I've always wondered why some of these rich guys yell from the mountain tops about how they should be taxed more while paying an accountant thousands of dollars to make sure they pay the lowest amount of taxes possible. Why file an itemized return? Better yet, since they have so much money why not just donate all of their taxable earnings to the government? They can just live off of their savings.
you need to check your figures 2/3 of federal spending goes to entitlements. About 16% to Defense and homeland security. This may sound harsh but people who can't afford to have children need to stop having them.
It's because they have to appear to care about the little guy , so he will continue to spend his money with them and also if they espouse liberalism then the clueless media won't call them out on it.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are the top two philanthropists in the United States. Sure, they can give away loads of money and still be multi-billionaires, but saying people who give away ~40% of their net worth are "fighting to hold on to all theirs" is ridiculous hyperbole.
Buffett complains about paying more taxes than his secretary , yet when the IRS comes a calling , he lawyers up. As far as Gates he has fought the government for years and years to keep his monopoly status.
"fighting to hold on to all theirs" some times you just take things too literally.
Everybody sees things from their own point of view at a particular point in time usually their lowest. If there weren't so many abuses of social services then the people who really need them would get them. Medicaid , Welfare and food stamp abuses are rampant and the government agencies show little inclination to improve them. They only seem interested in expanding the roles and not getting people to work. There are way too many people out there who will not work and Obama is intent on bringing any many more who will need social services at a time when our budget cannot stand it. I know you shrugged off the federal debt but it is a major problem and the democrat party has accelerated it the last 7 years on top of a war that was a waste so don't start talking Bush to me , cause he is in the conversation with Carter and Obama as the worst POTUS in modern times.
if you listen and read Ron Paul you can be very enlightened on the Fed Reserve and its abuses and dangers. I agree with a ton of what he says. Woodrow Wilson said after signing the Fed Reserve Act "I fear that I have doomed the citizens of this country".One thing you'll never hear me do is support a Bush lol (cringe). Honestly, I am not really on the up and up on the national debt. I feel like the Federal Reserve is a huge problem where our economy is concerned, along with banking and Wall Street involvement. I'd like to learn more though so I understand it better. It just doesn't make sense for our dollar to be worth so little now. I really don't know how we can turn it around though with the aforementioned institutions with so much power. I also don't know how the national debt can ever be reduced since it always goes up.
Liberals like to use the numbers that make them FEEL good, the actual facts just hinder their argument. Like how can liberals rail about the rich paying their fair share of taxes, AND acknowledge at the same time that the top 20% ALREADY pay 86% of all income taxes? They can't. It's better to bleat about "fair share" than to actually do the research and use real numbers- because the real numbers DESTROY their argument. Chick Bleeds seems like a level headed person, and I think she'll be a good addition to the board, but she's already re-written history to have gas at 4.00 when Bush left office. I pointed out the reality, but she's still saying that she's paying less for gas now than when Bush left, and it's simply not true.
see, it went way up, came way down, then gradually went up again and has been trending down... I know everyone likes to blame whichever commander in chief we have and you all will continue to do so... inflation typically is the result of the bs the Federal Reserve tortures us with.
The price of gas is dictated by oil output, not inflation.
Sure, but everyone was talking about gas prices and you mentioned inflation in a post about gas prices. I assumed you were saying inflation influenced gas prices.
Lighten up. I think strum is a bad influence on you.
It was up over 4.00 in summer of 2008, and started falling after the driving season. By the election, it was just over 2.00, 1.84 by inauguration. By your graph you can see it went up gradually, not all at once.
Lighten up. I think strum is a bad influence on you.
As far as "faux" news goes, I kind of get tired of that line. It's just worn out. I'm not a big fan of the news, but if I have to pick between MSNBC, CNN or Fox then I'm picking Fox.
