Im getting sick of republicans doing this negative stuff. I'm glad they finally climbed out of the mountain of s**t piled on them by the anyone-but-Bush crowd and put his nuts to the fire. In his own words and deeds he has demonstrated he has no moral compass or guiding principles save one - getting el
Wow. That's goood. Cheers, Daiwa
but it would appear to me that the US senate are rather corrupt and only interested in looking after themselves, rather than the people of America... You may be more right than wrong with that statement, Muggaz - all the more reason to be at least a tad concerned with what Kerry has been doing the past
Muggaz - My HTML tags ain't working with the browser I'm using just now. The AuZZie thing was a small joke. And thanks for stimulating an interesting discussion, even if we disagree. G'Day Daiwa
Muggaz - Not to be too cynical, but the principal difference between a tax break and a tax loophole is the beneficiary - it's a very subjective, artificial distinction and the term applied usually depends on whether it benefits you or not. Sometimes the only difference between a savvy taxpayer and a tax cheat lies in the eye of the beholder. It all depends on which side of the bread gets the butter. And so forth. And I'm just grate
Mugazz - How exactly is it that the top 5% are "getting away with murder" by paying 50% of the total tax take? You saying it should be 75%? 80%? 90%? What? The more you tax it the less incentive there is to earn it. And the fact is, the majority of that 5% are not the Rockefellers and Kennedys of the world just sitting on their oil, bootlegging or railroad fortunes accumulated ages ago, which is the caricature of the rich the left would
" Since 2001, General Motors laid off 37,500 workers and invested $3.5 billion building manufacturing plants in China , while receiving over $500 million from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, $9.1 million from the Advanced Technology Program, and more than $8.5 million from the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. GM has rec
I don't think some of you have thought this through to its logical conclusion. The tax system is already full of exceptions all the way down the line. I agree. If "fairness" is to be the standard, a consumption-based tax is the "most" fair and, in Adam Smith's scheme of things, the most likely to perpe
The point that seems to be missed by the pro-Bush in this thread is that whilst he has acknowledged these loopholes exist, he has no intention of exposing them... Huh ? Wasn't he quoted as exposing them? Not specifically, but he at least has the honesty to point out the obvious. It's Cong
Giving a company a tax cut to ship jobs to India does not help the American economy no matter how you slice it. Where did this myth come from? I don't believe there is any such tax policy which rewards companies for shipping jobs to India or anywhere else, although they certainly avoid the match
Regrettably, Michael, there are no facts in your rant, let alone "bright shining truth." I admit that the color-coding threat thing is a bit lame and subject to this kind of mindless ridicule, but your suppositions and conclusions are more than just a stretch. You'd do well to remember that, for reasonable and arguably valid reasons (as judged at that time), our foreign and domestic intelligence capabilities were separated by overt conscious intentio
Sorry, zergimmi - I meant to say two-thirds correct. I agree with you otherwise. Cheers, Daiwa
The rich do get richer and the poor do get poorer, however many of the rich tned to take risks and work hard, and employ people, not all people with money are bad, and undeserving. You are one-third correct. The cliche about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer just doesn't hold up to ob
Vincible has hit the nail on the head - the only sane solution is to get rid of the thousands of pages of convoluted tax regs & truly make it simple. Won't hold my breath, since we don't live in a sane world, but the notion of moving from taxing income to taxing consumption in some fashion has merit & should be explored further. Would do a lot to take the whole class warfare thing off the table. And Draginol is correct - funny how the rich ar
Moore is an angel Not just an angel, but a vessel of truth and enlightenment. It will be interesting to see how the release of the Swiftboat Vets book plays out, as the vets involved go public to defend their position. They h
if the bush campaigns hadn't been conducted they way they were prior to 2000, we wouldnt be having this discussion. As if this sort of thing never happened before 2000? And I still have trouble with the notion that all mud that gets slung from the right is by definition orchestrated by the candidate v
"on the off chance you're not purposely overlooking the fact that my issue isnt kerry getting trashed per se, but the way he's being trashed, let me assure you that i was far more pissed off when it was done to mccain in 2000 because it was even less appropriate--if thats possible-- to smear a former pow. if the administration isnt involved, why dont they condemn it as mccain suggested?" Soon as Kerry condemns F9/11, Move-On, etc. So don'
Muggaz - just what exactly would the "right amount of taxes" be? Cheers, Daiwa
Gosh, I think perhaps some context needs to be added. I suspect that he was referring to the obvious - that the very wealthy are best positioned to find a way around high tax rates. They can afford to hire the brainpower to do so. I suspect he was also alluding to the counter-productive nature of a highly-complicated tax code. Patching the loopholes has never worked as every patch seems to create a new hole; getting Congress to get rid of them has
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