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 Posted: 05/10/03 - 07:17 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | 
i am wasted just reading that.  |
and I was mad coz I had to stay like 20 minutes later than usual last night. Hang in there buddy you're almost done
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Posted: 05/10/03 - 07:51 Post subject:
Good Luck in surviving Alan
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 05/10/03 - 11:05 Post subject:
They adjourned at 1 am, and were back at it at 9 am 
I have been doing this awhile, so I am comfortable with the extraordinarily long hours--but this time it is worse than usual.
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Cappy
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Posted: 05/10/03 - 11:05 Post subject:
Are they getting anything done? What is the big item on the agenda this year?
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 05/10/03 - 11:42 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Are they getting anything done? What is the big item on the agenda this year? |
A $9 billion revenue shortfall is the largest concern. But the real problem is there is new leadership in the House of Representatives, and they are having a hard time making the trains run on time--so to speak.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 05/10/03 - 22:22 Post subject:
Wheels fell off the wagon again today in the House. They had a big bill up on the floor--but it had some pretty significant opposition. Anyway, rather than spending today and sunday debating it, the opposition found a point of order to knock it off the calendar.
So in frustration they just up and adjourned until monday. I was home by 7 pm! And I get tomorrow off--a very unexpected surprise.
So, I am going to bed now. I am very tired.
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Cappy
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Posted: 05/11/03 - 07:03 Post subject:
Enjoy your day off, get some 
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keltic63
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Posted: 05/11/03 - 10:07 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Enjoy your day off, get some |
and then maybe a run!
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Posted: 05/11/03 - 11:22 Post subject:
OK, let's get back to that wine thing.....by direct to consumers, do you mean like in the supermarkets and stuff, like they do in Carolina, etc?? I'm not familiar with TX liquor laws.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 05/11/03 - 11:37 Post subject:
Winery to consumer, by passing wholesalers and retailers. Tax equity is the problem--what the California wineries are proposing would put the same products in the market tax free. We have a fix, but the California wineries don't like it very much.
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Posted: 05/11/03 - 11:43 Post subject:
So I am imaging that the problem the wineries have with this whole deal is that they have to keep track of where the wine is going, collect the taxes appropriate for that state, and then deliver said tax money to the state? Sounds like a big PIA and a cut into the wineries' profits to me.
What's the proposed fix?
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