Brokerage Fee from UPS - should I ignore it?

[Gurn Blandston]

OH MY GOD......

A fellow Ron Paul man. Pardon my French, but wholly shit!

This is hilarious but I'm actually working for his campaign. I thought you were a Brit?


or rather a Canadian living in the motherland? I truly am surprised by this.

Speaking of taxes, we have what amounts to a hilarious situation here in South Dakota. Each year they raise taxes a few cents on tobacco products...until last year when they raised them a whole dollar. Those gummint yahoos sat back with their wallets open and...SURPRISE, money coming in from tobacco taxes dropped significantly.

They scratched their gold-plated heads, perplexed. Even the calculator said money would go up.

Apparently these ass-clowns blew off class the day they went over inelastic demand and a free market economy in the internet age. I don't know if you know anything about the geography of South Dakota, but all the population centers are along the border. I live in Spearfish, 10 miles from Wyoming. Sioux Falls is the largest city in the state, 8 miles from Nebraska and something like 15 miles from Iowa.

The problem with the last tax was that it made tobacco in all the neighboring states cheaper. Since everyone lives near the border, well....

It's really quite funny. Almost cute how clueless they are.

To make up the short fall, our taxes will go up another 63 cents in July 08.

Will the brilliance of my government officials never cease?

Peace.

[Zero]

haha, I am a Canadian and I am living in the UK.... I just love Ron Paul and am trying to get all the yanks I know to vote for him :lol: Ron at the reins of the Empire would certainly be a GoodThing™ for the entire planet, I think. That and tax laws are basically universal... all governments are corrupt in more or less the same ways. :?

[chainsnuser]

Not to say anything against Ron Paul, I just don't know him, but a few thoughts:

- If he really is a libertarian, then he will not have a chance.
- Libertarian ideas have failed, long before the ideas of modern political mainstream even were 'invented'. Liberalism even has failed long before other false political ideas were born. You know what I mean. I, personally, like libertarian theories, but not as my political preference, just as a philosophic approach to things.
- I, personally, don't trust people who want to sort anything out. Even if I trust the people, I don't think, they're going to succeed.

Again, nothing against Ron Paul, he may even be the best option for the U.S., but not many people will trust anybody, who is totally apart from the mainstream. Maybe he should change his marketing.

Cheers!

[Zero]

Anyone who doesn't immediately recognise Ron Paul as a genuine and trustworthy, intelligent and rational human being just simply hasn't heard the man speak - full stop. Either that or Fox News and its contemporaries have damaged one's psyche beyond repair... Libertarian ideas didn't fail, they made the US great. It's been living off of the fable that libertarianism left for it since about 1931. Regardless of what you think of his ideology, Ron Paul is the only candidate on both sides who has shown himself to be above his ideology - willing to listen to the people and the congress rather than overextending and abusing the power of the president to make his ideology "the way". He understands and respects the need for progressive and gradual change and is the only candidate who seems to understand and convey the idea that the president is not an authoritarian and must work with the people to make things work. If the obviousness of the merit of that philosophy does not make itself immediately clear, then you're just making me more depressed about the state of the public on this rock :?

and he doesn't have a chance? He's murdering the straw polls despite a blatant and comprehensive media-smear campaign... that's got to say something. The rest of them, republicans and democrats, are big-corporate supporting, lying, cheating, corrupt, warmongering, white-collar criming bastards - just like politicians have always been, at least for a long time and especially in the US. I think a change from that might at least be worth a shot.

[innerlogik]

I received a bill from UPS after my first shipment with them, didn’t pay it, and have had 3 more shipments by UPS and have yet to get a bill for any of them. Anyway just have to wait and see if they decide they want to pursue the $5.

Oh yea...

Ron Paul 2008!

Ron may have run as a libertarian in the past, but he is now a republican, a REAL republican...

[Zero]

I'd say he's still a libertarian, but he's foremost a constitutionalist - both of which are basically what the Republicans used to be. Not anymore...

[Coffey]

Ron Paul 2008!

Ron may have run as a libertarian in the past, but he is now a republican, a REAL republican...

Yes, Ron Paul is a true Republican, more in line with Lincoln than Reagan. He stands true to the ideals of Republicanism. You know, the little things that most other modern politicians ignore, like, oh I don't know, the Constitution. We are called Libertarians now, but if you read the writings of the founders of the Republican party, you will see who the true Republicans are. Sorry, but I get a little excited about this kind of thing, I hope to become a public servant, and I find it upsetting that many in politics today do it strictly for what the country can do for them, rather than what they can do for the country (to paraphrase John Kennedy).

[KentuckySnusser]

Oi! Get a Ron Paul Room you guys!

-Bill Richardson in `08

:P

[KentuckySnusser]

BTW: just received my second shipment from swedishsnus.com and no customs clearing fee this time either. The fast shipment and fresh snus proves more and more to me that this is the way to go.

[llewelynt]

Oi! Get a Ron Paul Room you guys!

:lol: Yeah, I'm not voting for him either.

[alex]

VIVA LA REVOLUTION!! RON PAUL '08
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