From: dagmargoodboat on
On Apr 5, 8:04 pm, Jim Yanik <jya...(a)abuse.gov> wrote:
> "k...(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz"
> > brent wrote:
>
> >>On Apr 5, 6:06 pm, Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:35:29 -0700, "Joel Koltner" wrote:

> >>> >This one's good too:
> >>> >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870397680457511424178200...
>
> >>> Us "wealthy" folk _can_ be mobile at a moments notice.
>
> >>> That's where leftists totally can't cope.
>
> >>> It _will_ be painful to walk away from a country that my ancestors
> >>> settled, beginning 400+ years ago (Jamestown)... but I can if
> >>> pushed... leave the suckers with only themselves to suck upon :-)

> >>Come on, I know Colonel Sanders started KFC when he was 65... but do
> >>you really expect us to believe you will run from USA at age 70 ?
>
> > I know several who have.  Mexico and Costa Rica are two popular
> > retirement destinations.
>
> What if the gov't will not allow you to take your money with you?

Smuggle it, no? When the laws are unjust, the people start ignoring
them.

That's the danger.
From: Jim Yanik on
Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
news:210lr5tsijq3libimsflq44s2cdauhtdla(a)4ax.com:

> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:52:49 -0500,
> hal-usenet(a)ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net (Hal Murray) wrote:
>
>>In article <hhnkr556m5pik6jrnhtg8io8950mk99mvu(a)4ax.com>,
>> Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> writes:
>>...
>>
>>>It _will_ be painful to walk away from a country that my ancestors
>>>settled, beginning 400+ years ago (Jamestown)... but I can if
>>>pushed... leave the suckers with only themselves to suck upon :-)
>>
>>Where would you go?
>
> I'd be welcome almost anywhere that needs _real_ engineering...
> Israel, NZ, Hong Kong... I could even be a big hero in Russia or
> mainland China :-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

I don't think you'd fit in in China,nor like being under the thumb of the
kleptocrats of Russia,along with the Russian Mob influence.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
localnet
dot com
From: brent on
On Apr 5, 9:17 pm, Jim Yanik <jya...(a)abuse.gov> wrote:
> Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote innews:210lr5tsijq3libimsflq44s2cdauhtdla(a)4ax.com:
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:52:49 -0500,
> > hal-use...(a)ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net (Hal Murray) wrote:
>
> >>In article <hhnkr556m5pik6jrnhtg8io8950mk99...(a)4ax.com>,
> >> Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> writes:
> >>...
>
> >>>It _will_ be painful to walk away from a country that my ancestors
> >>>settled, beginning 400+ years ago (Jamestown)... but I can if
> >>>pushed... leave the suckers with only themselves to suck upon :-)
>
> >>Where would you go?
>
> > I'd be welcome almost anywhere that needs _real_ engineering...
> > Israel, NZ, Hong Kong... I could even be a big hero in Russia or
> > mainland China :-)
>
> >                                         ...Jim Thompson
>
> I don't think you'd fit in in China,nor like being under the thumb of the
> kleptocrats of Russia,along with the Russian Mob influence.
>
> --
> Jim Yanik
> jyanik
> at
> localnet
> dot com

I agree with you.

I will go down with the ship, trying to do my small part to bail out
the mess.

The USA is still comprised of a hefty number of god fearing people.
From: Joel Koltner on
"Jim Yanik" <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in message
news:Xns9D51D7457CC12jyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44...
> Mexico is beginning to come apart from the drug cartels,and Costa Rica is
> vulnerable to Nicaraguan and Venezuelan communist influence and subversion.

Maybe Jim should just head north to Canada?

Yes, they are taxed rather more than those of us in the U.S. are, but they
seem to be pretty stable and it's a lot closer than New Zealand? :-)

Just avoid those French-wannabe types near Quebec... :-)


From: Michael A. Terrell on

dagmargoodboat(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>
> On Apr 5, 7:08 pm, Joerg <inva...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Bill Sloman wrote:
>
> > > This isn't the Laffer Curve in action, its just incompetence on the
> > > part of the tax legislators, who wasted their time trying to get money
> > > from people who pay enough tax to justify keeping a tax avoidance
> > > expert on tap.
> >
> > You just repeated the definition of the Laffer curve :-)
>
> He who Laffs last...?


Just danced at Sloman's funeral?


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