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- I thought that's what the neocons want - a judge with no personal opinions, only the constitution, law and facts to guide them? How can she give opinions on theoretical cases? Wouldn't that make her biased, which is what you all compalin about? Now suddenly, you're made because she won't give her personal opinions on issues?
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- Dumb. Really dumb.
But keep it up, you make a great frontman for the 'pubs, a.k.a. The 15 Percenters... - Reply to this comment
- actornaught July 16, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
You're guessing and wishful thinking-out-loud. My experience is more in line with the Buffett claim. And i could be lying, just like you could.
Try a legitimate source
Yake a look at my last two posts. My legitimate source is the 1040A form and instruction book. Looks to me like Buffet was lying about at least one facet of his story. How much else did he lie about? - Reply to this comment
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- endurorob, this whole fake story about Buffett is another round shot-off by the Left to further class warfare and envy for those who are successful.....I would like to see the itemized deductions of Buffet vs. Secretary who had no deductions, no dependents and no write-off/losses/expenses, etc.
Years ago, when I had no deductions, I paid a higher %....it's in the tax code......why don't they get it ?? does liberalism block thought ?
- Amigo Joe_NY_15,
Stop complaining now about the taxes you paid years ago when you had no deductions. You have the all the deductions plus credits now and your Effective Tax Rate is 9.1%:
According to the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office website http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10068, the Effective Federal Income Tax Rate for the last tabulated period 2006 was 9.1%.
The Effective Federal Income Tax Rate is what the Average American pays After all Deductions and Credits.
If you include Social Security, Medicare, Gasoline and many other Federal Taxes, the Effective Combine Federal Tax Rate is 20.7%. This is the lowest of all the Industrial and Developed Nations.
In fact, according to the former House Majority leader Dick Anmey, R-Texas, whose conservative group FreedomWorks setup Tea Parties around the country this past April 15, 2009, said to the Washington Post that "...the tax rate right now is at a good level."
We can pay down our $13 Trillions Federal Debt by just raising our Effective Tax Rate to Average.
SO, Americans are the most Lazy, Selfish and Irresponsible Taxpayers of the World.
- by lovegetpeace July 16, 2009 3:37 PM EDT
Amigo Joe_NY_15,
Stop complaining now about the taxes you paid years ago when you had no deductions. You have the all the deductions plus credits now and your Effective Tax Rate is 9.1%:
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WHAT THE ??? my marginal rate is 30-40%.....I wish it was 9%
- endurorob, this whole fake story about Buffett is another round shot-off by the Left to further class warfare and envy for those who are successful.....I would like to see the itemized deductions of Buffet vs. Secretary who had no deductions, no dependents and no write-off/losses/expenses, etc.
- According to the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office website http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10068, the Effective Federal Income Tax Rate for the last tabulated period 2006 was 9.1%.
The Effective Federal Income Tax Rate is what the Average American pays After all Deductions and Credits.
If you include Social Security, Medicare, Gasoline and many other Federal Taxes, the Effective Combine Federal Tax Rate is 20.7%. This is the lowest of all the Industrial and Developed Nations.
In fact, according to the former House Majority leader Dick Anmey, R-Texas, whose conservative group FreedomWorks setup Tea Parties around the country this past April 15, 2009, said to the Washington Post that "...the tax rate right now is at a good level."
We can pay down our $13 Trillions Federal Debt by just raising our Effective Tax Rate to Average.
SO, Americans are the most Lazy, Selfish and Irresponsible Taxpayers of the World. - Reply to this comment
- A little math error on my last post. She would have paid $9,100 in taxes, about 15% or half of what Buffet claimed.
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- I heard that Senator Franken is going to ask Senator Coburn to do his "Jose Jimenez" immitation.
We need to break in to the Watergate Building before they tear it down. For old time sake.Compare now and then.Repubs keep doing the same thing. - Reply to this comment
- Please be nice to Rush. So far, he has significantly continues to help the Democratic Party with just his present if not his words. The more 'Right' Rush talks, the more average Americans switch to the Democratic Party.
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- Anyone who can't see the real reasons why the libs are pushing for Sotomayor's installation has of course libraveiw blocking their vision.
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- actornaught July 16, 2009 1:05 PM EDT
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8561112/Warren-Buffett-blasts-system-that-lets-him-pay-less-tax-than-secretary
"Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent."
When Buffett offered $1million to any CEO that paid at a higher rate than their secretaries, nobody came forward. Basic tax rates bedammed, what they end up paying is what matters.
