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From: Lance
Remote Name: 65.88.106.1
Date: 02 Mar 2004
Time: 22:25:26
Tax Evasion has been used to criminalize many, Nixon did use the IRS to attack political opponents and to discredit them. Well here is one politician who is attacking the LOCAL small businesses who supposedly are evading taxes? Are they? http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2004/03/01/daily19.html?f=et75 Well there is a clause we should be familiar with and that is Taxation without representation. I would like to point out that if a person has a small business which the do out of their homes and they offer their services, such as house cleaning, window cleaning, general fixer upper, scrap book consulting and supplies, Amway, then in fact those individuals which are averaging about 12% of the population in Portland should be able to enjoy the right to free contract without grandstanding SOBs calling them tax evaders on a city business license issue. First of all The Great City of Portland has other problems, such as crime, drugs and the second highest unemployment regions of the country. Many small upstart businesses do not have the $70.00 fee? (I am presuming since I do not live in that fine city although enjoy the visits along the river. In this article, “Joe Politician”, Mr. Wonderful can do no wrong? (Yah right he is a politician) says that those businesses that fail to pay their city license will be brought to justice? Spare me the BS, what justice? It will bring the city 4 million in revenue? So what they blow that on their wasteful parties to honor themselves in the city council events? This is just political rhetoric and trying to send the sound and fury elsewhere to keep the heat off yourself. This is sickening. Generally there are already too many fees, licenses, taxes, etc at every level of bureaucracy you turn and every level of government you study. So are we to listen to this, or recall his ass. I move that all small businesses immediately band together to recall this jerk (opinion). People forced out of work from bad policy and over regulation and a bizarre liberal attitude of the left wing in Portland and the whole state for that matter, deserve nothing for their squealing. City Council people of Portland hardly produce a damn thing, their infrastructure is crumbling, their sewer pipes are breaking, their bridges are corroding, their police force cannot keep up with the drugs, the transportation system is a joke and this guy wishes to attack small, home based businesses which some are lucky if they take in any money at all and other maybe a $200 per week? Gee Whiz if that does not spit in the face of free enterprise? You know this is similar to the City of Los Angeles and their business license tax. God you cannot even find the place to go to fill out the form, the ticket for not having one is triple the fee, you have to wait in line to get one, cannot open your bank account for your business without one, so you cannot hire anyone, even pay for the license without a business checking account, first needing a fictitious name statement. Hell they make it impossible for the little guy with nothing to go forward. And this idiot, opinion, in Portland is calling those little tiny businesses “Tax Evaders”, well I say he is a child molester. Let him prove is did not kick his dog. This is absolutely criminal behavior, this gentleman should surrender his position immediately and go to Iraq where unemployment is 68% and you do not know if you will die in a bomb blast for being in the middle of a civil war between two groups who claim to follow the same ideals? Well if you allow imbeciles (opinion-so you cannot sue me) like this to evade reality, then of course you will end up with higher unemployment, less innovation in garages and homes (Microsoft, Disney, Apple, Netsape, etc.) and less initiative to get back to work and your whole economy there, what is left of it after the all those lay offs will simply implode further. If you people running Portland cannot balance your books, get with the program and stop giving away the bank, then maybe you should quit and start looking for a job, like the one your silly policies have destroyed. Or if you cannot find a job like the 8-9% unemployed in your city, then you can start your own Tax Evasion small business and fork over money to the City which does nothing for you and has no representation to tax you except that they believe businesses are evil and must pay? Then when you cannot produce anything or buy anything or create any jobs, you can ask the city to retrain you or to give you money, free transportation and a place to live once you are evicted. Then you can sport a Card Board House and a stolen shopping cart to the food lines and when it gets really cold, you can pick up a beer bottle and throw it at a police car so you can get free room and board for the weekend and maybe pick up Hepatitis, this way you have an excuse to get free medical too. Stupid, arrogant, grandstanding politicians, who needs em? Small businesses employ two-thirds of our population and they have to start some how. ------------------------------------ Speaking of arrogant politicians, what about these fuel prices? http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2004/03/01/daily15.html?f=et204 . Screw that noise? What is going on here? Well too many linear decision makers made it impossible to get the fuel we need. Because they did not think first as to how the game works. Where the fuel comes from and how it gets to market: http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000037.htm . In many places the fuel comes from the same place anyway? http://www.nbc6.net/money/2886423/detail.html . We see the bouquet fuels in AZ and CA and the harshness that was met by offshore drilling, etc. and we now complain about the economic factors associated with supply and demand? Next are we going to blame the free market system for the fuel prices after a Congressional Committee spends out TV time on CSPAN to investigate marketing techniques? Please? ------------------- Boy here is a funny PR Release? http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2004/03/01/daily10.html?f=et76 Ford says it will use only HP Printers nationwide? Wonder why, not that HP leases 10,000 plus Ford Taurus’ every 18 months? No couldn’t be that? Maybe Carlye F. and Ford Jr. have a secret romance? HA HA HA. Doesn’t this stuff seem so ridiculous? When HP and Ford need each other so bad that they go to the PR Departments to further strengthen their relationship? Well the only one this will hurt is Dell. Because Dell could sell those printers direct cheaper and Ford because they will be paying more for the printers. And GM, Daimler Chrysler will opt away from HP and go with another brand too? Are these two companies worried about losing business? Why are they so worried, what’s up? HP had good numbers, Ford did as good as could be expected, but in the fourth quarter Ford was two behind Toyota. Ford is getting hammered in China, unlike what Ford Jr. predicted he would do not more than 2 years ago. Looks like the game started without them? http://en.ce.cn/insights/t20040303_367730.shtml . FMC is that the problem bleeding money from high-end SUVs hitting auction block after massive repos? Hmmm? Well at least Ford’s SUV sales remain strong along with it’s new F-150 model improvements; http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/03/01/daily31.html?f=et82 Sometimes when we read this stuff in the WSJ, Bloomberg, Biz Journals, it sure seems like filler and PR releases. Oh well we will wash Fords or HP 10,000 Taurus’ and Wagons? Doesn’t matter to us what HP buys or what you drive we are there either way. I am glad to see the biggies are spreading around the wealth to help the tech stocks move up together. