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The witnesses have that said they are chameleons and can apparently also blur their surroundings so as to not make them appear clear. Very convenient..

But it seems to contradict the 8 foot tall alien. In this evidence it seems to be very short. Maybe some were babies.

This newer video is proof. Ñ

This is like the photo of Big Foot so many years so. This blurry photograph is proof!!!

Yeah, it’s a political hot potato so I think the legislature will try hard but any tax eliminated will have to go elsewhere. The “elsewhere” will obviously be the problem. Who else is going to take the hit?

But is that bad or smart? What service are we paying for? Did we get a product? The claimed service was walking around the car to see if your headlights work, your tail lights work and your horn still functions. We can do that for free. If someone is inclined, he can go to the auto shop and pay them money out of his pocket and have the mechanic do the same. In fact, if you go get your oil changed, they want to charge you about $25 extra to do their umpteen point inspection. Coincidental that most lube shops do inspections? We had to go out of our way by taking time out of the day, and at very limited specific locations, with the state to justify a tax. The bottom line is is that they raised taxes without raising taxes. Instead of having to raise taxes elsewhere to increase revenue, they took a pain in the butt chore that we had to face and eliminated it. Two birds with one stone?

That’s what I said. Let me translate my comment for you. “So did they raise taxes and disguise it as a convenience?” Disguised as a convenience. Oh look, no more worrying about the pain in the butt inspections. (and they were) They essentially raised the government revenue stream by taking the money (which they were already charging) without paying anyone else and administrative costs. To make it more simple, they added $7.50 to the cost of registering a vehicle under the guise of being easier on people. Or…. They disguised a new tax as a convenience. And to be fair in the explanation, it is not a new tax because we were paying in anyway. The only change is keeping it all to themselves. You are wrong on the conservative principle however.

You could have cut that down to, the problem is spending. Local, county, state or federal or even school districts, once they decide to spend the money, they are going to get it. The means of taxing will make the people that bear the biggest burden or maybe any burden. No matter how it is shuffled around, we are still going to pay.

So did they raise taxes and disguise it as a convenience?

Yep. My property taxes went down $500 a month!! My annual vehicle registration is now $600 a year, my gasoline costs $250 more per month and my grocery bill after the new sales tax is costing me $400 more monthly….. but I am saving $500 a month on property tax!

It is certainly a more fair way but the sound of income tax is abhorrent to most people so the people of Texas voted in a constitutional amendment that bans income tax.

I have said that for years in another forum and maybe a time or two in this one. An across-the-board consumption tax is a terrible idea for people living paycheck to paycheck and an awesome idea for people who make anything at all more than what they need.

The state has absolute control over local taxes. Local entities can only do what the state allows them to do.

There are two issues in taxes. 1. How much is the state going to take to cover their expenses? 2. Where is it going to come from. Taxes can be from income tax, sales tax, consumption tax, property tax, etc. It will be paid one way or the other or a combination, which is how it is done. Texas can’t use income tax so they have to go elsewhere. They could for example completely eliminate property taxes but get ready for gasoline to go up $1.35 a gallon or sales tax to go up to 30% or…..

Yep. Obviously wearing a life jacket if for unforeseen emergency situations. It isn’t intended a jump in the river at your own choosing for a leisurely swim.

Yeah, I follow your attempt at logic. The 13, 14 and 15 amendments were about slavery. Millions of people immigrated to this country as a beacon of freedom as in the mass of immigrants at Ellis Island and other immigrant processing locations. They were not citizens when they arrived and would have come anyway for a chance at prosperity. Are you suggesting that the world trying to beat a path to America was because their future children might have citizenship? Finally and most importantly, Article I of the Constitution give only Congress the complete authority to regulate immigration and naturalization (citizenship). There was no need for an amendment for birthright citizenship. They could have simply given citizenship to anyone at any time by legislation. They didn’t need the 13 Amendment. By making it an amendment, it could not be taken away from former slaves by future legislation. If the 13 Amendment never existed, Congress could still grant citizenship to anyone it wishes. There was never a need to an amendment to grant citizenship to anyone. The 13, like the 14 and 15, was about correcting the wrongs of slavery, not an incentive to try and lure people to this country…. while people were beating on the door to get in.

I believe that is revisionist history. The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were all passed within 4 years after the Civil War with the intent to grant the freedom from slavery, citizenship and the right to vote for former slaves. I don’t think they randomly and right in the middle of the amendments, tossed in a citizenship right to unknown people who weren’t here yet. In fact immigration and the fleeing to the US was done without any guarantee of citizenship. Those three amendments were about righting the wrongs from slavery, not luring people to America.

I said that I don’t agree with it. The intent was to free slaves. it has already been decided however. If a person is born on US soil, he/she/they is a citizen I really don’t think the Supreme Court will grant certiorari.

Probably the saddest day of my career was when we pulled up two drowned Vietnamese children (maybe 3 and 5 years old) on Pleasure Island where one was in distress and the older one went to help. When found several hours later, they were holding on to each other.

All Trump has to do is change the Fourteenth Amendment. As the Navy Captain said in the movie G I Jane while talking to a senator who was complaining about people taking photos from a public highway….. he would gladly stop them from taking photos… if she could just, “Trim a little fat off the Constitution”. I think that birthright citizenship is wrong, but….. it’s in the Constitution. I don’t think the way it has developed is likely the way it was intended but….. it’s in the Constitution.

Yes. DTC thinks Paxton is a crook and should be removed and when the Republicans did just that in an overwhelming vote, apparently DTC has an issue with it. You would think the thread title would be, Republicans Do The Right Thing. But not so with DTC…..

You have shown to be completely nonsensical. You are adding to the biggest straw man thread of all time.

That is a quandary. Surely Lumberton has more jobs than DFW, Houston, Austin and SA combined. I am sure that if 1,000 people want to leave NYC, there has to be jobs waiting on them in Lumberton. This thread is in the running for the straw man of all time.

I believe that all states probably have a law requiring it to be put at auction. They seize the property, sell it at auction, pay off any liens/mortgages, take what they are owed and the rest goes back to the owner.

Yeah, I was thinking 5-15 and maybe other issues.. you can’t sell sno-cones and coach! If 16 - 5 with a playoff appearance? Can you please schedule to sell your cones between classes and on weekends?