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Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
It's fun to look at the overlap between states near the bottom in federal tax dollars received per tax dollars paid (as shown at wvfii's link) and the states that moved most enthusiastically to approve the 16th Amendment and implement federal taxation as we know it. (Source: http://www.usconstitution.net/constamrat.h…)
Among the most parasitic states today: SC (35), OK (36), MT (40), KY (41), SD (43), AL (44), MS (49).
The first 20 to ratify the taxing amendment:
1 Alabama Aug 10, 1909
2 Kentucky Feb 8, 1910
3 South Carolina Feb 19, 1910
4 Illinois Mar 1, 1910
5 Mississippi Mar 7, 1910
6 Oklahoma Mar 10, 1910
7 Maryland Apr 8, 1910
8 Georgia Aug 3, 1910
9 Texas Aug 16, 1910
10 Ohio Jan 19, 1911
11 Idaho Jan 20, 1911
12 Oregon Jan 23, 1911
13 Washington Jan 26, 1911
14 Montana Jan 30, 1911
15 Indiana Jan 30, 1911
16 California Jan 31, 1911
17 Nevada Jan 31, 1911
18 South Dakota Feb 3, 1911
19 Nebraska Feb 9, 1911
20 North Carolina Feb 11, 1911
Surely the Teeps must wonder sometime: What would have made anyone vote to impose a federal income tax on the country? What part of "No new taxes!" did folks not understand? The liberal states must have plotted to make it happen, right?
Nope. That list of early tax endorsers is mighty red today. But the Alabamas, Kentuckys and South Carolinas of a century ago clearly somehow intuited that a federal income tax was going to be a good deal for them. And it sure has been.
Re: “Bonnaroo Saturday, 6/15/13 [Jack Johnson, Björk, Billy Idol, Nas, Dwight Yoakam, R. Kelly, Weird Al, William Tyler and More]”
Yeah, that was definitely her. Thanks Maloney, every time I tried to google it turned up dominatrix porn.
Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
This has been true for years. Tennessee couldn't balance its budget without federal dollars.
And the sad part is that the state used to be so well managed that Tennessee got more bang for its state and federal buck than just about any other state in the country, which is why we have had the lowest per capita debt of any state in the nation and one of the best funded public pensions for so many years. But the current governing crowd is all about firing people who used to do the job of making sure the state functioned efficiently, handing out no-bid contracts to cronies, and undermining the pension to the benefit of investors and brokers.
I worry about the future of Tennessee, with the decisions that are being made by the legislature and the executive.
Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
wvfii, you nailed it. The teanuts simply refuse to accept any fact not in their distorted worldview. That's why it's so frustrating trying to engage them. Reason, logic, facts, truth, decency, have no impact on them whatsoever. They are so damned ignorant.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
Yet, despite my "feeble" (?) attempt, you chose to take up your valuable time and comment, clumsily perhaps, but comment none the less. Hmmm...........
Re: “Metro Council, Shrink Thyself”
Considering the congress (each member) has full research capabilities via their staff and STILL rely upon lobbyist and special interest originated information, your suggestion might sound reasonable, but falls far short. The answer, and only answer is to allow ONLY public funding of campaigns, outlaw PAC money in government, and reject ANY concept of corporate citizenship and the damage that money as free speech gifts us with!
That being said a significant reduction in council districts seems to be a step in the right direction.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Min.-while I appreciate your pointing out correctly the Clampetts were from Ark. My point
was in Europe they thought all folks from the south were part of the Clampetts, which
state didn't matter.
Re: “Pie It Forward: Free Pie in Downtown Nashville Tomorrow”
Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me?
Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
let me try that link again...
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/fed-t…
Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
LOOOOL. i LOVE pointing this out to teapartying nitwits. they never believe it though, since it doesn't fit their idiotic (and easily disproved) narrative.
another along the same lines: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/fed-t…
Texas is the only "red" state that pays more than it receives in federal aid.
per usual, when it comes to modern (fake) conservatives: socialism for ME, not for thee.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
I think it's generally accepted that the Clampetts are from the Arkansas Ozarks (although it could have been the bootheel of Missouri, which is where Paul Henning, the creator, was from). Granny states several times that she is from Tennessee, but she was Jed's mother in law and therefore not actually a Clampett.
Re: “Metro Council, Shrink Thyself”
Also 20 would be easier for the big business interests to buy or intimidate than 40.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
@Min: I always figgered the Clampetts were from West (by god) Virginia. They got rich by stumbling across oil while "digging for some food and up from the ground came bubbling crude" and as far as I know there is no oil wells in the Ozarks. (There are several leaky pipelines.) However, The Clampetts were a script writer's made up family so he might have thought the Ozarks were in Texas or Oklahoma. Come to think of it the Ozarks might barely touch Oklahoma. Anyway, the way scriptwriters butcher facts about things I do know, I would never accept anything from a script writer or, nowadays, an AP reporter, as fact without further research.
Re: “The Civil Wars’ ‘The One That Got Away’ [Fresh Vid]”
needs more candlelight! i like this song.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Just because it fits the thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOeYBm4CrI
They pollute the White Race and give us a bad name
Think a sister and a wife are one in the same!
Listen to Skynyrd during the day on the job
Chain-smoking hillbilly, whiskey-drinking slob!
Beats the wife daily for sucking negro dick
White trash families just don't deserve to live!
White waste-of-life thinks he's a real man
Sittin' around, getting fat and drinking Bud in a can!
A negro fucked an ape - so AIDS was born
And White trash is the result of the Vietnam War!
They pollute the White Race and give us a bad name
Think a sister and a wife are one in the same!
Listen to Skynyrd during the day on the job
Chain-smoking hillbilly, whiskey-drinking slob!
Beats the wife daily for sucking negro dick
White trash families just don't deserve to live!
Trailer parks and pick-up trucks! White Trash Sucks!
Led Zeppelin and cheap fucks! White Trash Sucks!
White Trash sucks!
White waste-of-life thinks he's a real man!
Sittin' around, getting fat and drinking Bud in a can!
A negro fucked an ape - So AIDS was born
And White trash is the result of the Vietnam War!
Re: “Symphony Lays Off Entire Catering and Dining Staff”
There is quite a good cafe there that's open every week day, if not more often; I wonder if these staff members are the ones running that.
Re: “I Think I Know How the Republicans Could Use Scott DesJarlais”
Why use DesJarlais when they can go to Dr. Burgess?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/18/rep_mike_burgess_of_texas_suggests_banning_abortion_because_fetuses_masturbate.html
Re: “Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 136”
Tag-tastic!!
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
You just have to go outside Nashville and its suburbs, and you have the stereotypes that the guy was pissed about not seeing.
Hillbillies come from the hills, the sticks, the hollers and mountains. You can't make moonshine or meth in the city like you can in rural areas if your business plan lasts more than a few months. People in the less populated counties don't get in such a twist about kissing cousins and using all-terrain vehicles as primary forms of transportation.
I'm not saying every rural Tennessean fits the stereotypes, but they became famous for a reason.
Re: “Metro Council, Shrink Thyself”
"The answer, and only answer is to allow ONLY public funding of campaigns, outlaw PAC money in government, and reject ANY concept of corporate citizenship and the damage that money as free speech gifts us with!"
Jim, spoken like someone who has absolutely no understanding of how elections work.
Without the money to get out a message, political free speech is a myth. It takes money to get out a message. It takes money to run the daily operation of a campaign.
Public funding only results in greater protection for incumbents. And it does not reduce the power of special interests. Every single issue group in America secretly dreams of government funding because then their volunteers will be dramatically more valuable.
You can write off efforts to campaign in rural areas and other lightly inhabited places.