tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post3790473552255663974..comments2023-10-10T05:30:54.239-04:00Comments on Jo-Joe Politico: FISCAL SANITY OR FISCAL CLIFF?Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-8064125254003622162012-11-15T09:12:01.427-05:002012-11-15T09:12:01.427-05:00And he did that all by himself, without a single o...And he did that all by himself, without a single other employee, created no jobs for people working for him and was an abject failure.<br /><br />----<br />All by himself? Utter nonsense.<br /><br />Go research the sources of his funding, including the fascinating Latin American sources.<br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-65924232044191319342012-11-15T08:06:56.987-05:002012-11-15T08:06:56.987-05:00XO: In 1977 Mitt Romney secured a position at Bain...XO: In 1977 Mitt Romney secured a position at Bain & Company. Later serving as its chief executive officer, he helped lead the company out of financial crisis. <br /><br />In 1984, he cofounded and led the spin-off company Bain Capital, a highly profitable private equity investment firm that became one of the largest of its kind in the nation.<br /><br />And he did that all by himself, without a single other employee, created no jobs for people working for him and was an abject failure.<br /><br />He must be a magician!<br /><br />No, he provided many people with jobs...thousands.<br /><br />Look, from the beginning he was not my choice for president, but ABO, in my book.<br /><br />Sadly, we got BO again. And we can't cure it with Ban Roll-on.<br /><br />And talk about never creating jobs, he has led the government to a net job creation of "0" (In case you need help, it's jobs created minus jobs lost equals a net of "0").Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-45662393669053606412012-11-15T07:57:16.902-05:002012-11-15T07:57:16.902-05:00Ducky: "...Rush the Vulgar Pigboy."
Thi...Ducky: "...Rush the Vulgar Pigboy."<br /><br />This is why I keep toying with the idea of listing you as spam and keeping you out of my comments section.<br /><br />You can call me names...that's OK, I can take it. But when you start calling my other commenters names and other people names, you cross the line.<br /><br />See you could have said, "...by Rush Limbaugh" or "...by Rush Limbaugh, whom I neither like nor admire" or anything other than "Vulgar Pigboy."<br /><br />Limbaugh is much less vulgar than you and he is not a "Pigboy," whatever that is.<br /><br />Try to stick to discussion and avoid the nasty jabs, OK?<br /><br />(I'm the only one who gets a pass on nasty jabs on this blog.)Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-73757532905716415372012-11-15T07:15:22.337-05:002012-11-15T07:15:22.337-05:00Ducky: "...an additional flat income tax woul...Ducky: "...an additional flat income tax would lower their standard of living."<br /><br />Actually, I thought of a flat tax as being the most fair method of taxation long before I knew Limbaugh existed.<br /><br />Nobody suggests an ADDITIONAL flat tax. You're confusing this with the "fair tax," which is a sales tax.<br /><br />That I oppose on all levels.<br /><br />A flat tax would replace the present income tax, would apply only to money earned over the poverty level, would bring in more revenue than the government's present income plus the deficit and would be fair to all.<br /><br />One card would be all you need: How much did you earn? Subtract the poverty minimum. Multiply the balance by __% and that's what you owe the government in taxes. No deductions, no exemptions, no hassles, no additional payments.<br /><br />No IRS bureaucratic despotism, no nasty agents knocking on your door, no reduction of freedoms.<br /><br />No complicated forms, no ways to avoid and cheat (since sources of income, such as your employer or business, would have to report a simple "Here's How Much He Earned" form).<br /><br />No hidden fees, taxes, penalties, gigantic tax codes or other legal entanglements.<br /><br />No downside.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-51621993071296814172012-11-14T23:04:48.235-05:002012-11-14T23:04:48.235-05:00Oh by the way, Joe. Income taxes are less than 50%...Oh by the way, Joe. Income taxes are less than 50% of Federal revenues.<br /><br />Lower wage earners pay a high percentage of their income through sales and payroll taxes. Since workers (as opposed to people like Romney) spend the bulk of their income on necessities an additional flat income tax would lower their standard of living.<br />That means you, Joe. You really should top repeating that ridiculous income tax meme that was started by Rush the Vulgar Pigboy. Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-46630078282288746932012-11-14T22:54:44.733-05:002012-11-14T22:54:44.733-05:00Joe - Nonsense. Provide me one example where Mitt...Joe - Nonsense. Provide me one example where Mitt Romney actually created a job where one did not previously exist.<br /><br />I'll save you the trouble. YOU CAN'T! Because it never happened.<br /><br />Like most people born into wealth and privilege, he never created anything of value to anyone other than himself. He just moved his money around and made his money work for him to make him more money.