Dooooood. Thanks for the shout out! Should I propose now or later? You so totally rock, but you already know that. I should have stopped lurking ages ago, huh?

I’m still trying to figure out if “growing as a person” refers to expanding one’s internal dimensions or the external ones. It doesn’t take much to confuse me on stuff like this, and I find myself easily distracted at times. I don’t think I’ve consumed enough Mountain Dew to provide immunity against it. Complicating the matter is the fact that my hiney has expanded about 8 pants sizes since high school, so I know in that respect I’ve definitely grown as a person, maybe even two. On the other hand, if it’s about growing on the inside… As a mom of 6 worried about what kind of world I am leaving behind for my children and THEIR children and my refusal to take the way out “some certain people I know” have taken (only worrying about me, myself, and I), well, mama needed to draw on 110%, so I guess I’ve grown in that way too.

At this rate, I won’t fit through the door soon, growing inside and out!

Thanks, Kev.

I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!

Actually I’ve seen Wayne’s World more times than I’ve seen Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But really either one will give you the distinct feeling that you should be doing something more productive, like stabbing your eye with a fork.

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@Angie: You’re welcome! Haha — how long have you lurked my site?

@Josh: Actually, the “Robin Hood” reference was directed at Obama. You know, rob from the rich and give to the poor. You’re welcome, though. And yes. You ARE worthy.

WOW. Thank you, Kev, for saying such nice things about my blog! Your blog looks great. Unfortunately my email makes Safari pop up against my will, so I will now go to Firefox and leave a comment about it on StumbleUpon. Thanks again for the plug, I’ll now tell all the people I deem cool enough to come and check out SKOS.

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You know, the Robin Hood thing is a little too flattering, and not really accurate, if you think about it. Robin Hood stole money back from a government who stole from the citizens. If you think about it, the conservative agenda has historically limited the amount of money going into government and included tax cuts – which is taking money from the government that took too much from the people and giving it back to those who earned it. Yessiree, I’d say we could call the other guy Prince John. Prince John Obama.

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I’m glad someone else besides me thinks that eye-stabbing is more productive than both Wayne’s World and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. There are too few of us left.

Some one wasn’t reading the Obama tax plan with their bifocals on. HIs plan is tax CUTS to 95% of Americans…not tax refunds.

At least use the facts to criticize not inaccurate hyperbole.

@Daniel: Thanks for the comment and differing perspective.

Not to get into too many specifics, but Obama is doing both. His plan will give tax CUTS to 95% of Americans, and his plan will give tax REFUNDS in the form of refundable tax CREDITS to most of those same individuals.

Obama’s plan will offer tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities. However, many (if not most) of these tax credits will go to those who pay little (or nothing) in federal income taxes.

So, if a tax credit is for $1,000 and the taxpayer would otherwise only pay $300 in taxes, the government would cut them a check for $700.

If the individual pays nothing in federal income taxes, the government would cut them a check for $1,000.

There are quite a few newspaper articles on the topic. I encourage you check them out and give them a read.

And, in all seriousness, thank you for the comment!

Hi Kev

I thought I was fairly well informed about Obama’s tax policies but evidently not. I will say that my understanding about the issue of taxing the top 5% is that he would allow the Bush tax cuts for that group to expire and return them to the rate they paid before Bush plunged the US into such an obscene budget deficit and national debt. I don’t view that as the same thing as ‘tax the heck out of them’ – aka ‘us’ being in that group.

I think that the topic you mention about refundable credits is not so different from the long-time-in-place Earned Income Credit or John McCain’s $5000 refundable tax credit that he seems to be tying to his proposal for taxing health insurance premiums paid by employers.

I don’t really have a problem with providing some assistance to people earning very little. I’ve accepted that the country seems to think it is good tax policy to give exemptions to all the children people want to spawn even though they contribute nothing to the tax base or the national economy. Why should I be punished tax-wise for having no children compared to my neighbors who have chosen to have 5 or 6 children?

Why are there even a married filing jointly/separately or single categories? The person who earns/has the income should be responsible for the tax obligation regardless of marital status – how is marital status relevant to financing our national defense?

But as I learned in my economics education, any tax break to one segment of society is tax adverse to all other segments – like the deduction for home mortgage interest and real estate tax is adverse to renters…at least all that was true when it was a reasonable assumption that the government needed to raise X-amount of dollars per year to operate the Federal government – that was before the Spend-big/Don’t-Tax/Borrow-like-crazy Reagan and Bush administrations. Now…well I don’t know the prevailing theorem.

Nonetheless, I do like being educated and informed so I will investigate the leads you provided,

Cheers.

@Jaime: You are very welcome! Your blog is great — I’m glad Angi told me about it. And thank you, very much for the kind words. It is appreciated.

@Steve: Interesting. You know, this is probably the most mentions Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has received in over a decade.

@Angi: I never understood the appeaL of Wayne’s World either. But come on…Robin Hood starred COSTNER. That’s worth something…right??

@Daniel: I appreciate hearing different points of view. Personally, and I’m only half joking, I think the entire government should enroll in a Dave Ramsey seminar (or the equivalent). Thanks again.

Sigh….I’d say having Costner in that movie raises it from about a D- to maybe a D+. Not really enough to raise your GPA, but it sounds better than “almost an F.”

All this tax talk makes Kathy’s head hurt. So let’s get back to your lips. Kev, you appear to have very kissable ones and I would have loved to hear who got first dibs on them. But, alas, I’m denied. It would make you even more awesome if you’d answered the question.

Thanks for the shout-out!

Kathy…Kev’s lips are totally kissable….yes, he may be too shy to acknowledge our passion but them’s the facts. Ooh la la.

I be lovin’ me some Kev

Actually, Kathy and Harleyguy are both correct.

Kev’s lips are totally kissable. Sadly, nobody will ever know it again except by testimony.

Speculation…commence!

Well, I’ve obviously been lurking long enough to feel an overwhelming urge to propose, huh? Nah. I’ve been lurking for a while (in dog years), mostly in a reader and only lately coming to comment since I got out of my state-sanctioned abuse and resultant “depressive” state. You put much-needed smiles on my face during that time, and I needed to show how much I value you by coming to irritate you.

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Thanks for including me! And in typical Erin fashion I’m late on my thanks. ;(

Oh, even though the conversation is over, I have to say that I love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I can’t help it. But! I heard that there will be another Robin Hood movie starring Christian Bale: Prince of Accents. So, at least the new one will have a Robin Hood who sounds English AND it has Christian Bale. Even if it’s a terrible movie, it will still be amazing. Like that dragon movie he was in–HORRIBLE. And yet…

I’m an old fan of Kathy’s, a new fan of Erin’s … and I shall have to check out these others.

You are so awesome, Kev!

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