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tchamber 2009-01-31 11:52:53 AM  
American Wanker.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:03:08 PM  
Not in Oregon. We have out of state people trampling through our state everyday, burning up our roads, and they don't pay a dime in sales tax. How farked up is that?

 
BuckTurgidson 2009-01-31 12:12:44 PM  
If you want me to read your screed or listen to your rant (I'm looking at you too, Boehner), grow up and stop using "Democrat" in place of "Democratic". Until then feel free to wank off in the corner. No clickee, no readee, no listenee.

 
A_Listless_Wanderer 2009-01-31 12:23:54 PM  
BuckTurgidson: If you want me to read your screed or listen to your rant (I'm looking at you too, Boehner), grow up and stop using "Democrat" in place of "Democratic". Until then feel free to wank off in the corner. No clickee, no readee, no listenee.

If you're that easily annoyed, you might want to stay away from the "politics" tab in the future. With all the problems facing our country, you just picked the least consequential one to biatch about.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:25:13 PM  
GaryPDX: Not in Oregon. We have out of state people trampling through our state everyday, burning up our roads, and they don't pay a dime in sales tax. How farked up is that?

They pay gas taxes, though. Plus, we force them to stay in their care while a *real* Oregonian fills it.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:25:49 PM  
bah, car, not care.

 
shower_in_my_socks [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:26:04 PM  
GaryPDX: Not in Oregon. We have out of state people trampling through our state everyday, burning up our roads, and they don't pay a dime in sales tax. How farked up is that?

Yeah. And a lot of those out of state people are there to buy shiat because there's no sales tax. I've done it. But I'm sure your businesses hate it, eh? All those people coming in from neighboring states to put money into your economy. TERRIBLE!

 
Lee_Sharpe 2009-01-31 12:26:33 PM  
A_Listless_Wanderer: BuckTurgidson: If you want me to read your screed or listen to your rant (I'm looking at you too, Boehner), grow up and stop using "Democrat" in place of "Democratic". Until then feel free to wank off in the corner. No clickee, no readee, no listenee.

If you're that easily annoyed, you might want to stay away from the "politics" tab in the future. With all the problems facing our country, you just picked the least consequential one to biatch about.


If people are going to use the wrong term just to be an annoying troll, why should anyone bother to pay attention to them? (Except maybe to call them out as an annoying troll.)

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-01-31 12:26:44 PM  
A_Listless_Wanderer: BuckTurgidson: If you want me to read your screed or listen to your rant (I'm looking at you too, Boehner), grow up and stop using "Democrat" in place of "Democratic". Until then feel free to wank off in the corner. No clickee, no readee, no listenee.

If you're that easily annoyed, you might want to stay away from the "politics" tab in the future. With all the problems facing our country, you just picked the least consequential one to biatch about.


It is a tactic used by many Democratsin the Democrat Party to avoid the topic at hand.

 
ComicBookGuy 2009-01-31 12:27:41 PM  
I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:28:33 PM  
Our taxes are high enough.

NJ's sales tax used to be 6% under Governor Corslime farked up the budget because of his Goldman Sachs skills (i.e. perfect example of someone who is epic fail in the private sector ending up in public) and we have a huge deficit. His plan was to raise it to 7% (which it is today) to help pay back the deficit.

Seeing as how Corslime is a Democrat, not only did the money fail to pay back the deficit, but he signed in more entitlement programs and raised property and business taxes as well... and what is the result? MORE DEBT IN NJ.

People and businesses are moving out of my state almost as fast as out of the liberal shiat sanctuary of California.

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!

 
Donald_McRonald 2009-01-31 12:31:03 PM  
godofusa.com: Our taxes are high enough.

NJ's sales tax used to be 6% under Governor Corslime farked up the budget because of his Goldman Sachs skills (i.e. perfect example of someone who is epic fail in the private sector ending up in public) and we have a huge deficit. His plan was to raise it to 7% (which it is today) to help pay back the deficit.

