I guess next time I see Terry I'll ask him, because I have know idea what he has to do with elected officials gone wrong. (maybe someone will give me a hint.)

I think smoking should be banned in public places indoors or out, as it effects everyone with a radius of a smoker not just the smoker. Now if they were to ban beer and alcohol sales I might have a problem, but they wont because it is a personal indulgence, it effects no one but the drinker. (unless they are a Swindell/Walker/Lasoski hater, then they just become a public embarrassment.)

Ever been to Perris Auto Speedway? It's awesome, you don't have the person sitting next to you smoking because it is not allowed. They have to go way back behind the restrooms to smoke, its hilarious.

So I guess you are right, politics are an important part of my racing enjoyment.

Sean, Tucson

!!SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TRACKS!!
!!Get Well Shane!! 

Lol...exactly! So why should the middle class pay twice the tax rate of the richest 1% in America?! It might be downright unconstitutional, but that hasn't stopped the GOP much over the last eight years...lol. Something tells me you're going to witness another Boston Tea Party on Nov 4th. Here's to hoping the middle class strings them up by their balls. The jackasses that only have to pay 15% on their millions are the same ones benefitting from the mortgage crisis, oil speculation, exorbitant healthcare costs, defense contracts, etc... At the rest of our expense. This mortgage bailout is just the latest knife in the back of the middle class. After people made millions upon millions selling subprime loans, once again taxpayers are left holding the bag. It's criminal.

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

WOW, if McCain is only up 57 to 43 on a Sprint Car forum, he may be in trouble.

the noise limit for T-Mac

I don't smoke either so it is a non issue other that something being taken away.

The Governor of Iowa is rumored to be thinking of banning liquor and beer sales at all public sporting events also.

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If it's so terrible being rich and paying more taxes then I'd gladly trade incomes with anyone in the higher tax brackets and gladly pay the higher taxes as well. BTW the democrats have been trying for years now to lower corporate taxes for companies keeping jobs here in the US and raising them(closing the loopholes created by the Bush administartion) on companies that are shipping jobs overseas.

A

Thanks for the hint on Terry. I'm not sure "elected officials" were at fault there. I think it's a noise ordnance that allows that track or any track in CA to run races as they have built houses and such so close to the tracks. It's a compromise so we can race without driving miles out of town.

In Tucson, we have a light pollution ordnance that says we have to have our tracks lights off by 10:00 or so, or they pay a big fine. Sounds like malarkey only a promoter would pull, but it is true, we have an observatory close by that is effected by light pollution.

I get your point, but, they don't threaten the existence of our sport. We will cooperate with city and local government to continue racing, (as long as there is racing fuel to do so.)

I don't get worked up over rumors, besides Coors, Bud, Miller and such won't let that Iowa Gov. get to far with this prohibition at sporting events.

Sean

!!SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TRACKS!!
!!Get Well Shane!! 

Yeah and what's even more insane is that the U.S. has accrued 9.5 TRILLION dollars in debt, thanks mostly to the Bush 41 and 43 and the Reagan administrations. Who's supposed to pay that? Kinda makes a Lexus look like small potatoes.

A

Who's gonna pay it? My generation, the next generation...........the next generation.............the next generation after that. But remember, they only have our future in mind. My question is, who's future? Who has benefited from any of the current policies? This nation was bought, paid for in blood, sweat, and tears and built by people that left the tyranny and oppresion in the lands that we came from before. There is no new world for us to escape to the next time.

Every great civilization in the history of the world was destroyed from the inside out, mainly fueled by the greed of their hierarchy and terrible abuses of power and iresponsibility by its leaders. How long before we're serfs in service to our overlords just like most of our forefathers were in europe hundreds of years ago? Go ahead, over tax the people that make this country run. Go ahead, bow to your new masters.

...

Agreed, It's totally irresponsible beyond comprehension that our government can run up debt like this year after year. Unfortunately there is no solution for digging us out of this hole that doesn't include both raising taxes for somebody and also reducing gov't spending. Neither of the major party candidates has the integrity to tell this simple truth. We need to get out of the mindset that it is the US responsibility to police the entire world. It's costing us trillions of dollars and we can't maintain it. No other country is stupid enough to waste money like that. Our foreign policy of sticking our nose in everywhere is just creating more enemies world wide anyhow, creating a snowball effect.

