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Everybody hates paying taxes! would solve a lot of misunderstand- and understanding for the
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And now we know that even ing when it comes to paying taxes. residents of the area..
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nominees for the new Obama But what is a fair rate to charge?
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their tax problems paraded before income levels and others would
the American people to the point want to have this deduction and
that two have withdrawn their that deduction. Let’s say that you
nominations. could deduct charitable contribu-
Woodfin steps in cont...
I certainly don’t look down on tions and that you could make up
these folks for their tax problems. to $18,000 as an individual and
Continued from page 1 later. $2.757 million and APAC-Atlantic is
In fact, I’m glad to know that $32,000 as a family before being
done to complete it.” He continued Civil Design Concepts in Asheville asking for $783,088.
it’s not just me that hates the tax taxed.
by saying that the investment will not is claiming $166,062, Haynes Electric Young believed the mountaintop
man. As for the rate, well, I think Ray
affect town funds and unused money Utility Corporation in Asheville is Versant sites will eventually sell.
I would hope that these troubles Stevens (comic genius) was right,
would be returned. claiming $103,589, Huntley Con- “It’s a beautiful piece of property,”
would spark a fire under this “new “If 10 percent is good enough for
Developers envisioned Versant, struction in Asheville is asking for he said.
administration of change” to Jesus, it ought to be good enough
located at the end of Baird Cove
change the tax code. I mean if the for Uncle Sam.” For those opposed
Road, as a lavish 400-acre village, with
folks that write these tax codes to any move that may even appear
architectural touches from Western
can’t even understand them, how to be a marriage between church
Europe along with a wellness center
in the world can I, and why should and state, I could also go for 9
and walking trails. The community
Weaverville Tribune
I have to pay someone to help me percent. What??? You didn’t expect
was scheduled for 168 single-family
figure it out? me to say 11, did you? I told you I
home sites and 200 condominiums,
The flat tax is one solution. It hate those darn taxes.
some of which prices topped $1 mil-
Subscription
lion. Versant was advertised in The
Rep. wants longer terms
Wall Street Journal.
However, as of the first of the year,
only three sites have sold and one oc- $24
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in Buncombe County
N.C. Rep. Bruce Goforth (a third the last election. cupied home sits behind the gates of
or fourth cousin of mine, for the pur- The Democrats seemed to have Versant, according to Young. Roads
pose of disclosure) has introduced been doing a good job the last 100 have been completed, but the hom-
$25
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outside Buncombe County
a bill to have state representative years or so, and even when a Repub- eowners are using a well to get their
elections every four years instead lican majority gets in, it seems that water because the Woodfin Sanitary
of two. at least one is willing to be bought
$26
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outside North Carolina
Water and Sewer District’s tank is not
Shucks! Why have them at all? to give the power back over. yet operational.
The state legislature has so ger- Let’s just stop having elections all Majority partner Robert Richey said for one-year subscription
rymandered the district now that together, and we would save a lot of in October that Versant was working
more than 60 members of the N.C. time and money. “Smart thinking, against a depressed economy like
Less than 50 an issue deliv
¢
ered
House were not even challenged in cuz!” many high-end developers, but that
he expected progression this spring.
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Senior Editor’s note : Last week, then is now country. I enjoy a lot of
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the following commentary was what country music produces these
mistakenly placed in the newspa- days, but not much of what the rock
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per before it was proofread. Now genre produces.
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has no clothes. We apologize to ion, the entire music scene.
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our readers for the mistake and What was country is no more,
have decided to reprint the com- what was rock is now country and
the Dillingham farm on Spice Cove
mentary below: the stuff that is now called rock, well
Drive, just off Dillingham Road.
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As a student at Erwin High I guess I’ll have to chalk it up to the
School, the preferred music of generation gap.
on the left. Call 626-2624 for more
choice was rock-n-roll, and I fell One constant I have noticed in
information.
right into what a lot of people were country music is that the performers
listening to back in the late 70s and still sing about life, love, living in
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was a fan of the stuff from the 50s music that I can relate to and enjoy
and 60s. I would listen when I would listening.
ride in his vehicle and was rarely I guess with time we all change,
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