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Re: Allred: ticket is 'reverse favoritism'

ryantech — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:02:48 -0400

Was he driving while impaired, over .08 bac? roaring along at 102 mph is pretty scary. Maybe instead of single lawyer, he should hire a consultant to help him.

Re: Allred not done yet, Right Wing conspiracy continues

GiggleBox — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:28 -0400

Paul Stam and Linda Daves clearly had it out for him. Fetzer has yet to weigh in. Just because Fetzer isn't playing for the same team doesn't mean drunk old men hugging teenage girls isn't inappropriate family values behavior.

I just wish this crazy old nut were a Democrat so I could hear more about this case from the N&O (and possibly an interview with his wife), but alas, he nor his party don't matter and thus have done nothing wrong.

Only Democrats get investigated, yet all Allred's go to Heaven.

Hiccup says the NCGOP. Hick. Up.

Re: Allred not done yet

diverdown — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:01:31 -0400

Allred is a joke, the people of Alamance county are glad to get rid of him. I hear that he has been making deputies in his home county misserable for years. I have heard many of them talk about stopping this jerk and then letting him go. I feel sorry for the trooper who stopped him, I bet that trooper knew that if he had given Allred a ticket, supervisors from Raleigh wouldve chewed his rear for not letting him go. so he was in a no win situation. come on people this would be like catching your boss taking too long on a coffee break and then trying to bust him for it. Yeah you win the battle but lose the war.

Mr Allred go home you old goat nobody wants to hear from you ever again, every comment you make only demeans you

Re: Allred not done yet

Isaac136 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:45:57 -0400

Hmmmm. So Allred's problem is that he "got told on." Well, I've never been a huge Stam fan, but I sure want to thank him for helping to get this nut and his alcohol problem off the road.

It's helpful that Allred can't shut up, because the attitude he displays is one widely held (if not so flagrantly demonstrated) by members in both House and Senate, both Republican and Democrat -- and constituents deserve to see that.

The culture of entitlement that men like Allred have for bending the law and dismissing the rules others have to play by (no pawing the pages)is apparently well understood around Raleigh and is apparently well tolerated.

It seems that nothing short of another scandal the size of Jim Black's seems interesting enough to trigger efforts from within the parties to effect meaningful change. Hackney has made inroads with ethics reform, but it's slow going and constrained by the pace of the legislative process, which is further dragged out by the likely disinclination of key players in both houses, from both parties.

One wonders what it will take to create a new climate of genuine intolerance for the "good ole boys and girls" who keep the same old games going year after year.

Everybody shrugs.

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

GiggleBox — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:09:24 -0400

Republicans are so cool.

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

WilmingtonDemocrat — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:38:23 -0400

I was referring to Allred drinking beer and chasing 16 year pages.

I forgot about that Republican Senator from Idaho who was arrested for solicitation in the airport bathroom

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

dubious — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:04:54 -0400

In my book, going 102 in a 60 is more than speeding. It's a total disregard for the lives of everyone else on the road. I hope he likes walking.

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

Steven252525 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:56:54 -0400

ncpoli,

The difference is that Democrats don't prop themselves up a bible thumpers

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

ncpoli — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:43:52 -0400

Nice thought, WilmDem, but speeding's not exactly in the same ballpark.

If you want to talk family values, how about your man R.C. down there?

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

WilmingtonDemocrat — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:11:32 -0400

Another fine example from a member of the family values party! Allred, Sanford, Ensign, Vetter et al!

Re: Allred pleads guilty to driving 102

bniolet — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:06:23 -0400

Comment deleted for inappropriate content. BN

Re: Foriest: We made hard choices

TruthNGovt — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:01:15 -0400

Hard choices?? You raised the sales tax, the income tax.... Any idiot could have come up with that in 5 minutes. Why did it take so long?? Enjoying that per diem at the taxpayer's expense, I bet. How is it Dumpling can afford a new communications director?

Re: Foriest: We made hard choices

dahedgehog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:07:04 -0400

Burlington's economy must be booming:

"When I walk down the street in Alamance County, 12 out of every 100 people, they're not working right now," (Ingle) said.

They've got a shocking number of people working in Burlington considering that the national employment-population ratio is at 59.4. That means that 40 out of every 100 people walking down the street in the rest of the country are not working. I'm amazed that Burlington is doing so well!

Re: Dome Memo: Polls, attacks and taxes

rpkt06 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:15:27 -0400

Actually sir, The cause of the Great Depression…. Hoover signed the Revenue Act – largest tax increase in peacetime history – doubling the income tax. The top bracket went from 24 to 63 percent. Then congress passed the Smoot Hawley tariff act of 1930. In addition to this, the discount rate to banks was increased four times, 3.5 percent to 6 percent from 1928-30/slashing the money supply by 30%. 1932 FDR ran on platform of radically cutting taxes, but did no such thing. FDR raised the corporate tax rate from 79 to 90 percent and instituted National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which forced manufacturing industries into government mandated cartels and empowered massive Federal bureaucracy to dictate pricing standards.

Entrepreneurs are among America's greatest resources. These individuals try to change the status quo because they expect to use resources to create higher value than those resources are currently pro¬ducing. This takes investments, and investments are risky. The return to these investments is the economic growth that they create, which is profit.
Corporations are often per¬sonified and demonized, but a corporation is a legal entity, not an actual person. Because a corporation is made up of a group of individuals but is not actually an individual, corporate taxes are really taxes on the stakeholders in the corporation. In a U.S. Treasury report, William Gentry pointed out that empirical studies show that employees and consumers really bear the cost of corporate and investment taxes.
Eliminating the corporate tax would also encour¬age owners to hire and train people and to invest in their workforces because a more competitive tax structure would give corporations a greater incen¬tive to domicile in the U.S. Further, higher levels of investment would require new skills of employees. As these investments paid off, economic growth would occur.
Employees bear much of the tax burden through lower wages. Tax¬ing something will reduce the supply of that item or activity. Taxing businesses reduces business opera¬tions, which means that businesses pay less in wages to employees or hire fewer employees. Con¬versely, eliminating the corporate income tax would encourage more businesses to form, which would increase competition for labor and apply upward pressure on wages, as the simulation results show.
The modern conveniences of the American stan¬dard of living required business investments in the past. The jobs that people hold today were created through past successful investments by entrepre¬neurs. Conversely, most people do not realize that they perhaps lost job opportunities because the U.S. corporate tax is higher than the corporate tax rates of almost all other developed countries.[17]
Repealing the corporate income tax is a relatively low-cost way to implement the President's stated goals. At a time when U.S. employees are seeing jobs leave the country, a tax plan that increases the competitiveness of the U.S. business environment and encourages saving and investment by individu¬als would allow entrepreneurs to implement their ideas for dealing with the challenges of the 21st cen¬tury. It would also encourage job-creating busi¬nesses to locate in the U.S. It is important that this country's leaders signal that the United States is still the land of opportunity.

Re: Dome Memo: Polls, attacks and taxes

greenswamp — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:39:23 -0400

This cutting taxes for the businesses and wealthy is such a failed concept. Rich people tend to hoard money, not spend it and certainly not pass it down to the less rich. This same type of tax structure was part and party to the Great Depression because the rich would only by so many radios and cars but yet had all of the county's expendable money at that time. All trickle down does is stagnate the currency flow. It's complete failure showed up at the ends of both Reagan and G W Bush terms. I think it has had a fair shot.