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z1ggy

z1ggy

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dank69 said:
That's the price we pay for living in the greatest state in the nation. The use of the word excessive seems excessive to me. It's not like we get that much snow here.
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Nothing great about CT really except for the fact it's kind of close to the beach.
 
AdamK47

AdamK47

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It's the 1% of the 1% that are pulling up the average household income of the 1%. I'd be interested to seeing the figures with a bottom 98 percentile of the 1%.
 
Mai72

Mai72

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I'm in Thailand. Everybody here thinks that I'm a 1%.

In reality I'm in the other 99%. :(
 
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T9D

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That's it?? Everyone makes it sound like every 1% is a multi billionaire. These are the people everyone wants to hang and says they have unjustly stolen from and oppressed the people? lol.
 
dank69

dank69

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T9D said:
That's it?? Everyone makes it sound like every 1% is a multi billionaire. These are the people everyone wants to hang and says they have unjustly stolen from and oppressed the people? lol.
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No, you're thinking of the 0.01%
 
dank69

dank69

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z1ggy said:
Like.... Native Americans? Or Pilgrims. Either way, probably not.
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No, I mean like the best of the best. The most civilized place on earth. Fabulously wealthy and progressive without the filth of NY or the vapidity of CA.

And yes, close to the beach. :D
 
Coulrophobia

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Net worth would be a better measure probably. I know some high income earners that live paycheck to paycheck.
 
rh71

rh71

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dank69 said:
That's the price we pay for living in the greatest state in the nation. The use of the word excessive seems excessive to me. It's not like we get that much snow here.
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There's 2 things I don't like about NY and it's the cold/snow that we already do get - although some is fine - and the taxes from every direction (pisses me off that civil servants make so much off of us - unions).

I am always trying to think of better states to move to. I would like to love CT but it's not better in any other way. Not the weather, beaches, entertainment, and not the food. I should start a thread.
 
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z1ggy

z1ggy

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dank69 said:
No, I mean like the best of the best. The most civilized place on earth. Fabulously wealthy and progressive without the filth of NY or the vapidity of CA.

And yes, close to the beach. :D
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Sure, if you're in western CT down by the city. Otherwise, mehhhhh it's really nothing great.
 
z1ggy

z1ggy

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rh71 said:
There's 2 things I don't like about NY and it's the cold/snow that we already do get - although some is fine - and the taxes from every direction (pisses me off that civil servants make so much off of us - unions).

I am always trying to think of better states to move to. I would like to love CT but it's not better in any other way. Not the weather, beaches, entertainment, and not the food. I should start a thread.
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I think it depends what type of living you like. City, suburban, rural? Conservative or liberal?

I've only ever lived in the Northeast, so it's hard for me to comment much. I have been to plenty of other states, but only spent a few days or even just hours there.
 
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rh71

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^ suburban for sure and I'm torn between liberal/conservative (I actually had to look it up). We have the nice safe suburbs here and all the amenities (although some things are getting a bit dated-looking). I just really hate how everyone has their hand in our pockets and not even for good reason. Selfish - pay for my pension and healthcare while I hide under the umbrella of the union. Meanwhile, shit only gets done when it has to and not because "oh that would be nice for us to have". I would move just to spite them, but along come more people just to fill my spot anyway. What do they care? The money will always keep coming in if they call for it. The unions own the politicians.
 
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Michael

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You are looking for people to publicly admit they are part of criminal motorcycle gangs? Are you nuts?

Michael
 
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rsutoratosu

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rh71 said:
There's 2 things I don't like about NY and it's the cold/snow that we already do get - although some is fine - and the taxes from every direction (pisses me off that civil servants make so much off of us - unions).

I am always trying to think of better states to move to. I would like to love CT but it's not better in any other way. Not the weather, beaches, entertainment, and not the food. I should start a thread.
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I work in ct.. you are correct.. I went to stony brook :)
 
z1ggy

z1ggy

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rh71 said:
^ suburban for sure and I'm torn between liberal/conservative (I actually had to look it up). We have the nice safe suburbs here and all the amenities (although some things are getting a bit dated-looking). I just really hate how everyone has their hand in our pockets and not even for good reason. Selfish - pay for my pension and healthcare while I hide under the umbrella of the union. Meanwhile, shit only gets done when it has to and not because "oh that would be nice for us to have". I would move just to spite them, but along come more people just to fill my spot anyway. What do they care? The money will always keep coming in if they call for it. The unions own the politicians.
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Educate me about unions and their relation to politics? I assume that more unionized companies would tend to be in more liberal states.

If that's the case, NY, MA, NJ, CT and RI are out. Only a few suburban type cities in VT, NH & ME.

I also can't see hard core north easterners (people who have spent decades living in the north east) could ever stomach living in true southern states. Only other place I could see them, would be places like WA or OR. CA is just as expensive and even worse with the liberal policy.
 
dank69

dank69

Lifer
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rh71 said:
There's 2 things I don't like about NY and it's the cold/snow that we already do get - although some is fine - and the taxes from every direction (pisses me off that civil servants make so much off of us - unions).

I am always trying to think of better states to move to. I would like to love CT but it's not better in any other way. Not the weather, beaches, entertainment, and not the food. I should start a thread.
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Your problem is that you look at taxes the wrong way. If all taxes were reduced to 0 tomorrow, the average salary for your job would plummet to your take home pay in a relatively short time frame. That is the amount you are willing to accept for your job. Businesses aren't going to continue to pay more for your skills than they need to.

Once you integrate this information you will realize that all taxes are essentially levied upon businesses, and that all the fighting against taxation is actually people fighting against their own self-interest.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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