<br /><br />And they sucker poor people like you into worshiping rich people like them when they couldn't care less whether you live or die.<br /><br />They foster the delusion that anyone can be like them.<br /><br />Gullible fools.Xavier Onassishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345787343828318445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-61061415572438469052012-11-14T22:52:54.099-05:002012-11-14T22:52:54.099-05:00Joe, you're free to cite an instance where he ...Joe, you're free to cite an instance where he created jobs.<br /><br />You'll probably mention Staples and that is true in a small way. The company had already grown to the point of needing venture capital and Bain did provide some. It gets real lean after that.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-48324005623183797962012-11-14T22:35:03.600-05:002012-11-14T22:35:03.600-05:00XO: "... people like Mitt Romney who never, e...XO: "... people like Mitt Romney who never, ever worked for anything at all, never created a single job."<br /><br />Revisionist history.<br /><br />You absolutely know not that about which you speak.<br /><br />It's just unfathomable that you would make such a blatantly false statement. It's beneath even you.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-68210306466837659442012-11-14T22:21:06.617-05:002012-11-14T22:21:06.617-05:00Joe - "Question: Why should anybody have to p...Joe - "Question: Why should anybody have to pay a greater percentage of what they worked for than anybody else?"<br /><br />What about the people like Mitt Romney who never, ever worked for anything at all, never created a single job, but swooped in like vultures on vulnerable companies, forced a takeover, saddled them with overwhelming debts and management fees, eliminated jobs, destroyed the lives of middle class working people, and is still lining his pockets with the the profits he made in the wake of all of that destruction? They call it "carried interest".<br /><br />The only "incentive, imagination and ingenuity" involved in the way most white privileged people build their wealth revolves around manipulating the laws and tax codes to screw the middle class, minimize their tax liability and hide their wealth in off shore tax havens.<br /><br />They contribute NOTHING to the American economy.<br /><br />They are takers, not makers.Xavier Onassishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345787343828318445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-49273386196881390262012-11-14T14:56:03.855-05:002012-11-14T14:56:03.855-05:00Ducky: "Question, why shouldn't the rich ...Ducky: "Question, why shouldn't the rich pay in proportion to the amount of wealth they control?"<br /><br />Question: Why should anybody have to pay a greater percentage of what they worked for than anybody else?<br /><br />You see that as fair. I see it as intrinsically unfair.<br /><br />It destroys incentive, imagination and ingenuity.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-79312598027560056162012-11-14T14:48:46.784-05:002012-11-14T14:48:46.784-05:00We are facing the utter dissolution of our nation ...We are facing the utter dissolution of our nation economically. Since we are bigger than Greece, our fall will be much further and much harder than anything Greece could approximate.<br /><br />----<br />First, we control the world's demand currency so comparison to Greece is asinine.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-61091236640940863882012-11-14T14:47:09.293-05:002012-11-14T14:47:09.293-05:00The truth is, by any standard used, the rich alrea...The truth is, by any standard used, the rich already pay more than their “fair share” of all federal taxes. In fact, according to IRS data reported by CBO, the rich pay more at a higher tax rate than everyone else.<br /><br />-----<br />Question, why shouldn't the rich pay in proportion to the amount of wealth they control?<br /><br />Question, does it stifle demand and growth taxing the middle and working classes or the extremely wealthy?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-64219451457179943522012-11-14T14:44:54.277-05:002012-11-14T14:44:54.277-05:00According to Investor’s Business Daily’s November ...According to Investor’s Business Daily’s November 9th report, the top 3% of small businesses earn about 91% of all small business income. They also employ a healthy portion (about 54%) of the total U.S. workforce in the private business sector.<br /><br />------<br />3% of the businesses emplo 54% of the workforce and they are considered small?<br /><br />Check !!!Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-42599073862241461442012-11-14T14:44:01.706-05:002012-11-14T14:44:01.706-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-21873845194637087912012-11-14T13:58:07.135-05:002012-11-14T13:58:07.135-05:00Very well stated and attributed for accuracy.
(p....Very well stated and attributed for accuracy.<br /><br />(p.s., Found you via Fredd and adding you to my blogroll)Christopher - Conservative Perspectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14102651466203156040noreply@blogger.com