From: NT on
On May 14, 7:00 am, The Daring Dufas <the-daring-du...(a)peckerhead.net>
wrote:
> A Moose In Love wrote:
>
> > On May 13, 9:44 pm, Eric <pag...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> What are currently your best saving tips you recommend and also
> >> practice, relating
> >> to how you make your money go much further than it used to, whether
> >> it's for
> >> food - weekly living expenses, home and financial investment, etc.
>
> > i eat potatoes and carrots STOP today i got 10 pounds of Yukon Gold
> > potatoes for $1.99 STOP  so i made potato paprikash STOP
>
> Oh stop it!
>
> TDD

Maybe they're using the internet by pigeon protocol


NT
From: Lou on

"Colbyt" <colbyt@-SPAMBLOCK-lexkyweb.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Lou" <lpogoda(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:huk61j$sef$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "Tony Sivori" <TonySivori(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2010.06.07.05.18.20.351494(a)yahoo.com...
>>> Colbyt wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Contrary to what someone one else posted this may be true. Kentucky
>>> > had
>>> > an intangible property tax like that until a few years ago.
>>>
>>> I've lived in and filed taxes in Kentucky for many years. I've never
>>> paid
>>> the first penny of tax on any bank account balance.
>>>
>> I don't anything about taxes in Kentucky, but whether or not you actually
>> paid a certain tax doesn't really tell us anything about whether or not
>> such
>> a tax existed. It doesn't even tell us if you had a bank balance to pay
>> taxes on.
>>
>>
>
> Actually Tony's claim would be accurate for Kentucky based banks. Funds
> on deposit in banks located in KY were exempt from the tax. The banks were
> required to pay the tax but not the depositor.
>
> Money in out of state banks, money market funds, stocks and bonds were all
> taxed.
>
> I think it was that exemption that helped in the over-turning of this
> onerous tax.
>
Make sense - it sounds to me like it would violate the interstate commerce
clause of the constitution.