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interesting, very interesting...
keeping the X classy in all countries.

So true man, and after 70 years or so overseas we are starting to adopt that mentality in this country now e.g. if the rich, the 1%, etc dont pay more of their fair share to help me get ahead then i'm going to complain about my government not doing enough for me. typical karl marx making the proletariat rebel against the bourgeoise. what was the old phrase? "work will set you free" or something like that, Idk my father used to tell me it in Czech (he is from former Czechoslovakia) Na zdravi!

Keep in mind I am not one party politically, when I started voting I was registered Repub. but both major parties disgust me today.

what was the old soviet phrase? "work will set you free" or something like that

well, i believe in flat tax system - i'll give the gov-t x.xx% and at that point, i don'y want to be bothered anymore... just set the rate at 30%, or 40%, and never, ever, ever come back to increase it!!! so, if i make $100, tskr your $40, if i make $1000, take your $400 - but no other taxes, no sales tax, no local tax, no state tax, no personal property tax, no real estate tax... nothing... deal with the 40% you are taking... baecause, when they break the taxes between so many entities, people lose track of the money - we are effectively paying close to 50% (or at least, it feels that way!!!), and getting gov-t that is about to default!!!

oh, and another thing - this nation is approaching the Soviet goal of equality from a different angle, and, as a matter of fact, has advanced much further than the Soviet ever did!!! and it is not about the money... it is everything else - the political correctness being one of the major ones...

Classy, but not cleaner!!! hahaha...

even though, it cost me much less to keep it clean abroad - i had the car detailed and waxed weekly in Costa Rica, cost me about $12-15 US dollars... Washing and cleaning the car in Nicaragua ran me about $2 US dollars and in Panama was about $10 for a wash and clean... All by hand... Moscow was about $10 but it was machine wash...

and yet, it looks the cleanest in the US, where I wash it once every 2-3 months!!! :nanana:

so true man, progressive tax system is so ridiculous it boggles my mind. Tell me what percentage I owe across the board, make it the same for all regardless of income level, and you'd be surprised at how much easier "tax season" is.


And you're so right, with an Eastern European background I see it so much today, you cannot say anything without ridicule for fear of offense, even if there is no outcry to offend someone! Keeps the peoples voices "equal" in that regard, even if we have "free speech"....


Before I get OT and me and Terminator start talking former Soviet bloc reconstruction, carry on...

work will set you free? Are you out of your mind? that sounds like communist propaganda.

russians have a saying... work is unlike a wolf wont run into the woods. (robota ne volk, v les ne ubizhit)

I like your idea!
that 2% social security going up is pissing me off.
there will never be equality, comming to a one world order soon.

thats funny, with US and its salty roads.
And moscow has hand wash spots now.

it was communist propaganda, lol. From the stalin era, thats what they used to engrain in the peoples minds.