Seeing as how Corslime is a Democrat, not only did the money fail to pay back the deficit, but he signed in more entitlement programs and raised property and business taxes as well... and what is the result? MORE DEBT IN NJ.

People and businesses are moving out of my state almost as fast as out of the liberal shiat sanctuary of California.

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!


I'm loving this character. Do you perform him live?

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:32:12 PM  
ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

Wrong. Conservatives (or Libertarians like myself) feel that everyone who actually pays taxes (middle and upper class) deserve tax cuts.

The corporate tax rate in this country is around 35% and Obambi wants to raise the capital gains' tax to 28% from 15%... when there are no capital gains.

If the new administration (this includes Bawny Fwank, Pelosi and the other crooks) had ANY shred of intelligence, they would realize that businesses are leaving and laying off and no one is investing in shiat.

Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%.. It would also help if the gov't stopped spending money like drunken sailors (and yes Bush was a big culprit of this).

That's why I am absolutely convinced that 99% of all Dems and Repubs are the same farking party. It's either corporate welfare or socialism. The only difference is they put on a show about how much they support/hate abortion and gay marriage while they high five each other in the background because we just gave them more power over our lives.

Fark 'em.

 
globalwarmingpraiser [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:34:07 PM  
ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

A lot of us like sales taxes, because they tax economic activity instead of income. They tax wealth not what you earn. In other words it tends to be fair. BTW there is no tax system where the wealthy will not end up paying more. Oh and that rich guy will pay more taxes on his yacht than most of us pay all year round. This article has teh stoopid.

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:35:35 PM  
globalwarmingpraiser: ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

A lot of us like sales taxes, because they tax economic activity instead of income. They tax wealth not what you earn. In other words it tends to be fair. BTW there is no tax system where the wealthy will not end up paying more. Oh and that rich guy will pay more taxes on his yacht than most of us pay all year round. This article has teh stoopid.


It's like the whole 'evil Wall Street bonuses' thing. I like Boortz's take on it:

"The bonuses on Wall street are down. Ya' hear me? Down! In fact these bonuses are so far down that the State of New York and New York City are suffering. Why? Tax shortfalls. These evil, disgusting, putrid, rancid, decaying, disgusting, putrefying, wicked, slimy, slug-like, monstrous capitalist pig executives pay taxes on those bonuses. The lower the bonuses, the lower the taxes. How much lower? Billions. TS."

It's ok though. Paterson has an ipod and coca cola tax that will solve everything.

 
Fart_Machine 2009-01-31 12:36:20 PM  
godofusa.com:
Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%..


Because this will certainly benefit the average consumer who isn't buying shait right now.

/facepalm

 
drjekel_mrhyde 2009-01-31 12:37:43 PM  
godofusa.com: ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

Wrong. Conservatives (or Libertarians like myself) feel that everyone who actually pays taxes (middle and upper class) deserve tax cuts.

The corporate tax rate in this country is around 35% and Obambi wants to raise the capital gains' tax to 28% from 15%... when there are no capital gains.

If the new administration (this includes Bawny Fwank, Pelosi and the other crooks) had ANY shred of intelligence, they would realize that businesses are leaving and laying off and no one is investing in shiat.

Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%.. It would also help if the gov't stopped spending money like drunken sailors (and yes Bush was a big culprit of this).

That's why I am absolutely convinced that 99% of all Dems and Repubs are the same farking party. It's either corporate welfare or socialism. The only difference is they put on a show about how much they support/hate abortion and gay marriage while they high five each other in the background because we just gave them more power over our lives.

Fark 'em.


Tax the door and feed the bitach

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:37:52 PM  
Fart_Machine: godofusa.com:
Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%..

Because this will certainly benefit the average consumer who isn't buying shait right now.

