4,301

(46 replies, posted in Politics)

1st off.

Net worth doesn't matter when it comes to federal taxes. If I made $1,000,000 ten years ago and $0.00 for the past 5 years, my tax debt over the past 5 years was $0. 

You can get socked for REALIZED gains in net worth, but I believe only when you cash out, since the dot.com crash ruined a lot of people with insane tax debts (peak value was spring, stock collapsed in fall, next April they were taxed on the HIGH value which they could never recapture or realize.)

2nd off.

When it comes to straight wage income, then bigger wage incomes have a higher rate.  Jack would pay more than Joe.

3rd off.

We distinguish between earning a salary, which is a more stable form of revenue, with capital gains income.  Capital gains taxes are lower because unlike salary they come after you risk an investment.

4,302

(11 replies, posted in Politics)

Europeans telling us our party system is broke?

BWAHAHAHAHA

LGBT have equality

they don't get celebrations for who they bang

that pisses them off

4,304

(21 replies, posted in Politics)

Performance art!  The GOP should sell this as a tshirt

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/riviera_beach/gunman-wearing-president-barack-obama-mask-robs-riviera-beach-mcdonalds

btw where was Nolio?  Anybody ever seen Nolio in the same room as a guy wearing an Obama mask?? duh duh duuhhhh

4,305

(23 replies, posted in General)

you guys are turning japanese I think you're turning japanese

i rly think so

4,306

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

that's what he wants you to think

4,307

(23 replies, posted in General)

O.O

i see...a future...I see...Humidity...a flashing sword...you are naked being beheaded by a soldier....and dipped....in tempura batter

4,308

(7 replies, posted in General)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Black,_Mr._Hyde

saw this on Elvira: Mistress of the Dark on the first officially celebration of MLK Jr. Day as a federal holiday

4,309

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

his auto industry tale was the biggest pile of bullshit Ive ever heard from that podium.

in the 1990s the Japanese figured out they could diffuse a lot of US protectionism against their brands if they shipped parts to America for assembly in American factories. The "American auto industry" includes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, KIA, and Mercedes.  Those firms, with Ford, did not take bailouts.  When he touts "the american auto industry" success as proof of the value of the bailouts he is lying out his ass.

4,310

(19 replies, posted in Questions)

heroin

only to a nation totally confused by the Brady Bunch

4,312

(7 replies, posted in General)

how dare you wreck my pedophile thread with a discussion of tu's sex

4,313

(126 replies, posted in General)

long and long, gollum

4,314

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

The American worker, the American employer, the American investor and the American family own nothing. They earn nothing. They do not grow the economy. They merely take from others. Your own personal efforts to educate yourself, train yourself to better job performance, new products, more sales, that's just other people giving to you. You didn't do it. They did it for you. You can't claim to own what other people did for you. You can't keep everything other people give to you.

And when the government does not get its full share, when each keeps more than they need to keep, that's a taking from others because government will just have to take more from others to get its need. Abraham Lincoln was right: Government should not do more than what people can't do by themselves. And it turns out what America can't do for itself will cost about $2 trillion a year. Government needs the money to prop up the economy by investing in experiments that won't work. Government needs to create penalties and rewards for "market-based" programs that move us in the direction government wants to go. Solyndra was GOOD. FannieMae/FreddieMac is GOOD. We need more of it.

You punch the clock every day to support government, and through government, the economy. You don't get to have an economy without government. Government knows that and won't forget it. Government can tell what you need and what you don't need. Government can give you what you need and don't have. Government can tell what jobs and companies need to die, and government can tell what jos and companies need to be invented. Government can tell what jobs should be available to citizens and what jobs need to be assigned to illegal aliens.

And when we say "government" we mean Barack Hussein Obama. His personal preferences have the authority of God. No man, no company, no industry, no state, no Congress has any right to tell Barack Hussein Obama he can't spend money where it needs to be spent, or can't kill an industry whose time is over. Barack Obama's favor shall raise shining cities from bare ground and his wrath shall make blighted wilderness of orchards and factories. Thronging multitudes shall move or stay at his gesture. His wisdom is greater, his will is grander than all the three hundred millions scurrying at his feet. Cause they're so stupid they think they did it for themselves.

4,315

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-of-the-union-2012-obama-speech-full-text/2012/01/24/gIQA9D3QOQ_story.html


We'll restore our economy by backing losers and failed experiments.
None of us has anything except we taxed your parents and grandparents.
I agree with Abraham Lincoln when he said letting millionaires keep their own money is taking it from old ladies.
That's why tonight I've ordered the Navy to hire illegal aliens.
I've put more tundra up for drilling permits I won't grant.
Our troops are coming home and tonight I call dibs on the savings.
Honda, Ford and Toyota are hiring: I did that!
America works better when Congress gives the President permission, but when you won't I will act.
What happened in Detroit can happen everywhere!!!

4,316

(52 replies, posted in Politics)

"And what is wrong with abortion?"

Same thing that was wrong with the Holocaust

4,317

(52 replies, posted in Politics)

campaign theme!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChjLMbXVrU

4,318

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

European understanding of democracy is largely failed states.

4,319

(29 replies, posted in General)

yikes she's alive!

4,320

(25 replies, posted in Politics)

Southern Africa not South Africa, Angola had communists fighting in civil war when portuguese left, cuba sent troops there, I think that one lasted 30 years.

First of "USA killed 10% of Vietnam"  I repeat I think you are counting all casualties including those caused by Viet Cong rebels and Viet Minh invaders on South Vietnamese population

And "free fire" zone does not mean slaughter civilians at will it meant return fire and attack hostile guerillas without seeking authorization from hq. ALL those zones were on RVN territory which was being invaded by North Vietnam.  think about it if we had 35% of the country in a slaughter zone and we were there since 1954 and rained more bombs than we dropped in WW2 then why are you saying only 10% of the country died at our hands?  if we were there to exterminate we'd have exterminated.

4,321

(25 replies, posted in Politics)

Why would we exclude communist supporters from famine and purge totals? The famines in communist countries were due entirely to Communist management of production and distribution of food.  In the Soviet Union it was often deliberate policy to create famine, with food being sold out of the country during the 1930s while the Soviets denied famine existed.  How is that not a proof of the failure of communism if they eat their own?

BTW i think it is something like 8% of Vietnamese who died in the war, by both sides, not that we slaughtered 10% ourselves.  And 10% quit the country as refugees 2 years after we left, when Saigon fell.

4,322

(52 replies, posted in Politics)

i will debate esa one on one with no moderator for seven three hour debates and I will totally destroy him

as soon as I can figure out what's wrong with his assessment

OHH I know

errhrm "Shame on you for opening this debate by calling Mitt and Newt assholes and used car salesmen.  When you realize all the things wrong with this country <wait for break in standing ovation>"

4,323

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

the hell you don't

hmm that's another reason right there

4,324

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

Also for the past 30 years since Muslim extremists started bombing on Americans we notice the enemies of Israel seem quite pally with our enemies.

4,325

(13 replies, posted in Politics)

they speak english

everybody else we have to hear through female BBC translators