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[VonMessa]

Problem that lotteries have had as funding sources is that state .govs tend to defund the recipients to the tune of the predicted funding they'll get from the lottery in question.  In other words, they are just back doors to fund other projects.

State lotteries are just another tax for folks that aren't very good at mathematics.         

[CAP1]

yea. well whenever i hear "the proceeds from XXX are going into the general fund, so we can manage them better" i tend to just assume from that point on, that it's going straight into someone's pocket......

[VonMessa]

yea. well whenever i hear "the proceeds from XXX are going into the general fund, so we can manage them better" i tend to just assume from that point on, that it's going straight into someone's pocket......

Chris Christie's?   

 

[CAP1]

Chris Christie's?   

 

i'm not sure about him yet.....but it seems he may be doing some good for us........

[VonMessa]

Hopefully starting with property taxes?             

 

I could buy another house with the property tax that some residents of PFRoNJ are stuck paying...

[CAP1]

Hopefully starting with property taxes?             

 

I could buy another house with the property tax that some residents of PFRoNJ are stuck paying...

that would be nice, but i have on illusion that my property taxes will ever go down. historically, once they raise something like that, they never lower it.

 mine, on an old small house in lindenwold are just over 5k/year.

 a buddy lives in mt. laurel about 3 miles from south jersey airport.......he's paying about 11k/year.....but his house is much larger, although it's on a tiny lot.

[john9001]

and so the king bade the sheriff to venture forth and collect the kings taxes on all the kings land holdings.  It costs allot of money to maintain a castle.

[VonMessa]

that would be nice, but i have on illusion that my property taxes will ever go down. historically, once they raise something like that, they never lower it.

 mine, on an old small house in lindenwold are just over 5k/year.

 a buddy lives in mt. laurel about 3 miles from south jersey airport.......he's paying about 11k/year.....but his house is much larger, although it's on a tiny lot.

It's ridiculous.  I've got some family in Collingswood.  Smaller house than mine, maybe 1/4 the size plot of land, TWICE as much as me in taxes 

[CAP1]

It's ridiculous.  I've got some family in Collingswood.  Smaller house than mine, maybe 1/4 the size plot of land, TWICE as much as me in taxes 

yea, i know.

i don't mind paying some taxes, as i know they have to be able to pay the people that provide us services.........but i DO think they've gone nuts with it.

it's like they use property taxes to fill all of their gaps, 'cause they don't know how to stop spending so much money.

[VonMessa]

yea, i know.

i don't mind paying some taxes, as i know they have to be able to pay the people that provide us services.........but i DO think they've gone nuts with it.

it's like they use property taxes to fill all of their gaps, 'cause they don't know how to stop spending so much money.

I think you are 100% correct

[Ack-Ack]

The Spanish never colonized the east coast of the North America (Some of this region is known as New England... for a reason).

Look at a map and then tell me that Georgia and Florida are not on the East Coast.  

The only Europeans that I can think of off of the top of my head that colonized parts of this area before the English were the Dutch.

Spain and France.


ack-ack

[Ack-Ack]

Agreed. Wanna speak Spanish? Go to Spain. I don't go to France expecting folk to talk to me in English.

That's a rather ignorant comment but not surprised considering who it came from.


ack-ack

[SIK1]

Look at a map and then tell me that Georgia and Florida are not on the East Coast.  

Careful, I once won a hundred dollars from a guy from Georgia because he said that Georgia didn't border the Atlantic ocean.
Geography can be a great thing.  

[dkff49]

That's a rather ignorant comment but not surprised considering who it came from.


ack-ack

Not sure why you consider Serenity's statement ignorant. I personally feel the same way. I would not go to a foreign country that spoke a different language without the means to translate. To this day think it is rediculous that we as Americans have to have 2 languages posted on every sign and in every telephone answering system.

[CAP1]

That's a rather ignorant comment but not surprised considering who it came from.


ack-ack

not really.
if one wants to come to america and live and work here, then it is their responsibility to learn english, not mine to learn their language.

i actually had a guy got insulted, when i told him i would work on his car when he could tell me what was wrong in english.