The Life of Riley: Pay More Taxes?
December 3, 2014by Jerry Riley We all know that the cost of everything is going up. Taxes go up as cost of services go up. Taxes also go up when governments lose big tax payers. What is unfortunate…
by Jerry Riley We all know that the cost of everything is going up. Taxes go up as cost of services go up. Taxes also go up when governments lose big tax payers. What is unfortunate…
by Jerry Riley The other day I was watching a movie on TV. Well, it was too cold to spend much time walking. They used a word that made me curious, so I decided to do an internet…
by Jerry Riley Email, or FaceBook messages, for me at least, are second only to face to face communication. If people are going to use email as communication they must set aside…
by Jerry Riley Yeah, now that I’ve got your attention this column is about the prison system and comments I received after my column, “Life Sentence, for whom?” which was…
by Jerry Riley America has, arguably, the best political system in the world, but, it could be better. Let’s tweak it. Yes, I know, probably not going to happen, so I’ll…
by Jerry Riley I may have done a column similar to this before, but, due to the curse, I’m not sure. My favorite curse is technology! I used to keep all my published columns…
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