How have you managed that? I haven’t even gotten around to listing them yet!
How is it doing now?
Thick-headed lazy people will always do poorly. I’m tired of paying the bill for it, that’s all.
I can see now why you’d want to get rid of regulations.
Doesn’t that tax go to the states? Before the federal/Canadian agreement you’d have to fill out paperwork for each state you operated in, right? So you want to return to a time of more paperwork and more red tape, permits for and inspections at the entry to each state? Interesting. Do I have that mixed up? I’d honestly like to know if I do.
Also, and I’m letting you in on a secret here, if you aren’t making enough because of a tax you need to charge more. That chunk of business advice was free, because I like helping idiots. 
You have the details right, but you missed the forest for the trees. I was responding to the ridiculous idea that there would be no funds for the highways without a bloated income tax. Imagine 100,000 miles per year, $0.12 per mile, per truck, per year. That’s $12,000 per year, per truck. There are an estimated $15.5 million trucks on the road. That’s $186,000,000,000 per year in IFTA taxes alone, not to mention the tolls and non-commercial fuel taxes. If they can’t fix the roads for what they’re charging in taxes, maybe the money is being siphoned off somewhere else? More government definitely won’t make that situation better!
Thank you kindly. When I pass your helpful information on to my customers, I’m sure that they will understand and agree with you, and be more than happy to fork over the money to pay the tax. Going with a different carrier will never cross their minds.
Ah, that makes sense. I appreciate the context. Although I would suppose that fixing the roads is pretty expensive. But I have no specific information about the amounts.
If your competitors can afford to do it don’t they deserve to run you out of business? Rarw! Survival of the fittest y’all!
You think you do, but you don’t really. The regulations have done nothing to keep pilots and drivers from falling asleep, and they may have actually made the situation worse.
If your competitors can afford to do it don’t they deserve to run you out of business? Rarw! Survival of the fittest y’all!
Absolutely, although I fail to see how that has nothing to do with taxes.
Well, that wasn’t the point I was trying to make, but I’m glad you got a chuckle out of it.
No, I really do. I was just saying the other day that what we need are more pilots not sleeping or eating, that have unfettered access to unregulated narcotics, and nothing to discourage their use. I can’t imagine anything going wrong.
I don’t have to imagine. Whereas you are just parroting back the same bullshit that the media has fed you, I’ve been there. This carrier, for instance
http://www.baaa-acro.com/Compagnies%20S/SMB%20Stage%20Line.htm
had one of the worst collections of alcohols and druggies to terrorize the skies, yet their safety record was outstanding. Out of the five incidents mentioned (I am familiar with the details of all five), not one had anything to do with alcohol or drugs. In fact…
Not ONE aviation accident, in any airline, has ever been proven to have been caused by illegal drug use.
So, I have to ask…what is the justification for spending billions of dollars on drug testing?
Hey, you brought it up, man…
Not one person has escaped from Pelican Bay. So why spend millions on guards? :rolleyes:
Jesus fuck, is every single libertarian a fucking idiot?
Well, it’s a damned sight less than the hundreds of billions future tea partiers insisted we spend on protecting Americans from Saddam’s nonexistant WMD’s. It’s still peanuts compared to the bloated defense budget. If tea partiers want to be taken seriously on their 'fiscal conservatism" they need to point at something more substantial than pilot drug testing and “torte[sup]*[/sup] reform.”
Braying about picayune shit just feeds ignorance by cluttering up the national dialog. Is that a tea party value?
At this point, it seems likely that it is.
[sup]*[/sup] Linzer or Sachertorte?
Hey, I’m right there with you. I know personally I’d perform surgery considerably better high as a kite, but the fucking government won’t let me. Meanwhile, not one patient has died because their doctor was coked out of his mind, not one! But the big threat they have against me is that they’ll pull my license. Why the fuck do I need a license to practice medicine. If I’m good at it, patients will pay me, if I kill people, they won’t.
And these fucking DUI laws are the biggest pain in the ass. Do I really need to wait an hour to sober up before I drive to work? It’s stop and go traffic anyways, are you seriously telling me I can’t do that drunk?
Your logic is flawed. We never had a Pelican Bay without guards. We had a very nice transportation system without drug testing…
…until Robert DuPont invented the first urine test, and the Reagans owned Dupont stock, and then guess what…
Suddenly, the nation has a drug problem, and it’s more important than any other issue! Drug test everyone, even the janitors, before something happens and your children are killed! Oh, my God! Up springs a multibillion dollar urine testing business, which, like taxes, leeches from the economy and produces nothing.
This is what I’m talking about when I say that to put your faith neither in government nor in big business. They are in cahoots with each other, trying to get you to take “sides” instead of thinking about what is actually going on.
Putting down the crack pipe might be a good idea. I am talking about drug testing, which has nothing to do with what condition a person is in while working.
What does drug testing in the airline industry have to do with driving your car to work? Or are we doing another strawman argument?
Oh, really?
http://www.internet-grocer.net/weapons.htm
There is a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be cut. My guess is that the Tea Party’s list is short, compared to mine.
Acune idée. I don’t think they have agreed on a list of values.
Now I’m confused. Are you saying I shouldn’t operate stoned out of my mind?
If pilots can do their job all hopped up on goof balls, why can’t I?
Wow. You’re more of an idiot than I thought. You actually believe that Saddam had WMD? Okay then. I guess there’s not point talking to you. I’m sorry to bring facts to your ignorance jamboree.
Tell me about Obama’s birth certificate, why don’t you?
Nope. I don’t know much about the practical end of the medical business, and you’re comparing apples to oranges anyway, so I’m not going to respond to that stupid comment.
Geez, and to think, someone accused ME of making strawman arguments? I didn’t say that anyone should do their job while under the influence.
Does this mean that you have a comment about the two links that I posted, or that you have other information to share? Or do you just feel better for having called me an idiot?
What would you like to know about Obama’s birth certificate?