Comments on: I’m confused http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/ blog personal Mon, 21 May 2012 02:42:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Z.Monkey http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-513 Z.Monkey Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:23:57 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-513 What I heard was that someone (the attorney general?) pulled a letter out of a scrabble box and said, "let those whose names start with this letter be first on the ballot! Then go back to 'A' and move on from there!". And I think that letter was 'L'. Either way it doesn't seem much more fair than alphabetical, but I guess everyone then has a chance to be first (and not just the repuglicans). Eh, I think <a href="http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/election/state_local/story/3352715p-12342708c.html" rel="nofollow">that decision got tossed anyway</a>. What I heard was that someone (the attorney general?) pulled a letter out of a scrabble box and said, “let those whose names start with this letter be first on the ballot! Then go back to ‘A’ and move on from there!”. And I think that letter was ‘L’. Either way it doesn’t seem much more fair than alphabetical, but I guess everyone then has a chance to be first (and not just the repuglicans). Eh, I think that decision got tossed anyway.

]]> By: The Scientist http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-512 The Scientist Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:36:20 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-512 I think the guy in charge of printing ballots made the decision sans legislation and printed the ballots in alphabetical order - starting with the letter M. The alphabetization (word?) was carried throughout the whole ballot, not re-started for each contest. I think the guy in charge of printing ballots made the decision sans legislation and printed the ballots in alphabetical order - starting with the letter M. The alphabetization (word?) was carried throughout the whole ballot, not re-started for each contest.

]]> By: weird old guy http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-509 weird old guy Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:18:29 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-509 Import not Inport. Though it does sound more logical. Import not Inport. Though it does sound more logical.

]]> By: weird old guy http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-508 weird old guy Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:17:00 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/28/im-confused/#comment-508 Quiet weekend. Did nothing. Nice for a change. Did not have any interest to work on the yard, however, the needles are falling and I will have to rake the yard sometime soon. I personally like sales taxes. Though I would prefer an income tax and/or sales tax over the current property tax system. I would like to learn more about VAT. The greatest resistance is not associated with defining education (although it is there) but with the existing advantages the wealthy have in the state along with the property rich towns, add that to the philosophical aversion to taxes of any sort, and a divided electorate on what form of taxes it prefers will lead to no action or weak compromises that we have seen in the past. My theory is that the legislature will fail to decide anything controversial in the next session, see the recent fiasco on the ballot layout. The court will review the record and force the adoption of new eduction definition and a tax system to implement it which appears to be the most popular, i.e. most votes in the legislature which meets their test. I haven't followed the details of all the proposals, but I would not be suprised that a number of viable systems have already been proposed, costed and evaluated. Short of repackaging, or an inport tax on extra-terrestrial goods, I would be shocked if there were any new proposals out there regardless of what the "new idea" commentators love to say. Hi! Ho! Hi! Ho! Off to work I go. Quiet weekend. Did nothing. Nice for a change. Did not have any interest to work on the yard, however, the needles are falling and I will have to rake the yard sometime soon.

I personally like sales taxes. Though I would prefer an income tax and/or sales tax over the current property tax system. I would like to learn more about VAT.

The greatest resistance is not associated with defining education (although it is there) but with the existing advantages the wealthy have in the state along with the property rich towns, add that to the philosophical aversion to taxes of any sort, and a divided electorate on what form of taxes it prefers will lead to no action or weak compromises that we have seen in the past.

My theory is that the legislature will fail to decide anything controversial in the next session, see the recent fiasco on the ballot layout. The court will review the record and force the adoption of new eduction definition and a tax system to implement it which appears to be the most popular, i.e. most votes in the legislature which meets their test.

I haven’t followed the details of all the proposals, but I would not be suprised that a number of viable systems have already been proposed, costed and evaluated. Short of repackaging, or an inport tax on extra-terrestrial goods, I would be shocked if there were any new proposals out there regardless of what the “new idea” commentators love to say.

Hi! Ho! Hi! Ho! Off to work I go.

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