Wow, I never knew that criminals wouldn't carry guns because it's against the law.
Bonnen is a moron of the first order. Just saying that Constitutional Carry would allow criminals to carry a firearm shows that he's a moron.
But a raise in the sales tax will actually have everyone paying into it.I don't keep up - Has Abbott made any mention of this? I would think he would want to separate himself from this especially since he is about to screw people over on the property tax solution. Hey let's raise the sales tax to offset the property tax "relief" we offer to Texans. Psst, you are still taking money from me and spending it like a drunken sailor. That rainy day fund is there IF you need money so bad.
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SATX,
Just curious, do you write them often? I wouldn't say I write often, but I have on several occasions. My experience has always been a canned response from an aid that just kind of touches on the subject I mentioned. Many of them make it easier to do this if you go to the website and hit the contact button for them since it gives you a list of options to choose from for your topic headline. It should be called, pick which reply you want to get.
I've emailed on a couple of hotter button issues in the past. The responses have always been to start off with the generic I understand your concern, talk in a circle, then change the subject to rah rah me stuff.
I'm also a bit stunned I didn't get any response at all from the paper editor. Even if it was a nonsense one. Unfortunately, I still enjoy reading the paper the old fashioned way. That and I saved $17 at Walmart today with the coupons I clipped from today's paper, so it's not like I'll be canceling it anytime soon.
Doesn't look like it's done much good.....F350-6,
YES, I often email, phone & sometimes snail-mail the TX senators/representatives that represent me.
I also email the POTUS & primarily about cutting waste, that costs the taxpayers many millions of dollars each year for NO good result.
Inasmuch as I was once a Fraud, Waste & Abuse investigator for DoD & am also a taxpayer, I "have a thing" about wasteful/needless spending & "sweetheart deals" that benefit the FEW at the expense of the MASS of taxpayers.
(In addition to needless/wasteful spending there is a GREAT deal of outright CRIMINAL FRAUD & just plain stealing of government assets by criminals. Further, my experience as an "on the ground" investigator has given me many places that MASSIVE WASTE often occurs or is likely to be hidden.)
Occasionally, I've also emailed/snail-mailed the WH to make suggestions about repealing needless/duplicative regulations.
yours, satx
Doesn't look like it's done much good.....
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F350-6,
YES, I often email, phone & sometimes snail-mail the TX senators/representatives that represent me.
I also email the POTUS & primarily about cutting waste, that costs the taxpayers many millions of dollars each year for NO good result.
Inasmuch as I was once a Fraud, Waste & Abuse investigator for DoD & am also a taxpayer, I "have a thing" about wasteful/needless spending & "sweetheart deals" that benefit the FEW at the expense of the MASS of taxpayers.
(In addition to needless/wasteful spending there is a GREAT deal of outright CRIMINAL FRAUD & just plain stealing of government assets by criminals. Further, my experience as an "on the ground" investigator has given me many places that MASSIVE WASTE often occurs or is likely to be hidden.)
Occasionally, I've also emailed/snail-mailed the WH to make suggestions about repealing needless/duplicative regulations.
yours, satx
I once knew a guy who was in the navy, and on a duty station change, he found where officers on a ship were stealing stuff like crazy. He reported it to his superior, who happened to be in on it, and was written up for some bogus court martial charges.
Long story short the admiral or whoever was in charge was the guy making it happen. Seems he told me it was in the hundreds of thousands. My acquaintance was transferred to another duty station to avoid retribution.
That is why you report that stuff to the IG and not anyone in your chain of command.
lightflyer1,
SADLY, I know of IG personnel who are dishonest, too.
yours, satx
Then you are screwed. You have to try. If they are corrupt then it is time to shut up and leave.