If the foo shiats.

It doesn't help if you are using a cogent analogy if Nazi's are involved.

You know something is bullshiat when Grover Norquist says it.

because godwining always makes a situation better

Taxes are equivalent to racial and societal genocide?

I can't wait for the next step, where taxes will be a sin, and the "elect" shouldn't be dragged down with the sinners.

I think ol' Grover's just pissed because someone made his escape plan illegal before he was done sucking the last drop of blood from the nation.

Yeah, but Grover didn't actually compare Schumer or the Ex-Patriot Act to the Nazis. He just said that it was a bill that 1930's Germany, whose government was controlled by the Nazis, would pass and be proud of. There's a huge difference between the two.

The entire premise of the law is flawed. There are other reasons to give up citizenship.

It's not a tax, it's a Freedom Fee.

"When even Speaker Boehner feels free to openly disagree with Grover Norquist, it is official that literally no one cares what Norquist thinks on this issue,"

LOL

Thank goodness Frank Gaffney has exposed Norquist as being a stooge of the Muslim Brotherhood.

/stirring the shiat

Mearen: The entire premise of the law is flawed. There are other reasons to give up citizenship.

Yeah, like not loving America enough to stay.

I'd like to know: why do Republicans want to protect people that hate America?

Serious Black: Yeah, but Grover didn't actually compare Schumer or the Ex-Patriot Act to the Nazis. He just said that it was a bill that 1930's Germany, whose government was controlled by the Nazis, would pass and be proud of. There's a huge difference between the two.

So Grover can slander the bill by saying that it's something the Nazis would pass, but Schumer can't complain about his comparison because...

// fark man, that's the most disingenuous argument I've ever heard

Conservatives finally admit that the PATRIOT Act was bad?

Sock Ruh Tease: Mearen: The entire premise of the law is flawed. There are other reasons to give up citizenship.

Yeah, like not loving America enough to stay.

I'd like to know: why do Republicans want to protect people that hate America?

They just know that Rulers don't have to be bound by rules meant for Servants.

If several billion dollars can really be transferred from investors to one guy, permanently, our system is already so broken that you can't blame him for getting out.

Jackson Herring: Although there's no reason we shouldn't try.

Actually, yea, there are plenty of reasons we shouldn't try. Not the least of which being, for me, that I don't want to face my own exit taxes in the event I ever decide I need or want to leave the U.S.

I'm sympathetic to the outrage around the fact that people like Saverin basically use the U.S. to get wealthy and then jumped ship to avoid paying back into the system that helped him become so wildly successful, but I have a really hard time seeing a way this could be implemented without being used specifically as a punishment for leaving, and for me that falls under the canopy of "precedents we shouldn't be setting". Saverin is clearly an asshole, but I'm more concerned about the future potential for abuse of a tool like this than I am getting back at that knob.

That said, Norquist is a complete and utter twat and his twatting didn't twat any less when he twatted this current twatwaddle.

/ and I hope Saverin falls astray of some minor law in Singapore and get a nasty caning.... dickhead

How about we let Saverin go, declare war on Singapore, conquer it in about a minute and a half, then seize all his assets as reparations?

I still can't believe all the herp a derp from both sides over a guy who wasn't born here, no longer lives here, and seemingly intends to not return renouncing his citizenship.

If the tax system wasn't setup to allow the mega-wealthy to avoid paying taxes while they live here, then the circumstances of their leaving wouldn't matter and there's be no need to try and tax them or otherwise penalize them as they make their getaway renounce their citizenship and leave the country.

Didn't Saverin move to Singapore in '09?>

Also, if he's a billionare, why can't he afford the good parts for his robot?

Splinshints: Not the least of which being, for me, that I don't want to face my own exit taxes in the event I ever decide I need or want to leave the U.S.

Everyone that does it takes a hit based on current laws. This new stuff is targeting the well heeled for a bigger piece.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand the motivation.

Johnny Swank: I still can't believe that 90% of all republicans continue to slob this clown's knob.

TO be fair to grover, 90% of all republicans are gayer than elmo.

Why Nazi's, why not slavery????

Oh yeah.

Babwa Wawa: This equally applicable both sides - the right will get jumped on for pointing out the similarities between the left's gun policies and fascist gun policies.

Of course this is an utterly dishonest comparison with no basis in historical reality.

That Saverin guy's an asshole, bailing on this country to avoid paying capital gains taxes, of all things. The guy's a billionaire, and thinks 15% on his latest boondoggle's just way too burdensome, because he's super rich, and therefore better than us plebes. But instead of this law, why not just frame him for child molestation, human organ harvesting, human trafficking, and drug dealing? I'm sure the CIA could pull it off, easily. For that matter, the CIA should do things like that more often, it would make them way cooler.

/C'mon CIA, be cool man!

Summercat: Didn't Saverin move to Singapore in '09?>

Sometime just after mid-January?

Sock Ruh Tease: Mearen: The entire premise of the law is flawed. There are other reasons to give up citizenship.

Yeah, like not loving America enough to stay.

I'd like to know: why do Republicans want to protect people that hate America?

To be fair, what has America done for him lately? Besides providing him the educational and financial environment to make billions of dollars. That was so last week.

vsavatar: If the foo shiats.

wildcardjack: It doesn't help if you are using a cogent analogy if Nazi's are involved.

Mearen: The entire premise of the law is flawed. There are other reasons to give up citizenship.

Wellon Dowd: It's not a tax, it's a Freedom Fee.

Frank N Stein: [oi46.tinypic.com image 275x492]

You misspelled "BRB, signing back on with other handle."

Corporatists: American debts, Global profits!

Only the current GOP would compare trying to close a tax loophole with the holocaust. This type of greed is evil.

Serious Black: Yeah, but Grover didn't actually compare Schumer or the Ex-Patriot Act to the Nazis. He just said that it was a bill that 1930's Germany, whose government was controlled by the Nazis, would pass and be proud of. There's a huge difference between the two.

You're right, he didn't compare Schumer to the Nazis, but he invited the comparison. The difference between the two is paper thin.

Frank N Stein: dookdookdook: Reality has a well known liberal bias.

What is reality? Barring the endless philosophical debates on what consists of reality, it can be safely said that reality is essentially the combination of the laws of the physical universe and our perception of those laws. Those physical laws (and our perception) are specific to us and all living things in the biological laws which govern continual existence, i.e natural selection. Seeing as how modern day liberalism (and really, societal/governments in general) seeks to mitigate those laws of natural selection in human society (social Darwinism), this comes as an affront reality as known throughout nature. Therefore, liberalism (and all forms of government) is an attempt to distort and combat the laws of nature.

There, your bumper sticker slogan has been debunked.

Liberalism = Government
Lack of Government = Good
Social Darwinism = Good

I learned some things today!

/ I'm just saying, they miss you over at Stormfront.

// That's all I'm saying.

Every time I hear about Norquist and the Republican party that he so firmly grasps in his pudgy, little hand, I think of Charles Mackay.

Frank N Stein: Make More Hinjews: You misspelled "BRB, signing back on with other handle."

"Herp derp anything that doesn't appeal to my fragile senses must be the work of some well determined troll"

PS: How can you misspell something when you didn't even write anything?

Wow, clever. You're right, a picture isn't a misspelling... vote Republican.