PRIVILEGE: BLACK OR WHITE
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Published: Monday, April 12, 2021 13:49
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by John Campbell
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We have been hearing a lot about white privilege lately and I have been trying to understand what the purpose of this onslaught is about. Racism and privilege has suddenly become the main theme in our every day news cycles and is the basis for many of the decisions being made by politicians and even large companies. I understand what the word "privilege" means but do not understand how it can be assigned to only one race of people in the universe unless those assigning it really believe that white (not including Hispanics) are better than all of the others and have somehow been able to prove it through time. Kind of a silly thought is it not? Well I want to start this blog with a story about two young boys growing up in a dairy farming region in central New York. Billy is black and Johnny is white and they both live in a small town of one block with a village green along one of the streets. Billy lives around the corner from Johnny and both have great parents and siblings. At twelve years old Billy starts to ride with his father on his morning milk route picking up milk cans from farmers and taking them to the creamery. Soon Billy is helping and picking up cans of milk at about 100 lbs. each and putting them on the truck. Not long after he started to work his father started to let him drive the truck. Billy had a job at twelve years old and would continue on with this duty for years.
INCOME TAX OR NOT
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Published: Monday, March 29, 2021 08:32
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by John Campbell
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Recently, I attended a zoom meeting with the new Dean Of the business school at West Virginia University and others from the community. A question was asked of the Dean whether or not the elimination of the WV income tax would aid in attracting new business to the state. After some discussion I was asked what I thought about it. I stated that coming from New York State I did not think people here new what taxes were and got a great response of laughter. We are seeing our governor and others working to eliminate the income tax and using the business attraction as their reason but really they are( I'm removing my conservative hat) transferring the tax from the upper income people that pay most of it to the lower income people that will pay it through their higher sales tax and other taxes on consumer goods. The tax does not defer anyone moving to WV other than a few retirees that would probably go to Florida anyway.