A

Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics

Tuesday, Sep. 09, 2008 By MICHAEL KINSLEY

Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn't a journalist and never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey. Although Palin praised John McCain in her acceptance speech as a man who puts the good of his country ahead of partisan politics, McCain pretty much proved the opposite with his selection of a running mate whose main asset is her ability to reignite the culture wars. So maybe Governor Palin does represent everything that is good and fine about America, as she herself maintains. But spare us, please, any talk about how she is a tough fiscal conservative.

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Palin has continued to repeat the already exposed lie that she said, "No, thanks," to the famous "bridge to nowhere" (McCain's favorite example of wasteful federal spending). In fact, she said, "Yes, please," until this project became a symbol and political albatross.

Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state's unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can't afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.

Under the state constitution, the governor of Alaska has unusually strong powers to shape the state budget. At the Republican Convention, Palin bragged that she had vetoed "nearly $500 million" in state spending during her two years as governor. This amounts to less than 2% of the proposed budget. That's how much this warrior for you, the people, against it, the government, could find in wasteful spending under her control.

One thing Barack Obama and McCain disagree on is an oil windfall-profits tax. McCain is against it, on the theory that it is a tax and therefore bad and also on the theory that it would discourage domestic production. Obama is for it, on the theory that if oil companies can make a nice profit when oil sells for $50 per bbl., they can still make a nice profit when it sells at more than $100, even if the government takes a bit and spreads the money around to those who are hurting from higher oil prices.

Although Palin's words side with McCain in this dispute, her actions side with Obama. Her major legislative accomplishment has been to revamp Alaska's windfall-profits tax in order to increase the state's take. Alaska calls it a "clear and equitable share" tax. The state assumes that extracting oil from the tundra costs about $25 per bbl. and takes as much as 75% of the difference between that and the sale price.

Why is a windfall-profits tax good for Alaska but not for the U.S.? Well, it's obvious, isn't it? People in Alaska are better than people in the rest of the U.S. They're more American. Although there are small towns and farms and high school hockey teams in the lower 48, there are fewer down here, per capita, than in Alaska. And there are many more journalists and pollsters and city dwellers and other undesirables who might benefit if every American had the same right to leech off the government as do the good citizens of Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Palin has continued to repeat the already exposed lie that she said, "No, thanks," to the famous "bridge to nowhere" (McCain's favorite example of wasteful federal spending). In fact, she said, "Yes, please," until this project became a symbol and political albatross.

Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state's unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can't afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.

Under the state constitution, the governor of Alaska has unusually strong powers to shape the state budget. At the Republican Convention, Palin bragged that she had vetoed "nearly $500 million" in state spending during her two years as governor. This amounts to less than 2% of the proposed budget. That's how much this warrior for you, the people, against it, the government, could find in wasteful spending under her control.

One thing Barack Obama and McCain disagree on is an oil windfall-profits tax. McCain is against it, on the theory that it is a tax and therefore bad and also on the theory that it would discourage domestic production. Obama is for it, on the theory that if oil companies can make a nice profit when oil sells for $50 per bbl., they can still make a nice profit when it sells at more than $100, even if the government takes a bit and spreads the money around to those who are hurting from higher oil prices.

Although Palin's words side with McCain in this dispute, her actions side with Obama. Her major legislative accomplishment has been to revamp Alaska's windfall-profits tax in order to increase the state's take. Alaska calls it a "clear and equitable share" tax. The state assumes that extracting oil from the tundra costs about $25 per bbl. and takes as much as 75% of the difference between that and the sale price.

Why is a windfall-profits tax good for Alaska but not for the U.S.? Well, it's obvious, isn't it? People in Alaska are better than people in the rest of the U.S. They're more American. Although there are small towns and farms and high school hockey teams in the lower 48, there are fewer down here, per capita, than in Alaska. And there are many more journalists and pollsters and city dwellers and other undesirables who might benefit if every American had the same right to leech off the government as do the good citizens of Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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What a post from OKCFan without making fun of a baby born with a disability??? Your letting us down.

