Tax breaks are given in the interest of bringing jobs to the area; everyone wants to know the presidential candidates’ plans to “create jobs;” community and business leaders go to great lengths to build incentive packages for jobs, jobs, jobs.
Jobs are overrated.
Who wants to build their life around going to a job five days a week, spending most of the daylight hours there, slaving away with little opportunity for serious long-term advancement or change and still not being able to afford all of the junk you’re “supposed” to have?
Why does the government try to push jobs so hard anyway? When did ensuring everyone living on American soil is fully employed become the objective of the federal government, and the difference between 8 and 10 percent unemployment somehow become the standard of well being for the rest of us?
Well, probably about the time that they began taxing the wages earned from those jobs (taxing those dollars as the higher wage rate, rather than the puny capital gains tax rate).
Speaking of the tax rate, does anyone else find it odd that the top-earning U.S. citizens were taxed at a rate of over 90 percent during the same time period that McCarthy and others were jabbering on about the dangers of “communism?” Just asking. It seems a little hypocritical to me.
I urge people to stop dealing in U.S. currency as much as possible. That stuff is not a safe investment and is taxed at too high of a rate. What’s the point of earning all of those U.S. dollars, when in a few years, their value will be cut in half?
Do what you love, what you feel you are called to do. Make alliances with your friends and neighbors, barter where possible, get out of debt and realize that the less you make in U.S. dollars, the less the government will take; focus more on the way you want to live and less on the number of dollars you want to possess.
I’m liking the swap and share ideas put forth by Mr. Egly in this edition. Sporting goods would be a great thing to swap too.
How many people own a tent, but only camp once a year? I’d love to find someone who would use my tennis racket the 362 days of the year I do not, in exchange for letting me use their canoe a couple of times.
Joe Brandon, if you know how to do one thing, it’s drum up publicity. Now the man who’s argued against a mosque in our county says an apartment complex is responsible for one of its residents fatally stabbing another.
Hey, do what you love, but to the other people of the world, know he does not necessarily speak for the whole of Murfreesboro.
I cannot see how awarding this case to the plaintiff (the alleged murderer) would in any way be a good precedent.
“My co-worker is annoying me; I request a transfer. No? OK, I’ll stab him, then sue the employer; they’re the resposible party.”
