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January 18th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Wonder how soon the White House Tzars will attempt to punish you Reactionaries?
January 18th, 2012 at 10:56 am
Prone to ridiculous laws with a mealy mouth governor with schizophrenic since of justice….
January 18th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Now, if you could just quit being 36th in per capita income, 21st in Federal aid from tax dollars, and 4th in infant mortality you’d be getting somewhere :).
January 18th, 2012 at 11:24 am
That income thing is very true. In an area where the taxes are low the income also tends to be low because there is nothing to tax…. If everyone in Tennessee where living the good life the hell would be taxed out of you…
January 18th, 2012 at 11:37 am
You don’t need to tax much when you’re nearly in the top quintile for Federal largesse received either.
Doesn’t seem to be doing much for infants though.
I don’t doubt that TN is a cool place to live and I’m certainly not in favor of bagging on Tennesseans per se…but a little perspective seems in order.
January 18th, 2012 at 11:55 am
Wow, Sebastian. Who pissed in your cheerios this morning?
January 18th, 2012 at 11:55 am
It was also rated #1 in corruption — with special mention of “Public Corruption, Racketeering and Extortion”
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=121960&provider=rss
Or have we forgotten the legions of LEOs sitting by the side of I-40 (Southbound, of course) just waiting to pounce on unsuspecting out-of-state drivers and steal their “drug cash”? In case we have forgotten, let’s go back to the tape, shall we:
January 18th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Awwwww….I’m sooooo sawwwwwwy you find a wittle bit of perspective so fucking upsetting.
Actually…no. I’m not.
January 18th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Atomic nerds is down today due to SOPA protest but this is still aplicable.
http://www.atomicnerds.com/?p=5480
“No matter what point you are trying to get across, lesson you are trying to instill, or argument you are trying to make, it is entirely possible that the single biggest and indeed most important thing you will teach your audience, subject, or opponent is that you are an asshole.”
January 18th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
“You don’t need to tax much when you’re nearly in the top quintile for Federal largesse received either.”
Its true we have “Blue” counties in TN, there is no denying it.
We also produced Algore, and Andrew Jackson…so kind of a push there.
Oh, and Megafox.
January 18th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
You’re welcome for Megafox, BTW.
January 18th, 2012 at 12:35 pm
One man’s voice of reason is another man’s asshole…or freedom fighter.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I like the #1 for low taxes and limited regulation thing. That’s a good thing.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Geez, man, switch to decaf or something.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Oh you were being funny?
My bad.
January 18th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
There was a site I saw some time ago that ranked states based on the percentage of total revenue from in-state versus out-of-state sources. Nevada, for example, has no income tax, due in part to the fact that a significant slice of Nevada tax revenues are effectively paid by tourists (through the gaming taxes) rather than locals.
January 18th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Sebastien’s cheerios come pre-pissed.
January 18th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
With unemployment at 9.1 (compared to Taxachussets 7.0)… ok then.
January 18th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
One perspective is that Tenn. came out looking good on that scale, because everybody else is so over-regulated. Believe me, we have plenty of bureaucratic, regulatory overlay. Sort of like the US dollar being OK because everywhere else in the world is economic bedlam.
January 19th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Anyone who doesn’t like Tn can do us all a favor and stay out or move on.
We have plenty to improve on, but it’s a great place to live and work.