GORDON: GWLush: This stupid article misses the point. Jon Stewart wasn't criticizing Romney for being rich. He was criticizing him for fighting to keep the tax rate low on people like him. Jon Stewarts wealth has nothing to do with the argument. That is like saying because I am white I can't criticize other whites for being racist.

No, if you are white then you are automatically racist.

Like when you're republican.

You guys don't understand analogies do you? Let me explain it to you. By this authors logic if I see a white person doing or saying something that is racist I can't call him out on that racist act because I too am white. I didn't call anyone racist or imply that only white people are racist or whatever stupid thing that came to your mind. I was simply making an analogy.

Godamn, the persecution complex you guys have is astounding.

Have you ever stumped for capital gains tax reform... on weed?

Big_Fat_Liar: I wish my penis was bigger.

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/mine not yours
//are we still doing "this" I don't see it posted much any more
///we can still do slashies though, right?

machoprogrammer: I am betting he "works" far less than 8 hours a day.

Works, pays INCOME tax (including SSDI). Compare to Romney that gets $20M doing farkall, and zip to income and payroll taxes because it's "unearned".

machoprogrammer: Marcus Aurelius: Jon Stewart made his money by working his ass off.

What? He is an entertainer. Which basically means he was lucky to get discovered.

That said, the article is retarded.

There is still alot of work involved. Sure, he isn't digging ditches, but TV and film shoots involve long, LONG days, and writing sessions are even longer. It's not 'Appear for an hour, go home and collect a paycheck'. I'm sure he works quite a full work week.

/Just trying to be fair here.

One's an entertainer, and paid as such

The other is a politician with a history of his private life going counter to his stance and talking points in office and on the campaign trail.

These things matter

GWLush: You guys don't understand analogies do you? Let me explain it to you. By this authors logic if I see a white person doing or saying something that is racist I can't call him out on that racist act because I too am white. I didn't call anyone racist or imply that only white people are racist or whatever stupid thing that came to your mind. I was simply making an analogy.

They understand analogies just fine when it suits their purposes. Like the household-budget-to-US-Budget analogy they make all the time. It's particularly insidious, that one, because the household budget cannot raise any additional revenues, which the US Budget can easily do (through taxes).

The real news here is that many of the comments--on a Yahoo article, no less--were reasonably thoughtful and well-written.

One had a Daddy to set him up in a multimillion dollar job, one spent many years like the rest of us before becoming rich.

Fubini: pwhp_67: How so?

Most of Romney's money comes from Capital Gains which is only taxed at 15%.

Jon's money isn't coming from investments, it's coming from salary.

So please, continue with your well thought out observations and enlighten the rest of us.

I believe the "make believe" comment is referencing how the author of TFA tries to equate Stewart's and Romney's positions.


OK. I honestly had no idea what his comment was supposed to mean...

machoprogrammer:
I am betting he "works" far less than 8 hours a day.

He had to work for it, but "work his ass off" implies something similar to a small business owner working 16 hour days. Not just "told some silly jokes and got famous".


You should trying doing what he does even once before you tell people how easy it is. Just once, try and make a room full of people laugh for 30 minutes

Kazrath: When we have people making 10 million a year paying the tax rate of someone making 25k a year

people making 25k a year don't pay any income taxes

/I know, I get it all back every year
//and it's not fair either

GWLush: Godamn, the persecution complex you guys have is astounding.

The best is when they claim that they are persecuted bythe ones they themselves persecute.... 'Oh my God, the Gays are out to get me and force me not to maker vile, disgusting statements about them!!'

The reality is that nobody wants to pay more taxes. The liberal elites just think they can spend your money "more wisely" than you can yourself.

Lando Lincoln: SpectroBoy: More than that. Jon Stewart is the OPPOSITE of a hypocrite on this one. He is for raising taxes when that raise would include him. He is FOR RAISING HIS OWN TAXES!

That just completely blows the minds of Republicans everywhere. They cannot compute that.

yeah. the idea of collective responsibility and the greater good is something they can't understand unless you phrase it in terms of their church community.

Jackson Herring: THX 1138: he's likely earning investment income of $4 million per year,

Oh god that was my favorite part. They literally just multiplied his supposed net worth by 5%

you're right. Stewart is a Jew. He invests better than that.

masintenn: The reality is that nobody wants to pay more taxes. The liberal elites just think they can spend your money "more wisely" than you can yourself.


The GOP wants to raise taxes on the poor and middle while cutting social programs that help the poor and the middle in order to pay for the tax cuts they want to keep for large corporations and the top 2%.

In that framework, your counter point is that little bit of nonsense? Really?

Maybe for a follow-up you can explain to us how math has a liberal bias?

