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  • He has: abolished the bankers bonus tax, lowered corporation tax, exempted employers from the NI increase, privatised the NHS, is allowing developers to bulldoze the green belt, exempting multinationals from taxation of profits from foreign subsidiaries, privating the public sector and now giving away YOUR government owned land to wealthy property developers.

    The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2011

  • Those who employ undocumented workers are not only providing the attraction and money that really drive illegal immigration, but they are also burdening the public with the costs of their illicit "cheap" labor - effectively, a subsidy taken rather than granted, or privating the profits and socializing the costs - when we have to pay for the expensive education of non-english-speaking children, etc.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • In fact, major savings can be had by privating the pension portion of FICA and the prebate - having businesses pay these directly to the employee rather than sending the money to the state revenue collection folks then on to the Feds and Social Security (along with the accompanying data file - meaning that all that employee record keeping on salaries is still required under the Fair Tax - isn't it).

    Kevin D. Rollins 2009

  • So then you're for privating the police, courts, schools, and all our other "socialized" public services, are you, Tigger?

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

  • In fact, major savings can be had by privating the pension portion of FICA and the prebate - having businesses pay these directly to the employee rather than sending the money to the state revenue collection folks then on to the Feds and Social Security (along with the accompanying data file - meaning that all that employee record keeping on salaries is still required under the Fair Tax - isn't it).

    Kevin D. Rollins 2009

  • In fact, major savings can be had by privating the pension portion of FICA and the prebate - having businesses pay these directly to the employee rather than sending the money to the state revenue collection folks then on to the Feds and Social Security (along with the accompanying data file - meaning that all that employee record keeping on salaries is still required under the Fair Tax - isn't it).

    Kevin D. Rollins 2009

  • And I know it was right, for both of us, and we have both moved on (and for that reason, I hate hate hate writing about this here, it is completely disrespectful to somebody who is not involved with my life anymore, but it is 6am and I need to, and I might end up privating it.

    www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2009

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