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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA its a martian!!
damn that sucks, glad you got out OK
The only good liberal is a naked woman
So what did you think of our free-range asylum of a state? have you regained sensation in your buttocks after your long drives? details!
20,000 pounds!
...i have always loved yu
special report the martians are advancing on new york city they have overrrun pittsburg pittsburg as we know it is no more it is a city of green trees and happy cafees and all the people dance to the eurythmics in the street many new yorkers are panicked they are on their way to boston boston does not want them the trains are not stopping and the doors stay closed
if you see thte martians it is too late you will be converted you will no longer be dos compatible your blackberry will jam your ipod will shuffle endlessly do not see the martians look at your shoes and whistle if they see you it is ok the martians I mean not your shoes your shoes will not see you don't wave to them it's no good
lawyers, ballerinas, olympic ambassadors, college students adn 13-year olds are life's losers?
so who got arrested for looting
"Now you are beginning to understand. Although 25% taxes will handicap the investment potential of both individuals, the one earning $100,000 is handicapped more. The reason is that the person earning $100,000 spends a greater percentage of their disposable income on consumer goods, unless the person earning $100 million is frivolous to the extreme. Assuming the person earning $100 million is a frivolous spender, spending $20 million a year, their disposable income for investment would be 55%. For the person earning $100,000, they would have to cut their spending to $20,000 to use 55% of their disposable income on investment. While $20,000 is doable with considerable sacrifices the elite won't need to make, it illustrates just how the current tax system adds to the inherent investment advantages the elite enjoy."
Tough crap. You have no right to spend a % of your income that you'd match if you were 10X richer than you are at present.
"Without a tax system that taxes the elite more, wealth concentrates in the hands of a few. When that happens, Republics evolve in to overt Oligarchies. The highest income earners then use their power to buy politicians to give them additional legal market advantages, and they get away with it. The bottom line is that money is power. If you want power to be broadly distributed (not equally, broadly), then the elite have to be taxed at higher rates."
By enabling the State to "equalize" the economy you have concentrated power in the hands of the few. Since this policy seems to involve only a) the really rich and B) the somewhat better off, the average person will not be permitted to interfere with its operation.
"As a Legal Positivist, I logically reject your claim that such taxation is theft. But for simplicity, I will tell you I don't care if it's "theft" or not. What matters is that there is no Plutocratic Oligarchy, and if "theft" is necessary to prevent such an evil then so be it. The ends justify the means."
And thus you wil create Socialist Ogliarchy, and I will cease to care about "assassination" or "conspiracy" or "aiding and abetting a fugitive".
I think we just saw the rich take a bath due to their deeper investments.
There is no way to make $100 million work like $100,000. None. Except outright confiscation, and if that worked why isn't Cuba the richest economy in Latin America?
My dad took down his cartoon
it was a tall black guy and a small white guy on a basketball court
White guy: The only way we can play one-on-one is, if I get to use a ladder and a gun
Black guy: What caliber of gun?
"Thank you for reinforcing my point. The tax system eliminates competition for the elite by preventing people from being self-employed or starting a small business. It happens because the Republicans (Democrats too, but the neo-cons were first) are bought by the elite. This is why Gates and Buffet praise higher taxes on "the rich," when really they mean preventing the professional or small business owner from competing against them, and preventing lower classes from entering the upper middle class or lower rich. It also explains why political donations to politicians have become increasingly generous and overt."
NOBODY opens or closes a business based on their relative position to other tax brackets or their payout relative to historic averages or relative to GDP. Such figures are unknown to real people for years, until the government amalgamates the stats and publishes reports. What counts in expansion is "Do I have enough money to afford it?" NOBODY is going to say "well yes but when you think about bill gates paying as much as me in taxes, it makes it pointless" or "no I dont have a million dollars but if Bill Gates paid twice as much in taxes I'm sure I could open my own howard johnson".
Second nobody is talking about putting the S-corp owner at a different bracket. They want a hike of the top, period. Gates, Kerry, and Joe the Deli Shop Owner.
"Its not about the math or what happened in the past."
Uh yeah it is. And the govt will take from us and for every $1 it pays in benefits it costs between $15 - $20 in costs. And that $1 will go to unnecessary crap lik birth control, free phones, abortion, and food aid to the fully employed. Or to throw a few million bullets at Afghans out of rifle range. Screw it!
My parents did tell me what sharing is. Sharing is voluntary! Did you learn what "earning" is? How about "theft"?
"Ya know for a party that claims to be all about God you republicans have no idea wtf being a christian is all about. Show me the bible passage where God encourages the rich to step all over his fellow man. God wants us to help and love one another. What the republicans stand for is just plain evil. If you cant see that then your just plain ignorant."
Do they teach your kid that at school? Oh wait-- the right arm of the Lord, the State, won't let His name be mentioned.
"In short, the Republican party serve the elite, and this is why class mobility has gone down, evidenced by increasing income inequality.".
Nope, those are two separate things and we have less class mobility when there is less income equality. Income Inequality was BETTER during the Carter Administration, whiich was a time of great suck.
When it costs more and more to go from being a self-employed guy with no employees, to a boss, to a franchisor, then the schmucks who would have started out as clockpunchers are denied the opportunity to get in on a management track.
/me monitors your transmissions noting time and vector
"That may be true, but it's irrelevant. Imagine a guy $100 in income and a hundred people with $2.00 in income. If the tax rate is 50%, ofc the top earner is going to pay 50% of the taxes! But is that income fair or healthy for the economy? Most certainly not."
Taxing the crap out of the top is going to limit class mobility. That's what happened in teh 1970s, and eased in the 1980s and 1990s.
they were looting in my state once
ONCE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmsKGhLdZuQ
why do our opponents call us teabaggers
is it because we're in their face?
>> i sit on 1 planet and idle <<
coordinates?
OOPS I had that garbled.
Top 20% - "highest quintile" pay 86.3% of all federal income taxes and 66.8% of all federal taxes of any kind, as of 2006.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10068/effective_tax_rates_2006.pdf
page 4, Share of Federal Tax Liabilities.
I'm getting sick of this, they shoot at every helicopter. They got lucky and its like we lost the fricking war. My granddad flew in 8th Army Air Force, that's an outfit that lost 33% casualties over the course of WW2.
The top 20% pay 43% of income taxes.
If you raised rates to what they were in the 1970s you'd have the economy of the 1970s, which sucked. Yes there was less 'income disparity' - and what was the DJIA at? 6000? The rich paid their 35% on bond coupon payments -- the balance was untaxed. The best investment was lending to the government.
"If the rich were taxed at the same rates they were half a century ago, they
einstein's ideas would cool the market and deny speculation the effect its had since computerization though, so, I'd like to try them.
I would also like to build fast computers and secure land lines in 3 African states, and country A would link its currency to the dollar, and Country B would link its currency to the euro, and Country C would link its currency to gold, and I'd trade $10 million between them, six times a second, 24/7/365. Then I'd use the money to buy low yield nukes, and fill robot subs with them, and tow them to the great oceanic oil fields of the world off Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, and teh Persian Gulf, and hold them ransom to my Tsunami Bombs.
I also would not have sex with a beautiful woman, and if I did, I wouldn't tell her where my HQ was, or give her a necklace with a map of my plan, or let her get within 1000 miles of a casino. I would hire a temp just to remind me about that. or maybe take on an intern. An intern that I didnt' find attractive.
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