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2004/03/01/daily13.html?f=et51 ------------------- Entrepreneur Magazine, a company which I question it’s integrity at every turn, has named a company I visited in Fargo, ND as the number one franchise in the USA? Imagine that, now then my question is how much advertising has this company done with Entrepreneur Magazine? Because in the past we have seen other franchises who advertise the most, ranked the highest. In my opinion this is false and misleading and detrimental to the industry and damaging to the consumer to boot. http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2004/03/01/daily5.html?f=et201 . But I do like the company they picked this time, I think it is a good company and worthy of some praise? I cannot say for sure if I believe it should be number one, but certainly one of the better no question. -------------------------- Grid Defense and the DOD’s need to Net Centric the battle space. http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25112-1.html . We agree as we have been discussing this for quite a while. http://www.carwashguys.com/050802_1.shtml . and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/0000004d.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1203/0000001f.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/00000075.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1202/00000029.htm ------------------------- Want to set up your own bank? Maybe China is where you should do it? http://en.ce.cn/insights/t20040301_362644.shtml and Iraq or Baghdad to be more specific, all you need is 4 million dollars to qualify and the big banks will surely buy you out later on. Getting funding to small upstarts is essential to getting small businesses off the ground and getting the industrial base up and running. It is a problem in every country including our own. We recommend this idea here in the US. http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1203/00000035.htm ------------------------- Enterprise Rent-a-Car is expanding by exceeding customers expectations, plans 6500 new jobs this year? Wow, that sounds great: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/03/01/daily24.html?f=et82 . It seems Enterprise has been in the news for quite a while and always dies good when it can attract the best and the brightest MBAs to break them in on real world service. -------------------------- Wal-Mart following in Sam’s tradition is moving forward to conquer the world; http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/03/01/daily28.html?f=et82 . Good job, they are always moving the ball forward, meanwhile the issues with RFID Tags are still getting some heat and a politician from CA jumps the gun on a privacy issue. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18201251 . Are we getting a little paranoid yet? http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/03/02/8003120 . Meanwhile China would be happy to get in on this RFID technology or any other technology to sell to us or the world. http://www.chinarfidnews.com/200403.htm . -------------------------- Agricultural Economy in US is serious and Bio Terrorism issues are to be carefully scrutinized. http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2004/03/01/daily15.html?f=et65 . Mad Cow was not too funny and neither are these issues. RFID has been on our mind too as a method to allow us to serve our customers better these days. -------------------------- OSRAM supplies LEDs for BMW head-up display Compound Semiconductor - Bristol, UK ... The display can be programmed and is easy to read day or night in all conditions thanks to an Osram light sensor which automatically adjusts the brightness. http://compoundsemiconductor.net/articles/news/8/3/4/1 We have been discussing HUD and it’s relevance in racing and high-end cars and in the future in cars for safety issues; http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/0000000c.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000054.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/0000005e.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0803/00000033.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000048.htm . ------------------------ Tracking kids on Buses? Well one company has developed a system to do just that. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/030204_local_trackingdevice.html . We have not seen any of these units on any buses we wash yet, but assume we will in the future. http://www.BusWashGuys.com . ------------------------ And you think life on Mars is tough? Look at the Sand Storm in Qatar; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16465 One thing we love about the sand storms in the world especially in those desert area states like, West and North Central TX, NM, NV, AZ is that the dust blowing makes all the cars dirty, dust storms? Surely bring them on. ------------------------ What do you think about Global Warming. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/ . I think it is a hot issue? And less water and more droughts open up some interesting opportunities for water transportation and a franchised network to do so? Not that we wish these issues on anyone, but can certainly see some issues in the future. ------------------------- What’s going on in MA at the carwashes? http://www.carwash.com/news.asp?mode=4&N_ID=46330 and do you really care what the BBB Says? http://www.carwashguys.com/0122802_3.shtml ------------------------- Labor issues affect carwashes since it is a very labor intensive business. http://www.carwash.com/news.asp?mode=4&N_ID=46329 . We have discussed these issues in the past. http://www.carwashguys.com/080902_3.shtml . and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1203/00000057.htm http://www.carwashguys.com/073102_2.shtml and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg900/00000132.htm . ------------------------ Newest Sleekest Aircraft from Rutan Design Shop; http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,592736,00.html and it is Car Wash Guys Yellow. We will wash that: http://www.PlaneWashGuys.com . What a beautiful aircraft. WOW. ------------------------
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