That debacle in Iraq goes all of the way back to post-WWI and the Treaty of Versailles.
Properly located freight.
So why do you want your taxes increased?
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I don’t believe a word Fox News publishes. Period.
I don’t either, but I’ll listen to anything, and if it sounds like horse shit, I’ll research it. That’s all a link is, just a place to look. You have to make your own decisions, and I hope that you wouldn’t believe, or disbelieve, anything just because it comes from a particular source. That would be ignorant.
My taxes aren’t going up, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.
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Anyone who thinks that taxes are not going up is a dreamer, or just hasn’t looked into the historical data.
I’m more into the “flat tax” idea. Why should I be taxed at a larger percentage just because I work harder?
What makes you think you work harder?
God damn that is some scary shit right there. Let’s all take a moment to be thankful the two party system hasn’t resulted in one that includes the list above.
It sure wouldn’t be a perfect world if you were in charge. Your ideas betray a broad spectrum of reality you simply don’t understand and probably are too stupid to learn.
Typical 21st century American conservative, ignorance and anger are the only ingredients.
You increase your staff when the present one can not keep up with demand. Cutting company taxes will just make the owners richer if they are keeping up with the customers. They will not add staff because they have lots of money.
The owners have had tax cuts for a decade and employment has not dropped., it has gone way up. The wealthy are accumulating unprecedented piles of money. They are not hiring. Tax cuts to the top, our old trickle down theory, has been destroyed as a workable economic model.
For sake of argument, your wish is granted. You may have a flat tax. What rate is it?
Some minor points of clarification.
You are aware, I trust, that some of the persons currently living illegally in the US are children? Would you recommend smaller caliber weapons? Perhaps some clemency may be offered if they are willing to pull the trigger on the scoundrels responsible for their condition, that is, their parents?
Because you do not. There is a TV program that the CEOs go and do the work of the people at the bottom of the corporation ladder. They are always stunned to see how hard they work , and how much they care about doing a good job. The bosses had the feeling that people who make poor money don’t work hard or care. They are as wrong as you.
But it is allowed to blame the poor for their lot in life and to look down on them. Do their jobs and live their lives and you would see how far off that attitude is.
Well, the Somali New Democratic Party comes close… Their list of who should be shot is a bit longer, though.
For sake of argument, I would have to see some data on what it would cost to run the government, after the cuts that I suggested were implemented. It wouldn’t be much.
I’ll wait.
What is the point in discussing the details of a plan that does not exist, and will probably never exist, in the United States? I feel that all illegal immigrants should be shot. I do not believe that it will ever happen, in the United States. We always have to be higher and mightier than everyone else, whatever the cost to our own lives. That’s just one of the reasons why we’re going down in flames.
Let’s say defense and entitlements are decimated, leaving a Federal government that costs as much to run as, say, the 1950 equivalent (~$44.8 billion), adjusted for inflation (to ~$395 billion). The actual 2010 total is about $3,720 billion, or 9.5 times the 1950 amount.
Of course, you’ll have to give back all those highways…
Have you stopped to consider that the cuts you want to implement are stupid? And that with those cuts the GDP would crash because of social disorder? And that thick-headed lazy morons like you aren’t exactly gonna excel when reduced to the social-darwinism you crave?
I’m more sure that you’ll stay wrapped up in your ignorance and whine while the prosperity engendered by more intelligent people makes your life better.
As the Tea Party is fond of saying, “Freedom Isn’t Free!”
Did I mention that I own a SMALL business? As well as being a CEO, I am a pilot, aviation mechanic, truck driver, network administrator, and everything else that my business needs, whenever it needs me, which is most of the time.
And, for the smartass who is bound to ask, yes, I do have ATP, A&P, CDL, and Comptia Network+.
Now, for those of you who think that you work harder than I do, I have to ask:
How many hours a day do you sleep?
(I don’t sleep every day)
How many hours a day do you spend at home?
(I am only home once a month, at best, for a couple of days)
How many times a day do you get to eat, and how long do you take?
(I eat once a day, sometimes twice, and I cram it in while I’m doing other things)
When your phone goes off with a problem at work, do you drop everything, any time of the day or night, and go off to fix it, even if it means travelling thousands of miles, going days without sleep, or risking your life?
(That’s in my job description)
Do you work in any kind of weather, even if it is dangerous?
(Yup)
If you need new job skills, such as an industrial rating or a foreign language, are you willing to spend every minute of your free time learning it?
IF you work as hard as I do, and you’re willing to do it for me, please, let me know, because I can probably find a way to hire you, with or without a tax cut.
Oh, god dammit, that’s funny! I almost choked on the cheesburger than I’m shoveling down. Have you ever heard of IFTA? Look it up, and then you’ll understand what I mean when I say…
If the government wants to give me a break on my IFTA tax, I’ll pay the goddam 39% income tax and smile about it! I could use a few million bucks!