It's getting unreal. I stopped at a service station today to air up a tire..

[Uncle Willy]

and the thieving pirates charged seventy five cents for air. It's only been a short while ago that it was only two bits. Probably be a dollar the next time but I ain't stopping there no more. I'll blow my tire up by mouth first. When will the rip off end? They are talking of a big, fat, recession and I know one is on the way. Wish it would hurry up and get here.

I have a nephew in California who is a firefighter and earns $800 per day whether he is fighting a fire or not. He owns three homes worth a million each. The property taxes on just one of them is ten grand per year. I pity his happy arse when the bottom falls out. I hope he doesn't have them financed on a sub-prime loan. I wouldn't be able to sleep nights if I was that far in hock. I guess he doesn't know the housing market is about to hit the dumper real hard.


Bill

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Perhaps he should sell air!
Mick Evans.

 

[Mike2]

Paying for Air!!!! does not happen here yet, still free, but give it time.

Mike

 

[sg1221]

Yeah It's gettin ridiculous ..... with all the global warming and methane crap in the news these days
It's just a matter of time until they start taxing farts

Steve

 

[NM5K]

I think a lot of that came along when the oil companies began the big
push to drive the independents out, and replace them with big fancy
"company" stations. 75 cents for air is absurd. In the old days, they
would not only give you free air, but they would do it for you, along
with checking the oil, etc. The first company stations had full and
self serve, but most have done away with full serve quite a while ago.
I can't even remember the last time I saw a full serve gas station..
They were all replaced by oil company "gas marts" where they
could gouge for things like air, among other things.
It's a wonder they leave out squeegees to clean the windows with.. :/
MK

 

[awhitster]

n/t

 

[khouse]

My county assessor drives on my property at least two times a year. He's looking to see if I have improved my property. We like most of you get a yearly personal property tax form to fill out. In my county they charge you tax on one Chicken let alone if you have a flock. Oh he better not see a Rabbit because it's on the form too. My Dad always said "let them come out and count their own damn Chickens themselves". He never filled out that form. Now I have followed in his footsteps. Let them count my Chickens and Rabbits and that new board I nailed on my house! Hey, I paid tax on ALL those items when I bought them! Why do I have to pay tax on them every year until I die?

 

[Sysgrade]

Here in Calif. we have an unknown law to most, that service stations need to supply free air. Call your Congressman!!!!!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Because you live in a free country.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Luckily we have full serve stations here. Oregon doesn't allow self-serve stations. Really pizzes the oil companies off. We are only one of two states with full serve stations. But everything else is the same. When I worked in a gas station as a young feller we washed all the windows, checked the oil, water, battery,tires, and swept the car out if the driver wanted. Now you get nothing but your gas pumped and pay 10-15 times more for a gallon of gas. Back years ago that six bits I paid for air would have paid for four gallons of gas.

I got nine gallons of gas the other day and it was almost thirty bucks. When I was young thirty bucks worth of gas would have taken me across the U.S. And they say there ain't much inflation. But they say the U.S. dollar right now is worth four cents. I didn't think it was worth that much. But this is the way it is living under the unlawful, unconstitutional, Federal Reserve where your money is worth nothing, printed from nothing, and backed by nothing Give me the good old days when a dollar was worth a dollar and backed by gold and silver.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah hang onto it while you can.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Don't give them any ideas. They were talking about a road tax here to pay for something by charging you for the amount of miles you drove each day. Virtually all taxes are illegal. Income tax is illegal but people bend over and pay it. Many people have beaten tax cases by asking the government prosecutor to produce the law that states that one must pay a certain amount of their wages to the government. They couldn't because there ain't no such law on the books.

Bill

 

[bearkat4160]

n/t

 

[khouse]

I know were getting off the subject kind of. But what ever happened to no double taxation? What about those stinking toll booths? Aren't they suppose to be taken out when the road or bridge is paid for? Seems like the booths will outlast the Pyramids!!!!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

According to the politicians they ain'tever paid for. Wait till the foreigners that bought some of our highways start charging you to drive on them.

Bill

 

[Relic]

If they tax farts, I'll be broke by the end of the year!

Relic

 

[Uncle Willy]

Me to also.

 

[Uncle Willy]

If you're referring to income tax it started back around 1913 when they snookered the Federal Reserve in on us, which is totally unconstitutional and should be abolished. They are the root of all our money problems, depressions, recessionss, wars, inflation, national debt, etc. They print money ( monopoly money ) from nothing that is worth nothing, backed by nothing, then loan it out and collect interest on it. Last year the taxpayer paid over $400 billion in interest to these pirates on their phony money they loaned to the government. Right now the dollar is worth about four cents and shrinking fast. 1947 was the last year a dollar was worth a dollar. At that time you could buy five gallons of gas for a buck. Everything else was comparably priced. You could buy a new car for around a thousand bucks and it was a real car made entirely of metal and natural materials, not the tinny plastic toys they call cars today. The present sucks.

Bill.