/facepalm


That's only half of the equation. If operating a business and investing in future R&D is cheaper, then a company has an incentive to hire, instead of layoff.

http://www.layoffdaily.com/ (copy/pasting content)

Hershey Closing Plant -252

Misc. Lima Ohio Companies -428

Acme Brick Closes Plant -28

Phillip Morris -140

King Pharmaceuticals -72

WHTM-TV -11

FLSmidth Inc. -115

Novell -25%

Layoffs Start at Dow Plant in Texas City

Lee County FL -19

Fresno Pacific University

BMW in SC -199

TRW in Marshall Illinois -10

Nordam Cuts Again -87

KTUL Tulsa ABC Affiliate -7

Two Chicago Catholic Schools Close

Massena GM Shop to Close -37

U.S. Steel Cuts Again -110

Minacs Call Center Closes -228

Linetec -40

Ft. Erie Race Track -50

Bass Pro -90

Renfro Sock Plant Closes -600

Scharffen Berger Closing Plant -150

Johnson and Johnson Sends 159 Jobs to Mexico

International Game Technology -200 More

Charles Schwab -600

Caltech -100

Pentair Electronic Packaging -158

Berry Plastics -75

Sears HQ -300

Minnesota's Budget Proposal -1,100

L.A. Times -300

Businesses just love Democrats!

 
Fart_Machine 2009-01-31 12:39:38 PM  
godofusa.com: globalwarmingpraiser: ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

A lot of us like sales taxes, because they tax economic activity instead of income. They tax wealth not what you earn. In other words it tends to be fair. BTW there is no tax system where the wealthy will not end up paying more. Oh and that rich guy will pay more taxes on his yacht than most of us pay all year round. This article has teh stoopid.

It's like the whole 'evil Wall Street bonuses' thing. I like Boortz's take on it:

"The bonuses on Wall street are down. Ya' hear me? Down! In fact these bonuses are so far down that the State of New York and New York City are suffering. Why? Tax shortfalls. These evil, disgusting, putrid, rancid, decaying, disgusting, putrefying, wicked, slimy, slug-like, monstrous capitalist pig executives pay taxes on those bonuses. The lower the bonuses, the lower the taxes. How much lower? Billions. TS."

It's ok though. Paterson has an ipod and coca cola tax that will solve everything.


And if some guy used his unemployment check to buy a flatscreen Boortz would be going apeshait that he was defrauding the taxpayers. But using taxpayer dollars to fund bonuses for executives who farked themselves into bankruptcy in the first place is capitalism!!111

Boortz is a moran.

 
I_Approve_Of_This_Message 2009-01-31 12:39:46 PM  
I think we're rapidly approaching the point where at least one prominent con is going to come out and declare that "taxes are bad for the economy".

Some of these jackasses should have played Sim City a little more when they were younger.

 
globalwarmingpraiser [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:40:49 PM  
Fart_Machine: godofusa.com:
Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%..

Because this will certainly benefit the average consumer who isn't buying shait right now.

/facepalm


Actually, lower tax rates mean more investment in the US. More investment in the US means more products built here. More product built here means more jobs. More jobs means economic recovery. But this won't benefit people.

/facepalm

godofusa.com: globalwarmingpraiser: ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

A lot of us like sales taxes, because they tax economic activity instead of income. They tax wealth not what you earn. In other words it tends to be fair. BTW there is no tax system where the wealthy will not end up paying more. Oh and that rich guy will pay more taxes on his yacht than most of us pay all year round. This article has teh stoopid.

It's like the whole 'evil Wall Street bonuses' thing. I like Boortz's take on it:

"The bonuses on Wall street are down. Ya' hear me? Down! In fact these bonuses are so far down that the State of New York and New York City are suffering. Why? Tax shortfalls. These evil, disgusting, putrid, rancid, decaying, disgusting, putrefying, wicked, slimy, slug-like, monstrous capitalist pig executives pay taxes on those bonuses. The lower the bonuses, the lower the taxes. How much lower? Billions. TS."

It's ok though. Paterson has an ipod and coca cola tax that will solve everything.


