Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Here comes BO's 10 % US National Sales tax

[Rick Morris (rick.morris]

I don't think that I am really a Cooter, so I'll just stick with Big R.  :-)
 
Big R

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From: philville dejazzd.com [mailto:philville [at] dejazzd.com]
Sent: Thu 5/28/2009 4:03 PM
To: Rick Morris
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Here comes BO's 10 % US National Sales tax


Have I been demoted to just 'the other Rick' now?  ;-)


How about:

RickredS 

RicksilverB     (AKA Cooter) 



----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Morris <rick.morris [at] brewhaus.com>
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Here comes BO's 10 % US National Sales tax
To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>

> Have I been demoted to just 'the other Rick' now?  ;-)
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Rick Lindsay [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thu 5/28/2009 3:11 PM
> To: Rick Morris
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Here comes BO's 10 % US National 
> Sales tax
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Friends,
>    We are obviously of mixed minds here.  
> Discussions like this are often contested between the "haves" 
> and the "have-nots".  I'm not sure that's the case here in 
> FList land.  Most of us 'have' to some degree.  Hummm...
> 
>    I think it just comes down to the fact that those 
> of us who went to school for a zillion years, have worked hard 
> all of our lives at good jobs, paid our bills, paid our taxes, 
> have a little coin tucked away and have no debt - are being told 
> that we don't deserve anything that we have and that we need to 
> redistribute it to the people who did NOT study, work, pay 
> bills, pay taxes and save - just so that we can all be equals at 
> some low, marginally acceptable level.  That just does not 
> work for me.  One doesn't get from life what one 
> deserves.  One gets what one works for.  (Please 
> pardon the preposition at the end of the sentence.)
> 
>    I know I'm a hard-ass when it comes to this but 
> I've seen both sides.  I grew up poor, descended from an 
> even poorer Scottish family.  I have relatives who do 
> NOTHING but whine - at least when their Oxycontin starts to wear 
> off - and they get more government money than any of us - for 
> doing absolutely NOTHING.  They're ignorant and proud of 
> it, living a lifestyle of "Why work if I can get government 
> money for free?"  That attitude is why communism and 
> socialism does not work.  I've lived in Russia and have 
> seen it first hand.  I don't care if Tim Geitner says, 
> "Soon we won't care how much money we earn.  We'll care 
> about how we live."  That's just naive (and/or more likely, 
> intended for ears other than ours).   Hummm...
> 
>    Socialism feels very "moral high-ground" in concept 
> but it fails because it is counter to basic evolutionary 
> forces.  Life wants to survive and replicate, even if at 
> the expense of others.  We want to win the 
> race/game/contest even though someone else has to loose.  
> Its how life works.  Just look at what people watch on 
> network TV!  We have to compete and we like to win!  
> Winning upsets the balance that socialism tries to establish.
> 
>    The system being forced upon us now is counter to 
> all of that.  Its like saying that all the F1 teams can 
> compete but no one is allowed to win.  They must all be 
> equals.  Someone should take all of Toyota, Ferrari and 
> McLaren's money and give it to Force India so that all of the 
> teams will be equals.  This concept violates the Great 
> Truth of the Universe Rule #14: "No two anythings were ever 
> created equal."  That includes us, brothers.
> 
> rick (That's rick with a small "r", not the other Rick with the 
> big "R")
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