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What are they going to do when they realize just how low the returns actually are? Watch them simply quote absolute numbers "- look they made $20B dollars!!! That's obscene!!!" This is just tghe first step in controling prices in all business.

promoting the general welfare and paying welfare to dead beats are 2 completely different things. nice try though. I figured someone with your eduacation would have read and understood the difference. the words all men are created equal means All men not just white men and the amendment to free the slaves was just clarifing those words.

promoting general welfare is not the same as pay money to people that are to lazy to work. nice try though Sounds good to me, lets start cutting the least important items and keep going until the budget is balanced. Problem is everyone has their own ideas about what's important and what isn't. we could start figuring that out by reading the constitution and eliminating what is not listed there in. Oh, that's brilliant! Got news for you: "welfare" is mentioned twice in the US Constitution by name. Guess that stays!

there is nothing about paying welfare and all men are created equal eliminates slavery.

Sounds good to me, lets start cutting the least important items and keep going until the budget is balanced. Problem is everyone has their own ideas about what's important and what isn't. we could start figuring that out by reading the constitution and eliminating what is not listed there in.

I think you need to pay more tax, what is your fair share? what is the fair share of everyone making less than 50k? why are those people's "fair share" never talked about. when you pay as many total $s as the rich do then you can speak about fair share. until you pay the total $ amount they pay you just look whiny kid trying to mooch off of others.

Did he just say $374,327 was "not very much." Yeah that's dumb and stuff and he said it. I could do a much better job for $300k! Hell I'll even bring my own lunch! And yeah sadly I only make $100k and have an MBA and a condo so....my taxes will always be in the high 20's low 30's But thats because god hates me You have an MBA and don't know how to offset your taxes with a small start-up company that will offset your taxes for awhile (adjusted gross income), help you build it into making more than your current salary and perhaps someday, 1) live off the 15% capital gains and 2) have built an organization in which you are a commodity on the speaking circuit? Are you a Phoenix? It's amazing, don't you think, that despite the big tax advantages already given to small businesses, they are, according to the IRS, also the biggest tax cheats. According to the IRS - everyone is a tax cheat for avoiding taxes... http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/551168/10_of_the_biggest_corporate_tax_cheats_in_america/ That's corporations, not everyone. Aren't most corporations just small businesses run by one or a couple people?

Sounds good to me, lets start cutting the least important items and keep going until the budget is balanced.

I don't like paying taxes but I know it is needed, I know I don't pay as much as the rich but I still pay and I am glad the rich pay, but I am tired of seeing so many pay nothing and then complain the rich don't pay enough. This class warfare created by the left is discusting and is causing harm to our country. The politicians spend to much and the lower income people don't pay enough.

like what was said, the taxes have already gone up, it is time to reduce the spending.

She did?

Why is it always schools, garbage collection, passport services, road maintenance etc that get cut? why not things like loans to solyndra, how to teach prostitutes to drink, and other things like that?

Maybe those like Kallend & dreamdancer should start to use the tax code to their advantage instead of crying about those that do.

The dust hasn't settled, so to speak, but on the back of the envelope my "effective" (that's kind of a crap term, but whatever) 2011 federal tax rate will be around 9.5%. To be fair you can throw in FICA and it would be around 15%... ...better string me up. Why, are you worth over $220M and only paying 9.5% you could easily be WORTH 1 trillion and not pay a dime . Indeed. That's because the current rules are biased in favor of the wealthy, who have bought and paid for the folks who write the rules. The rules need to be changed. So, if this person does not make a dime for a year. his wealth should be taxed in kallend world? If a trillionaire doesn't make a dime in a year, they need a new financial advisor. Choosing what to tax is fairly arbitrary. Why is wealth given preferential treatment over earned income? Because the wealthy paid for the laws. taxing wealth would be double dipping since it was taxed when earned. Silly argument. (1) Money isn't taxed, people are. (2) Not all wealth was earned in the first place. (3) How does your claim not also apply to sales taxes, property taxes, etc? People are taxed on the money they earn, in order to be wealthy someone had to earn the money that created the wealth, at that point they paid taxes on that money. Maybe you don't agree with the amount they paid in taxes, but the taxes got paid. Taxing someone for being wealthy is only retaxing the money already taxed.

