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ONE MORE TIME
A comment by Joe Lee III
There’s a big row in New York because a newspaper printed the names of persons with gun permits.
Most of the folks I know readily show their gun permits. I can’t imagine any southern boys being upset such a disclosure.
Their philosophy is that the neighbor without a gun permit is the one in error! I suspect there are not too many of them.
Short ammo
Speaking of gun owners and enthusiasts; they spend much of their time complaining of a shortage of ammunition and the rising cost of ammo.
There also seems to be a run on weapons being considered to be banned in the future, at least according to the gun experts I know.
Tax increase
If you think the Obama Administration’s recent political maneuvering on taxes saved you any money, you are in error.
According to the Jackson newspaper, the average Mississippian will pay an additional $53.33 per month in taxes this year.
Hidden pork
According to CBS, the bill Congress passed to “save us from the fiscal cliff” has some hidden advantages for certain people.
The movie industry, a big supporter of the President, will get a $20 million tax break every time a movie or television show is shot in a “depressed” area of the United States. Estimated cost: $430 million.
Puerto Rican rum gets a tax break and you get a tax break if you train a mine rescue worker. You can get a tax credit for every kilowatt you produce with wind -- a veritable “windfall” if applied to all the flatulence in Washington!
Even NASCAR got a $70 million tax incentive.
According to CBS, $70 billion worth of new tax loopholes were created by the new law. They just can’t help themselves.
Bad ratio
The fiscal cliff legislation contained $41 in tax increases for every $1 in spending cuts, according to the Congressional Budget office.
“The CBO estimate comes after the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated it would reduce federal revenue by $3.93 trillion over the next 10 years when compared to current law,” according to The Hill, a Washington newspaper published daily when Congress is in session.
All-in-all the “remedy” Congress passed and the President signed left us all worse off than if Congress had stayed home and the President had stayed in Hawaii.
Grenada pays more
If the first week of the new year is an accurate indicator, Grenada will pay $820,497 more than our neighbors for gasoline in 2013.
Here’s the math: On Jan. 2, regular gas at the Exxon in Batesville $3.069. Exxon gas in Grenada from the same distributor was $3.159; a difference of nine cents.
If we assume that each Grenada household buys 20 gallons a week, that amounts to $93.60 more per year. According to the U.S. Census, there are 8,766 households in Grenada County. Multiplication tells us Grenadians could pay a total of over $820,000 more than our Batesville neighbors. (This is money Grenadians could be spending on other things -- food, house payments, medicine.)
Maybe we should cheer up, maybe this is good news. We ran the same price comparison in mid-December and the projected annual difference was $1.4 million more than Batesville. The price gap then was 16 cents per gallon.
Why is Grenada higher?
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