Thread: Lindsey Vonn's Gold Medal transfer

Originally Posted by ***COMMANDER***

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

The endless pursuit of money is what they give up.

And yall can live off the government all you want..... In America, we love to make money and work hard. It inspires people to create new businesses and have them thinking about what else they can do to excel.

If everybody made the same money, no matter if they worked or how hard they worked and had everything given to them (which will devalue your currency), such as medical, then you would have a bunch of lazy people with no incentive to get off their butts and do something.

It blows me to see that some people accept this crazy notion.

Yeah those Frenchies and their 9th highest GDP, their 9.7% unemployment, 6th highest in exports, and the euros per US dollar exchange rate of 0.7338. Yeah they are totally sitting around on their butts not doing anything .
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/fr.html

Originally Posted by ***COMMANDER***

I like freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I do not like a communist government and being told what I can and can't do and how much I can and can not make.

If people want to be controlled like monkeys or slaves, then they need to move to those countries already set up like that, but this is America, home of the free and brave.

Piss on anything short of that.

And people are coming to their senses and those sneaky little provisions that have been rammed into these "hurry up and pass this bill" are being caught on to and companies in America like to make money and this is why they have stopped millions of dollars of funding going to their politicians that they THOUGHT were for them, but now finding out , that they are being backstabbed and played like a banjo.

They people are coming to the truth of where this Administration was steering this country and now that they have had a little time to see what is going on, it is losing all the pizazz that it once had on empty promises and are realizing that they have been mislead to force and push the communist agenda to give all the money and power to the politicians and government and like I said before, this is the home of the free, with liberties and justice for all.

God Bless America. They home of the brave, the free, with liberties, and rights for all of the free.

We really need to put the pressure on the ones that are pushing this and endangering our freedom, rights and liberties.

Oh noes the communist are here to ruin us all....

oh wait the only power any communist have in the U.S. is when they vote.The closest is a socialist and only one of them in any real power. should i start calling abyone for small government anarchist? since it'd be the same as saying the commies are taking over.

Originally Posted by MPDCSM416

Ranger, something else that has some input on the lifestyle in Europe. When I lived in Germany, I learned that they are taxed not only on income and what they buy, but also what they own. So every year at tax time they have to turn in a list of property they own and pay a tax on it. So if they owned 3 high dollar HD TV's and a big house and 3 cars, it's going to cost them every year just to keep them. Imagine for a minute if you had to pay, say 2% tax, on the value of everything you own, how much stuff would you get rid of at tax time.

This is false.

There is a TV license tax and it exists in many countries. Basically it pays for the public televisionprogramming. Here are a list of countries that have it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

As far as taxes on cars, every country including ours taxes it's citizens on the ownership of a vehicle. It's called registration and tag fees.

And lastly, just about every country has property tax for those that own a home.

So no, you don't pay a tax on everything you own. You pay taxes on certain items that are common in many countries.