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BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Fair enough most of them are Democratic Voters -- and most of the states seriously dumping jobs are Red States. Are they going to blame Obama for the actions of the Norquistican Tea Party? I think not. Of course, it is possible that the Norquistican Tea Party will enact legislation to disenfranchise them. After all, voting is so Democratic.
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BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
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BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Of course, as long as you attach 'Tea Party' to the ticket, folks will know they can safely vote for you, calm in the assurance of #2 gasoline, and jobs, and goods available from Walmart at prices below what are currently being charged and no goods imported from Asia, along with the assurance that everyone will make over $250K a year with no taxes, and all the health care you deserve, and none of those 'rainbow folks' being allowed in the country. Can I campaign under the "Sainsburys Red Label Tea Party" ticket? |
Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0 |
Can I campaign under the "Sainsburys Red Label Tea Party" ticket? Yup, sure can and I'm a fully fledged & paid-up member 'cos I bought some today. You save £1.20 if you buy these tea bags in 480 quantity sacks rather than buying them in the 160 quantity box's. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
The Messiahs' Speech to Congress was Especially Strident. Like a Child at it's Dead Parents Grave begging for money for an ice cream cone. Duke getting Bashed from Every Quadrant. Low Poll numbers; Solyndra Fiasco; GOP winning Special Elections; Ghadaffi not found; Embassies being shot at; Whackos attacking Bases; Oh boy, The List keeps growing and The Speeches Keep Failing. Like The Shrub is Still in Office. Only Better. At least there is Still Basketball and Cig Breaks, eh Duke? Dull, Null and Void and A Thriving Barnacle. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
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BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
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MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
More like the listeners keep failing. . Click it! :) Change is Coming To America!(Said 1000s of Times in The Duke's Election Speeches and Believed by His Zombies). Yes, Change is Coming, but not Due to the Duke aka The Messiah aka The Change Agent. Yes We Can!(Said 1000s of Times in The Duke's Election Speeches and Believed by His Zombies). Meaning: Yes You Can! Since The Duke Taint Doing a Thang. You Must Change! You See, The Duke Says Everyone Else is to Blame. You know, You, The Listeners. So, Click :) on One of His Speeches and Learn. Learn how, You Can Change. You Can Do it. You, America, You! The Duke, Certainly a Future Inductee into The Change Agent Hall of Fame. Dull |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
not to worry. We will flush congress next election, and take out the trash. Of course there will be new trash.. But maybe they can get something done. Janice |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
We will flush congress next election, and take out the trash. But maybe they can get something done. House of Reps Controlled by Dems from Jan. '07-'11. House of Reps; Senate; Presidency Controlled by Dems from Jan. '09 to Jan. '11. Certainly the New Trash(Assume you mean Dems) will get things done using The Example of The Dems In Control mentioned above. Dull |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
you should not ass/u/me. Janice |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Sometimes I forget the tendency toward Tea Party trollishness in your posts. Control of the Senate requires 60 votes due to Senate rules that are in place (I suspect you might be conveniently forgetting that). Further, unlike the Norquistican Tea Party (the Republican party vaporized in 2009 and was replaced by the very small tent Norquistican Tea Party), the Democrats in Congress are not goose stepped controlled. Thus even when the Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate, that 60 seats included a number of 'Republican' Democrats. These days to a large degree, you have label issues. The Democratic Party is more like the Republican party of about 20 to 30 years ago, and the Republican Party is more like the No-Nothing party of 170 years ago. Presuming a modicum of intellect your part, I suspect you realize that. But no matter, for those inclined to accept a divergence of opinion, rather imposition of opinion, that is fine.
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MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Who the heck is The Prez Speaking to with these Speeches? The Lowest Common Denominator of Listeners for sure. Poor Prez is Stumbling over His Words during The Speech. Stumbling is Desperation. Strident and Stumbling. Yepper. This Country Used to be run by People who Inspired Everyone to become Rich. Now The Prez and Democrats Inspire People to find a job so they can pay their Fair Share of Taxes. Inspire to Tax. Yepper. Get a Job. Be Taxed. Be Happy 'cause the Rich are being taxed at the Same Rate. Yep, makes The People Strive. Rags to Riches. Rags to Ditches. Dull. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Yup -- good commentary.. Who the heck do the Norquistican Tea Party candidatess peak to with these Speeches? |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
and the heck with the rest. What, once you've Dug The Ditch, you can't climb out without The Rich Man giving you a Hand Out and Up? John Steinbeck, if Alive oughta Write a Book about cha. Let's see-call it Sour Grapes, or Of Mice Like Men, or In Dubious Speechifying, or...Tortilla Without Filling, or... Call it The Great Dust Bowl of The Early 21st Century, 'cept it won't be about Strong, Resolute and Proud Peoples doing it The Hard Way, it'll be about Weak Whiners Voting for The Hand Out Kings and Queens of A Diminished Nation. Someone make me a cuppa Tea. Yea, you Rich Man. Snap to it! Dull |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Exactly -- well put indeed. A very large piece of the ditch was dug by the 2001 tax cuts (which messed up a budget surplus), then two unfinanced wars did most of the rest. Guns and butter wars are the stuff of budget deficits -- ask Bush or Johnson.
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William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The rich are being taxed at the same rate. The rich are denied most of the standard tax deductions on Schedule A. What you mean is that capital gains in the US are taxed at 15% while income is taxed at 35%--but only for the upper middle class. Most lower income people do not have capital gains--nor do hardly any of them pay taxes. You are talking effective tax rates. Middle incommers pay a very low effective rate since they can use most of the many deductions on Schedule A-form 1040. Fact is the top 1% of earners pay 40% of all taxes. Doesnt matter what the RATE is; it's the total take that counts. 15% of 2 million is $300,000. 30% of 80,000 is $24,000. Raise the taxes on the rich and you will find them offshore as well. They won't be US citizens for long. Just as you now find our factories offshore or replaced by a Chinese factory you will find a flight not only of manufacturing might but of intellectual capital as well. When Britain had a 45% rate there was a mass exodus of intellectual capital overseas--a true brain drain. More than half of all earners pay no tax whatever regardless of the RATE --they have sufficient deductions to zero out. Anyone who thinks that the rich aren't doing their fair share are simply dishonest or abominably stupid or both. Another good rant by Daddio!! |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30697 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yup. http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642868.html FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
'50%' so all the smart folks are on the Cayman Islands then?. A few things to note, making over $1M a year on capital gains doesn't mean one is 'the smart folks' -- only the VERY rich folks. Having only 50% of over $1M to live on is probably not a hardship. Moving a capital gains tax for those getting $1M a year of income 'way' up to the 35% bracket (a tad less than 50% -- I figure that out, I must be one of the smart folks) is NOT going to be a hardship -- and frankly in the developed world is not all that high. |
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