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"Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those offshore loopholes didn’t get carved out by poor people. Our tax code is purposefully complex…"
- Jon Stewart on Apple’s tax issues. (via playanon)(via abaldwin360)
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(Source: friendlyatheist)
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Not that we’d ever consider doing that, of course…
Enough to cover a few houses on welfare… OR the air conditioning bill for like ONE US military tent in Afghanistan.
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This fucking butt baby pays to have a card made then goes out and buys himself dinner. He then eats his food (no doubt with a raging boner the entire time) knowing full well at the end he is going to leave this dick smell of a card for the person who served him instead of a tip. What a load of cock dust.
First of all, Prop 30 is a California state proposition to help fund schools. It has nothing to do with Obama. Regardless, it also only affects those who make $250k or more a year. Yet this walking talking flacid dick still leaves it.
I’ll tell you what, I don’t think I like this guy.
This is just the height of douchebaggery.
(via sirmitchell)
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"Because Republicans now lack the power to prevent legislated tax increases, the nation is no longer held hostage to their stubborn opposition to any tax increase whatsoever, which has torpedoed every serious effort to reduce the trajectory of debt since 2010. That is why I am optimistic about our fiscal future."
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CC: everyone who says “wahhhhh i don’t want to pay for your birth control”
(via abaldwin360)
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The modern American right, and much of the alleged center, is obsessed with the notion that low tax rates at the top are essential to growth…
Yet in the 1950s incomes in the top bracket faced a marginal tax rate of 91, that’s right, 91 percent, while taxes on corporate profits were twice as large, relative to national income, as in recent years. The best estimates suggest that circa 1960 the top 0.01 percent of Americans paid an effective federal tax rate of more than 70 percent, twice what they pay today.
Nor were high taxes the only burden wealthy businessmen had to bear. They also faced a labor force with a degree of bargaining power hard to imagine today. In 1955 roughly a third of American workers were union members. In the biggest companies, management and labor bargained as equals, so much so that it was common to talk about corporations serving an array of “stakeholders” as opposed to merely serving stockholders…
[E]conomic justice and economic growth aren’t incompatible. America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again.
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"There are two factions within the American Right: the plutocratic right, for which Romney is a kind of caricature; and the cultural right, whose identity is so deeply entwined with values have been under attack since the dawn of the Enlightenment and are being pushed over the cliff now by consumer capitalism. These two factions should be enemies, but the first faction realizes that it needs the second, and many of its members pretend to share the second faction’s traditional values despite not caring at all about them. (Former Baine partner and Romney supporter, Edward Conard, on Chris Hayes’s show admitted as much last weekend.) And so the mythos of the Republican Party is the mythos of the cultural right. It has to be to hold the alliance between these factions together. The characteristic they both share is the feeling of being (in very different ways) an embattled minority that is vulnerable to be swept away by a hostile majority. They both (in their different ways) fear for their survival. Those on the plutocratic right fear that in a democracy the non-plutocratic majority will vote for its own economic interests at the their expense, and for that reason feel that they must take a stand on No New Taxes. It’s as if they have their collective finger in the little hole in the dike that as soon as it’s removed the flood will come that will sweep them away. The cultural right, on the other hand, fears that secular liberalism is destroying its mythos and with it everything they believe is meaningful and important. It’s very similar to the fears that excite traditionalist Muslims."
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High ResolutionCounter-intuitive: This simply demonstrates why the higher tax rates on the rich, of the Clinton era (which Obama wants to reproduce) quickly got the country out of debt while prospering everyone - it discourages unproductive hoarding…while the Romney plan actually promotes the opposite economic results
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