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didn’t NYS have cash flow problems last year, and held off on issuing refunds on returns filed after a certain date?
Cheney is the one with the lesbian daughter (unless Gingrich has one as well & I didn’t know).
I already e-filed my tax returns. Got message that my fed return won’t be processed until February 14th at the earliest.
Cut it out dave. Slander, nothing. 8 years of Bush, defended by his father and brother is enough. Go play with someone else.
Rob,
1) The longer the govt takes to pay refunds, the longer they have use of the cash rather than the taxpayers that are owed.
2) April 15th is a Friday this year so the deadline is April 18th.
I think my insurance is just fine, thank you. I don’t want the government messing with it.
newt gingrich is a douche nozzle. no one can deny that.
Oh, and you wouldn’t be able to use periods of non-existence as effective time travel. You would age during your period of non-existence. So if you choose 10 years of voluntary non-existence you come out of it 10 years older.
Oy, are we going to refight this every time there’s a court decision? How much energy did we expend on OT in 2009 on this? Did anyone convince anyone else? (You all know where I stand, so consider my previous points on health care policy and politics incorporated herein by reference, as we sharks like to say.)
I think there are some interesting legal and philosophical questions. If we just expanded medicare and/or medicaid in some way to cover everyone, that would presumably be ok. Govt raises taxes and provides a benefit. We would argue over the wisdom, but not the constitutionality. So here we have a plan that involves less direct govt activity. Law requires private individuals to buy private plan of their choosing, as opposed to assigning them a govt plan. In crafting a plan that tries to achieve nearly full coverage through largely private insurance, it creates a level of private coersion that is intolerable to some and may turn out to be ruled unconstitutional. Forget the left/right policies and politics, if this were you being forced to buy insurance, would you experience a requirement to purchase private insurance to be a greater or smaller burden on your personal liberty than being given a government insurance plan paid for through some form of taxation?