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I really think it's hilarious how much guys like Romney want you to believe that ALL of the people not paying taxes are from the lowest income bracket when the most wealthy are by far the most guilty of ducking their already meager allotted tax rate. How much do you think a minimum wage earner would actually contribute? A drop in the buscket in comparison to the billions loopholed by the wealthy. I mean come the fuck on.
Also, unemployment isn't necessarily a draw on anyone if it's well within your own "paid in" balance. If you don't know how it works, all that money you pay in for unemployment insurance in every check, that money sits there and waits for you to be laid off. Unfortunately I found this out when I was laid off in I believe '08 or '09. You pay it in, you can absolutely take it back out when times are tough and you can't find a job that will pay your bills. It even tells you your balance. So to anyone NOT on extended benefits, they aren't even "costing" us anything.
I agree that entitlement programs should be dialed back, but the gross misrepresentation of so many factors here just blow my mind. I mean, we're in a fuckin' recession because of republican fiscal irresponsibility spread out over a decade and here we are, Mitt trying to convince us that more military spending, deregulation to major industry AGAIN, more tax breaks for the wealthy and massive cuts to programs that benefit the needy is really what this country needs. I mean, I realize most here were too young to actually remember Clinton's presidency or the awesome financial climate we had then, but I can tell you that the Taliban didn't do this to us, WE did this to us. You can't pull a country out of a recession by attacking the group hardest hit by it. It just doesn't work that way. You need a lower and middle class spending money, there is no trickling down- especially in a business climate that makes it astronomically expensive to have employees whereas automated equipment makes more and costs less. It simply is not in a business's best interests to hire employees at all if it's avoidable and I'm still waiting for someone in government to realize this. Maybe then we can create an environment that encourages growth and a larger workforce, because I can tell you as someone who runs a small business that it isn't anywhere near that right now.
It is kind of hilarious to see people pointing to unemployment statistics as if we weren't in a recession. This isn't a normal year, dumbasses.
Yes he certainly did slide out of the right twat.
I'm guessing you're unfamiliar with the story of a little boy named George W Bush, who not only skated through Ivy league on shit grades because of his father, he was allwed to duck military service AND bankrupt a few businesses before he fucking raped this country.
So yeah. Ivy League education =/= common sense OR any sense of understanding to the rest of the country that didn't slide out of the right twat.
I agree that he had to work to get where he is, but let's not pretend that he was a real Obama-level rags to success story or something. THAT is real coming up. South side of Chicago to the White House? Please Romney. The guy was born into a life or wealth and privelege, ending your life story anywhere but in a state of wealth and privelege is just retarded. Crediting him as some kind of real breakout success is kind of retarded.
Well I work harder than they do, does that mean I should have to pay a 1% effective tax rate?
I don't think that I'm entitled to that at all despite how hard I work for my money that is taxed without loopholes or concession for how hard I've worked.
Also, it's not "paying for someone else's shit" it's paying into the system that allows you to operate... Just like everyone else.
Oh I agree 100% about the G-S act's repealing being the very beginning of the end, but it was far from the only factor at play in the gangbanging of our economic climate by industry, taxation and rampant spending.
It's the rest of the argument for Romney I disagree with. I'm living in the state he just finished fucking up, and lots and his policies have cost me lots and lots of money so I reserve the right to tell you that my distaste for his initiatives come from actual experience with his ideas.
Also, who the fuck is teddy and I didn't make my name pink either you fucking crybaby.
Nice try and a decent stab at someone who DIDN'T fall out of the right vagina like you did... But no. I work in certified nuclear and military application high pressure filtration and am successfully expanding my business around outsourcing the production and S/H needs of several fortune 50 and 500 companies. Soooooooooooooo yeah, you can suck my cock after hour 14 of shop work afaic.
Also... Giving back???? LOL... Spoken like a true child of wealth! If I were to "give back" to myself contributing only a percent or two of my earnings, I'd be in jail for tax evasion. Just one more example of how this country favors the rich and fucks the working class... But far be it for a rich kid to recognize any of this. You just want to ensure the twat your kids fall out of someday is every bit as well off as the one you slid from lol... And I can't really blame ya I guess.
Well I'm glad we're pst the namecalling phase of the discussion, but I just want to get one thing straight I'm still a bit unclear on.
So getting our nation's financial situation back on track is our most important task- just so long as your mind-blowingly wealthy parents don't have to pay for any of it even though they could easily pay the same percentage I do with no impact on their lifestyle?
Yep. Funnelling money to the Mormon Church in the form of a tax-deductible donation instead of paying into the country's tax system... That'll TOTALLY fix all these defecit problems! What a fantastic example by which to lead the country from!
I mean do you guys just not understand basic math or is it an entitlement and identificatioin issue you're struggling with?
Also if you have a desk job- that's stressful work, not hard work. If you aren't sweating, you aren't doing hard work, you're just burned out by either the complexity of the task or the scope of the job. Actually punching keys and shit is not hard. I do both every day and there is a very huge difference. The shop stuff is hard work, the desk bullshit is mind blowingly stressful and frustrating but it is not hard it just takes forever and irks me to no end.
Lol... White people say the damndest things sometimes.
This analogy is so incredibly ridiculous. The US becoming "the next Greece" is absolutely not possible. There is no comparison between Greece and the USA from an economic standpoint. Economic strife in the two countries looks and will always look very different simply because of their makeup.
It's a dumb meme that is essentially economic fearmongering because people associate "Greece" with "Broke".