A surplus is a sign that the taxpayers have been overtaxed. When you over pay the federal taxes you receive a refund, but not with the states! They never have problems finding ways to spend it. Contact your state rep, they are a lot easier to get a hold of than federal officials, i've spoken to mine on the phone a couple of times.

I'm afraid of the things that might come out of my mouth when they answer the phone. I'm sure I'd have a couple of "suits" at my door in 15 minutes.

i guess you must be in the austin area. my uncle was doing some engineering consulting for the capital rail project, or whatever they are calling it. from the sounds of things, there is a lot of precursory mismanagement and just plain old bad decision making going on with it.

he was actually thinking about not bidding on the work because they seemed so disorganized with their basic plans.

i know for a fact (because i worked on it the engineering calculations for the performance curves) that one of the things they are looking at is the actual selection of the railcars they would be using for this... the one they seemed to have picked out was truly underperformer when compared to similar units that NJ transit got for their south jersey light rail project.

sounds like an interesting project... but then again, who is going to ride the things? we'll see what happens with fuel prices... it was $4.00 a gallon in NY last week.

I'm in Utah. Gas here is $2.60 or so for the good shit.

I'm just pissed off that the damn people keep getting taxed, and then they release the surplus numbers and no one mentions a tax break.

2,233,169 people live here in the state as of the 2000 census. Thats $671.691215 per person if they refunded it all. BUT that includes a fuckton of kids being everyone here has 7-12 kids per family.

I can't do much with $671, but if they lowered the over all tax rate I'd be happy.

I could NOT have said it better.... Ever think about POLITIC'S?

The illegals pay when they buy gas, buy tires etc. but the bulk of the taxes come from withholding taxes, so if you don't have a social security number you don't file because your employeer didn't withhold from your wages.

What we need is the fair tax proposed by Neal Boortz (http://boortz.com) his book can be ordered on amazon regarding this(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060875496 /sr=8-2/qid=1143644093/re f=pd_bbs_2/002-0582068-84 86453?%5Fencoding=UTF8).

Check out the link on the highlights of the book and proposals of the fair tax.

The immigrants also have to get an IRS number so they can pay income taxes like everyone else but thehy dont get many of the benefits tha come with paying taxes.
p.s. i dont want this to get ugly.

You nailed it when you said immigrants get a number so they can pay the taxes because they entered legally. Illegals don't get that number nor do they have taxes withheld. No reason for it to get ugly. I feel for all the immigrants that have been waiting years to legally enter yet all you have to do is sneak in.

OH MAN! You're a fan of Neal Boortz too?? The man is a genius.

80% of the time he's on the mark, which is a lot more than you can say about any politician! The station that carried him took him off, i'm in a blue state...Connecticut, but i listen sometimes on the internet. But his blog is the first site i visit while drinking my coffee in the morning.

the 20 - 60 year olds that are getting a check are because they are owed it because someone was a slave a long time ago. not in their family just someone was.

restituition... well when they ante up the cotton they would have picked in 80 years then they get restituition, prorated for how old they actually are of course.

and then they get to go back to Botswana or whoever wont kill them as they come off the boat.

Thats funny, my cuz gets it and she dont deserve it. I know lots more. And none of them were enslaved.. Last time i checked there was no 20 year olds pickin cotten eather :-/ Tell me where u get this info? I got to read this

There are some whack job Chicago city councilmen/women who have been trying to push restituition for years... I just think it shouldnt just be given to someone because they are black...thats not enough of a reason.

im going to reword that a bit, "I dont think that people who cant keep there leggs closed and use protection and stop multiplying for the checks." thats plum retarded, Like i read somewhere else.... If u cant feedem, dont breedem!

Have your Dad call the INS about all the illegals in your school, Then have him call the School board and ask why his taqxes are being used for Illegal Aliens and what is the Board going to do about removeing them?