Comments on: The Right Note: Some People Just Can’t Help Themselves

By: Mel22201

Mel22201 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:29:13 +0000

You mean like this sample ballot handed out at the voting entrance?

http://www.arlingtondemocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ArlingtonDemocraticSampleBallot2012.pdf

By: Mel22201

Mel22201 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:13:57 +0000

If I remember correctly, the question was confusing. Luckily, I found some information which decoded what the question really meant before I voted. I sometimes get the impression that people vote blindly and just vote D, as if Republicans are the enemy. Republicans are not the enemy.

By: Mel22201

Mel22201 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:01:26 +0000

That’s what I want to know. I really don’t understand why Arlingtonians keep voting for “these people.”

By: Craigie

Craigie — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:57:13 +0000

If the Artisphere should close, so should community centers in every neighborhood of Arlington. Why should Rosslyn pay such a high percentage of the property taxes in Arlington yet have no taxpayer-funded amenities? Why should the Artisphere be expected to make a profit? Last time I checked, the County fitness centers charged an extremely-low monthly membership fee; surely they are “losing money.”

By: novasteve

novasteve — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:49:21 +0000

“If you and I split a pizza, and I pay $10 but you only pay $5, I subsidized your pizza, steve.”

That’s not what a tax deduction does, drax. That’s like saying that if the pizza store decided to sell you that $10 pizza for $5, then they subsidized you. You in fact got a discount. A subsidy is like when the government gives money to farmers to grown corn. If the government instead decided to tax corn farmers less, then it wouldn’t be a subsidy, but an incentive, like they do with the home mortgage interest deduction. But its still not a subsidy.

By: WLO

WLO — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:33:18 +0000

Did the dude who wrote the middle-of-the-road column just give up? Wouldn’t blame him.

By: OverArlington

OverArlington — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:17:41 +0000

How’s that different then Clinton taking money out of SS to pay down the debt (for a short time people) forcing the problem to my generation so that I’ll never see money from the SS system I’m putting into? How’s that any different then Obama giving my hard earned money to illegals and to folks that don’t work? Stop blaming Republicans for all of your problems.

By: drax

drax — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:50:11 +0000

Oh, and your scheme doesn’t work very well. Why not just keep taxes steady? Why cut them in good years? We need tax cuts in bad years, to stimulate the economy and give taxpayers a break.

By: drax

drax — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:48:47 +0000

What I mean, DCBuff, is that we tend to cut taxes so low in good years that we don’t make a surplus that will keep us afloat in the bad years.

Kinda like when Bush came along and wiped out Clinton’s surpluses.

By: drax

drax — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:46:43 +0000

So all taxes are morally corrupt!

Take that an RUN with it, Ricardo. Run like the wind! It can’t fail!