I'm locking this thread, but will leave it up long enough to allow Kay to see it.

Please don't post severely off-topic stuff, even here, ESPECIALLY on non-essential political things. PoolForum -- by my choice -- is already very controversial. And, I have some ethical committments I try to live by, and also try to enforce here. These two choices I've made already run off a lot of pool owners.

So be it. It's the choice I've made.

But, even so, there are an extremely wide range of opinions among PoolForum users. And while it's probably true that no one actually likes taxes, opinions vary a lot on whether we need more or less, and concerning who the tax victims should be.

What's more, a thread like this opens the door a bit to even more political posts . . . and I just don't want the PoolForum to go there, because I believe that it would get in the way of the PoolForum's real purpose. (Or, at least what I imagine its purpose to be).

Thanks for your understanding.

Ben