Halloween
Who should we thank for postponing trick or treating until Saturday? Can that person tell me how to explain to my kids that even though I took the day off from work to take them out in their costumes, that can no longer happen? Why don’t these people let the parents decide if it’s safe for us to take our kids out on Halloween as scheduled?
Taxed twice
To Wednesday’s uninformed caller: Stock dividends are taxed twice. As a owner of company stock you are in fact a fractional owner of a company and are technically responsible for the tax on profits which the company pays on your behalf at 35-percent rate. Then the company distributes the remaining after-tax profits or a portion to you which you then pay additional tax. No company exists without the people who own it!
Capital gains
The capital gains tax rate applies only to earnings and not to the original investment amount that was already taxed. It is earned income. The fact that working families should pay more taxes than those who have enough money hanging around for investing is insulting. If capital gains were taxed at an equal rate, then fewer of us would have to bear the brunt of funding the government and we might all have a little to invest.
Obama’s debt
President Obama has claimed he will reduce the current debt. But if you remember, it’s the president who increased the debt to its current level. Now, did he raise it in order to reduce it as a campaign promise? Or will we get more of the same if he is re-elected? Think about this carefully before you vote.
No choice
The person who called Sound Off about Obamacare was exactly right. I’ve already lost my doctor of 25 years. He doesn’t take the insurance anymore and the new doctor has already swapped me over to someone else, whom I did not pick. You have no choice in Massachusetts and that’s it.
Nothing’s changed
I’m responding to a recent Sound Off article on Obamacare: I was just a patient at the Merrimack Valley Hospital. I’ve been there before. Everything is just as it always has been; the pitchers of water, the nurses come right away and I had all the blankets I wanted. Everything is perfect, just as it has been before, at the Merrimack Valley Hospital. I’ve been a patient there many times. Nothing has changed.
Sick of calls
I’m a sick woman. There are plenty of elderly people who are sick and we get those phone calls all day and all night. If this continues, then I’m not going to vote for anyone. This is ridiculous. They haven’t stopped. The more they call, the more aggravated we all get and we just don’t care any more. One more call and that’s it!
Gas prices
Isn’t it kind of funny that gas prices have suddenly dropped in the last month in an election year? The same thing happened in 2008. Gas prices dropped that election year. Why does that happen?
Stealing signs
To the people who are going around Plaistow and stealing the Romney signs: You’re being photographed and watched.
