Bad at math this guy is!

Dancin_In_Anson: (Please tell me that you've heard of him before)

Dancin_In_Anson: (you know how I know you've never heard of him?)

Dancin_In_Anson: You know how I know that YOU have never heard of the guy either?

The f*ck are you goin' on about?

And again, the response to the Occupy movement is "You're not sleeping in ditches, fighting dogs for scraps of food so your argument is invalid."

Someone needs to tell the Right that the imaginary motivations they project on people aren't always accurate.

thomps: "In 2009, Greg Ransom, a writer for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, ranked Williams as the third-most important "Hayekian" Public Intellectual in America, behind only Thomas Sowell and John Stossel."

Being the third-most important Town Hall contributor is like being the third fastest sprinter in the Special Olympics for Seniors.

Wyalt Derp: I admire the imaginative way this blogger has created his own definition of 1% in order to make his point.

You'll notice they do this anytime they want to rag on Occupy.

I love the idiots that proudly proclaim they're part of the 1%, because, you know, members of the top 1% of wealth holders on the planet often take time to argue with strangers on random political blogs.

"YEH BUT I AIN'T LAZY LIKE THE 99%"

You're broke, farker. Welcome to the shiat.

Loudoun County, Va., has a median household income of $119,540, making it the nation's richest county. Virginia's Fairfax County is next, with a median household income of $103,010; the median price of a house is $507,800. Third is Howard County, Md., where the median household income is $101,771. These three richest counties have seven nearby high-income neighbors, which include Arlington and Montgomery counties. The nation's richest counties are close to Washington, D.C., where people come to do good and wind up doing well for themselves.

These 1 percenters are not wealthy right-wing Republicans; they are Obama's liberals.

Oh yeah, Loudoun. Bastion of liberalism. Yeesh.

GhostFish: And again, the response to the Occupy movement is "You're not sleeping in ditches, fighting dogs for scraps of food so your argument is invalid."

Someone needs to tell the Right that the imaginary motivations they project on people aren't always accurate.

These people can't even deal with basic reality anymore. Imaginary motivations are all they have.

What I love is that the blogger seems to be suggesting the OWS should stalk and protest the individual employees, rather than the businesses that are the problem.

How dare OWS not stalk employees to their homes, picket their houses, and camp out on private property!

/Your blog sucks

TNel: Let me get this out of the way....Your blog sucks.

"Loudoun County, Va., has a median household income of $119,540, making it the nation's richest county" Ok let me get this right the median household income is less than $250,000 a year and a household making $119k a year is FAR FAR FAR from being a 1% so that means vote republican?

What kind of crack is this guy smoking? Just because median income is high does not mean everyone there is a 1% 120k a year is a decent wage for a family to make but it does not make them super weathy.

I lived in eastern Loudoun County for 18 months. It's very nice, but it's not the lap of luxury. We rented a three story townhouse for $1900 a month. It was very nice, but it was still a townhouse and not a single family dwelling. We loved living there, but it certainly wasn't a resort town or anything like that. It's upper middle class, not the 1%. Our combined income was about $110,000 that first year, and even less the second year after first my SO got laid off and then I did. (Which is why we're now in WA-we followed the jobs.) It's also within commuting distance of DC, so you get a lot of federal employees living there. Of course, if you drive west for about 20 minutes then it's all horse ranches and wineries and rich retired military personnel and senators and NSA directors and whatnot. But for the most part, it's just regular people living regular lives, in a nice neighborhood that's a bit more pricey than elsewhere in NOVA.

I'm gonna go out on a farking limb and guess that the guy making Loudon County VA's $119,540 is paying more than a 14% effective tax rate.

Thre problem, you stupid cocksucker, is the guy making $200,000,000 that's paying 14%, while the guy making $119,540 is paying 25-28%.

The $200 million man is farking screwed if you allow the TEMPORARY* tax cuts to die.


but wtf do I know. I'm just a location-challenged east-coast-lieberal-elitist.

(*temporary - n. lasting for a limited time. Some synonyms are impermanent, short-term)

Rapmaster2000: Loudoun County, Va., has a median household income of $119,540, making it the nation's richest county. Virginia's Fairfax County is next, with a median household income of $103,010; the median price of a house is $507,800. Third is Howard County, Md., where the median household income is $101,771. These three richest counties have seven nearby high-income neighbors, which include Arlington and Montgomery counties. The nation's richest counties are close to Washington, D.C., where people come to do good and wind up doing well for themselves.

These 1 percenters are not wealthy right-wing Republicans; they are Obama's liberals.

Oh yeah, Loudoun. Bastion of liberalism. Yeesh.

It only became rich on January 22, 2009! Before that it had a median income of $54,000. Then BOOM! overnight it flourished.

LasersHurt: The numerous other problems with the article aside, it just seems to be an incredulous "...And surely liberals aren't trying to raise their OWN taxes, right!?"

