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Anti-Government Insanity - Oklahoma Edition

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So yeah, there was a tornado outside Oklahoma City , and yeah, there was damage , and yeah, there were deaths .  But god forbid we do anything preventative against the next tornado. This from the Star Tribune  [There is] a general resistance to government mandates in politically conservative states such as Oklahoma, where tornadoes are most prevalent. Even the director of an association of storm shelter manufacturers, based in Texas, is opposed to a storm shelter mandate for new homes. "Any time a governmental entity says `thou shalt' and tries to take an individual decision into the public domain, it's going to get pushback, and you're also going to raise the cost of things," said Ernst Kiesling, executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association and a retired civil engineering professor Texas Tech University. And this from Steve Eddy - the City Manager of Moore (ground zero for the tornado damage) via NPR We're a pretty independent lot ...

How to avoid paying taxes - Visualized

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Ok, this only applies if you are significantly wealthy. D'you have - at least - three commas in your checking account balance?  If not, don't bother reading this... Source: TopAccountingDegrees.org