[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']Took someone long enough to come in and do this sort of rant.
As for having good schools and paved roads, see my mini rant above. When I was in school the teachers typically took coffee/bathroom breaks that lasted 2/3's of our classes' time and if they did teach they only did so from the lesson plan set down in the teacher's edition books.
That's not good teaching. Any lazy monkey with half a brain could do that.
Now as for the paved roads, as I said above you have 20 guys 'working'(aka standing around bsing or drinking coffee) while 1-2 guys actually do any work in this state. The state of NY on the other hand typically gets road projects done in no time flat and UNDER budget, but that's because the guys are actually working when you see them.
That's why even if it's only a few dollars a year in tax they're missing out on from me, I'd rather keep it in my pocket and not support these loafing assholes.
On the subject of pirating games, I never have and I never will. The only time that opinion might've changed was when I wanted to try Thrill Kill after EA canned it after buying Virgin Interactive.[/QUOTE]
I bet Minnesota wishes they had a few dollars to replace that bridge before it collapsed and killed a bunch of people. But they were probably the lazy workers anyway.
But bravo for you Robin Hood. If your government officials are inept you vote them out of office and vote down tax levies. You don't steal from governments and not pay taxes. There are many things I could list that governments do well but you have all ready decided that all governments are evil and don't deserve money. Hope you don't use any of their services since you don't fund them.
The funny thing is that we constantly berate corporations for outsourcing and then we force our governments to outsource. My mom worked for a state company. She made about $17-18 an hour and had good benefits. I'm not going to get in argument over whether she was overpaid or not because employee value is always very subjective. However, due to declining tax revenues the state outsourced all the jobs to a company from FRANCE. Sure they still gave jobs to Americans but they turned all the jobs into temp jobs (no benefits) and $10-11 an hour wages. Now you could say maybe that's what my mom should have been making all along but that's not the point of the story. The point is the government is paying this company $14-15 an hour. $10-11 of that stays in the country and $3-4 an hour leaves the country and helps out the FRANCE economy. But what do you care where your taxes are going right? At least you don't have to pay that extra $1-2 an hour and benefits. Lower taxes, less income. No way that leads into an economic spiral.
I've seen people that make 3 times what I make and work half as hard. I've seen people struggle to support a family and make less than me. Yes, I'm sure that some form of waste/employee abuse exists at every company. Sometimes inept managers know about it and sometimes they don't. What used to make this country great was everybody worked hard and did what was right. But if two wrongs make a right with you then I guess there is no conversation.
in' PA, which I think fought Amazon to get them to start charging taxes on orders here due to there being at least TWO distribution/fullfillment centers that I know of in the state(one in Hazleton, PA, one out by Pittsburgh someplace I think).
