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Riot Erupts As Thousands Fight For Housing Vouchers in Michigan




The future is here.

Via The Blaze:


Applicants for Section 8 housing vouchers in Taylor, Michigan went wild Saturday after authorities asked thousands to return another time, CBS Detroit relates.

Apparently, somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 turned out– some waiting in line all night– but only 1,000 vouchers were available.

CBS Detroit explains:

When it came time for the vouchers to be distributed, police said there was a mad rush for the door, with people jockeying for position to be the first inside the building. Officers tried to control the crowd, but couldn’t. Fearing the situation was more than they could handle, event organizers shut the entire thing down and turned off the lights inside the building. Witnesses say that’s when things really got ugly.

Star Lee, of Romulus, described the scene as complete chaos.

“People just don’t have order to themselves, you know what I mean? People were fighting and throwing chairs, and that’s just not necessary…”

Candice Wacasey, of Taylor, said she was frightened.

“When the lights went out, it went horrible. People started trampling over people, there was a disabled lady that was in a wheelchair, and they was trying to knock her over to get in front of her. I mean, just crazy,” she said.
 
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HYPOCRISY: Top Dems urging Obama to raise debt ceiling all voted against increase in ’06. “Declaring themselves outraged by such spending, Reid, Durbin, Schumer, and Murray all voted against raising the debt limit. So did every other Democrat — including Sen. Barack Obama. But on Friday, the four lawmakers urged now-President Obama not only to raise the ceiling but to do it in a constitutionally risky fashion by going over the head of Congress.”
 
It wasn't from poor dead schlub's memorial site, that's for certain.

I believe I lifted it from another poster here several years ago, the name escapes me.

Thought it was a .gif from the anime Wolf's Rain?

You're right, though. Tons of anime .gifs out there. Not like jacking a dead person's memorial property at all.
 
DUMOH States increase taxes

DUMOH States have increased GUN DEATHS

DUMOH States have record productive people leaving

DUMOH States have LOSERS apologize for them and attack REPOH States

and

U.S. states flirt with major tax changes




By Nanette Byrnes

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina | Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:06am EST

(Reuters) - Hopes for overhauling the federal tax system are fading in Washington, but in some state capitals, tax reform experiments - some far-reaching - are fast taking shape.

Across the South and Midwest, Republicans have consolidated control of state legislatures and governorships, giving them the power to test long-debated tax ideas.

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, for instance, called on Thursday for ending the state's income tax and corporate taxes, with sales taxes compensating for lost revenue.

A similar plan is being pushed by Republicans in North Carolina. Kansas, which cut its income tax significantly last year, may trim further. Oklahoma, which tried to cut income taxes last year, is expected to try again.

"When it comes to getting pro-growth tax reform done this year, the only real opportunities are at the state level," said Patrick Gleason, director of state affairs for Americans for Tax Reform, the Washington-based anti-tax lobbying group headed by small-government conservative activist Grover Norquist.

His group and other conservative pressure organizations, such as Americans for Prosperity, have targeted state capitals for tax reform campaigns.

Cutting income taxes and shifting the overall tax burden to consumption through higher sales taxes is a long-standing goal of some tax theorists. Critics argue that approach is regressive and unfairly burdens the middle class and the poor, who spend more of their earnings on items subject to sales tax.

Nicholas Johnson, a state tax expert with the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, gave the chances of sweeping tax changes taking hold a low probability.

Still, he said he worried the efforts in the states could move the tax discussion in a direction harmful to middle- and low-income taxpayers and make balancing state budgets harder.

"Even if this is too radical, if it makes other radical schemes seem more reasonable, that's worrisome," he said.

SINGLE-PARTY CONTROL

But the political moment may have arrived for a test.

Thirty-seven of the 50 states now have single-party control of legislatures and governorships: 25 Republican, 12 Democratic. In those states, unlike Capitol Hill, partisan gridlock is not a big issue, making difficult projects such as tax reform easier.