Yes. Wealthy liberals are advocating for tax increases on themselves. I know you have trouble understanding that, but it's not hypocrisy or two-facedness. It's intellectually consistent the whole way across.

Me and my liberal friends (some of whom still live in Loudoun County) DO want our taxes raised. Because we can afford it, and our nation needs it. And we're nowhere near the 1%.

TNel: Let me get this out of the way....Your blog sucks.

"Loudoun County, Va., has a median household income of $119,540, making it the nation's richest county" Ok let me get this right the median household income is less than $250,000 a year and a household making $119k a year is FAR FAR FAR from being a 1% so that means vote republican?

What kind of crack is this guy smoking? Just because median income is high does not mean everyone there is a 1% 120k a year is a decent wage for a family to make but it does not make them super weathy.

I don't think he realizes women are allowed to work, too.

I'm probably wrong, but is this guy attacking the middle-class?

These 1 percenters are not wealthy right-wing Republicans; they are Obama's liberals. How can one tell? It turns out that seven of the 10 wealthiest counties in the Washington area voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008. These liberals portray themselves as 99 percenters when they are really 1 percenters.

I love this strawman. The premise - the OWS people are protesting wealth. They are not protesting wealth, they are protesting the wealth gap. I don't care that Mitt Romney is rich, it's irrelevant. Mitt Romney does not want to do anything about it, Obama does. This article just gave a great reason why OWS should never protest in those seven wealthiest counties. Because those wealthy people want something to be done about it.

Ssssooooo..... basically this guy has two "arguments":

1. Everybody around D.C. became a democrat when a democrat won the presidency, and the area around D.C. is wealthy, therefore the Occupy protestors are wealthy democrats.

Even ignoring the patently absurd assumption that the people surrounding D.C. are all Obama lackeys, I don't see how it follows that the Occupy protestors are rich because the D.C. area is.

2. People living in a city with some of the highest property values in the country have addresses at properties with higher than average values, therefore the Occupy protestors are wealthy.

I'd like to see a similar analysis of the Oakland rally arrest records. But, of course, that won't happen because it almost certainly won't prop up the idiot narrative that this moron and his stupid lackeys are still so desperately trying to carve into their own blockheads.

Does this sort of blatantly illogical nonsense actually convince conservatives? Because it's patently idiotic. Even a baked potato could see it's a garbage narrative. How much dumber than a baked potato are conservatives anyway?

Rain-Monkey: I'm going to email the guy with a rebuttal and see if he actually responds. Should be fun.

Care to share it with us?

thomps: well i clearly wrote the "dickless liberal" thing before you pointed out who he was. are you vouching for the logical voracity of this article? prehaps we could have an exchange on the subject, since, you know, we are in a discussion forum.

DIA wouldn't know a logical argument if it impregnated his mother and bit him on the ass at the same time while playing Handel's "Hallejuah" on a kazoo.

I was going to click the link until I highlighted it and the page was "americas_twofaced_liberals"

Then I didn't

Also its TownHall

TNel: Let me get this out of the way....Your blog sucks.

"Loudoun County, Va., has a median household income of $119,540, making it the nation's richest county" Ok let me get this right the median household income is less than $250,000 a year and a household making $119k a year is FAR FAR FAR from being a 1% so that means vote republican?

What kind of crack is this guy smoking? Just because median income is high does not mean everyone there is a 1% 120k a year is a decent wage for a family to make but it does not make them super weathy.

I believe Mitt Romney refers to this as "barely scraping by."

lennavan: These 1 percenters are not wealthy right-wing Republicans; they are Obama's liberals. How can one tell? It turns out that seven of the 10 wealthiest counties in the Washington area voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008. These liberals portray themselves as 99 percenters when they are really 1 percenters.

I love this strawman. The premise - the OWS people are protesting wealth. They are not protesting wealth, they are protesting the wealth gap. I don't care that Mitt Romney is rich, it's irrelevant. Mitt Romney does not want to do anything about it, Obama does. This article just gave a great reason why OWS should never protest in those seven wealthiest counties. Because those wealthy people want something to be done about it.

I've noticed that the American Right has never really understood this. I remember when the right was foaming last fall when Micheal Moore spoke at OWS, claiming how OWS are hypocrites for letting a "Rich man" speak. The fact remains that the right is, per natural operational procedure, attempting to muddy the debate with lies and misinformation. To anybody who has actually been to an Occupy rally, I think it was pretty clear that the nature of the protest was not about wealth, but the widening wealth gap in America and the current laws in place (Citizens United, Subsidies to Oil Companies, Deregulation of Financial Markets, Anti-Union legislation, opposition to public sector stimulus) that will ensure that the wealth gap in America continues to be a widening, impassable canyon. (Something that was not true for much of the 20th Century)

The right, as usual is playing to lowest common denominator politics. OWS = Hippies = Hates Wealth = Communists = Obama is a Socialist. You know their goose is cooked when they best they got is the shiny turd of the ancient McCarthy offense.

thomps: "In 2009, Greg Ransom, a writer for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, ranked Williams as the third-most important "Hayekian" Public Intellectual in America, behind only Thomas Sowell and John Stossel."

