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50% annual income doesn't mean that much to them rich asses imho, wealth is just a figure for them and even if he only keeps 10% of his income it still makes little impact on his life, and he's not like them nigs playing pro sports who blow their money for fun. while if your an average person of the working class (like boutons and many others) you'd struggle to make ends meet in your life w/ only half of your regular income imho
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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
There should be a strong motivation to work and be self sufficient. The ideal scenario is everyone works and pays taxes. A level of support from the government should be established that is enough to cover the basic necessities (food and shelter). The world we live in now has people turning their noses up to decent paying jobs because it would result in a lower standard of living compared to the benfeits received.
No, the ideal scenario is that everyone realizes that the income tax is theft and the government then has to greatly cut back its excesses and live within its means, tbh....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikesatx
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Originally Posted by Clipper Nation
I stand corrected.
The politicians are laughng at the american people. Arguining with one another over what each pays and who should pay more and no one questioning how and where the money recieved from taxes is being spent.
No, you have Obama voters wanting the wealth redistribution, republican voters wanting some as well, and conservatives not wanting redistribution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikesatx
Unfortunatley, it looks like wealth redistribution is winning the day for now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Yep. Too bad there are so few conservative republicans left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikesatx
When the wealth divide gets unbelievably large, wealth redistribution happens 100% of the time, regardless. It's just a question of if it happens politically or violently. If it's politically, it's like the relief valve on a steam boiler. If it's violence, it's like a steam boiler with NO relief valve, an explosion that no one controls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikesatx
"If it's politically"
not if, but never. The politicians are beholden (financed by) the 1% and UCA, they aren't ever going seriously raise taxes on the corps and 1%, which is the same as voting themselves out of office.
10 Questions Romney Should Answer About His Taxes
1. After the election, when the subject of your tax returns is outside of the public glare, will you file an amended tax return to claim your full deduction of charitable contributions? Was the tax rate you reported for other years similarly manipulated?
2. Why was your 2011 income $7 million lower than you estimated it to be in January? How does someone overestimate their income by $7 million?
3. Financial disclosures show that you have as much as $82 million in your tax-deferred Individual Retirement Account, despite the fact that tax rules limited contributions into such accounts to $30,000 per year. Did you lowball the value of the assets you put into your IRA, as tax experts suspect? And did you do the same with gifts into your sons’ trusts?
4. What was the purpose of your Swiss bank account and the myriad offshore entities shown on your return, based in countries like the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, if not to avoid taxes?
5. Can you explain what one tax expert has called a “mysterious one-time infusion of foreign tax credits” in 2008?
6. You have not disclosed any foreign bank account reports (FBARs). Did you file all FBARs on all of your offshore accounts with the Treasury Department by the legal deadlines each year?
7. You claim to have paid an average tax rate of 20 percent over the last 20 years based on a flawed calculation. What was your real tax rate?
8. Your 14 percent tax rate –- not to mention the approximately 10 percent tax rate you would have paid had you not inflated it — is less than what many middle-class Americans pay. And you paid just 0.2% of your income in payroll taxes, while most Americans pay about 15%. Do you think that is fair?
9. Your tax returns show that the Marriott Corporation paid you $260,390 in directors’ fees in 2011. When you were the company’s audit committee chair in the 1990s, were you aware that the company was abusing a notorious illegal tax shelter?
10. You say you’ve made a “commitment to the public” that your tax rate should not be below 13 percent. If you believe that the richest Americans shouldn’t be paying an exceptionally low tax rate, why don’t you support President Obama’s “Buffett Rule”?
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...-romney-taxes/
LOL Boutox peni$ envy.
This is the first question that I had, and of course, the answer is yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
CC, little rich boy condescending like a veritable 1%er asshole :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Romney claims Mormon faith dictates tax return secrecy :lol
Speaking to Parade Magazine, Ann Romney said their tithing to the Mormon Church is so meaningful and personal, she cries every time they sign over a check. “So do I,” Mitt added, “but for a different reason.” :lol
“Our church doesn’t publish how much people have given,” he’s quoted saying. “This is done entirely privately. One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/2...=Google+Reader
So Gecko obeys the Mormon church above obeying the conventions
My guess is has feloniously evaded paying income tax by hiding $Ms overseas, 10% of which is also failed to pay to Mormon, INC. As proven liar and flip flopper, he's guilty of lying about his taxes, and of tax evasion, until he proves otherwise.
Dat's one rich unemployed mofo. :toast
mitt has paid a higher rate over the past 20 years than you have, averaging 20% yearly to your 15%..and the gap isn't even close when it comes to volume paid. not to mention he gives millions per year to church/charities. you're just a jealous hater who is mad because romney is more successful than you could ever be.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
People are often jealous of those who make more. The democrat party preys on this.