Boortz is a bastard though because he supports ghey marraige, ending the drug war, legalizing prostitution and of course is pro choice. If you take away his War in Iraq position he is a standard libertarian.

 
justafarkingchef 2009-01-31 12:41:35 PM  
let's be honest, isn't everything a plot by the democrats?

 
bartink 2009-01-31 12:42:26 PM  
Fart_Machine: Boortz is a moran.

Anyone who goes to talk radio expecting someone who isn't a moron is a moron.

He is one of the largest, I will give you that.

 
Fart_Machine 2009-01-31 12:43:18 PM  
godofusa.com: Fart_Machine: godofusa.com:
Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%..

Because this will certainly benefit the average consumer who isn't buying shait right now.

/facepalm

That's only half of the equation. If operating a business and investing in future R&D is cheaper, then a company has an incentive to hire, instead of layoff.


If nobody is buying anything then there is no incentive to hire employees for a demand that doesn't exist. And the vast majority of those laid off weren't part of some R&D department.

 
12349876 2009-01-31 12:44:02 PM  
godofusa.com: Businesses just love Democrats!

You're absolutely right because none of these job cuts would have happened if McCain/Palin were elected!

 
globalwarmingpraiser [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:45:11 PM  
Fart_Machine: godofusa.com: globalwarmingpraiser: ComicBookGuy: I thought conservatives LOVED sales taxes!! Tax everyone so that the wealthy can get a big tax cut!!!

A lot of us like sales taxes, because they tax economic activity instead of income. They tax wealth not what you earn. In other words it tends to be fair. BTW there is no tax system where the wealthy will not end up paying more. Oh and that rich guy will pay more taxes on his yacht than most of us pay all year round. This article has teh stoopid.

It's like the whole 'evil Wall Street bonuses' thing. I like Boortz's take on it:

"The bonuses on Wall street are down. Ya' hear me? Down! In fact these bonuses are so far down that the State of New York and New York City are suffering. Why? Tax shortfalls. These evil, disgusting, putrid, rancid, decaying, disgusting, putrefying, wicked, slimy, slug-like, monstrous capitalist pig executives pay taxes on those bonuses. The lower the bonuses, the lower the taxes. How much lower? Billions. TS."

It's ok though. Paterson has an ipod and coca cola tax that will solve everything.

And if some guy used his unemployment check to buy a flatscreen Boortz would be going apeshait that he was defrauding the taxpayers. But using taxpayer dollars to fund bonuses for executives who farked themselves into bankruptcy in the first place is capitalism!!111

Boortz is a moran.


Didn't hear Boortz railing against the Bailouts did you. He stated it was the one of the worst things to happen in US politics ever. It was taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people who were begging. Of and yes he thinks that someone on welfare buying a flatscreen television is abuse. Welcome to the realities of libertarian thought. If you have food stamps you shouldn't have crab legs for dinner. He doesn't rail against unemployment because the money for it is forcibly confiscated from your pay check.

 
TomD9938 2009-01-31 12:46:40 PM  
justafarkingchef: let's be honest, isn't everything a plot by the democrats?

Its pronounced Democratics.

Stop hurling insults.

 
Bored Horde 2009-01-31 12:47:09 PM  
GaryPDX: Not in Oregon. We have out of state people trampling through our state everyday, burning up our roads, and they don't pay a dime in sales tax. How farked up is that?

Wait, did Gary just complain about... not paying taxes?

 
Another Government Employee 2009-01-31 12:48:02 PM  
bartink: Fart_Machine: Boortz is a moran.

Anyone who goes to talk radio expecting someone who isn't a moron is a moron.

He is one of the largest, I will give you that.


Boortz.

Pissing people off since 1969.

 
sarcastrophe 2009-01-31 12:48:34 PM  
I_Approve_Of_This_Message: Some of these jackasses should have played Sim City a little more when they were younger.