The dust hasn't settled, so to speak, but on the back of the envelope my "effective" (that's kind of a crap term, but whatever) 2011 federal tax rate will be around 9.5%. To be fair you can throw in FICA and it would be around 15%... ...better string me up. Why, are you worth over $220M and only paying 9.5% you could easily be WORTH 1 trillion and not pay a dime . Indeed. That's because the current rules are biased in favor of the wealthy, who have bought and paid for the folks who write the rules. The rules need to be changed. So, if this person does not make a dime for a year. his wealth should be taxed in kallend world? If a trillionaire doesn't make a dime in a year, they need a new financial advisor. Choosing what to tax is fairly arbitrary. Why is wealth given preferential treatment over earned income? Because the wealthy paid for the laws. taxing wealth would be double dipping since it was taxed when earned.

I think they should close the department of education and start a SMALL " department of minimals standards for education", Get rid of unions in any government jobs, and remove all religous and social teachings from the classroom. this would be a good start to fix the education system. Teachers need to teach not sit on their asses and collect a paycheck or social engineer our kids.

And have probably been called a racist. most racist people are the ones calling it.

The problem is that if it happens while driving it takes time to stop the car and get out. I know nobody has been hurt yet but it will happen.

That problem was a bit overstated, but they made the offer to anyone that was not comfortable with it. You can't build a car brand behaving otherwise. Nevertheless, that issue is resolvable, and entirely different car models can still make use of these batteries. Problem solved? last weak they were barbequing customers and this week the problem is fixed?

Just because government robbed you blind doesn't mean you can have a walking bridge. haven't you learned anything from the liberals yet

so far it seems like everyone has glossed over your point. When you go out to the DZ for the first weekend with your new $5000 rig, each jump thus far costs you $500 (presuming 5 jump per day)! WOW! that battery plant should be running for 10+ years, unless it fails completely. Next year twice as many Volts will have been sold, halving the number to 125k. Still big enough to run the same story with the clause "sold thus far" but it will get hard to do by year 4. More volts sold? did you miss the part about GM buying them back because people are scared they might become a well done steak? the buy back will raise the cost per car.

go back a reread I did not contradict myself

If there was no people no one would put out forest fires causing a huge increase in emissions and particles in the air causing global cooling then it would switch to global warming when the particles feel to earth and the co2 took over. or is it the path the earth takes around the sun that affects our climate during warming and cooling cycles? The earth has had many cycles without man's influence and will continue to have cycles with us here. we would be fools th think we can change the natural cycle of the planet.

Yes. As I understand it, at one time every paper dollar had a little piece of Gold in a vault backing it, giving it inherent value. Now that there is so much more paper money than there is Gold, putting us back on the Gold Standard is ludicrous and would serve to simply vaporize the value of the Dollar. Yes. Lawsuits, other than those for injunctive relief, are a curative, not a preventative. Even ones for injunctive relief require at least some damage. In a EPA-free world, there would always be some damage to the environment, as it would be a requisite to these panacea-like (In RP's mind) lawsuits. And to be honest, law is not about who's right, it is about who has the better attorney. Who has more cash to hire a better attorney--Exxon/BP or some podunk community wherein the kids are being born without limbs because of toxic pollution? That he was a USAF doctor is not reason to be a foreign policy/defence guru--that's a noncombatant officer who practices medicine, nothing war-related... As an OB/GYN, the closest he likely got to combat was a obnoxious Officer's wife giving birth. RP is a Putz who needs to go back to being an OB/GYN. I don't think eliminating the EPA is good but it should be made alot smaller and only be able to recommend laws for congress to pass.

You just want to see boobies. Hope you had fun, the Galapagos is a very cool place to go. The numbers of sharks and shoals of fish on every dive is amazing. John we now have 2 things in common, just need you to shift a little to the right politically and your transformation to the light will be complete.