I don't think people are complaining about Romney because he is rich.

People complaining about Romney because he is paying 14% in taxes and is completely against the idea that he, or anyone who makes their money through investments should pay an equal % to those that earn that money via a paycheck.

They also think Romney is out of touch and grew up so privileged that he has no ability to relate to the people he hopes to represent.

Jon Stewart was not the son of a uber-millionaire who went to Harvard and head of a investment company that pays half the tax rate most Americans do...then turns around and says he can relate to the needs of the middle class; implies he IS one of the middle class. I don't really see the hypocrisy.

"Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford!"

- C. Montgomery Burns

That goes for ALL of them.

Big_Fat_Liar: I wish my penis was bigger.

I wish your penis was bigger too.

Jon Stewart makes $15 million a year. This means Romney is automatically President and nobody has to listen to the liberal media lecture us on income inequality ever again SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP IT'S NOT THE SAME THING BECAUSE I SAID SO HE'S NOT A HYPOCRITE BECAUSE HE CAN'T BE HE'S JUST A COMEDIAN.

Geez Jon Stewart cultists, get over yourself. He's funny and all, but on this issue he's throwing rocks in his own glass house -- it just doesn't cost as much as Romney's house(s).

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This stupid article misses the point. Jon Stewart wasn't criticizing Romney for being rich. He was criticizing him for fighting to keep the tax rate low on people like him. Jon Stewarts wealth has nothing to do with the argument. That is like saying because I am white I can't criticize other whites for being racist.



You can't. You're just a small part of that problem. And like Stewart, you're a hypocrite.

GoodyearPimp: Works, pays INCOME tax (including SSDI). Compare to Romney that gets $20M doing farkall, and zip to income and payroll taxes because it's "unearned".

Hey, I do not find Jon Stewart funny, but I am on his side here. I was just saying the person who said he worked hard to get where he is was stupid. Please read what I said.

LasersHurt: No, that's an arbitrary landmark you set to bolster your idiotic point which comes from a deepseated ignorance of how much work it takes to make it in Comedy. Or probably any industry you're not in.

"Teachers, work hard? PSH!"
"Doctors, work hard? PSH"
"Cops, work hard? PSH"

In entertainment, the majority of "getting discovered" is luck. And I guess we differ on what "work hard" means. I think of working hard as putting in long hours. Which two of those three professions do, sometimes the third (cops). Although cops sitting there looking for speeders isn't exactly working hard...

Well that was painful to read.

GORDON: GWLush: This stupid article misses the point. Jon Stewart wasn't criticizing Romney for being rich. He was criticizing him for fighting to keep the tax rate low on people like him. Jon Stewarts wealth has nothing to do with the argument. That is like saying because I am white I can't criticize other whites for being racist.

No, if you are white then you are automatically racist.

Like when you're republican.

Being white is a state of being. Being Republican means embracing ideology and politics that screws minorities. Figure it out. Republicanism is a CHOICE, and ANYONE who embraces it has, at the very least, "accepted" that there are racists among his main policy makers, but they don't "make up the whole party." Whites don't CHOOSE to be white, nor is there any political/ideological set of rules, or oaths to take.

If Jon Stewart and his fellow limousine liberals are so upset about not being taxed enough, they are always allowed to give their own money to the federal government.

Please send a check to:

Bureau of the Public Debt
P. O. Box 2188
Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188

/every dollar romney doesn't pay in taxes is one dollar liberals don't have to make my life worse

THX 1138: estimation is exactly the same as speculation

This is what movies from 1971 really think.

KrispyKritter: i was told JS came from a very well to do family to begin with. he is just another part of the problem, another say what i say, look where i point tool that your usa gov't and jew-rich media uses to manipulate ignorant fools.

You had me at "jew-rich", where do I sign up?

GWLush: This stupid article misses the point. Jon Stewart wasn't criticizing Romney for being rich. He was criticizing him for fighting to keep the tax rate low on people like him. Jon Stewarts wealth has nothing to do with the argument. That is like saying because I am white I can't criticize other whites for being racist.

I haven't seen the bit they're referencing but if Stewart was only concerned with Romney's view of the tax rate, not the wealth itself then yeah this is an idiotic article.

masintenn: The reality is that nobody wants to pay more taxes. The liberal elites just think they can spend your money "more wisely" than you can yourself.

We already spent the money, bro. The Democrats want to pay off our debts and the Republicans think we can default and everything will still be ok.

Turns out multiple wars + giant tax cuts = expensive.

Liberals (again): "Waahhh Romney still rich. Wahh Why me still so poor and stupid?"

Wahhh

Wow. If my investments were annually netting me 26% of what I make in a full year of work, as TFA says Stewart is getting, I'd be a pretty happy guy.