They did... they just kept typing: CTRL-ALT-C FUND

 
bartink 2009-01-31 12:49:31 PM  
globalwarmingpraiser: Didn't hear Boortz railing against the Bailouts did you. He stated it was the one of the worst things to happen in US politics ever. It was taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people who were begging. Of and yes he thinks that someone on welfare buying a flatscreen television is abuse. Welcome to the realities of libertarian thought. If you have food stamps you shouldn't have crab legs for dinner. He doesn't rail against unemployment because the money for it is forcibly confiscated from your pay check.

Why do you hold up the ideas of a radio guy as if they have some relevance to reality? They are entertainers. You have been played. You are a sucker.

 
Fart_Machine 2009-01-31 12:49:55 PM  
globalwarmingpraiser: Actually, lower tax rates mean more investment in the US. More investment in the US means more products built here. More product built here means more jobs. More jobs means economic recovery. But this won't benefit people.

/facepalm


If that were the case we wouldn't be in a recession. Corporate and capital gains taxes were already low when the first signs started to appear. Lowering them even more isn't going to make the average consumer have faith in the economy or start spending again. Companies hire based on demand you see?

 
12349876 2009-01-31 12:50:04 PM  
Somebody tell Boortz that amazon has to hire people too.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:50:23 PM  
Oh boy! Can I play?

Republicans Democrats have never discovered a tax deficit they do not want to impose on us.

This is fun!

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:50:33 PM  
bartink: globalwarmingpraiser: Didn't hear Boortz railing against the Bailouts did you. He stated it was the one of the worst things to happen in US politics ever. It was taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people who were begging. Of and yes he thinks that someone on welfare buying a flatscreen television is abuse. Welcome to the realities of libertarian thought. If you have food stamps you shouldn't have crab legs for dinner. He doesn't rail against unemployment because the money for it is forcibly confiscated from your pay check.

Why do you hold up the ideas of a radio guy as if they have some relevance to reality? They are entertainers. You have been played. You are a sucker.


Boortz is also a best-selling author, but yea an entertainer in the grand scheme. He is, however, spot on about his economic views.

 
Another Government Employee 2009-01-31 12:50:53 PM  
Why don't they just nationalize everything and be done with it.

It's what "everybody" wants, right?

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:50:56 PM  
the Ultra Conservative "American Thinker" is a republican plot to get more tax cuts for the top richest 2 or 3% so the rest can pay all the taxes and the rich get richer.

hummm.......reading the news lately, methinks the tax cuts for the rich have not paid off, unless you're rich, of course.

 
Kuroshin [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:52:29 PM  
GaryPDX: Not in Oregon. We have out of state people trampling through our state everyday, burning up our roads, and they don't pay a dime in sales tax. How farked up is that?


Kulongoski can have his sales tax when the legislature drops the income tax. If they ever do pass the double-tax, I'm moving.

Oregon: Where taxes get you nothing.

Bad roads, poor public services, horribly unreliable mass transit, and crappy tap water in most places.

This State is so mis-managed it's insane. Too bad Vancouver is mostly ghetto, or it would be worth moving across the river. You'll never see more meth-mouth in your life than in Vancouver, WA. Puts Gresham and Clackamas to shame.

/Keep hoping things will turn around
//Finding that this place gets more unlivable every year

 
Fart_Machine 2009-01-31 12:52:57 PM  
globalwarmingpraiser: Didn't hear Boortz railing against the Bailouts did you. He stated it was the one of the worst things to happen in US politics ever. It was taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people who were begging. Of and yes he thinks that someone on welfare buying a flatscreen television is abuse. Welcome to the realities of libertarian thought. If you have food stamps you shouldn't have crab legs for dinner. He doesn't rail against unemployment because the money for it is forcibly confiscated from your pay check.

Then he's still a farking moran for defending bonus checks for executives whose company is taking a government bailout. It amounts to the same thing as welfare abuse.

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:53:20 PM  
Fart_Machine: globalwarmingpraiser: Actually, lower tax rates mean more investment in the US. More investment in the US means more products built here. More product built here means more jobs. More jobs means economic recovery. But this won't benefit people.

