Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[Birdjaguar]

Every removal company has told me to take a hike. Because of COVID, they are all refusing to enter any properties.

I guess I'm sleeping on a broken mattress until the pandemic's over! Very cool.

Hire some paid labor off Craig's List to remove your old mattress and just leave it on the sidewalk.

 

[Synobun]

That's illegal here.

 

[Takhisis]

The government cannot charge a fee for the exercising of a Constitutionally guaranteed right.

So sales taxes, income taxes, property taxes, inheritance taxes, etc. are against the US constitution which guarantees the right to buy and sell, to earn a salary, to own property, to inherit from your relatives and so on?

 

[Commodore]

So sales taxes, income taxes, property taxes, inheritance taxes, etc. are against the US constitution which guarantees the right to buy and sell, to earn a salary, to own property, to inherit from your relatives and so on?

Income taxes actually were expressly forbidden in the Constitution originally. It wasn't until the 16th Amendment was passed and ratified in 1909 that Article 1 Section 9 (the part that forbade income tax) was removed from the Constitution.

 

[Takhisis]

And the rest of my post…?

 

[Synobun]

Every removal company has told me to take a hike. Because of COVID, they are all refusing to enter any properties.

I guess I'm sleeping on a broken mattress until the pandemic's over! Very cool.

Worry not, I went with a mega corporation which charges twice the price. They were eager to sacrifice their workers for my benefit.

 

[Commodore]

And the rest of my post…?

I just wanted to share that fun fact.

 

[Zkribbler]

US constitution which guarantees the right to buy and sell, to earn a salary, to own property, to inherit from your relatives and so on?

No such rights set out in the US Constitution.

 

[Takhisis]

But you're not answering whether those taxes I mention are constitutional or not.

 

[Zkribbler]

Property tax by the central government is forbidden by the constitution, which forbids the feds taxing wealth. Inheritance taxes are treated as income. The states can tax property.

 

[Takhisis]

Eek! That post was for Commodore, but anyway you're giving a good answer.

 

[Zkribbler]

The city is once again jackhammering my street.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Every removal company has told me to take a hike. Because of COVID, they are all refusing to enter any properties.

I guess I'm sleeping on a broken mattress until the pandemic's over! Very cool.

I was going to suggest telling your most recent lazy roommate to help you get the mattress outside and having it hauled away (since they wouldn't have to go inside), but it looks like you've solved the problem.

 

[r16]

silly enough ı love breaking up these old matress things assuming you people mean the object you actually sleep on , like 20 cm thick , springs and carpetry and sponge at the sides . Springs re-recyling collectors will remove off the street as soon as they see , cloth pieces become ordinary waste . (And when you buy a new one , the delivery people will naturally take the old one , too)

 

[amadeus]

You should put it on craigslist “free trampoline“

When I was a kid there was another student in my class invited me over to his house to jump on his trampoline. It was an old mattress that had been brought outside the apartment complex.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: I started packing my Dune books. Most are hardcover, which means having to break out the sturdiest plastic bins. These things are heavy when you try to put them all in the same container.

Then I got involved in an argument over at TrekBBS, and have been consumed with tracking down references in the Dune Encyclopedia (a valid source, as it was sanctioned by Frank Herbert) to prove I'm right and they (the other posters) are wrong.

If this was 10 years ago I could just track down my posts on a couple of other forums instead of having to reconstruct my arguments, but alas those other forums shut down years ago and the posts are lost.

 

[Zkribbler]

Holy that sounded like a gunshot! A coconut just bounced off the new metal roof of my salacot.

 

[Lexicus]

It is with great sadness that I must record here the passing (in a hopsital in Venice, under circumstances which are unclear but apparently involve illness of some kind, on Sept 2) of David Graeber, one of my favorite anarchist authors. He was a formative influence on me with his book Debt: the First 5,000 years and I have found several of his shorter essays very interesting.

Rest in power, David.

 

[choxorn]

The only one of his books I've read was BS Jobs, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Terrible that he's passed so suddenly and at a relatively young age.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Holy that sounded like a gunshot! A coconut just bounced off the new metal roof of my salacot.

Maybe you should have bought Synsensa's old mattress. That way the coconut would have bounced quietly.