When the wealthy routinely pay a lower functional rate, exacerbated by phony conservative govt "control", THAT is an Entitlement.
Gonna talk about your wife instead, now?
I just took a quick look at this years tax form and tables and if his secratary filed single and had only the standard deduction she would have paid $9,900 in taxes. That is more like 16% rather than 30%. Buffet is full of $&*@. - Reply to this comment
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- According to the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office website http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10068, the Effective Federal Income Tax Rate for the last tabulated period 2006 was 9.1%.
The Effective Federal Income Tax Rate is what the Average American pays After all Deductions and Credits.
If you include Social Security, Medicare, Gasoline and many other Federal Taxes, the Effective Combine Federal Tax Rate is 20.7%. This is the lowest of all the Industrial and Developed Nations.
In fact, according to the former House Majority leader Dick Anmey, R-Texas, whose conservative group FreedomWorks setup Tea Parties around the country this past April 15, 2009, said to the Washington Post that "...the tax rate right now is at a good level."
We can pay down our $13 Trillions Federal Debt by just raising our Effective Tax Rate to Average.
SO, Americans are the most Lazy, Selfish and Irresponsible Taxpayers of the World.
- According to the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office website http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10068, the Effective Federal Income Tax Rate for the last tabulated period 2006 was 9.1%.
- Amigo cs4466,
You lost big on 20 Jan 2009, get it over with. Seek professional counseling before it is too late. - Reply to this comment
- by South-of-Heaven July 16, 2009 10:26 AM EDT
Who says im up north?
Im somewhere in Texas, where the inbreds are dumber than the dirt their cattle graze in.
If you point a finger at somebody, always remember that you have three pointed back at you.
BTW, Cattle graze in grass, not dirt. (your breeding is starting to show) - Reply to this comment
- I'm goood enuff,
I'm ph-mart enuff,
and doggone it: peeople LIKE me!!
LMAO! - Reply to this comment
- If I have to put MY faith in someone, I'll take the person who had to come up the way she did against someone who was born into wealth and knows nothing about how common folks have to survive. I like the lady and I like the way she handled the Klan Man, Sessions!
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- Mr_Man I have seen a lot of cowards in my time... YOU take the Cake. You seem to be afraid of everyone who isn't like you. Afraid they are going to do something to you or take something from you. It's discouraging to know that people like you, SO UNEDUCATED and Scared, live in this nation. There's no reason to be like that you know.
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- actornaught July 16, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
You're guessing and wishful thinking-out-loud. My experience is more in line with the Buffett claim. And i could be lying, just like you could.
Try a legitimate source
I have had a time when i made $60k a year and I guarantee I paid nowhere near $20k of it in taxes. More like maybe $4k. Of course that was with de=endents but even without it would be more like $8k. - Reply to this comment
- lol, Im assuming you meant to post to respond to charlie, and not my silly economics, right?
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- So far, absolutely no where near a meltdown. Therefore, Sotomayor will be officially the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice on Tuesday.
In this Sotomayor battle, the proud Social Liberal Democrats won by a landslide.
Advice all Republicans to sit back, recharge their batteries and save their energy for the next Liberal-Conservative battle which will most likely be health care reform.
I read on PBS.com that all experts are telling Congress that if we do nothing with our Private Health Care system - it's high cost is not reversed, the total annual cost of our private health care will tops 31% of the total U.S. GDP by year 2022 which means this economy will be suffocated. Our hands are tied up if we wish to survive as an empire. - Reply to this comment
- Because:
A) She's a liberal.
B) The evil press gives her a free pass.
C) She's probably an atheist.
D) Obama is the antichrist and Sotomayor is a demon.
...or whatever other crazy thing your medications allow you to believe.
The truth? You don't want it, because it just makes you cry. - Reply to this comment
- The drug-addicted jackass Rush Limbaugh is commenting today about how Sotomayor "butchered" the English language during her testimony. The racism is oh, so blatent.
Pretty funny though that this college dropout (apparently was failing ALL his courses at the time and too stupid to pass his liberal arts program) is criticizing a high-school validictorian who earned a full academic scholarship Princeton. Graduated Summa *** Laude. Was a Phi Beta Kappa electee and Pyne Prize Award winner (top award for undergraduates) Who attended Yale Law School (again on scholarshop) where she was appointed editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Just shows what a pathetic loser Limbaugh is. I will stack Sotomayor's intellect against this big-mouth pea brain any day! - Reply to this comment
- Sotomayor watched, studied and mastered the confirmation hearing of the current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roberts.
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