/facepalm

If that were the case we wouldn't be in a recession. Corporate and capital gains taxes were already low when the first signs started to appear. Lowering them even more isn't going to make the average consumer have faith in the economy or start spending again. Companies hire based on demand you see?


Wrong. America has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world (Japan is #1). If it's not to get cheap labor via outsourcing to India, it's to find a tax haven. By lowering corporate taxes to 20-25%, America would become the world's tax haven... but that would give too much power to the private sector, and Comrade Hussein will not let that happen.

 
FloydA [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:53:55 PM  
godofusa.com:

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!


So that your neighbors' kids can learn to read and count, so that you get correct change when you go to the store and so they can get decent careers and don't have to resort to crime and make a living by getting messed up on meth and robbing you. It's also nice, in my opinion, when other drivers are able to read and understand the traffic signs and rules of the road, voters' guides, scoop laws, etc. Education makes that possible.

You benefit from the education of others in your community, even if you don't have any children.

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 12:54:07 PM  
godofusa.com: Fart_Machine: godofusa.com:
Lower the farking corporate tax rate to 25% and the capital gains' tax to 5%..

Because this will certainly benefit the average consumer who isn't buying shait right now.

/facepalm

That's only half of the equation. If operating a business and investing in future R&D is cheaper, then a company has an incentive to hire, instead of layoff.

http://www.layoffdaily.com/ (copy/pasting content)

Hershey Closing Plant -252

Misc. Lima Ohio Companies -428

Acme Brick Closes Plant -28

Phillip Morris -140

King Pharmaceuticals -72

WHTM-TV -11

FLSmidth Inc. -115

Novell -25%

Layoffs Start at Dow Plant in Texas City

Lee County FL -19

Fresno Pacific University

BMW in SC -199

TRW in Marshall Illinois -10

Nordam Cuts Again -87

KTUL Tulsa ABC Affiliate -7

Two Chicago Catholic Schools Close

Massena GM Shop to Close -37

U.S. Steel Cuts Again -110

Minacs Call Center Closes -228

Linetec -40

Ft. Erie Race Track -50

Bass Pro -90

Renfro Sock Plant Closes -600

Scharffen Berger Closing Plant -150

Johnson and Johnson Sends 159 Jobs to Mexico

International Game Technology -200 More

Charles Schwab -600

Caltech -100

Pentair Electronic Packaging -158

Berry Plastics -75

Sears HQ -300

Minnesota's Budget Proposal -1,100

L.A. Times -300

Businesses just love Democrats!


all those companies are laying off because the economy is drying up.
the reason the economy is drying up is because our wallStroke banker friends were not being Regulated by Bank regulators/SEC so they could do what they wanted without anyone checking up on them.
that, plus ronnie raygun's and Shrubs tax cuts for big business and the rich helped to dry up the tax base so that government found it harder to do its job.
and of course, the middle/working class has to make up the difference.

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:54:50 PM  
Fart_Machine: globalwarmingpraiser: Didn't hear Boortz railing against the Bailouts did you. He stated it was the one of the worst things to happen in US politics ever. It was taking money from people that earn it and giving it to people who were begging. Of and yes he thinks that someone on welfare buying a flatscreen television is abuse. Welcome to the realities of libertarian thought. If you have food stamps you shouldn't have crab legs for dinner. He doesn't rail against unemployment because the money for it is forcibly confiscated from your pay check.

Then he's still a farking moran for defending bonus checks for executives whose company is taking a government bailout. It amounts to the same thing as welfare abuse.


I agree that it's bullshiat that a company getting bailout money goes and gives it as bonuses, but on the other hand, did the government tell them "don't give this money to execs"? If they did not put in writing where the money goes, it's free game. I would've done the same because the government is incompetent.

 
godofusa.com 2009-01-31 12:56:28 PM  
FloydA: godofusa.com:

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!