In addition, new ideas look attractive in states that have suffered for years from high unemployment and tight revenue

"We have no choice but to make change," said Bob Rucho, a Republican state senator in solidly Republican North Carolina, who is leading a push in that state for major tax changes.

Rucho and other like-minded lawmakers have a plan to do away with all state individual and corporate income taxes. The plan would replace lost revenue with a new business license fee and a higher sales tax on goods and services not now taxed by the state, such as legal, accounting and spa services, and food.

In his inaugural address on Saturday, Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory promised to work with business "as partners" to eliminate taxes and regulation that stifle growth.

Rucho's plan would remake the North Carolina budget, which now derives 65 percent of its $18.5 billion in total tax revenues from individual income and corporate taxes.

To make up for that much lost revenue, the state sales tax rate would have to rise to 6.53 percent from 4.75 percent, according to a supportive study done by a consulting firm run by Arthur Laffer, a former adviser to Republican President Ronald Reagan and one of the fathers of "trickle-down" economics.

SPURRING GROWTH?

U.S. states often test reforms too controversial for Washington to tackle. Although several states, including Texas and Florida, have no individual income tax, Alaska stands out in modern times for having repealed its personal income tax. It was able to replace the lost revenue with its huge state oil income.

The kind of basic shift to sales tax from income tax being eyed by Republicans is informed partly by "trickle-down" or supply-side economics - embraced by Republicans 30 years ago and still a powerful force in the party. Laffer has advised some of the states' activists.

North Carolina's Rucho acknowledged the argument that the poor would be hit disproportionately by higher sales taxes. But he said new sales taxes on services would also hit higher-income taxpayers.

He said low-income people got more government assistance that could help offset higher tax costs. Also, he added, cutting income taxes would spur economic growth, a key supply-side tenet, helping everyone.

In an interview with Reuters, Laffer said states with lower income tax burdens outperformed those with higher taxes.

Some studies, from liberal and non-partisan think tanks, say just the opposite and cite the relative economic strength of high-tax states such as New York.

(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Kim Dixon and Peter Cooney)
 
Soon STOOGE COWARD CURRY and Sundry NIGGERS will be here

SHITTING on R States and extolling the TAX RAISING GUN KILLING UNION LOVING DUMOH STATES

Have at it, NIGGERZ
 
The MorbidlyObeseTroll is a little testy over the lack of Twinkies. :cool:

Look Walmart still has them:D
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Those thirty states still governed by Americans are going to cut taxes in the "American" tradition.

The NIGGERZ and the COWARD STOOGE CURRY's will soon be here

Telling us how those STATES KILL the SICK, give NO healthcare to anyone, Pay $1 an hr to its workers, and pay n pensions at all
 
The NIGGERZ and the COWARD STOOGE CURRY's will soon be here

Telling us how those STATES KILL the SICK, give NO healthcare to anyone, Pay $1 an hr to its workers, and pay n pensions at all

I see you're looking for a rumble as usual, BB man. :rolleyes:
 
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HYPOCRISY: Top Dems urging Obama to raise debt ceiling all voted against increase in ’06. “Declaring themselves outraged by such spending, Reid, Durbin, Schumer, and Murray all voted against raising the debt limit. So did every other Democrat — including Sen. Barack Obama. But on Friday, the four lawmakers urged now-President Obama not only to raise the ceiling but to do it in a constitutionally risky fashion by going over the head of Congress.”

Just another spark that'll eventually help ignite the coming Constitutional War...

btw: it's not "HYPOCRISY.

The act of swearing an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and then intentionally violating that oath and illegally circumventing the Constitution...

...is treason.
 
Just another spark that'll eventually help ignite the coming Constitutional War...

btw: it's not "HYPOCRISY.

The act of swearing an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and then intentionally violating that oath and illegally circumventing the Constitution...

...is treason.

Good luck with getting people to buy that line of BS.
 
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