Asked my elementary school crush to prom this year.

goosefish · 2012-05-24T12:11:26.352737+00:00

This is a common misconception

philnotfil · 2012-05-24T02:43:11.674130+00:00

I wonder if more people who favor progressive taxation realized that the poor are actually better off under the Fair Tax

I'm convinced that many do. That's why it is continually demagogued.

philnotfil · 2012-05-24T02:41:51.003251+00:00

And really amazingly fantastically good to someone making $12M. Spend maybe $2M of that, so $400,000 in tax. Currently paying $1.8-4.5 million (capital gains vs regular income).

An annual income of 12m and spending 2? What are you smoking? Do you have any idea what will happen to the economy when all embedded, hidden taxes vanish? Imagine everyone suddenly taking home the gross amount of their paycheck, what would that do for consumerism? Imagine all of the embedded taxes removed from the various levels of production. What would that do to prices? You would have to hide under a rock to avoid a job with that much economic activity unleashed.

philnotfil · 2012-05-23T17:52:11.065747+00:00

What are you babbling about? Where do you imagine that you are paying more taxes? No matter how big your business the market will decide what you can charge for goods or services. The truly avaricious will simply live a miserly lifestyle and pile their cash contributing to easier private capital formation.

backwardsd · 2012-05-23T17:19:45.683250+00:00

The Rascally Republicans have different numbers

backwardsd · 2012-05-23T16:51:21.921853+00:00

Facebook is losing money and just raised 100 BILLION dollars in PRIVATE EQUITY. If there is an actual market the cash is there for the taking.

philnotfil · 2012-05-23T16:42:35.835965+00:00

Here is a way to remove the poor from the federal tax rolls completely.

backwardsd · 2012-05-23T09:35:33.867514-07:00

And will never be paid back. Is it surprising that people do not want to make more loans like this?

ItsBuck · 2012-05-23T09:28:59.088565-07:00

Don't forget the Supreme Court.

rockstar_jesus · 2012-05-23T08:57:23.672631-07:00

Get a shot, no big deal. /s

thebrightsideoflife · 2012-05-23T15:33:55.989341+00:00

Did you really just respond to a clear fact with that? We are after all talking about the party of Rod Blagojevich - The case involved sweeping pay to play and influence peddling allegations, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for Barack Obama, who had resigned after being elected President of the United States (see bribery)

IMJGalt · 2012-05-23T15:27:34.787798+00:00

And denial is not just a river in Egypt. Out of curiosity where do you live?

IMJGalt · 2 days

I feel comfortable going out on a limb on this one and saying the vast majority are snap beneficiaries.

thebrightsideoflife · 2 days

We are after all talking about the party that invented political machines.

thebrightsideoflife · 2 days

Could this have something to do with the refusal of Democrats to accept Al Gores loss? "How can we lose with 50,000 zombie votes?"

itbehoovesme · 4 days

Homosicles

dblaisde · 4 days

Had banks not been allowed to diversify their assets, they would have completely gone under, instead of being only wounded.

Had Glass Steagall and the rest of the FSMA not been passed it could be argued there would have never been a banking crisis in the first place, or the dot bomb wipe out........

gwigmig · 4 days

This not r/politics. If you cannot form a more cogent retort you may want to simply drool with anger for a while.

gwigmig · 4 days

Forcing who to pay abortions?

Were you not referring to the fiasco surrounding the Obama administration forcing the Catholic Church to carry abortion coverage on its health insurance policy?

In states like Arizona women are penalized from using birth control.

Making someone pay for their own birth control pills if they work for a religious employer is hardly a penalty. You are free to choose who you work for.

Could you also explain to me how LGBT have the same rights to marry as heterosexual couples do?

Everybody has exactly the same marriage rights. Nobody is allowed to marry a same sex partner or multiple partners. FWIW I personally do not believe government should have any role in marriage whatsoever.

And what kind of response is facepalm?

One of utter disbelief at a statement completely bereft of logic.

IMJGalt · 4 days

And who would you imagine is picking up the tab for his 30 fornication trophies?

gwigmig · 5 days

strip women of health care rights

By forcing someone else to pay for abortion? That's not a right.

LGBT of marriage rights.

They have the same marriage rights everyone else has. So far gay marriage is 0/31 when people vote.

My theory is that a lot of them are being paid off by the prison industry and big pharma to keep marijuana illegal so more people, especially people of color, continue to go to prison and so no one stops paying for tylenol or oxycontin or chemotherapy or antidepressants or ADHD medication.

facepalm

snotf · 5 days

Neither did the Soviets

snotf · 5 days

It will end soon. They don't call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires without reason.

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