I lol'd

Splinshints: 1. Everybody around D.C. became a democrat when a democrat won the presidency, and the area around D.C. is wealthy, therefore the Occupy protestors are wealthy democrats.

Even ignoring the patently absurd assumption that the people surrounding D.C. are all Obama lackeys, I don't see how it follows that the Occupy protestors are rich because the D.C. area is.

I know the suburbs around DC trend Republican. And I get the sense that a lot of Federal civil servants tend to be conservative. The party in power doesn't really matter to them, as administrations come and while they keep working.

DNRTFA

Well, once again, people seem to completely misinterpret why the 99% is 'mad' at the 1%. It's not because they have money and I don't. If their actions have made a lot of money for a lot of people (like actors and athletes) they absolutely deserve a cut.

If, on the other hand, their actions harmed either their employees or the general public and resulted in a huge payday for themselves, then F them. That's the difference that GOP talking heads seem aggressively unwilling to see.

lennavan: ..They are not protesting wealth, they are protesting the wealth gap. ...

Also the fact that some wall-streeters got rich on destroying America, and committed criminal acts.

It this Right Wing Lunatic Link day?

nyseattitude: It this Right Wing Lunatic Link day?

It's a day ending in "day," right?

Mike Chewbacca

LasersHurt: The numerous other problems with the article aside, it just seems to be an incredulous "...And surely liberals aren't trying to raise their OWN taxes, right!?"

Yes. Wealthy liberals are advocating for tax increases on themselves. I know you have trouble understanding that, but it's not hypocrisy or two-facedness. It's intellectually consistent the whole way across.

Me and my liberal friends (some of whom still live in Loudoun County) DO want our taxes raised. Because we can afford it, and our nation needs it. And we're nowhere near the 1%.


I laugh at your idiocy.

karnal: Mike Chewbacca

LasersHurt: The numerous other problems with the article aside, it just seems to be an incredulous "...And surely liberals aren't trying to raise their OWN taxes, right!?"

Yes. Wealthy liberals are advocating for tax increases on themselves. I know you have trouble understanding that, but it's not hypocrisy or two-facedness. It's intellectually consistent the whole way across.

Me and my liberal friends (some of whom still live in Loudoun County) DO want our taxes raised. Because we can afford it, and our nation needs it. And we're nowhere near the 1%.

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I laugh at your idiocy.

Why is wanting to pay more taxes when your nation needs more revenue mockable?

thomps: "In 2009, Greg Ransom, a writer for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, ranked Williams as the third-most important "Hayekian" Public Intellectual in America, behind only Thomas Sowell and John Stossel."

Isn't that like saying he's the third-most academically renowned young earth creationist?

Mike Chewbacca


karnal: Mike Chewbacca

LasersHurt: The numerous other problems with the article aside, it just seems to be an incredulous "...And surely liberals aren't trying to raise their OWN taxes, right!?"

Yes. Wealthy liberals are advocating for tax increases on themselves. I know you have trouble understanding that, but it's not hypocrisy or two-facedness. It's intellectually consistent the whole way across.

Me and my liberal friends (some of whom still live in Loudoun County) DO want our taxes raised. Because we can afford it, and our nation needs it. And we're nowhere near the 1%.

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I laugh at your idiocy.

Why is wanting to pay more taxes when your nation needs more revenue mockable?

I am mocking your insincerity.

karnal: Mike Chewbacca


karnal: Mike Chewbacca

LasersHurt: The numerous other problems with the article aside, it just seems to be an incredulous "...And surely liberals aren't trying to raise their OWN taxes, right!?"

Yes. Wealthy liberals are advocating for tax increases on themselves. I know you have trouble understanding that, but it's not hypocrisy or two-facedness. It's intellectually consistent the whole way across.

Me and my liberal friends (some of whom still live in Loudoun County) DO want our taxes raised. Because we can afford it, and our nation needs it. And we're nowhere near the 1%.

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I laugh at your idiocy.

Why is wanting to pay more taxes when your nation needs more revenue mockable?

I am mocking your insincerity.

or you are projecting your own personal flaws such as greed unto others. either/or

Tea Party and OWL = The bank bailouts were caused by corruption and are bad.
Tea Party = Lets blame the government for their taking bribes.
OWL = Lets blame banks for bribing the government.
Tea Party and OWL = Lets hate each other and not find common ground.

Isitoveryet: I know huh! look at him! it's like he cares about the deficit and the future of the country! He's not just using those gimmicky slogans like "Patriot" and "Real American" as political fodder, he's willing to step up & be a part of the solution rather than an empty suit.

Note that the people against any tax raises and who think even paying taxes at all is stupid are the ones who complain the most about the debt.

When there's a Democrat in the White House.