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Tribec is dolt

Isn't anyone making more than 400k a specific group of people???

SEMANTICS teh SUX meh

You want me to believe the brackets apply to everyone? So how do the brackets apply to someone making 14K the same as someone making 1.5M; other than just the lower bracket because the higher bracket doesn't apply to anyone but those "specific" people.

I don't disagree that people making huge amounts can't pay more tax; but some look at it like it's unfair to be successful. Not me, I'm comfortably under the highest bracket

I agree with you to a certain extent. but aren't most hedgefund investors leaning toward the greed side??

Again, why do you believe a marginal tax rate doesn't only apply to a specific group?

http://www.econlib.o...alTaxRates.html

and now back to your previous topic of flood control :E

Here's a silly article to read:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/venture-capitalist-says-war-on-the-rich-is-like-nazi-germanys-war-on-the-jews/283347/

I just know you'll love it.

Is this what you mean by marginal rate?:::: http://www.investorwords.com/2951/marginal_rate.html

It seems to be silly to leave out the word "tax" in there.

Actually it is exactly that. It is a tax on higher incomes.

Is he officially dead now? I live about an hour down the road and I've always had an urge to drive over and at least scope the place out, not to do anything, just out of curiosity but I never have...Topeka depresses me too much.

You mean rifle scope or just a visual assessment of the church property

But you don't agree with antisemitism either; right? I think that might have been part of the tax problem in Nazi Germany. Excessive tax on specific groups.

Ate way to much smoked brisket. DAMN YOU REFLUX

Are there Dickey's BBQ restaurants in the midwest?

Depends on your point of view. No, not gas chamber worse. I thought you were referencing the taxes in Nazi Germany not the whole clusterf#@k.

There's a buncha millionaires in the Senate and House who have worse ideas than that.

Proves it. They aren't CEO's cause they're stupid.

Wealth reflects intelligence?

I think I can safely point out numerous politicians that proves weath=intelligence is incorrect.

It's not about class warfare either. That's a ridiculous angle that Fox News like to play all the time. I don't hate anyone for being rich - I mean isn't that the goal? I don't hate Tiger Woods or Phil Mickleson for being good at my favorite sport of golf. And capitalism is the greatest system society has come up with because when run properly it generates the most productivity, the greatest gains to society, it does create upward mobility and reward hard work. But capitalism with very little regulation and with money driving all of the political decisions in the country creates a situation where hard work isn't rewarded. Where upward mobility is less and less possible. Where, instead of hard work paying off and generating more money to spend and driving a growing economy, the middle class struggles just to get by. So you get what we have now - Families with both parents working long hours - more hours than any country on earth - struggling to get by, drowning in debt, while the very rich just speculate and play with our debt using various speculative investments and securities, able to hedge against losses while playing with other people's money. AND THEN WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS WE HAVE TO BAIL THEM OUT USING OUR MONEY TO PREVENT TOTAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.

 

There needs to be wealth inequality. It is a product of capitalism. Those who innovate and bust their asses and are talented need to be rewarded with riches. But right now the scale is tipped waaaaaaaaay too far in their favor.

I'm not disagreeing with you but what's the solution besides penalizing the most wealthy; possibly some whom have even "worked" for it.

ps I'm not wealthy

Proves it. They aren't CEO's cause they're stupid.

How many tv/film moguls and celebrities donated to Obama's campaign or provided public service statements. They want something too.

Do you mean that even Democrat billionaires like Soros or Bloomberg invest rather than give it all up??

So you say democrats aren't greedy?? And some may even be Christian.

Nice.

I've got one Damascus knife.

Third row down in the gallery. 1st and 2nd are very nice looking.

btw: I edited the bad word

Where did the Christian GOP thing come from. Feelin' guilty?

I realize Katrina was a more devastating event and much of that was due to hitting a large metro area with a higher concentration of poor people. But the response and reaction of the affected people was markedly different. Sure some of that is due to the sheer number affected in the NO area but I don't see how a person can deny the nanny state mindsight prevalent. I am not "blaming" those people for being poor. I am simply trying to point out that people easily lose the ability to do much of anything for themselves when they become too dependent on the government for everything. It is the difference of a do it yourself western attitude and what manifests itself in a poor urban setting.

Most of NOLA was not "depending on the Gov" There are a ton of 'working poor' people who work at least as hard as you do, with a lot less to show for it, and often receive nothing from the gov. And what little they had was destroyed, with no money to 'get out of town' to go.... where? Packing up and leaving the state for a few days, with a cost in the thousands of dollars is simply not an option. Try walking in someone else's shoes.

 

You want to blame someone, blame American Business Culture. Make money for the top dogs and stock holders while the Gov picks up part of the employees' tab to get by, to protect those profits rather than pay living wages.

So don't assign any culpability to the government. Wow

Culpability to what? More than one idea in there.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/justice/louisiana-nagin-convicted/

When government officials are more worried about their own income than that of their constituency; there might be a problem.

Grading the response of NOLA government officials both past and present for emergency response planning and implementation:

http://www.chron.com/news/hurricanes/article/New-Orleans-strayed-from-evacuation-plan-1491205.php

I realize Katrina was a more devastating event and much of that was due to hitting a large metro area with a higher concentration of poor people. But the response and reaction of the affected people was markedly different. Sure some of that is due to the sheer number affected in the NO area but I don't see how a person can deny the nanny state mindsight prevalent. I am not "blaming" those people for being poor. I am simply trying to point out that people easily lose the ability to do much of anything for themselves when they become too dependent on the government for everything. It is the difference of a do it yourself western attitude and what manifests itself in a poor urban setting.

Most of NOLA was not "depending on the Gov" There are a ton of 'working poor' people who work at least as hard as you do, with a lot less to show for it, and often receive nothing from the gov. And what little they had was destroyed, with no money to 'get out of town' to go.... where? Packing up and leaving the state for a few days, with a cost in the thousands of dollars is simply not an option. Try walking in someone else's shoes.

 

You want to blame someone, blame American Business Culture. Make money for the top dogs and stock holders while the Gov picks up part of the employees' tab to get by, to protect those profits rather than pay living wages.

So don't assign any culpability to the government. Wow

Meanwhile,

back on the boulder campus:

Sheila Jackson Lee WTF

..........UPDATE...........SoKal.......

My motherinlaw has been living with us for approx a year now. But she was dutifully paying her verizon and other utilities on time. My wife and one of my sisterinlaw's(power of attorney, executor) of her estate decided to cancel her verizon fios phone/tv/internet service. Freakin' verizon sold her a MI424WR 2 years ago for her system. She had one tv and phone in the same room. Anyway, I grabbed said router and after much hemming and hawwing. VOILA. faster than a speeding Tmagic, more powerful than a Cross fire

Anybody wanna buy a Linksys AC1750?

Make Pelosi read it. Watch her head pop. Kali chicks meh

ps. don't tell my wife about the Kali thing

Several others push that rule around frequently. 'course I would never.