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If the shoe fits wrote:

No sense in me adding anything. Mellers said it all!

highland guy wrote:

Mellers
The Woodbury water police are worried about the costs associated with drilling new wells. Ethanol proponents are NOT worried about the cost of subsidies, mandates, general inflation of food in general due to distortion of the commodity markets, and finally, the dropping water table. I'd say they are two different groups.
But my $0.02
I think when Mr. Huntley identified hand-wringers and conservation types, he wasn't talking about Woodbury officials, who obviously have no influence over ethanol policy. he's talking about the types water zealots who chastised the Woodbury resident in general.

Mellers wrote:

G. Harold Schroepfer: I appreciate your rant but I fail to see the connection. Don't you want people to pay their fair share of taxes so our collective taxes don't go up? None of this has to do with personal privacy (because these people have ALREADY committed a crime, and has nothing to do with terrorists).

Gndydncr wrote:

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What crime have we identified here?
I thought the letter writer was comparing listening in on private conversations with prying into private bank accounts and why wouldn't those who are so adamant about prying into conversations be just as adamant about prying into private bank accounts. No convicted criminals are indentified in either case.

Mellers wrote:

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I believe it's against the law to not pay one's taxes. The difference here is it is known that they haven't paid their share and are dodging the law (my presumption on the last one) where wiretapper situations is a guess, to see if someone's done something wrong.
You are right about the lack of conviction, and I can't (quickly) figure out a rebuttal on that one. If someone doesn't pay taxes and won't respond to the IRS/MN Revenue, is that a self-conviction?
I still think the difference is between a known tax evasion versus a presumed "interesting call for the sake of the nation."

Gndydncr wrote:

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I suspect we’re on different wave lengths here, Mellers. I thought that the letter writer was suggesting that the Minnesota Department of Revenue would have bank officials monitor all accounts on an on-going basis and if bank officials noticed unusual activity, the bank would pass the depositors record and social security number on to the state so that the Revenuers could check the depositors tax form to see if there is reason to be suspicious.
In other words, let’s suppose you regularly deposit your paycheck in your bank and a deposit pattern is established. Now let’s suppose that when a parent passes away you deposit the sizable inheritance in your bank. A blip goes up on the bank’s radar that Meller’s account has an unusually high deposit. The bank forwards this information, along with your social security number, to the state revenue department. Your information is now on the Revenuer’s radar so that when your tax return arrives, it’s going to get extra scrutiny. You may also draw attention from the Revenuers if they discover you have deposits in more than one bank.
You sound as if you're coming from a position where the tax department is gathering evidance against a known tax dodger or has reason to believe a tax payer may be a tax dodger and they are looking for evidence.

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Ex-TWA employee wrote:

Northwest has some of the worst employees in the industry. They are top of the totem pole of complainers and the bottom of the pole in service!

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Ex-TWA employee wrote:

Northwest has some of the worst employees in the industry. They are top of the totem pole of complainers and the bottom of the pole in service!

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thissucks wrote:

Barbara Bicha, I appreciate your comments, and hope you'll understand that while I have done my share of NWA bashing, it's never been aimed at the employees. Instead it's been directed at management. It's similar to the way I feel about Iraq. The troops have my thanks, support, and respect. The management, i.e the President and his cronies, my disdain.
Hopefully, this merger,(takeover) doesn't impact your life too negatively.

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Keith wrote:

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Barbara, I have been treated poorly so many times be NWA employees that I don't care that Northwest bashing hurts your feelings. Once while sitting on a place I observed a baggage handler purposely drop a cardbox box off the conveyer into a few inches of slushly snow on the tarmack where it sat for at least 15 minutes. I mentioned this to the flight attendant who said she could not do anything about it. Another time after waiting at the gate 10 hours for a flight delayed by mechanical issues I had dozed off. When I awoke, I noticed my flight was no longer listed. I ran up and asked the gate agent about it and was told my flight had left 10 minutes ago from another gate. Don't you think a gate agent could check on someone sleeping when there is a long delay. I am very happy to see Northworst gone. Perhaps maybe we can get some competition with airlines like Southwest and other discount airlines after the Northwest dominance is gone. I commend you for your volunteer work, but Northwest employees are not the only ones who do this.