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Offline Tess Anderson

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"Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« on: August 31, 2011, 02:07:06 PM »
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Apparently, madmom thinks some government employee was rude to her when she applied for her next "program":

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madmom (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-31-11 01:44 PM
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Well, that wasn't very nice...... 
 I just got back from our county auditors office. We have a homestead act for elderly and disabled property owners. I went in to get the forms for my husband who was just declared disabled by the SS admin. This "lady" was pretty curt, she acted like I was trying to take something from her. She asked in a rather gruff way.."do you intend to see a doctor or what?" I told her we already had a letter of determination from the SS admin and she all but threw the form at me. Said they can't collect them till Jan 1. I'm thinking someone must have pissed in her cheerios this morning or she is a repug. What do you think?
 
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2011, 02:19:49 PM »
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This "lady" was pretty curt, she acted like I was trying to take something from her.

Is that not exactly what you are trying to do?  I thought taxes were a good thing?

Oh, these are YOUR taxes.  My bad.

KC
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2011, 02:32:14 PM »
Yeah, why would a county worker in the tax office be upset with you for cutting her office's throat?  What's with that, anyway?

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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2011, 02:33:33 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on August 31, 2011, 02:19:49 PM
Is that not exactly what you are trying to do?  I thought taxes were a good thing?

Oh, these are YOUR taxes.  My bad.

KC

We have homestead exemption for everyone in our county.  It is only for the property you reside at, and reduces taxes on that piece of property by about 30 percent.  I've had the exemption for years, and I've never had any problems with the county clerk when I submitted the proper paperwork for it.  I guess they are all Democrats?    :-)
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2011, 02:41:21 PM »
Quote from: RWKindaGuy on August 31, 2011, 02:33:33 PM
We have homestead exemption for everyone in our county.  It is only for the property you reside at, and reduces taxes on that piece of property by about 30 percent.  I've had the exemption for years, and I've never had any problems with the county clerk when I submitted the proper paperwork for it.  I guess they are all Democrats?    :-)

Yup, Texas has homestead exemptions too and I take full advantage of mine.  I wish I could get it on all my rent houses.

[du mode] then I could lower my rent for every renter to almost nothing so they could have more disposable income to buy pot and cheetos [/du mode]

I guess the difference here is I'm not on a message board proclaiming paying taxes is patriotic.

KC
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2011, 02:45:20 PM »
i guess i never heard called it the homestead exemption.
we have higher taxes on non-homesteaded property.
but toe mate oh, to mah to.
i dont know about a larger exemption for elderly/disabled though.

i doubt the clerk was upset about someone using the exemption per se, just fed up with al the paperwork hassle of an overly bureaucratic system. especially when a "client" comes in unprepared.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2011, 02:48:50 PM »
Whoa.

Wait.

Isn't taking advantage of loopholes so as to evade taxes something the primitives harp about?
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2011, 02:53:22 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 31, 2011, 02:48:50 PM
Isn't taking advantage of loopholes so as to evade taxes something the primitives harp about?
Quote from: Texacon on August 31, 2011, 02:19:49 PM
Oh, these are YOUR taxes.  My bad.

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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2011, 02:58:26 PM »
The clerk is just a typical bureaucrat, a cog in the government the DUmmies love so much.  Madmom will have to beg someone like that clerk every time they seek medical care. 

NY *used* to have what's called the STAR exemption program.  the R stood for relief (from property taxes).  They took it away, sadly, because the NY machine needed the dough.  Pricks.  We keep trying to get it reinstated. 
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2011, 03:12:30 PM »
Quote from: Karin on August 31, 2011, 02:58:26 PM
The clerk is just a typical bureaucrat, a cog in the government the DUmmies love so much.  Madmom will have to beg someone like that clerk every time they seek medical care. 


I was thinking about this while I was at our local DPS office renewing my drivers license.  I used to be able to walk in there and get service in literally minutes.  Then the office north of us closed and a town to the south of us grew rather quickly and they haven't opened a new DPS office there.

When I went in there the other day I got there at the time they were supposed to open and I was number 31 in line!  Most of those in the line were from the town south of us.  They told me there was a 7 hour wait to see a clerk in their town so they came to ours.

The first 45 minutes I was there I went from number 31 in line to number 9 in line.  That's when 3 of the 4 clerks there left.  2 of them went outside (I presume to perform drivers tests) and one simply went into a back room.  It took another 45 minutes for me to get service.

