Sat
Feb 24 2007
08:39 am
Stacey X in the House: Sending the immigrant economy underground
By: R. Neal

Stacey X has introduced a bill that would charge a 25% tax (PDF format) on money orders, cashier's checks, traveler's checks, and the like purchased by non-citizens.

It's pretty obvious what this is all about, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons for a non-citizen to be buying money orders and cashier's checks. Why should they be penalized and discriminated against?

It should also be noted that immigrants, legal and otherwise, have typically higher numbers of "unbanked" and are therefore dependent on these services to pay their bills.

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bizgrrl's picture

What's wrong with this guy?

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2007/02/24 - 8:45am.

What's wrong with this guy?

It certainly seems Stacey X is wasting precious time in Nasvhille. Or, is this what his constituents are really asking him to do?

Bbeanster's picture

Why do people elect morons?

Submitted by Bbeanster on Sat, 2007/02/24 - 9:48am.

This has become a very pertinent question in Knox County.

We have voted in the most stupifying collection of double-digit IQ losers in human memory. Lord, it's a pitiful lot.

We have been attack-ted.

LadyVols's picture

We have voted in the most

Submitted by LadyVols on Sun, 2007/02/25 - 12:26pm.

We have voted in the most stupifying collection of double-digit IQ losers in human memory. Lord, it's a pitiful lot."

I SO AGREE!

The giant problem is the people who yell the loudest just don't vote. I dare say the vast majority of those who post right her never darken the voting booth.

The right wing does get out the vote, look at how much BUSH won by in Tennessee and how much FORD lost by in Tennessee. If we could just get OUR side to the polls things could really be different.

Is the answer a better candidate or is it the higher you are on the ladder the more your side votes? Wealthy republians (most all of them) vote every chance they get, the poor (lots of our side) never do?

R. Neal's picture

I dare say the vast majority

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 2007/02/25 - 12:28pm.

I dare say the vast majority of those who post right her never darken the voting booth.

I very seriously doubt that.

P.S. Every poster on this thread has been spotted at a political rally. I'm assuming they voted, too, if they went to the trouble. Every poster that I know on the mayor thread (which is most of them) has also been spotted at a political rally or public function of some sort, such as a Harold Ford Jr. rally. I haven't seen Bill Lyons at any Democratic functions, but I'm guessing he probably votes.

talidapali's picture

I vote...

Submitted by talidapali on Sun, 2007/02/25 - 6:34pm.

I don't get out of the house much due to medical problems and all but one thing I do make sure to do is go vote. Usually early voting at the place closest to my house, but I take the time to research my candidates and the issues and referendums and constitutional amendments and anything else that may come up on the ballot and then I plan and schedule to go vote (yeah i have to plan outings because I have to carry medical equipment with me)and I vote.

Sometimes I wonder how many people in Tennessee realize that with this last election we, as a state, voted to discriminate against an entire group of people simply because they are different from us? If you voted for the Marriage Protection amendment that's exactly what you did. You basically went in that booth and said that "some people" are less human than others and therefore they do not deserve to have the same rights and privileges that everyone else enjoys. That is the SAME EXACT argument that white folks used for hundreds of years to justify slavery. It is the same argument that the Nazis used to justify the killing of Jews in World War II.

"They are different, not the same as us, they aren't as good as us, we are better so they deserve to be treated like this by us."

Sounds a lot like the way people talk about gay people or immigrants or Muslims or {insert minority group name here}. And the bigotry parade keeps rolling on, and people like Stacey Campfield and politicians like him just keep on feeding the hate and people who are too willfully stupid to realize that they are being USED by these politicians keep voting them into office and going along with the hateful legislation they propose.

Sometimes I begin to think that the human race deserves extinction, we should go the way of the dinosaurs ourselves and let some kinder, gentler species maybe have a chance to do it better than we have done.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

LadyVols's picture

Every poster that I know on

Submitted by LadyVols on Sun, 2007/02/25 - 12:54pm.

Every poster that I know on the mayor thread (which is most of them) has also been spotted at a political rally or public function of some sort, such as a Harold Ford Jr. rally."

Getting out with a sign is a great start! The problem with us never getting enough votes to win locally could be we are not talking the rest of those who think like us into voting? Or it could be the core of posters here is too small to make the big change we need? Answer to that is to both increase that core and to ask people up front if the vote or not?

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