Comments on: This will be the day that I die

By: Nancy Irving

Nancy Irving — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:20:15 +0000

“Third of all: when did the Republicans become the party of let’s have more people paying taxes?!?”

Actually, Republicans are only for cutting taxes on the rich. In fact, I have actually heard at least one Republican (I think it was Norquist, but I’m not sure) once say that it was GOP policy to *raise* taxes on the poor and middle, so as to increase anti-tax sentiment among the non-rich, which would ultimately result in cutting taxes on the rich.

This is why you never hear the GOP talk about cutting Social Security taxes. Cutting *benefits*, yes; but not SS taxes, which are grotesquely regressive.

By: Vikings fan

Vikings fan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:26:44 +0000

Um, I think that Buffalo has five failed superbowl trips.

By: chocolatepie

chocolatepie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:02:36 +0000

the only good things to come from Buffalo.

Umm, Wings? Four failed trips to the Superbowl? OJ Simpson?

Buffalo: Canadian winters, American government. ‘Nuff said.

By: Lesly

Lesly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:40:20 +0000

Fleischer is correct IF 45% of Americans make 10,000 or less. I know ’cause some years I’ve made under 10k and gotten all my taxes back. The income gap has increased, wages are stagnating, etc. Anyone know 45% of Americans make 10k or less? I don’t think it’s that bad but I’m curious.

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:46:09 +0000

Try buying something a 15 year old girl wants without paying tax.

What about black market Fall Out Boy tickets?

By: justme

justme — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:20:52 +0000

Okay. I have no idea how I missed this the first scan through the “Sarah as Intellectual” article, but there it is…

“I always wanted a son named Zamboni,” she said.

Doesn’t that actually show up in the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator somewhere?

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:17:13 +0000

I just looked up “pony tack”, and the prices just for the singular form were bad enough.

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:33:05 +0000

Try buying something a 15 year old girl wants without paying tax.

That pony tax is horrific even after the Republican cuts.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:24:48 +0000

Even my daughter, who is only 15 and has no income other than what I give her pays tax. Try buying something a 15 year old girl wants without paying tax. She may not pay income tax but there are plenty of other taxes floating around.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:26:06 +0000

Bye bye, my Phat Slice of the Pie
Barry’s a heavy, he raised the levy
By 3 percent, I could cry
My CPA’s where looking for loopholes to try
Singing

By: jim

jim — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:09:17 +0000

Yeah, that’s what America needs now: a Flat Tax!
Then it can finally take its rightful place among all the OTHER economic powerhouses – Lithuania, Albania, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mauritius, Slovakia … uh, Guernsey … Mongolia … uh, wait …

By: DrDick

DrDick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:57:32 +0000

OK. That came out somewhat incoherent, but the point is that far more than 45% of the country have no income so pay no income tax. Even if you only count those likely to be in the workforce (those over 16), 36% are not in the workforce. This is a really stupid and misleading statistic.

By: DrDick

DrDick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:44:14 +0000

About 2 minutes with the census data would reveal that 36% of the population over 16% of the population over 16 years of age is not in the labor force and that about 25% of the population is under 18 (they do not record the precentage under 16, but it is most certainly more than 6% of the population). If you are not in the labor force, which includes everyone under 14 and most under 16, you do not pay income taxes because you do not have any fucking income. Idiots.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:33:16 +0000

Civics class is now called shop and its text is import tuner.

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:27:02 +0000

In what?

Sorry, I keep forgetting not to assume everybody knows about stuff that only exists in my dreams.

By: Garrigus Carraig

Garrigus Carraig — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:19:42 +0000

This stuff really should be in civics classes.

In what?

By: cur

cur — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:33 +0000

I think in bizarro flat tax world only income is taxed the same across the board. Capital gains is not income, so it is taxed at a much lower rate. So if they want to tax income including the all profits (capital gains) at a flat rate, than I think there will not be many trust fund babies thinking it is a good idea. When people work, tax them. When money works give em a break.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:57:13 +0000

I read that as Hairy bipedal Hovind.

By: Snorghagen

Snorghagen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:17:57 +0000

A flat tax is insufficiently regressive. There is still the theory that the lower your income, the more of it you should pay in tax.

I strongly advocate going back to the sort of tax structure utilized by the Old Regime in France, complete with tax farmers and the corvée. It generated plenty of popular enthusiasm.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:15:39 +0000

I saw a hairy bipedal homind! In the bathroom mirror.

My apologies.