I cut the tree down, and turned the stump into a bench, and now she wants benches all over the place.
Mind you, the section of the garden we put together for her looks spectacular, considering it was done with shit we found at the dollar store, and a couple bags of soil.
The whole backyard needs redoing. There is no way anyone has been back there for 10 years for anything. I have a dead patch the size of the moon that I'm trying to train some creeping phlox to grow on - there are ground bees in the area, so this will keep them happy, I won't have to mow it, and I will have really awesome flowers on my terrace for a long time.
I also transplanted my rasberries, strawberries, and mint. The mint has been handed down from my family since they came from England. Its a very good strain.
It will probably take me 2 years to get the garden the way I want it to be. I have a pretty grand vision. This year I'm just undoing the damage the previous owners did.
Give me 3 years and I'll show you the garden of eden.
I was feeding an abandoned Raccoon baby, but, it disappeared. I hope it found its mother.
Hey, I do have a small soft spot, and I didn't want to have to clean up the poor things body if I knew I could have prevented it from starving.
Try some speedwell, or veronica. Beautiful blue flowers, nice for ground cover. If you can get some English Bluebell bulbs, they're really nice mixed with the veronica.
My accountant told me that people are supposed to declare what they spent on the internet when they do their taxes, and pay sales calculated on that. I don't know if that is true or not.
It is certainly true in California.
So why not just make Californians pay the taxes they owe?
I haven't read the bill, but I think it is an attempt to clarify some of these things. I'm sure it will go through a lot of House debate, and be modified. There are some issues the House Judicial Committee has with it.
Reading God is not Great and dude is coming across as totally clueless. I would put the book down (it was free, would never buy) but am curious to see how dumb he really is.
I agree with you on that one. He was an idiot, especially in his later years.
There's nothing to step up. Use taxes are essentially on the honor system. The state doesn't know what you've been buying over the internet, so they can't enforce it. So no one pays it.
Income taxes are on the honor system too, to a great extent. The use tax laws are already there, people are supposed to report their use taxes on their income tax forms. States could make this happen if they had the will.
Of course, we all know why they don't wish to do this. Hypocrites.
Correct. The law is already there, this isn't a new tax. We're already supposed to pay it.
Why don't the sates simply collect the taxes? The laws are already on the books. Why should retailers on the other side of the continent get involved?
I know the answer, of course.
My accountant told me that people are supposed to declare what they spent on the internet when they do their taxes, and pay sales calculated on that. I don't know if that is true or not.
Most legislation originates in the House, but this one originated in the Senate, introduced by Dick Durbin, Lamar Alexander and Heidi Heitkamp, so it is clearly a bipartisan effort. And judging by the vote, it has significant GOP support.
Yeah, this one came out of the Senate. States are pretty desperate for money because they can't just print it like the Feds. A lot of GOP leaders are supporting it because their states need money for transportation projects, etc.
This isn't really creating a "new" tax, it is closing a loophole so that states can collect taxes people should have been paying all along.
I'm pretty sure at the end of the day they will create some exemptions for businesses that have incomes below a certain level.