Just before I got service the clerk who went into the back came out and served me.  My thought through the whole ordeal was "This is what the liberals want.  They LOVE government and this is what we will have with healthcare if they get their way."

And before anyone says anything; I can not renew online.  I have a commercial license with a motorcycle endorsement.  I have to go to the DPS office.

KC
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2011, 03:57:32 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on August 31, 2011, 03:12:30 PM
I was thinking about this while I was at our local DPS office renewing my drivers license.  I used to be able to walk in there and get service in literally minutes.  Then the office north of us closed and a town to the south of us grew rather quickly and they haven't opened a new DPS office there.

When I went in there the other day I got there at the time they were supposed to open and I was number 31 in line!  Most of those in the line were from the town south of us.  They told me there was a 7 hour wait to see a clerk in their town so they came to ours.

The first 45 minutes I was there I went from number 31 in line to number 9 in line.  That's when 3 of the 4 clerks there left.  2 of them went outside (I presume to perform drivers tests) and one simply went into a back room.  It took another 45 minutes for me to get service.

Just before I got service the clerk who went into the back came out and served me.  My thought through the whole ordeal was "This is what the liberals want.  They LOVE government and this is what we will have with healthcare if they get their way."

And before anyone says anything; I can not renew online.  I have a commercial license with a motorcycle endorsement.  I have to go to the DPS office.

KC

Why didn't you just renew online?

 :tongue:

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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2011, 04:10:58 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on August 31, 2011, 03:57:32 PM
Why didn't you just renew online?

 :tongue:

 :-)

LOL well, at least I know someone who read the bottom line!

KC
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2011, 04:56:20 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 31, 2011, 02:48:50 PM
Whoa.

Wait.

Isn't taking advantage of loopholes so as to evade taxes something the primitives harp about?

It's stealing when the rich do so, when the primitives do it, they deserve the break.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2011, 05:09:36 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on August 31, 2011, 03:12:30 PM
I was thinking about this while I was at our local DPS office renewing my drivers license.  I used to be able to walk in there and get service in literally minutes.  Then the office north of us closed and a town to the south of us grew rather quickly and they haven't opened a new DPS office there.

When I went in there the other day I got there at the time they were supposed to open and I was number 31 in line!  Most of those in the line were from the town south of us.  They told me there was a 7 hour wait to see a clerk in their town so they came to ours.

The first 45 minutes I was there I went from number 31 in line to number 9 in line.  That's when 3 of the 4 clerks there left.  2 of them went outside (I presume to perform drivers tests) and one simply went into a back room.  It took another 45 minutes for me to get service.

Just before I got service the clerk who went into the back came out and served me.  My thought through the whole ordeal was "This is what the liberals want.  They LOVE government and this is what we will have with healthcare if they get their way."

And before anyone says anything; I can not renew online.  I have a commercial license with a motorcycle endorsement.  I have to go to the DPS office.

KC
Thank you for the reminder. I have to make an appointment for the boy and I to get new military dependent ID cards.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2011, 07:28:50 PM »
Water is wet, the sky is blue, and bureaucrats are dicks. Especially the older women...WOW they can be crabby. But all in all it is just a fact of life.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2011, 08:28:18 PM »
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2011, 12:49:49 AM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on August 31, 2011, 05:09:36 PM
Thank you for the reminder. I have to make an appointment for the boy and I to get new military dependent ID cards.
Show up early. Really early.
Did that a month ago.
Folks at the ID section down here were great.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2011, 07:19:43 AM »
Quote from: Karin on August 31, 2011, 02:58:26 PM
The clerk is just a typical bureaucrat, a cog in the government the DUmmies love so much.  Madmom will have to beg someone like that clerk every time they seek medical care. 

NY *used* to have what's called the STAR exemption program.  the R stood for relief (from property taxes).  They took it away, sadly, because the NY machine needed the dough.  Pricks.  We keep trying to get it reinstated. 

I would bet my last dollar that she was a unionized, public employed democrat. The fact that she was a cranky old bitch is a dead give away.
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Re: "Well, that wasn't very nice...... " (madmom)
« Reply #18 on: September 01, 2011, 02:07:13 PM »
True Blue Connecticut has some of the nastiest low-down bureaucrat clerks you've ever seen.  Bordering on sadistic on hoops they make you jump through, documents you must produce, time you must waste, and minds you must read.  Right Coast, if you stop by here, am I right? 

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