What a post from OKCFan without making fun of a baby born with a disability??? Your letting us down.

Speaking of letting us down...7 days and still no effort to make good on this. On second thought, I guess you would have to have expectations of someone in order to be let down.

Posted By: OKCFan12 on September 02 2008 at 03:00:27 AM

i'll give you a 20 dollar bill if you can find the pic taken about 2 seconds after that..........ironically - in this infamous pic that complete idiots still think speaks for the duration of the salute to our flag - no pic is much published showing them 2 SECONDS later ------ with all 4 of em hands over their heart. if this is really why some select folks (i call em dumbasses) are not voting for obama ------ then i'll be happy to know you'll be voting for him come november - once you actually get on some site other than Fox or a right wing site --------- to see the truth. even in this pic - why is everyone looking different directions? because the funkin salute had not started yet! geez..............never underestimate the audacity of stupidity..........

Posted By: raceway video on September 02, 2008 at 09:20:40 AM

I seem to remember showing this to you a few months ago when you put up the same argument. Selective memory? Please donate the $20 to the RNC

Jeff Kristensen

I suppose nobody took a look at the markets in the immediate aftermath of 911...the terrorists tried to destroy our economy, this was their goal. It didn't work. Everybody here in the states thought there would be more attacks. There weren't. We may be having an economic downturn, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse. It's a widely held belief in politics and with economists that the economic policy by the federal government really doesn't really reveal itself for several years after it's instituted. Reagan's economic policy (brought forth at a time of economic stagnation) had it's effect on the Clinton administration (when everybody thought times were good). This has happened throughout history.

The idea you all are argueing about tax plans that likely won't get passed in any semblance to what a CANDIDATE has proposed is interesting. It sounds like everybody wants to have a class warfare battle. Like it or not, big business and main street create most of the jobs in this country. That contributes directly to everybody's way of life. Take away the incentive to create wealth and then you'll have a REAL problem. Who then would be the largest creator of jobs? The goverrnment?

You know, Ronald Reagan was a better movie actor than people gave him credit. He could have made more movies during his career but decided it was pointless because he was already in a tax bracket where he would have been working extra for relatively little. Why work more than you need to if the government is going to take the money anyway? One of the main reasons for job loss in this country is the tax structure (Federal and most States) isn't "business friendly".

The only truly fair tax is a consumption tax with a luxury tax added for certain items that only the "rich" purchase. The problem with that is that states and local governments would still be able to tax income as well as add sales tax, ect. as how they see fit. The current income tax structure is basically where the power exists in our country. It would be very hard to truly change that.

We need to get government off our backs instead of adding more to our problems. The Democrats want to add to the responsibility of government (and promse that somebody like the "mean old rich people" will pay for it.) Obama tells these people that he's on their side...he's going to make it right for downtrodden. The Democrats are the same tax and spend to excess party they've been for over forty years. There's nothing new there. The Republicans blew a great opportunity over the last fifteen years to make good on their "contract with America'. The failed...even before 911...McCain does get it. He's running on the platform of real change...maybe we should call it real improvement.

What it comes down to at the end in November is this...What are you voting FOR? Not against, but FOR. What is the role of government? What about social issues? Where do you want to see this country, not just in four or eight years, but the next twenty, thirty, forty years? What do you envision for the next generation or two or three? That's what we are really deciding here.

there are web pages with price tags for 9/11 in the $2 TRILLION RANGE in direct impact to our stock market and economy - insurance companies ALONE lost over $50 billion! Greenspan even testified to these cost estimates in front of liberal pigs like Kennedy / Dick Turban / etc. in the US Senate prior to stepping down.

the number grows even higher when you start factoring in the direct impact to international stock market declines who remained OPEN while OUR STOCK MARKET WAS CLOSED FOR 10 CONSECUTIVE BUSINESS DAYS as well as the internation airlines whos flights to the US were cancelled when the order to close the skies to commercial air traffic.

but last time I checked - WARREN BUFFET still takes advantage of the very same TAX LOOPHOLES which he could VOLUNTARILY AVOID and SEND THE GOVT MORE MONEY at any time.

matter of fact, any of you democrat feel goods. including Cubic$Dollars, could SEND IN ALL of their spare money and the Gov't would cash the check and never say a WORD!

