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The Sales Tax proposal might not be a bad idea. I would pretty much stop spending money. I think many, many people would. So if they reflect thier spending on how much they receive, we could be on to something.

But then again, monkeys may fly out of my butt.

For an opposing view on the priceofpete.com check costoffrost.com ...

Interesting to note, too, that while the Democrats point out their GOP opponents support of the National Sales Tax, they always fail to mention that the same proposal eliminates the income tax. So, rather than pay 10 to 38 percent of our income, we'd pay 23% of the money we spend. I wonder which would result in less taxes being paid by the average American? Also, how much money would be saved in just collecting taxes by somewhat eliminating the IRS. Hmmmmmmmmmmm... there's two sides to every story but you wouldn't know it watching and listening to the campaigns.

Even the monkeys continue the "draft" fear campaign? The number of voters between 18 and 30 who believe the draft is likely under Bush is incredibly high considering that Bush and Cheney have repeatedly stated there the military will remain all volunteer. It's sad when the best you can do to get voters to your side is to scare the heck out of them. And contrary to the opinion of the monkeys the scare tactics are being used by the Kerry support base in far greater amounts than the conservative base. The conservative base uses "terrorism" as their scare tactic. The other side uses the draft, basic freedoms, gender, race, and even life itself as their scare tactics. "If you think that rape should be legal then don't vote." "Vote or Die" "The GOP intimidates minority voters." "The GOP keeps women making only 76% of their male counterparts." Sound familiar?

I'm not surprised that the monkeys, like Mr. Kerry, continue to pull bad news headlines and blame them on the President. The Army screwed up, lost explosives, and that is to be blamed on Mr. Bush. A company's production of flu vaccine became contaminated and that's the President's fault. Perhaps, Mr. Rehnquist's cancer and Mr. Clinton's heart attack were Mr. Bush's fault too?

For every group of Republicans or former Bush supporters you find that support Kerry there's an equal and opposing group of Democrats or former Kerry supporters that support Bush. It's funny that Boston's newspaper has endorsed Bush yet I don't find any mention of it along side the Iconoclast from some little town in Texas' endorsement of John Kerry.

http://www.electoral-vote.com is not looking good for the Kerry campaign. Hopefully Kerry and his poli-science fans will continue to pay attention to the national polls. I wonder though, how many of the Democrats who cried about the electoral vote win by Bush 4 years ago, will cry if the EC happens to be won by Kerry. Oh.. probably not because if Bush wins the national majority and Kerry wins the EC then they'll say "fair is fair" which wasn't what they said 4 years ago. Well that's just a bit of pondering.

I'm betting that many of the "first time voters" simply don't bother to vote. It's one thing to register thousands upon thousands upon thousands of voters, it's another thing from them to actually take 10 minutes out of their day to vote.

Nick voters voted for Kerry and they have been right every time since Nick started their thing a few years back. Yet another youth election picked Bush as the winner and they've been right every time too. It'll be interesting to see who wins the election at my 2nd graders school too. She's voting for Bush because "Kerry is making promises he can't keep." (but then that could be the influence of Dad) and she thinks "Mr. Bush is a nice man." (and that's the influence of Dad because I'm more of an "Anybody But Kerry" voter than I am a Bush voter.

For an opposing view on the priceofpete.com check costoffrost.com ...

Interesting to note, too, that while the Democrats point out their GOP opponents support of the National Sales Tax, they always fail to mention that the same proposal eliminates the income tax. So, rather than pay 10 to 38 percent of our income, we'd pay 23% of the money we spend. I wonder which would result in less taxes being paid by the average American? Also, how much money would be saved in just collecting taxes by somewhat eliminating the IRS. Hmmmmmmmmmmm... there's two sides to every story but you wouldn't know it watching and listening to the campaigns.

Even the monkeys continue the "draft" fear campaign? The number of voters between 18 and 30 who believe the draft is likely under Bush is incredibly high considering that Bush and Cheney have repeatedly stated there the military will remain all volunteer. It's sad when the best you can do to get voters to your side is to scare the heck out of them. And contrary to the opinion of the monkeys the scare tactics are being used by the Kerry support base in far greater amounts than the conservative base. The conservative base uses "terrorism" as their scare tactic. The other side uses the draft, basic freedoms, gender, race, and even life itself as their scare tactics. "If you think that rape should be legal then don't vote." "Vote or Die" "The GOP intimidates minority voters." "The GOP keeps women making only 76% of their male counterparts." Sound familiar?

I'm not surprised that the monkeys, like Mr. Kerry, continue to pull bad news headlines and blame them on the President. The Army screwed up, lost explosives, and that is to be blamed on Mr. Bush. A company's production of flu vaccine became contaminated and that's the President's fault. Perhaps, Mr. Rehnquist's cancer and Mr. Clinton's heart attack were Mr. Bush's fault too?

For every group of Republicans or former Bush supporters you find that support Kerry there's an equal and opposing group of Democrats or former Kerry supporters that support Bush. It's funny that Boston's newspaper has endorsed Bush yet I don't find any mention of it along side the Iconoclast from some little town in Texas' endorsement of John Kerry.

http://www.electoral-vote.com is not looking good for the Kerry campaign. Hopefully Kerry and his poli-science fans will continue to pay attention to the national polls. I wonder though, how many of the Democrats who cried about the electoral vote win by Bush 4 years ago, will cry if the EC happens to be won by Kerry. Oh.. probably not because if Bush wins the national majority and Kerry wins the EC then they'll say "fair is fair" which wasn't what they said 4 years ago. Well that's just a bit of pondering.

I'm betting that many of the "first time voters" simply don't bother to vote. It's one thing to register thousands upon thousands upon thousands of voters, it's another thing from them to actually take 10 minutes out of their day to vote.

Nick voters voted for Kerry and they have been right every time since Nick started their thing a few years back. Yet another youth election picked Bush as the winner and they've been right every time too. It'll be interesting to see who wins the election at my 2nd graders school too. She's voting for Bush because "Kerry is making promises he can't keep." (but then that could be the influence of Dad) and she thinks "Mr. Bush is a nice man." (and that's the influence of Dad because I'm more of an "Anybody But Kerry" voter than I am a Bush voter.

I blame the loss of 380 tons of known explosives, locked down by the IAEA and totally ignored by our invasion force to be the fault of Donald Rumsfeld and Condi Rice. I blame Bush for his judgement when hiring a National Security Advisor and Secretary of Defense.

How is the retooling of the IRS going to be funded and after the CPA lobbyists get done with the bill, what's it going to look like? 23% of everything purchased; life insurance, health care costs, everything... the impact of a tax like that will be felt much more dramatically on the poor than it will on those in the middle class. Tea party anyone?

I'll take your "first time voter" bet and fwiw, posting twice doesn't increase emphasis.