"Ignoramus8601" wrote in message
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On 2009-12-07, Ed Huntress wrote:
Perhaps you missed the part of gummer's post where he demonstrated yet
again that he should have paid more attention in grade school. He said
he's been paying taxes for 45 years, which would make him 11 when he
started.

There is two possibilities of his statement being true:

First off, that wasn't me you quoted. I don't call him gummer.


1) He may be referring to sales taxes

In 1963, Michigan's sales tax was raised to 6%. So maybe if was spending,
oh, say $90,000/year. That would be $5,400. Then the tax would go to pay for
all of the things in Michigan's budget that are paid for by sales tax.
Hmmm....maybe if he spent $900,000/year.

That's one hell of an allowance, or a really big paper route.

2) Maybe during childhood, he had some investments in his name and had
to pay taxes on capital gains and income.

Iggy, Iggy...please. d8-)


2 seems highly unlikely and 1 is questionable as to whether it
qualifies as taxes.

g No, I didn't miss it. I just don't waste time getting involved with
his...ah, stories anymore. If you wanted a good whopper, you may have
noticed in the past week how he had to drop his insurance in October
2008,
which means, if you followed closely and believed his many other
statements
on the subject, he had medical insurance for no more than 11 months of
the
past 8 years and now is rueing his ill fortune at having had a heart
attack
just three months after his insurance terminated. Have you heard the one
about the gang-bangers at the desert pistol range? That one was far more
imaginative. d8-)

I have not heard that one.

It was a beauty. Maybe it's still on Google Groups.


I only become annoyed at the constant bigotries and put-downs --
political,
geographical, etc. If that's what he needs to inflate his own self-image,
there's an entire literature on that subject and far be it from me to
tell
him what to do about it in his private life. When it becomes public and
it
sours the atmosphere, as it does here, I'll say something. Otherwise,
you'll
have to catch his whoppers on your own. There certainly are enough of
them
flying by to keep you busy.

I personally disagree with him trying to discount my political views
by bringing up where I came from. It makes it difficult to have a
meaningful discourse.

I was waiting for you to react to that. I had one hell of a message
pre-written, in case Gunner and Tom continued to gang up on you. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress