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Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
You guys are missing a few things: You're failing to consider that Tennessee has two large cities that comprise one third of the state's population with half those people not paying taxes but receiving benefits, thus skewing the percentages. And some of you are showing your ignorance by forgetting, or not knowing, that Tennessee is rated one of the best ran states when it comes to collecting and spending tax dollars. Also there is a lack of definition - is federal aid total federal spending or just welfare spending because total spending would include BLM land, military, Oak Ridge, highways, etc. But so far as the comments go some of you fired up your keyboards before you thought things through. And with some of you that is always so. I repeat: Tennessee is rated one of the best ran states - you gotta overcome that before negative comments ring true.
Re: “Bonnaroo Saturday, 6/15/13 [Jack Johnson, Björk, Billy Idol, Nas, Dwight Yoakam, R. Kelly, Weird Al, William Tyler and More]”
She came out later about 1/2 way through when I was watching, around 3 or so. Maybe you just saw the warm up. She kind of got em in line.
Re: “Tennessee's Stiff-Arm Is an Outstretched Hand”
Great. Now extract Social Security and military spending out of it. Texas suddenly takes on a much grayer hue, as does Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, and Georgia. Now extract New Orleans from Louisiana and see what happens. See how it looks without all of that Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard spending.
This same dishonest graphic gets passed around every six months or so, and it's still as dishonest every time that happens.
Re: “Bonnaroo Saturday, 6/15/13 [Jack Johnson, Björk, Billy Idol, Nas, Dwight Yoakam, R. Kelly, Weird Al, William Tyler and More]”
Yeah I dunno. I looked up Katey Red on my youtube box & thats not what I saw. What I saw was much more vulgar. And Katey Red wasnt up there
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.
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: “Bonnaroo 2013: Around Centeroo”
I have gone to 8 Bonnaroo's. About five years ago MTV bought the Bonnaroo farm from Superfly. It has gone down hill from that point on. It was all general admission. Today we have a V.I.P. section that gets bigger each year, MTV is out to make as much money as possible. THe five dollar beer is now a ten dollar beer. They have put huge buildings in front of the stage (beer stands and huge light stands and sound stands). They have a beer tent next to the" Which" tent (this is the 2nd largest stage). The sound is worse at this stage than anyother. Do not plan on seeing anything on this stage because a beer tent is now in the back of the "Which" tent area and they have a band that plays for about 50 drunks and the sound is as loud as the "Which" tent, the second largest stage. They do not like to turn the sound up on the "Which" stage, until people complain. The people camping are great and you will have a good time. They sell so many tickets that you can not get close enough to the stage to hear it that well (you could in the early days). You can do any drug in the open or on the camp sight. They sort of check for illegal drugs when you go in. MTV means more rap. They tried heavy metal but it did not go over well. All of this cuts in on the Folk, rock, jam bands and alternate rock. You get a lot of MTV crap. I had a good time and Paul was worth the price of admission. Wilco, Byrne, Sheepdog, same trailer different park, were great but a lot of the stuff you could not hear. I don;t understand why they have a comedy tent but they do, it's MTV crap.