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  •  Welcome to Notes From the Farm  
    Welcome to Notes From the Farm.

    This will probably be a low volume site for new content. However, I hope it is a high volume site for comments and poll votes. You don't have to register to post comments. In fact I don't accept registration for this site. I will delete off topic and spam comments so this site is not a free for all.

    From time to time (probably every two weeks) I will try to present an idea or concept that makes common horse sense. Usually each one will be accompanied by a poll so the general public can vote and even present their comments.

    My main goal for this site is to get people to think about a few things in a common sense manner. Even better will be if that thinking style infects the rest of their lives and improves the world as a whole.

    Roger Vicker, CCP


     Day 6 - 07/01/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, July 01 2006 @ 12:01 AM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the USTwo wrongs don't mean no crime was committed. No longer will a "violation" of a criminal's rights give them a free pass.

     Day 5 - 06/17/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, June 17 2006 @ 12:00 PM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the US

    If you are buy a hot beverage and dump it in your lap while driving and file a lawsuit over it a conservator will be assigned to you.


     Day 4 - 06/10/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, June 10 2006 @ 12:00 PM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the US

    All payments court ordered can not be discharged in Bankruptcy.


     Day 3 - 06/03/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, June 03 2006 @ 12:00 PM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the US

    All legislative items will deal with one single subject in the strictest interpitation.


     Day 2 - 05/27/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, May 27 2006 @ 12:00 PM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the US

    Next order.

    All laws will apply to everyone.


     Day 1 - 05/20/2006 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, May 20 2006 @ 12:00 PM GMT-6
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    If I became Dictator of the USFlap. Oink.
    Flap. Oink.
    When pigs fly :')

    If by some end of the world event I became Dictator of the US. I would keep the Senators, Representatives and President in place because:

    1) That probably is the most safe place to keep them.
    2) I am not that ambitious and will just occasionaly tell them what they will or will not pass.

     Changes to Corporate Tax Laws - 10/09/2005 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Sunday, October 09 2005 @ 10:21 PM GMT-6
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    Change the tax laws.
    Remove corporate income taxes and change Capital Gains.

    Their have been several press articles lately proposing that corporate incomes taxes be removed in order to encourage business growth in the United States. There are more very good reasons to support this.

    First is that corporations are not people. They are a legal contrivance that seems to create a legal individual. Even bankruptcy refers to the "estate" of the company as if it was a deceased person. There are valid and good reasons to the creation of these corporate individuals but taxation is not one of them. Part of the problem is the so called double taxation of income. Once when the corporation reports the profit and again when a true individual (the stockholders) reports the dividend (which is the profit transfered to them) to the IRS. While most everyone believes that double taxation is illegal it isn't in practice and that is the subject of another discussion. 


     Photo Traffic Enforcement - 09/04/2005 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Sunday, September 04 2005 @ 07:57 PM GMT-6
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    Current notesPhoto Traffic Enforcement
    Big Brother or Sound Practice

    The Council Bluffs area recently saw the start of the use of cameras to catch those that run red lights.
    Opponents quickly claimed that this was going to create more serious problems because the cameras would cause an increase in the number of rear end collisions. They claimed that there would be a bigger increase in rear end crashes then there would be a reduction of crashes from someone running the red light.

     HIPAA a law gone too far? - 04/10/2005 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Sunday, April 10 2005 @ 09:38 PM GMT-6
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    The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was promoted for the working class employee as an improvement in being able to keep themselves insured as they changed employers. Hence the Health Insurance Portability in the title.

    However the big impact of the law has come from just one word in the title, and the last word to boot. Accountability is where all the big changes caused by the law have come from. It also affects far more than insurance and could in circumstances endanger your health.


     Confiscate the vehicle for drunk driving - 02/25/2005 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version  
     Author:  rvicker
     Dated:  Saturday, February 26 2005 @ 09:30 PM GMT-6
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    In the United States a person can be repeatedly convicted of drunk driving and continue to drive. I've been told that in many European countries that not only is the cost of any drunk driving conviction many many times that in the US but that it is also an automatic revocation of the license.

    There have been various proposals in several state legislators that any vehicle used while driving drunk should be confiscated.


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    Most Recent Post: 04/10 07:48PM by rvicker

     Poll  
    Is Traffic Photo enforcement a legitimate tool?
    Yes and should be widespread
    Yes, but on a limited basis
    Not sure
    No
    No and should be outlawed everywhere
    Results
    10 votes | 0 comments

     Poll  
    Should there be a license for alcohol?
    Yes
    No
    Not Sure
    Results
    14 votes | 0 comments

     Poll  
    Should the car used when driving drunk be confiscated.
    Yes - Permenantly
    Yes - For a long period
    Yes - For at least as long as license is suspended
    Maybe
    No
    Not Sure
    Results
    13 votes | 0 comments

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