Olin wrote:
>>
>> Boston Blackie wrote:
>>> In article
comcast.com>,
>>> "Olin" comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Oh, he saved us from a state income tax all right, but cross over into
>>>> Kentucky and you'll find a state with half the sales tax rate, NO sales
>>>> tax
>>>> on food, lower gasoline taxes, parimutuel betting and bingo.
>>>
>>> But you wouldn't want to live in Kentucky or own stock in a company that
>>> does business there, you get socked with a 6%% income tax in either case
>>
>> Kentucky can 50 cent you to death with toll roads too.
>>
>
> One of the many reasons I don't want to live in Kentucky.
>
>> Seriously, please don't anyone even mention parimutuel gambling. Lord
>> have mercy, as with the income tax, we have *beat that horse to death*
>> in Tennessee. And, to say the least, the recent doings in Shelbyville
>> are glaring evidence that critters here have it rough enough as it is.
>
> There has rarely been any evidence of similar treatment of thoroughbred or
> quarter horse racing animals. The "training" the walking horse goes through
> to get that convoluted gait is barbaric, at the very least.
>
>> Now jai lai I wouldn't mind. I'd never enjoyed any gambling of any
>> kind until I discovered jai lai on a trip to Tampa and came away a
>> winner. What an enjoyable pastime--why isn't it a bigger thing?
>>
>
> It doesn't much matter. Some folks love to gamble. Others don't. If you
> count the Tennessee cars in the parking lots at the casinos in Mississippi,
> Illinois, Indiana and the Indian reservations, as well as the parimutuel
> tracks, horse or dog, you begin to get an idea of what Tennessee is missing
> in tax revenue on that front.
>
> Personally, I've never cared at all for betting on the ponies, partly
> because I don't understand handicapping at all... not even a little. Quarter
> horse racing, most of what you have at Texas parimutuel tracks, throw
> standard handicapping out the window and the one or two times I've gone to
> the track and actually placed a bet, lost ten bucks in one session and
> picked three races correctly in the other and won about twenty bucks.
>
>> (Daddy has always said that anything illegal or immoral you can get by
>> with in Kentucky. : )
>>
>
> No argument, but not the point. I would really love to see an honest
> analysis of the tax bite difference between Kentucky and Tennessee to see if
> we're really getting the better deal. On the things I can easily see, it
> would not appear to be the case.
>
> And that is whether the issue EVER comes up for debate in the legislature
> again or not.
BB was wrong. The sales huge tax difference would benefit "big ticket"
sellers in KY. I'd love to own car delearships in KY, along the TN
border. The tax game played by contiguous States makes for some
shenagans. The 3%% difference on a $30,000 auto is material. IncTaxes
are a result of the games played with accounting.
Accounting sucks, Economists rule~!
30%% sales tax on nonfood, non basic purchases; disband the IRS~!
bushit has destroyed our nation, already on the brink....
as does my plan since we are a consumer driven nation.
There's no hope, eat rice.
Fuck bush, kiss your ass goodbye~!
hahahahaha : ) Lala
