were starting to get fed up with more rules....................and taxes that seemed to have no purpose ? (from england/ king) eventually pushed a bunch of rednecks just like us......................... to decide that we should be a country to ourselves....................and were ready to do something about it ! camoham
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Jan 24, 2006 10:36:48 GMT -5
Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Jan 24, 2006 10:36:48 GMT -5
Can't forget the Boston Tea Party either now can we?lol
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Jan 24, 2006 10:48:46 GMT -5
Post by solohunter on Jan 24, 2006 10:48:46 GMT -5
It was James Otis who said..."taxation without representation is tyranny..." that then became the other battle cry for the colonies. Solohunter
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Jan 24, 2006 14:43:29 GMT -5
Post by Russ Koon on Jan 24, 2006 14:43:29 GMT -5
drs, true, there's the Pennyrile Parkway heading south in KY for a while, but then that road leads to nowhere in particular. In order for this I-69 extension to become something useful in shipping our jobs to Mexico, it needs to be some sort of continuous shortcut, not an alternative that presents a new view out the windshield for a couple hours but one that leads to surface roads and backtracking in order to get back on the existing Taco Trail somewhere in Arkansas. I suppose if KY were going to convert the Pennyrile, and Tennessee were going to convert the rest of the way to Memphis down US 51, maybe the truckers would save a few minutes over the existing routes. Checking the page in my atlas that shows the interstates, I sure don't see how we'll be creating any shortcut that will save anybody more than a few minutes and a couple gallons, even if the two other states jump on and the whole thing gets done.
Most of the sales hype for the Highway to Nowhere just doesn't add up. I attended some of the meetings and listened to both sides' arguments. The ones pushing the economic development pie-in-the-sky didn't want to talk about the poorest county in the state, Crawford County, which lies about 75 miles east of Evansville and has I -64 running right through the middle of it. And they all speak of these "poor, depressed areas" in that quarter of the state like the people there really wanted to be in Indianapolis, but ran out of gas before they got there! I know why I drove an hour a day to work and back for thirty one years....it wasn't because I couldn't FIND Indy, it was because I didn't WANT to live there. Our mayor speaks the same way about "growth" and "bringing jobs to our area". Guess he figures we live in a "bedroom community" because the the big, noisy, smoky one upstream was full and we didn't have a choice. Apparently hasn't occurred to him that we LIKE it here, partly because it's NOT a major city with jobs, traffic, etc. Some of us prefer it here in Mayberry!
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