Would you rather have a lower income tax and higher sales tax, or lower sales tax and higher income tax?

The retailer collects the sales tax. Then as we file tax returns now and people get refunds, those who qualify would get a refund of sales taxes paid. And, no, you wouldn't save receipts because it would just be a set number based on income level.

May 19, 2013 at 10:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Would you rather have a lower income tax and higher sales tax, or lower sales tax and higher income tax?

Sure, you can buy your laptops, books, things like that online. What about food? You can't buy meat, fruits, and vegetables online unless you can afford the Omaha Steak of the Month Club and Harry and David's. The people who are hardest hit by high sales taxes are those who don't have reliable transportation to get to the next state, who aren't looking to buy the types of things one often buys online, and who are mostly buying the necessities of life that aren't practically bought online.

May 19, 2013 at 10:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Evil deeds

For your sake, I hope you can liberate yourself from the hold this fantastical, contradictory book written by very fallible humans has over you so you can one day enjoy and appreciate this life for what it is, instead of living for the promise of some future that doesn't exist.

May 4, 2013 at 2:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Evil deeds

If god has already won, then how is satan still running things? And if satan really is to blame for all the bad stuff, then satan is, in fact, stronger than god. That or god is intentionally not intervening where he could, thus allowing satan to bring all this suffering to god's beloved creatures. So either god's not all-powerful, all-knowing, etc. Or he's not as all-loving as you'd like to believe. Or, and here's what I think, this is all made up by humans and none of it is real.

There is nothing you can write that will make any of this sound the least bit logical.

May 4, 2013 at 11:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Evil deeds

I'm sorry, but can you not see how silly that all sounds? And it's illogical to say that he has a complete loving nature but will allow many of us to spend eternity in a lake of fire. That he controls time and the very universe, but still lets his beloved creations suffer in all sorts of unimaginable ways. If he is totally good, why isn't he Superman-like stopping buildings from collapsing and turning the earth back in time to prevent earthquakes?

No one has yet come up with any description or explanation of any god that has made the concept seem at all worth following. I choose reason.

May 4, 2013 at 10:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Evil deeds

What I can't get past, and never will, is how anyone can be satisfied with that response, "Unknown" enough to still love and worship this being.

May 4, 2013 at 10:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Evil deeds

"God made man for one reason, to worship Him." Wow, quite the ego on that one. What is worthy of worship about a being that creates billions of creatures just so we will worship him? From that description of why your god created human life, I think I'm ok with not ending up with him when I die.

May 3, 2013 at 3:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Letter: Earth’s not flat

They started out calling the phenomenon "global warming" because the Earth's temperature is rising in a way that experts in this stuff who track it can tell, but maybe the rest of us wouldn't notice. Then they realized that calling it that made it too easy for people like you to make silly comments like, "Global warming? Look outside, it's freezing!" So they realized it was a good idea to come up with a better descriptor based on the effects humans will notice, hence "Climate change."

But I doubt there is any name they could come up with that would get you to acknowledge what 99% of scientists in the field now accept as basic fact.

April 25, 2013 at 9:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Exonerated death row survivor fights capital punishment in Kansas

You claimed that in the absence of DNA, the death penalty isn't sought. That is all I was responding to because that claim isn't accurate. You are making all sorts of general claims (like the pleading guilty thing, too) that aren't accurate. If you're going to support the death penalty, it would be better if you could base your support in how it actually works, not how it works in your mind.

April 17, 2013 at 7:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Exonerated death row survivor fights capital punishment in Kansas

And my point is your point isn't accurate.

April 16, 2013 at 12:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )