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House GOP blocks bill to extend jobless benefits

We all should be concerned with the plight/flight of the rich.

Donald Trump, who knows something about making money, says of course the rich will leave when hit with higher taxes. "I know these people," he told me. "They're international people. Whether they live here or live in a place like Switzerland doesn't really matter to them."
You haven't left, I told him.

"I haven't left yet. ... Look, the rich people are going to leave. And other people are going to leave. You're going to end up with lots of people that don't produce. And then that's the spiral. That's the end."

And that's another good reason for us to get on with reducing the size of government.
(John Stossel writes for Creators Syndicate.)
More taxes will send the rich packing - dailylocal.com

I wonder what Switzerland's tax rates are.

:rofl
 
We all should be concerned with the plight/flight of the rich.

Donald Trump, who knows something about making money, says of course the rich will leave when hit with higher taxes. "I know these people," he told me. "They're international people. Whether they live here or live in a place like Switzerland doesn't really matter to them."
You haven't left, I told him.

"I haven't left yet. ... Look, the rich people are going to leave. And other people are going to leave. You're going to end up with lots of people that don't produce. And then that's the spiral. That's the end."

And that's another good reason for us to get on with reducing the size of government.
(John Stossel writes for Creators Syndicate.)
More taxes will send the rich packing - dailylocal.com

Let em go. So many are already committing economic treason against the people they might as well turn their back on the nation as well. If the color they love is green as opposed to the red, white and blue then good riddance to bad rubbish. Let Mr. Businessman sell his products to the impoverished folks of the Third World who slave in his sweat shops and make his products. Some rich tories left the USA after the Revolution and it was addition through subtraction. Maybe its time to flush that gold plated toilet again?
 
You don't see the difference between the Bush and Obama tax cuts? Obama's were targeted and thus didn't provide incentive to all. Bush's were tax cuts for all Americans and provided more income on each paycheck. Apparently you don't understand the difference.
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We all know the Bush tax cuts were for the rich. Where you been for the last umpteen years?:mrgreen:
 
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We all know the Bush tax cuts were for the rich. Where you been for the last umpteen years?:mrgreen:

Well, they must have been. 47% don't pay federal income taxes. :lol:
 
Well, they must have been. 47% don't pay federal income taxes. :lol:

So much for the lies about the rich getting all the tax cuts, right? The Bush tax cuts benefited more lower income people than it benefited the rich. Liberals continue to lie.
 
yeah, but you have to live in Texas, part swamp, part desert, part in tornado alley, part in the path of Hurricanes, muggy and buggy from one end to the other....

My sister that lives in Kingwood compains about high property taxes and high home insurance...guess no place is perfect...

People have a choice where they live, different communities have different property taxes so you have the choice, something you don't have with Federal Taxes. You see, in TX people decide where they want to live thus how much they want to pay in taxes. Novel idea, isn't it? Seems that personal choice to a liberal only matters when it has to do with abortion. On financial matters it is always someone else's issue?
 
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So much for the lies about the rich getting all the tax cuts, right? The Bush tax cuts benefited more lower income people than it benefited the rich. Liberals continue to lie.

Liberals are horrible people. We really should just put them in internment work camps.
 
I've still never been able to find out who these mysterious 47% of people are... I am forced to assume that they are either unemployed, in poverty, children, or soldiers. I'm pretty sure that would account for at least 47% of the population.
 
A question for the crowd here that is obsessed with the idea of this 47% not paying federal income taxes but still being able to vote.

What is your endgame in pushing this talking point? What do you want to have done about this?
 
I've still never been able to find out who these mysterious 47% of people are... I am forced to assume that they are either unemployed, in poverty, children, or soldiers. I'm pretty sure that would account for at least 47% of the population.

Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax - Yahoo! Finance

About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability.

Tax cuts enacted in the past decade have been generous to wealthy taxpayers, too, making them a target for President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress. Less noticed were tax cuts for low- and middle-income families, which were expanded when Obama signed the massive economic recovery package last year.

The result is a tax system that exempts almost half the country from paying for programs that benefit everyone, including national defense, public safety, infrastructure and education. It is a system in which the top 10 percent of earners -- households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 -- paid about 73 percent of the income taxes collected by the federal government.
 
Historically, lots of Americans were exempted from paying a federal income tax going back to the 1800's. This is not a modern "problem" but is rather a proud American tradition that is part and parcel with the American dream.

But again I ask the crowd obsessed with this - what is your end game here?
 
I've still never been able to find out who these mysterious 47% of people are... I am forced to assume that they are either unemployed, in poverty, children, or soldiers. I'm pretty sure that would account for at least 47% of the population.

It isn't 47% of the population, it is 47% of the income earners in this country. The information is available at the IRS.
 
Historically, lots of Americans were exempted from paying a federal income tax going back to the 1800's. This is not a modern "problem" but is rather a proud American tradition that is part and parcel with the American dream.

But again I ask the crowd obsessed with this - what is your end game here?

The obsession here seems to be on the part of those who are more concerned about how much someone else pays in taxes vs. how our existing taxdollars are spent. How is raising the taxes on the 2% going to affect you and your family or even the country for that matter?
 
So what is the purpose of all this obsession with the 47%? What is it you intend to do about it other than the valuable and socially important task of proselytizing on an internet message board about it? What do you want done about this that would rectify the "problem" in your eyes?
 
So what is the purpose of all this obsession with the 47%? What is it you intend to do about it other than the valuable and socially important task of proselytizing on an internet message board about it? What do you want done about this that would rectify the "problem" in your eyes?

I have no obsession, I don't care how much someone makes or pays in taxes, only the waste, fraud, and abuse of the tax revenue the govt. gets.
 
Liberals fall into a couple categories, naive and gullible or closet and open socialists. Which are you?

Do you know how many "a couple" is?
 
Number 2 has two options. Either way, it's a false trichotomy.

Wrong, whether closet or open a liberal is still promoting socialism. You just cannot admit who you really are.

Seems liberals cannot even be honest with themselves so they had to change their name from liberal to progressive when they should have gone right to socialist.
 
Wrong, whether closet or open a liberal is still promoting socialism. You just cannot admit who you really are.

Seems liberals cannot even be honest with themselves so they had to change their name from liberal to progressive when they should have gone right to socialist.

Dude, I'm with ya. We should be put in work camps.

We are horrible people. Someone should have Senate hearings about this. McCarthy was on to something. We have to do something before the people choose socialism in democratic elections.
 
Dude, I'm with ya. We should be put in work camps.

We are horrible people. Someone should have Senate hearings about this. McCarthy was on to something. We have to do something before the people choose socialism in democratic elections.

You know, that really isn't a bad idea since it doesn't seem that a lot of liberals are working these days. Apparently the elections of Nov. 2, 2010 didn't get to you in Illinois. Only the Leftcoast continue to choose socialism over free enterprise and capitalism and they are bankrupt. Illinois even gave their Democrat Senate Seat to a Republican so the people of Illinois don't support the Obama agenda. The sea of Red across the country refutes the socialism movement. You ought to get out more.

By the way, thanks again for sending us a couple Caterpillar divisions to TX. We really appreciate the extra revenue those people will bring to the state.
 
You know, that really isn't a bad idea since it doesn't seem that a lot of liberals are working these days. Apparently the elections of Nov. 2, 2010 didn't get to you in Illinois. Only the Leftcoast continue to choose socialism over free enterprise and capitalism and they are bankrupt. Illinois even gave their Democrat Senate Seat to a Republican so the people of Illinois don't support the Obama agenda. The sea of Red across the country refutes the socialism movement. You ought to get out more.

By the way, thanks again for sending us a couple Caterpillar divisions to TX. We really appreciate the extra revenue those people will bring to the state.

Seems to me bleeding heart conservatives like dishing out socialism but only to THEIR buddies. Mainly the people and companies that DONT NEED it. THis just reinforces that the GOP constantly lie to themselves and other people. Alas only intelligent individuals can see that.
 
Seems to me bleeding heart conservatives like dishing out socialism but only to THEIR buddies. Mainly the people and companies that DONT NEED it. THis just reinforces that the GOP constantly lie to themselves and other people. Alas only intelligent individuals can see that.

YOu really don't understand the free enterprise system, do you? If you don't like a particular business don't buy from them. If you do then you are giving them "help." Please explain to me how allowing any business to keep more of what they earn is promoting socialism?

If you think conservatives promote socialism, then cite specific examples. Don't see any in your rant
 
YOu really don't understand the free enterprise system, do you? If you don't like a particular business don't buy from them. If you do then you are giving them "help." Please explain to me how allowing any business to keep more of what they earn is promoting socialism?

If you think conservatives promote socialism, then cite specific examples. Don't see any in your rant

I understand BS when I see it. The GOP are full of people that provide GOVERNMENT benefits to a group that THEY prefer. But when its a group they DONT prefer because it wont do THEM any favors...... they call it Socialism. If you believe otherwise you are fooling yourself or simply ignoring the TRUTH. Of course I dont feel conservatives have much of a grasp on any other reality but their own. Its a lack of understanding and a large dose of greed mixed with a cup of ignorance. Im not saying YOU are.... just saying THEY are ;)
 
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