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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:10am PT

WHAT A SURPRISE?!

HEADLINE TODAY: Low-tax states will gain seats, high-tax states will lose them
By: Barbara Hollingsworth

11/17/10 10:00 AM EST

Migration from high-tax states to states with lower taxes and less government spending will dramatically alter the composition of future Congresses, according to a study by Americans for Tax Reform

Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.

By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent.

The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with growing populations, ATR found. As a result, per capita government spending is also lower: $4,008 for states gaining congressional seats, $5,117 for states losing them.

And, as ATR notes, “in eight of ten losers, workers can be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. In 7 of the 8 gainers, workers are given a choice whether to join or contribute financially to a union.”

Imagine that: Americans are fleeing high tax, union-dominated states and settling in states with lower taxes, right-to-work laws and lower government spending. Nothing sends a message like voting with your feet.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/low-tax-states-will-gain-seats-high-tax-states-will-lose-them-108681159.html#ixzz15YWTilbE

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:15am PT

WHY THE LIBS HATE PALIN:

The reason Palin has become such a lightening rod, a kingmaker and a punching bag, a celebrity and a power player, is simple. It's because she's so gosh darn happy.

For her fans, like the ones I had the pleasure of meeting in Chicago, she's refreshingly upbeat and resilient, the bubbly friend from childhood who was always great at cheering you up and cheerleading you on.

But for her detractors, nothing raises the ire of cynical liberals more than a happy-go-lucky, totally unburdened, freethinking and self-assured conservative woman who has everything she wants and then some. And without anyone's help.

Sure, she'll tell you that Todd, her parents and her children are an invaluable support system. But after eight years of hearing that George W. Bush was a nepotism experiment gone wrong, Sarah Palin has made it here (wherever this is) on her own. John McCain's imprimatur certainly launched her into the national spotlight, but she became the youngest and first female governor of Alaska all on her own.
How dare she?

Liberalism, after all, needs to imagine an unhappy populace. Passing sweeping entitlement programs and convincing voters that big government is the answer only works if people are frustrated with their stations in life.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/17/2010-11-17_sarah_palins_happiness_is_what_really_irks_liberals.html#ixzz15YXqWgHG

dirtbag

climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:17am PT

I'd think someone could make a lot of money selling these radiation dosimeter cards at airports to passengers. POS (point of sale) has to be before people go through the full body x-ray scanner of course.

Exposure to x-ray radiation is cumulative. That's why it's vital for all
peole who fly and go through x-ray scanners to monitor and maintain an accurate history of their exposure!

You know Corniss, I'm not that happy with the scanners either. If someone really wants to blow up a plane plane and die while doing it they will load up their as#@&%es with fire crackers and find a way to do it anyway.

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber

La Mancha

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:20am PT

Hmm, what was the song that Cat Stevens sang at the rally to restore sanity? Oh yeah, "Peace Train".

Problem with the prevailing conservative view is that there are no peaceful or intelligent muslims. Just those few extremists who the cons can use to keep their support base in fear and voting for them.

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:22am PT

Cat Stevens has admitted agreeing to the Fatwa against Salmon Rushdie. Cat Stevens is an admitted supporter of Hamas. Scumbag.

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:32am PT

The "radicals" in the Middle East are supported by the vast majority of Muslims, according to polling done in the Middle East. The idea that most Muslims do not support Sharia is flat-ass wrong.

philo

Trad climber

Somewhere halfway over the rainbow

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:34am PT

Don't forget Israel.

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:37am PT

CAT STEVENS DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE. HIS NAME IS YUSUF ISLAM.

I wonder why libs like him still? Is it because he believes in the submission of women? No, that can't be it.

Do libs like him because he believes gays should be stoned to death? No, that can't be it.

Is it because he believes all should submit to the will of Allah? No, that can't be it.

Ahhhhhh, I know why libs still like Yusuf Islam -- it is because he hates America.

Yusuf Islam says there could be "no redeemer except Allah. No political concept or construct or treaty or agent except the laws of Allah, which he instructed for this world." Wow -- and libs tell us all the time that radical religion is soooooooooooooooo intolerant.

THE BIG QUESTION: Why do liberals have sooooooooooo much tolerance for the most intolerant of religions? Gee -- could it be that libs hate America too?

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:40am PT

Ahhh Aleister -- another avoidance of the issue I raise. Do you have any intelligent response other than the canned ones you always post, like "you should enlist", "you are an idiot", "you racist", etc.?

I mean come on man -- answer the simple question -- Islam is one of the most intolerant, illiberal religions on our planet -- yet libs defend it constantly. Why?

philo

Trad climber

Somewhere halfway over the rainbow

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:40am PT

Pus shut, wake up and smell the hummus.

In the immortal words of Pogo; "We have met the enemy and he is us".

You Betcha!

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:41am PT

It was absolutely hilarious at the rally with John Stewart. Here are all these libs singing and dancing to Yusuf Islam, a man who believes that liberal values are evil. Just pure comedy.

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:44am PT

Sorry fat -- dont want to step on turf. Keep up the good work.

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climber

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:46am PT

I remember reading a quote from some lib/feminist who actually said that being forced to wear the hijab or a burqa is liberating for women. I nearly laughed so hard my OJ came out of my nose.

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber

La Mancha

Nov 17, 2010 - 11:52am PT

Cat Stevens is an admitted supporter of Hamas

Prove it. Show me that source.

Here's what Y Islam publicly states:

"Like all right-minded people, I absolutely condemn all acts of terrorism, including the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7. The actions of the terrorists were completely un-Islamic and against the teachings and example of the Prophet. It’s everybody’s responsibility to make this world a safer, more peaceful place."

And:

"In my statement printed widely at the time, I said:

“We pray for the families of all those who lost their lives in this unthinkable act of violence as well as all those injured; I hope to reflect the feelings of all Muslims and people around the world whose sympathies go out to the victims at this sorrowful moment.”
Half of the royalties from my box set released in 2001 went to September 11 charities and I performed Peace Train projected live at a solidarity concert at New York’s Radio City Hall."

Regarding support for Hamas:

"I have never knowingly supported Hamas or directed money to them; and use my charity worldwide to help victims of war and natural disasters, particularly children and orphans"

And:

"I was at that time the Chairman of Muslim Aid, a UK registered charity. Our policy was to deliver humanitarian relief to the most deserving. Every charity worker knows what it’s like in a time of crisis, you certainly don’t have time nor ability to distinguish which needy child’s father or brother belongs to this or that affiliation - that would defeat the whole concept and motivation behind delivering humanitarian aid which drives charity work."

Do you really think Jon Stewart, a Jew, would allow Islam to perform if he thought he supported anything anti-Semitic? Oh, sorry. Of course you do...

By posting things that are demonstrably untrue on a public, worldwide forum such as ST, you run the risk of being sued for slander.

I know the concept of a cherished, creative, compassionate, level-headed muslim goes against your myopic world view. Sadly, you've been sucked into the Fox/neocon spin cycle and have lost all objectivity to form your own educated position. Try researching things before you post your unfounded opinions. Adding a link to support your conclusions will go much further in winning your argument.

Yusuf Islam says there could be "no redeemer except Allah.

Sounds eerily like what the people on your side of the aisle are saying about their god...