Bottom Line: Can you trust a guy who's never had a beer in his life?

Who gives a shit if he sticks money up his ass. He is paying a lower tax rate than anyone in 100 years. 'Conservative' my ass. You want to preserve the past? You do that by honoring that from your past that worked. How about fiscal policy from 1946-1979 instead of this 'lets cut taxes, keep spending and act like it'sc ool because we put money elsewhere' bullshit.

Does your lender give a shit whether or not you gave to charity? No. For all the 'conservative' rhetoric about entitlements, i cannot think of another more entitled group. Let's get mad at the white trash with 4 kids so we can deflect from the shady shit were doing. It's disgusting.

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Originally Posted by mavs>spurs

no they're not they're taxed at the 15% capital gains rate.

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Nope.

hmm

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Originally Posted by mavs>spurs

you think daytraders who make millions of dollars are paying the top tax rate?? :lmao

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Hmmm, a silly, irrelevant "point" to deflect from the wrongness of your earlier assertion. Yep, Spurstalk political forum has not changed one bit. Regards.

why you making up posts scrah i had a brain fart damn. this forum needs less rapidfire attack posting sheeeeiiitttt.

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why you making up posts scrah i had a brain fart damn. this forum needs less rapidfire attack posting sheeeeiiitttt.

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So you admit you and ElNono are wrong. Progress.

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Beg pardon? Short-term capital gains, i.e., investments held less than a year, are taxed the same as ordinary income.

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You're correct on that, but one year and one day and you're at the 15% rate. It's a joke, and IMO, it's not what made Wall Street useful a long time ago. Today's Wall street is a trader's world, not an investment world.

yeah i had a 30 second fuck up that you happened to catch because you were refreshing the page with a fury lol

It's just a matter of where is wiser to risk your money if things work out: If you put it on creating a company, hiring people, etc and you do good, you're looking at a 20%-35% hit at the end of the year. Put that money on the market for a year: 15% hit.

It's no wonder that people with money (like Mitt, Buffet, etc) go for the capital gains...

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It's just a matter of where is wiser to risk your money if things work out: If you put it on creating a company, hiring people, etc and you do good, you're looking at a 20%-35% hit at the end of the year. Put that money on the market for a year: 15% hit.

It's no wonder that people with money (like Mitt, Buffet, etc) go for the capital gains...

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While I agree with this completely and the low cap gains rate makes no economic sense, it's also simply that cap gains are a source of a high percentage of income among the wealthy in this country and we cannot afford to keep taxing it at such a low rate with the deficit. It's not about wealth redistribution, it's about paying our bills.

I could not care less how much a candidate gives of his personal money to his personal charity. I care about his public policy.

Mormons believe that you have to work yourself to death to get to Heaven. They believe that salvation is earned by works, not by the grace of God.
Honestly, who cares? Willard is a Mormon and gives money to the Mormon church. Get over it. He is also filthy rich and probably did some bad things for his own personal gain. Get over it.

Stop being sheep and open your eyes and see that Romney and Obama are the same.