GOVERNMENT GROWS INEQUITIES

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson "There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable." - Robert Smith Surtees

"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor." - French Proverb

"They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property." - Mark Twain

"The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket." - H.L. Mencken

UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF GOVERNMENT
Where does all that cash come from?

Fuel Tax Targets Business

"U.S. business jet owners would pay 65 percent more in fuel taxes to finance federal air-traffic control upgrades, under an agreement among Senate leaders. The levy would increase to 36 cents a gallon from 21.8 cents now... Airline passenger fees and taxes wouldn't rise, he said.

"This agreement is a good down payment toward ending the growing inequities that exist between airline passengers and corporate jet users,'' Rockefeller said in the statement." - John Hughes, Bloomberg.com, April 25, 2008

Least we forget, most of these business owners were forced to purchase their corporate jets because of the flying restrictions and lousy airline service after 9-11. Between Homeland Security and government-controlled public airlines, it became impossible for businessmen to plan their travel schedules with any degree of certainity. Unlike government, businesses, at least successful ones, must maintain strict schedules. Mr. Rockefeller is concerned with " the growing inequities that exist between airline passengers and corporate jet users". Just who caused those inequities to begin with? - 2q(Jim)

Good Choice
Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said,"Where did you get such a great bike?"

The second engineer replied,"Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."

The first engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."

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