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Skriven 2014-05-10 16:54:08 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 15104 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
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Hi Roy,

>>> Taxes on cigarettes was the reaon I quit; when California imposed a
>>> $1/pack tax on them. They've been going up ever since.

>> I can understand that one... I expect it still going up here.

> I thought I'd try one of those 'electric' cigarettes, just for the hell of
> it, but when I saw the price, I renigged on that one. $7 each, going on
> $8...

My daughter bought me a "kit", trying to encourage me not to invade she and her
family with cigs when they'd come over to visit.. (Ron and I both quit when I
was 30 or so.. he still doesn't smoke, I lasted two years :( )... but electric
cigs made me smoke more and I didn't need that <g>.. Had to work to get back
down to less than a pack a day, but I did it. And yeah, the electric are not
cheap either. Now if I could just quit again ... cold turkey is the only way to
go though.. maybe next time <g>

>> there <grin>.. If they can afford the move-back, X-NYers will
>> probably stay until they find there's no winter-kill that wipes out
>> the insects.. that or until the next hurricane comes along that wipes
>> their town off the map. Rough to live with I figure but people do
>> what they have to do...

> My youngest daughter has lived there since she graduated from college.

I have another sister who's lived in Fla. essentially since she was in her
early 20's..

> She's approaching 48yo in July and loves the place. She and family live
> in Okeechobee, near the lake and she drives to Fort Pierce to work. She's
> the city's Accountant. Her favorite passtime is diving with the fishes and
> there aren't any bugs down there. This is odd too, as she was born in
> Washington state and lived in California for a time.

Maybe it was just the hotels that had the gigantic bugs <bg>.. I could believe
that anyway. My sister loves it there as well, and wouldn't move back to NY's
cold winters for anything <g> She lives in West Palm Beach someplace <g>  Her
husband and son are policemen there.

>> My sister's family (the one that died of pancreatic cancer) still
>> lives in Hollywood, very happily..  I guess like anywhere else, it's
>> what you are willing to 'live with'.

> Yeup...my folks couldn't understand the hold that California had on me.
> Until they came on their 1st visit in December...that caused them to move
> from IL to AZ, mostly because they had family their age living in AZ and
> so wanted the old compaionship. When it got too hot to rhumba, they moved
> back to IL because most of the family still lived there.  My bro, sister
> and all of the grandchildren, including most of mine.

Mine are all in NY <g>.  Grandchildren and kids at least.. I still have a lot
of family in Scranton PA as well.. we get together pretty often.

>>>> but when we were in Louisville, yes, the taxes overall were a lot
>>>> lower, but they hit you up left and right with other costs.. buying a
>>>> sofa? There's a fee for that.. buying a car?  there's a fee for that
>>>> as well, and so on..

>>> Sounds like California; "we tax everything that you have, have had and
>>> will have in the future" all in one huge tax...then they turn around
>>> and tax you some more.

>> ouch.. these were separate taxes, but they didn't call them taxes
>> <bg>

> California doubled their vehicle registration fees since we moved here.
> Raised the income taxes, sales taxes, got creative and created a special
> 'sales tax' on real estate sales, etc.. What really kicks their ass is
> Prop 13, that shrank property taxes back in the late 70s and provided a
> moritorium for increasing that tax by %1/year. And CA is in debt up to
> it's ears at an ungodly amount.

Yeah, read about that at least.. must be rough on folks there.  Somehow I
figure the politicians aren't suffering though?

>>> That brought to mind the butt-rumping they do over taxes in New
>>> Jerkey...

>> Hey, I was born in NY.. Passaic ... tread lightly there <grin>  Still
>> have relatives in Bergen and other counties <g>

> New York or New Jerkey?

Sorry, new keyboard Lol.. I noticed keys sometimes do their own thing (sure
<vbg>)..  Passaic NJ is where I was born.  Parents lived there for some years
after after moving from Scranton PA, then moved to NY.

>Frankly, you couldn't get me within 10 feet of
> either state; too liberal for my blood.

It depends on where you live in NY.. this area is definitely Democratic.

>Kinda like IL, if I go there, I
> take a round-about route so I don't have to drive thru the state to visit
> my sister.

> while to avoid most of IL. i.e. most of the former governors of IL are in
> prison for some reason or other. I can't wait until they catch up to
> Reid's and Schumer's cohort, Durban and put those three crooks in jail
> too.

Don't know those guys.... I guess they'll make the news if that's where they
end up.. <g>

Take care,
Janis

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