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BE PREPARED
To “Cash It In,” who wants separate lines for the way you pay for your groceries: If everybody would just have their debit or credit card, cash or a check ready with everything besides the amount, lines would just go faster. It’s very aggravating, especially when they use checks.
WAIT AND SEE
“Up In Smoke” is making another “correlation does not equal causation” mistake. The problem with people turning from pills to smack was already well underway around the country before the wave of pot decriminalization and legalization. Maybe in time easier access to weed will be mean more people turning to harder drugs; maybe it won’t. Right now, it’s way too early to tell.
TAKE THE TEST
I read an article this week that there are a lot of people having a problem getting jobs because they can’t pass the drug screening. It seems like every job you go to get, the first thing they ask for is a drug test. What I want to know is do the people down in D.C. and in our state government take a drug test? How about the teachers? Can somebody look into that and tell me?
A SOP FOR THE RICH
Apparently “Tom In Drexel Hill” hasn’t been paying attention, because he says the tax bill says “you make more, you pay more,” and that’s not the facts at all. The fact is over 50 percent of the bill will be giving breaks to the top 1 percent. People making $40,000-$71,000 will getting a lousy $606. And people making $25,000 or less will be getting a lousy $60 back. So this tax push by the Republicans is geared towards the rich, once again. But people like “Tom In Drexel Hill” don’t pay attention and think this is going to work.
THE CASE FOR CASH
I agree with “Cash It Out” about using a credit card whenever possible because of interchange fees being factored into prices. If I’m at a franchised or privately owned store I use cash, but if I’m at a company-owned convenience store I’ll use a credit card for small purchases. Even it’s $2, why pay cash and subsidize the credit card users? Although any bar I’m at I always pay cash – nothing looks more ridiculous than drinking some boilermakers and talking about your problems, then pulling out your charge card like you’re Mr. Howell from “Gilligan’s Island.”
TAKE A SHOT
I saw on the news that the state is talking about borrowing one $1.2 billion from the Liquor Control Board fund to help balance the budget. Maybe I misunderstanding this, but that would be like me borrowing some money from my savings account and putting it in my checking account to help pay my bills. How is that going to help me? II guess this is another example of how governments aren’t like that the rest of us – the LCB is outside of the regular budget, so if they use this money it looks like they’re getting the budget together on time.
GET WITH IT
I think “Cash It In” would have more credibility saying there should be separate cash and credit card lines if they didn’t use the term “charge plate.” This isn’t the 1960s anymore. It takes five seconds to run a credit card. There isn’t some rich guy at the front of the line taking a minute to put the bill on his charge account while everyone else is standing there with cash ready to pay for their groceries.
IT’S A SCAM
So Gov. Wolf wants to borrow money against future LCB earnings. Correct me if I’m wrong, but since when do the state stores actually make any significant amount of money? All their supposed revenue is from state alcohol taxes that I thought went into the general fund. This sounds like some kind of scheme like back before middle class people could get bank loans and credit cards and had to rely on a tangled mess of pawnbroker loans and borrowing money from family members.
DON’T BLAME GREED
“Blame The Greed” is complaining about a caller blaming the ACA instead of the “their greedy exemployer” for being laid off. “Blame The Greed” is probably another person who would have a nervous breakdown in 30 minutes if they were put in a position of running a business, yet knows all about “corporate greed.” I guess being a leftist makes this caller an expert on the burdens Obamacare placed on employers.