Waterfront Poor

[fatlazyless]

"Don't fall for it." says ITD. Hey, what the closing of Wasau Paper in Groveton means is it's also the closing for www.goroehl.com, or www.roehldriver.com at the same time. Roehl had a long time established freight route between Groveton and Ohio & Indiana to some big magazine-book publishing places. Good bye job, but the property tax, unlike an income tax, never goes away! ...later

[brk-lnt]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

"Don't fall for it." says ITD. Hey, what the closing of Wasau Paper in Groveton means is it's also the closing for www.goroehl.com, or www.roehldriver.com at the same time. Roehl had a long time established freight route between Groveton and Ohio & Indiana to some big magazine-book publishing places. Good bye job, but the property tax, unlike an income tax, never goes away! ...later

Why would Roehl also have to close down?

[Weirs guy]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

"Don't fall for it." says ITD. Hey, what the closing of Wasau Paper in Groveton means is it's also the closing for www.goroehl.com, or www.roehldriver.com at the same time. Roehl had a long time established freight route between Groveton and Ohio & Indiana to some big magazine-book publishing places. Good bye job, but the property tax, unlike an income tax, never goes away! ...later

First of all it stinks you've lost your job less, not something I would wish on anyone and a difficult situation.

Now lets ask this, had we have had an income tax that would have "gone away" with your job, would you still not have a light bill, propane bill, food, clothes, gas, cable, phone, ect.?

While you are not paying your income tax, does the government stop spending your portion, say perhaps the portion of your taxes the government would have use to pay unemployment benefits?

Theres still no easy answer, someone still needs to either feed the tax beast, or curtail it. I vote to curtail!

[ITD]

The thing about an income tax, is when you lose your job you still have to pay it on your unemployment income. Where does the unemployment income come from you ask? Why it comes from taxes. So you pay income tax on tax being disbursed.

Speaking of paying taxes on taxes, I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong, but don't state income taxes have to be paid on Social Security payments. Yep, I'm pretty sure it does. Imagine that, having to pay property tax AND income tax on your Social Security payment.


Oh, wait a minute, the $22,000 exemption, hmmm, yeah that should protect Social Security payments, I wonder if that would ever make it to the final new tax legislative bill....

Don't fall for it..........

[fatlazyless]

Here's some more info on the big primary turn-out for the Democrats.

"Since 1980, there have been four primaries where both parties had contested primary elections: 1988, 1992, 2000,and 2008.

In 1988, 1992, and 2000, there were more votes cast in the Republican primaries than in the Democratic primaries. The Republican margin was almost 40,000 votes in 1988 and almost 80,000 votes in 2000.

So, to see in tuesday's primary a Democratic margin of 48,671 votes would indicate a big change and bode well for NH Democrats."
Ron Klain, NY Times

Reading election result tea leaves is probably just a lot of talk, and what counts is the November election but it is pretty interesting don't you think?

How do you think Senator Sununu feels about this party turn-out switcheroo what with his predicted close battle with three term Governor Jeanne Shaheen?

Here's an easier way to digest the primary turnout. Out of the total of all votes cast, it was 56% Democratic verses 44% Republican. This is a very big switch from the results of the prior primaries.

"The number of votes cast in the NH Republican primary this year, 238,548, is about the same as the 236,802 cast in 2000 according to Wikipedia, the last time that it was contested.

However, 258,322 votes were cast in the NH Democratic primary this year compared to only 154,639 in 2000. That's huge.

It means the higher Democratic participation didn't come out of Republican participation. (Glossing over any demographic changes in the intervening years, since I didn't have that data readily available.) Almost 130,000 more NH primary votes were cast this year than in 2000, and almost all of that increase was on the Democratic side.

Wow! What's the opposite of "voter apathy?"

...Posted by Daniel D. (Independent in Oregon)
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So, why am I voting for Romney anyway? Oh yeah...the Winnipesaukee summer white house and the waterski vote. Mitt can still set an old wood stepladder on top of an old wood aquaboard and waterski that setup all around the scary waters of two mile long, Rattlesnake Island.....now, that's a presidential balancing act!

[Island Girl]

Tell Mitt to stay away from Rattlesnake Island.. we don't need the Secret Service crawling around on the island ....