You dont understand,,, do you....
Guys, too many AMP's have been closed. dont you think the other AMP's know this. They are being careful. How about a little silence in the house.
of maybe we can discuss just how great the massage really was.
SHHHHHH.
Smiling Fox ;}
Maryland's Deficit, An Easy Fix
[QUOTE=Sundance88]Well all this proves to me there is no more crime in Maryland , NOVA, or D.C. What with uncle LEO going after the AMPS AND other places. I feel safer dont you??? Next, somebody is going to tell us the economy is all fixed and all is good with the world, Osama Bin-lauden and his bunch have said they were sorry and wont do anything nasty again, and all our troops will be home next week. Oh, gas will drop to $1.50 a gal. and the IRS will be disbanded. Ok OK I will come down off my sarcasm box now. Pardon me.[/QUOTE]You know, with all the talk we hear on the news how Maryland wants to put or raise taxes on everything (the latest being a dime more for an alcoholic beverage), you'd think one of them might say "let's legalize the AMP's 'true' business since it is the only thing NOT affected by the nation-wide recession, and tax them."
I mean think about it. Restaurants and bars are closing down all over the place, so the beer and alcohol industry threatens that an increase in the alcohol tax (which would bring in nearly $350 million according to the latest statistics) would cause the beer and alcohol distributors to foreclose; tobacco companies keep feeding legislatures and other public voices to keep the tobacco taxes from rising; everyone is sick of income and estate taxes, for the fact that the harder you work it seems the more you fund some unemployed bastard's leisure vacation and not bothering to even look for a job (no offense to those who are in fact TRYING to find a new job; I live next to a couple that takes their check and spends it quickly, and haven't applied or interviewed at a single job since back in Oct '09).
My point is, no matter how bad it gets, the AMP industry is solid. The way we mongers post on this board the high numbers of the good (and bad) reports, if legislature stood up and said "we could use this to our advantage" and say tax 1-dollar (or whatever) per service, while guaranteeing not to close down anymore AMPs for under the table services, it'd be a win-win for all. The state gets out of debt, finds funds to supply all those government expenses, and men all over Maryland could continue obtaining those all-so-needed services to keep their sanity and comfort.
RoB-OuT
I think I need to present this to the senators/district representatives.