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John Katich say's "You know, Ronald Reagan was a better movie actor than people gave him credit".

He played the role of President didn't he? I remember that role well and if I remember it right he had a little difficulty remembering his line's the last few years. Heck, he had a hard time remembering anything the last few years. I have a good idea about who was really running that show.... McCain seems to be having a problem remembering his lines as well. He can't seem to remember what he said a short time ago on different issues. Some respecfuly call it being being disingenuous, I call it being a lier.

Kenny

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

Buffett said he doesn't use any loopholes, that's why he pays 17%. The rest of the jackasses that are using tax shelters and offshore accounts are lucky to be paying 10%.

Warren Buffett: I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges-- me that the average (tax rate) for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists. I'll give 'em an 800 number. They can call me. And the million will go to whichever charity the winner-- designates.

Tom Brokaw: How much are you hearing from your fellow rich fellows, as you describe them?

Warren Buffett: I don't hear anything. They're happy. They are not paying the tax rate their receptionists are.

Tom Brokaw: Why do you think that is? I mean, Congress took a look at this this year with the hedge fund operators.

Warren Buffett: Right.

Tom Brokaw: Who are getting taxed at about 15 percent.

Warren Buffett: And they-- and they're screaming about that. And they-- and-- and it-- and they're often deferring taxes by-- by using-- foreign tax statements. And what happens--

Tom Brokaw: But why-- why won't Congress step up on this in your opinion?

Warren Buffett: Well, I don't know the answer to that. I do know that the hedge fund operators made a record amount lobbying-- in recent months, so they give money to the political campaign and-- and who represents the cleaning lady?

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

What do I envision for the next generation? Many economists estimate another $4.5 trillion added to the federal deficit under McCain's plan.

Look on the bright side, once the dollar falls below the peso maybe the Mexicans will be able to start buying up America on the cheap this term instead of just Asia, the Middle East and Europe. That way the people who own us will at least live a little closer.

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

Cubicdollars, that is an excellent point and well taken. As a matter of fact because of Warren Buffet's unique situation - huge amounts of wealth - and the way the tax code is written it seems to be an advantage for him. But that advantage does not come without RISK.

You need to understand what happens when WB or any other investor for that manner invests in a company. The reason those advantages exist in the first place. You see, when a company sells stock, they are in fact raising capital. The reward to the investor is hopefully some dividends and an increase in the value of your investment that is not realized or taxed until it is sold.

The reasons those tax incentives exist are so that the wealthy people - ie WB - have almost no choice to invest their wealth in companies. It's good for the economy. It creates growth....for cryin out loud it creates CHANGE!!!

I really feel personally that raising the capital gains tax is not a good thing. If that incentive is taken away where are all of these companies that we want to grow our economy and create jobs going to get the money to do that??? A loan from a bank? Possible Lehman Brothers?? Now that is funny I don't care who you are!

The thing where WB has them all beat is not in taxes but in knowlege. He is a very SAVVY investor and had really re-defined what it means to invest in growing companies....and our economy!

MB

Rome wasn't built in a day......but they sure didn't
waste any time burning it down!

PS. There ought to be a law about butchering the National Anthem like that too!

Rome wasn't built in a day......but they sure didn't
waste any time burning it down!

He says the current system needs addressed...

Tom Brokaw: Are you surprised there's not more talk in this presidential campaign about economic fairness and economic justice?

Warren Buffett: Yeah. I am surprised-- it may be that everybody wants to be cautious-- while they're looking to get nominated, but-- but the degree to which the-- economic-- well, the taxation system has tilted toward the rich and away from the middle class in the last ten years is-- is dramatic, and I don't think it's appreciated. And I think it should be addressed.

Click here, for link to video of full interview.

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com