I just wanted my milk to be cold.

[grrgoyl]

There's just no getting ahead in this world, lemme tell you.

We finally got all our appliances up to date a little over a year ago. In the words of Edward Norton in Fight Club, "You say to yourself, whatever else happens, I've got that sofa appliance problem handled

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[ms_hecubus]

OK, I had a rush of glee at the idea of an old timey prospector fixing my fridge. Especially if he broke out in an old timey gold dance! Good times.

During my brief stint in Texas I liked the fact that there was no state income tax, but a higher sales tax. I could actually get on board with that. Assuming, of course, the numbers added up when I took a look into it. However, on the surface it sounds good to me. I wouldn't be paying taxes at all on money used to purchase food or loan interest and my tax would be in direct proportion to my spending.

And a LOL shout out to the image of cavemen huddled around a styrofoam cooler.

[grrgoyl]

Old timey gold dances SOUND funny and amusing, but I would probably have been 10 times more alarmed if he had. Unfortunately he was too weighed down by the state of the country to engage in any spontaneous dancing

[ms_hecubus]

Blah! So frustrating! I feel your pain. I have a broken stove and a broken clothes drier. Kicking them and crying does not seem to be answer to fixing either. I need a handy old coot to come out to my house but my dad lives too far away. :\

We gotta sales tax here instead of income tax and I used be all for it. But now, no one has any money to buy anything so the state is going belly up and they have to end health programs, close schools, and parks, and animal shelters.

I am becoming a very disgruntled citizen. The whole "death panels" bullshit has pushed me over the edge. I can't even watch the Daily Show anymore. And I don't even have the energy to become a raving loon.

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[grrgoyl]

Ah, sucky. Good thing you live in crunchy granola Washington, where people don't think twice about living "off the grid" and beating your clothes on rocks to clean them. I can send Old Rick your way, if you like. He might be hungry enough to travel that far.

See? I don't see why it's so hard to look at tax strategies in action and the negative (or positive) effects they're having before running off at the mouth about how this is the solution to everything.

MyFriendDeb filled me in about the "death panels." Thank you, Sarah Palin (who I'm sure has very nice insurance), for ruining it for the rest of us one last time before you vanish completely and make more babies.