ALL HAIL PRESIDENT TRUMP
" Nice deflection. By the way I heard pride was one of the 7 sins, just to let you know. I wonder how you could fix your country. Hey I've got an idea! How about applying any tax rate to the biggest 60 or so corporations that didn't pay a single dime last year? Whilst you're at it, how about not subsidising the oil industry by billions? Also, how about a progressive tax rate that doesn't make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Some of that you could consider putting in your monumentally crazy deficit, or universal healthcare (aren't you ashamed that friggin Belgium has it, but you don't?? I mean, Belgium, come on!) or shock horror education. This would in a roundabout way reduce income inequality, a major source of civil strife, crime etc. But first you actually have to realise how appalling the state of affairs currently are. Only then can you actually make me happy, and decarbonise the nation. ACtually we still haven't dealt with the massive underlying corruption in your political system, where corporate lobbyists run the show. So I have very little faith. Better let the Russians take over, I think. | |
" Fucking commies, that's who. Funny thing is that I still liked Bernie, at least he was for real even though many of his ideas are stupid. But after he sold out to Queen Moloch I lost all respect for him. GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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Russians cant even take over Ukraine where 1/3 population is Russian - I'm not as worried about that third world country as you seem to be. Just like I'm not concerned about rag tag salfi jihadis taking over anything the right seems to be.
Corps pay tones of taxes. Everything from excise to all the employee taxes. At our compnay every dollar we pay an employee we pay about 66% in direct taxes and compliance costs e.g. workman's comp, HC and so on. The argument for low or even no corp income taxes is sound. Some nations, even those with heavy social welfare have zero corp tax such as I believe sweden and to tax ours puts them at a competitive disadvantage in a global market place. Besides the dividends and income a person takes out of corps is taxed at a progressive rate. So the income is always taxed eventually. All great empires destroy themselves from within not outside forces, which we are doing moving to socialist folly, perpetual warfare, (welfare warfare state) and allowing gov to destroy social capital. Thats what I worry about. Git R Dun! Last edited by Aim_Deep on Apr 23, 2019, 4:02:41 PM
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" You cannot assume who's gonna revendicate the attacks. Especially in a foreign country of which you have no knowledge of the political climate. Of course radical islamic terrorism is to be condemned as well as those attacks. However, official information was not known at the time and as such, you cannot denounce a particular group for it. You can denounce the perpetrators and that's about it. Christians, Protestants, Catholics, Methodists, Mormons, just to name a few. I'm sure I am missing some. Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y
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" That isn't a fair comparison. Sweden also has a higher marginal tax rate for low-income workers (roughly 10% more). And has a 70% tax for salaries over 79k. I think those tax rates are absolutely horrific if you wanted to do anything remotely creative with your money. Especially, on low-income workers. What heck. That kind of rate would obliterate your options. I mean its good to know there isn't a corporate tax in Sweden, but it totally misses the Elephant in the room, which is that everyone pays a ton of taxes in that country. I'm not sure the competitive difference is as big as you might think it is, lol. (⌐■_■)
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"I'll call them whatever it seems they want to be called. I call progressives progressives even though I don't think what they want would be progress, and I call Democrats Democrats even though the Democrat establishment actively smears populists both inside and outside its caucus. I wouldn't have any problem saying Pragmatist judges aren't being pragmatic, at least not according to a long-term perspective, if I felt such a comment was warranted. A name is just a name. "And, in some cases at least, rightfully so. "Originalist" judges who take the law into their own hands tarnish the brand. They should realize that they can fool some people, but not everyone, and that each time they betray their stated principles there's a few more people who see them by what they do, not by what they call themselves. As I said earlier, a name is just a name. I'd like it if the brand of originalism would gain a reputation of practicing what it preaches. But a rebranding might be more, um, pragmatic. "I don't particularly want to delve into your attempt to move the goalposts. Rojimbo (IIRC) was asking for things Trump did for the American people; the tax cuts helped the working and middle class substantially. This is a separate issue from whatever harm you may believe he has caused. Tax cuts are an obvious "pro" in the "pro/con" chart. Tens of millions of Americans will remember the extra refund money and appreciate it. As I said (via edit) earlier, any Democrat that mocks that will be eaten alive. Now something like, "I know y'all like that extra refund money, and that's good, but the Republicans rammed so much pork through by attaching it to those tax cuts, it's almost like he's bribing you to look the other way..." THAT might work. Maybe. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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" Your misconceptions about Sweden are misguided indeed. On average EU corporate tax rates are indeed a bit lower, in the 18% range, compared to North AMerica's 24% apparently. But what I'm talking about is tax avoidance by Fortune 500 companies: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2018-taxes-some-of-americas-biggest-companies-paid-little-to-no-federal-income-tax-last-year/ " | |
" Keep electing democrat's we'll get to 70% taxes on McDonald's fry cook because they run out of rich people to tax when they all leave or quit the program. Git R Dun!
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"I'd like to point out that Aim_Deep did not directly answer your question. You essentially asked "Do you believe government should be involved in schools?" He answered "the federal government shouldnt be involved in public schools." This answer does not necessarily rule out the involvement of state and/or municipal government. I also don't want the federal government involved in public schools. But I do want public schools. We probably should ask again, though: Mr Deep, do you believe that public schools should exist in the United States, or not? When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Apr 23, 2019, 4:26:01 PM
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" So these left leaning tech giants have co-opted the tax code to their benefit. What a surprise they are just as "selfish" as us meanie Republicans who want to keep our hard earned money instead of giving to to free loaders, corporations, and unaccountable bureaucrats. Anyway that's not tax avoidance which is a crime that's using tax code. We don't have a flat tax instead there are millions of nuances in it and it's very variable. They did nothing illegal though. Git R Dun!
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