So that your neighbors' kids can learn to read and count, so that you get correct change when you go to the store and so they can get decent careers and don't have to resort to crime and make a living by getting messed up on meth and robbing you. It's also nice, in my opinion, when other drivers are able to read and understand the traffic signs and rules of the road, voters' guides, scoop laws, etc. Education makes that possible.

You benefit from the education of others in your community, even if you don't have any children.


I've never used public education in my life. My parents sent me to private education (which wasn't that expensive either).. can I have my tax dollars back for a service I did not want?

 
sloppy shoes 2009-01-31 12:58:07 PM  
godofusa.com:
I've never used public education in my life. My parents sent me to private education (which wasn't that expensive either).. can I have my tax dollars back for a service I did not want?


No. Government services are not pay as you go. Get over it. Your tax dollars went to educate other people who didn't go to private school; and, since their education is needed to drive the economy, you get value from your tax dollars. Grow up. Get over it.

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 01:01:28 PM  
godofusa.com: FloydA: godofusa.com:

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!

So that your neighbors' kids can learn to read and count, so that you get correct change when you go to the store and so they can get decent careers and don't have to resort to crime and make a living by getting messed up on meth and robbing you. It's also nice, in my opinion, when other drivers are able to read and understand the traffic signs and rules of the road, voters' guides, scoop laws, etc. Education makes that possible.

You benefit from the education of others in your community, even if you don't have any children.

I've never used public education in my life. My parents sent me to private education (which wasn't that expensive either).. can I have my tax dollars back for a service I did not want?


you should be grateful your parents could afford to send u to a good private school. most have to go to public schools of questionable quality.

 
bartink 2009-01-31 01:01:40 PM  
Fart_Machine: If that were the case we wouldn't be in a recession. Corporate and capital gains taxes were already low when the first signs started to appear. Lowering them even more isn't going to make the average consumer have faith in the economy or start spending again. Companies hire based on demand you see?

Speaking of idiots on the radio. I listened to Limbaugh stutter his way out of a smart conservative caller who pointed out

Capital gains cuts affect people already in the market, but doesn't draw new investors.

Everyone already in the market has enough losses to write off the national debt so they won't have a gain to tax.

So no new investment will be attracted by this.

So the caller is right, obviously.

This is the problem with supply side conservatism. It assumes a pie that isn't just not finite, but infinite. Eventually, you run out of regular middle class people to put into the poor house with your upward wealth transfer and consumption begins to fall. Once you reach that point, which we have, supply side is exposed for the ponzi scheme that it truly is.

Its like having a large stack of firewood that you burn all at once claiming, look how bright the fire is!!! Then your out of wood and your the only solution you know is more wood, which has run out.

That's where we are and they sound like idiots because in truth they always were.

 
Number41 2009-01-31 01:02:12 PM  
Wait, aren't conservatives creaming themselves over the FairTax? Sales tax would be all we had for taxes.

 
citizen905 2009-01-31 01:03:21 PM  
I've never used public education in my life. My parents sent me to private education (which wasn't that expensive either).. can I have my tax dollars back for a service I did not want?

It shows.

 
HotWingConspiracy [TotalFark] 2009-01-31 01:04:07 PM  
godofusa.com: FloydA: godofusa.com:

My house is not expensive by any means, but why am I paying $8000/y on property taxes and WHY does half of it go to farking EDUCATION!!?!!

So that your neighbors' kids can learn to read and count, so that you get correct change when you go to the store and so they can get decent careers and don't have to resort to crime and make a living by getting messed up on meth and robbing you. It's also nice, in my opinion, when other drivers are able to read and understand the traffic signs and rules of the road, voters' guides, scoop laws, etc. Education makes that possible.

You benefit from the education of others in your community, even if you don't have any children.

I've never used public education in my life. My parents sent me to private education (which wasn't that expensive either).. can I have my tax dollars back for a service I did not want?


Yeah! My house has never caught on fire, I want the tax money that goes to the fire department back.

But they better farking show up if there is a fire.

 
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