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02-15-2013, 07:42 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Like a Good neighbor, State Farm is outta there!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...re-in-Illinois
I was taken to task over this last week. Mostie? Where are you?
One of these buildings they are buying is near my home. I might have to apply
Goodbye Illinois Taxes........hello Texas!
Republican Governors are going to starve you Libs out........what a plan huh?
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02-15-2013, 08:50 PM
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It isn't only the wealthy who are thinking of making a move out of this poor excuse of a state...
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02-15-2013, 09:00 PM
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Racing Form Detective
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Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
It isn't only the wealthy who are thinking of making a move out of this poor excuse of a state...
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Remember you can't bet the ponies on the net in Texas either.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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02-15-2013, 09:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Goren
Remember you can't bet the ponies on the net in Texas either.
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Florida, here I come.
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02-15-2013, 10:10 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Goren
Remember you can't bet the ponies on the net in Texas either.
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Yeah, like that's an overwhelming reason to pay more taxes.......
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02-15-2013, 10:52 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
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Of those 98 jobs in NY, three of them were Baby Mario's staff and the other 93 were moving companies.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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02-16-2013, 02:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: North Riverside, Il.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JustRalph
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...re-in-Illinois
I was taken to task over this last week. Mostie? Where are you?
One of these buildings they are buying is near my home. I might have to apply
Goodbye Illinois Taxes........hello Texas!
Republican Governors are going to starve you Libs out........what a plan huh?
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Last week you posted a story from the Dallas News which said State Farm was acquiring office space in the Dallas area. The Dallas News then claimed that State Farm was moving its corporate headquarters out of Illinois because of high taxes. It claimed this even though State Farm said this was not the case and explained the office space in Dallas was for its southwest regional offices.
So today you post a story from Breitbart which is nothing more than a link to the very same Dallas News story. Putting the story on Breitbart does not make it any more true. Just the opposite.
How about finding a story from a local Bloomington, Il. newspaper. Like this one
http://www.pantagraph.com/business/l...9bb2963f4.html
This story says that State Farm is hiring so many people in the Bloomington area that there is not enough room for them at corporate headquarters. Some of them have to work from home part of the time. The story says State Farm is spending $2.8M to renovate offices at one of its Bloomington facilities. The story says that those offices will be used to house workers while other facilities are being rehabbed. The story says JustRalph is very gullible to believe anything on Breitbart. Ok, I made that last one up.
If State Farm were moving its headquarters, why would they be hiring people in Bloomington? Why would they be renovating and expanding their facilities there? Why would there be nothing in any of the Bloomington or Chicago papers about this move?
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02-16-2013, 02:43 AM
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Just another Facist
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Location: Now in Houston
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Yeah, but you gotta admit it's fun............
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02-16-2013, 08:03 AM
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Location: Aledo,TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Goren
Remember you can't bet the ponies on the net in Texas either.
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Not true.
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02-16-2013, 09:43 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schweitz
Not true.
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There are umpteen threads about not being able bet the ponies by Texans. Are those Texans lying? I even believe an ADW is suing Texas over it.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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02-16-2013, 09:59 AM
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Location: Aledo,TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Goren
There are umpteen threads about not being able bet the ponies by Texans. Are those Texans lying? I even believe an ADW is suing Texas over it.
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I have been wagering from Texas since 1999 on multiple ADW's. What I can't do is wager on Texas tracks online.
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02-16-2013, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
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Speaking of Illinois, so glad I moved out of there last August (to central Iowa for work, Des Moines area)...lower sales &property taxes, lower rents, lower fuel cost, a state government with a $800 million budget surplus, and even better grocery stores (Hy-vee and Fareway put Dominicks and Jewel-Osco to shame).
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02-16-2013, 11:37 AM
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Sunny Daytona Beach
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Daytona Beach
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schweitz
I have been wagering from Texas since 1999 on multiple ADW's. What I can't do is wager on Texas tracks online.
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Must break your heart,
patrick
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02-16-2013, 03:47 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Goren
There are umpteen threads about not being able bet the ponies by Texans. Are those Texans lying? I even believe an ADW is suing Texas over it.
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Goren, there are ways around,
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02-16-2013, 04:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Aledo,TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JustRalph
Goren, there are ways around,
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I don't need a way around. I have never had a problem. I heard somebody say that it may be a problem opening a new account from Texas but I don't know if this is true or not.
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