Last night, I was provided a guided tour of Portland and Delaware Water Gap by none other than His Eminence, the Right Rev. Ron Angle. We went pass the Indian head mountain, which I think really does look like an Indian head. We passed stone walls constructing along Route 611 during the depression, and although some have crumbled, large stretches are still in good repair. We drove through the now shuttered businesses of what was once a busy little borough. Many of the older Victorian homes are breathtaking., We also shot through the Delaware Water Gap, where Ron p[rovidided vivid descriptions of each of the businesses, including a Japanese Ramen shop that offers pies and, from time to time, lobster rolls. We finished off the tour at Pho Saigon II in Bartonsville, which has the best pho in a 50-mile radius next to Bethlehem's Pho Bowl.
If you'd like a guided tour, complete with stories of gangsters that used to frequent the foothills of these mountains and other entertaining stories, I'm sure Ron could be persuaded to give a guided tour for the modest fee of $1,000 per person (cash only, nonrefundable). Let me know.
I'm sure it was a short tour- Portland, due to its geographic location, could be another New Hope, but due to poor leadership and no foresight, looks like a ghost town.
ReplyDeleteI’ll gladly pay $1000 per person if he would pay his fare share of taxes like they did in 1940. The highest federal top marginal income tax rate in 1940 was 79%.This rate consisted of a 4% normal tax combined with a 75% surtax on individual incomes exceeding $5,000,000. Additionally, the Revenue Act of 1940 introduced a temporary 10% defense tax overlay, which briefly pushed the statutory peak to an effective 81.1% for specific high-earning brackets to help fund rising defense expenditures before World War II.
ReplyDeleteWe need to make those millionaires pay their fair of taxes and anyone who has a net worth of 10 million should be prohibited from collecting Social Security.
How does that sound?