Hahaha, California is 45% owned by the Fed too and yet they get less than what they pay into the Fed per taxes. Where is their cut?
As a taxpayer in IL I'm frankly insulted by the attitude of AK that they deserve that money. My state is equal to CA in getting less than we pay into the Fed in tax money, so honestly my taxes are subsidizing your state directly. Why should I pay for that? Why should CA be almost half owned by the Fed also and have to pay for your state?
So, over the last 8 years they threw $100k in tax breaks to small businesses, which big business gets too, and you think that somehow means something when huge corporations have gotten billions of tax breaks over the past 8 years as "better"?
Wow, I had no idea. And here I was thinking that my taxes have never gone down over the last 8 years while the top brackets have dramatically as a sign that they haven't helped us little guys at all! Hey, they might have bought every executive of Fortune 500 companies a new BMW but check it out! They gave us small businesses a coupon for some onion rings at Sonic! They really do care about us!!!
You still haven't answered how the GOP has ever lowered taxes on "the little guy", small business owners and the like. The only tax breaks I see are for the big businesses.
So, when is the GOP going to lower my taxes? Cause I haven't gotten a tax break in the last 8 years. It's all been to big business.
I'm sorry, I'm an independent and I really don't want to but into the feverish partisan brawl going on here, but I honestly loath hearing any talk about taxes from the GOP. They have never done a damn thing to help small business.
And when I look at the 3rd party candidates and see none that represent me? Choosing the person out of the pool that stand the best chance of leading the country is how we should vote, even if that person has a few contrary ideals than us. This nation is too focused on single-issues that matter to them instead of looking at leadership skills overall.
How exactly could the Democrats have blocked anything the Republicans wanted to do in the last 8 years when they completely controlled majority of both House and Senate, and the Executive? I smell bullshit, it's coming from the post above...
Are you serious? He opposed the Bush tax cuts before, and now he's demanding they be permanent. Tax cuts that must be undone if we are to have any hope of balancing things in the short term. He opposed government regulation of financial institutions and now he's screaming for it. He was opposed to corporate welfare then in June he was proposing billions in relief to corporations, prior to the massive collapse now. He opposed government bailouts for the institutions a few weeks ago and this week he's embracing it.
The man is nothing like the McCain that ran against Bush in '00 and '04. Period. He's so desperate to be President before he dies that he's willing to do anything the GOP tells him to do, and he's clearly little more than a GOP puppet now. NO VOTE FROM ME.
Hardly. The McCain running now has changed his position on a huge number of issues and if you don't already realize that then I'm not going to bother. It's obvious that you haven't done your research on your candidate.
What I do know is the only Presidents to reduce the federal debt every time have been Democrats. Lower fed debt == dollar worth more == more money in my pocket. No Pub has ever reduced my taxes either, so they have never done anything for me except run us further into the ground. You're not convincing me.
I disagree. McCain might have voted against that, but the McCain running is not the old McCain. He's being controlled entirely by the party to do whatever they want right now, and I refuse to vote for that. Remember, Bill Clinton also pushed for universal health care yet under him we had the best debt ratio we'd had in decades. Obama is still getting my vote, the GOP has not been the party of less spending in the past 50 years.
Eh? This is all I have to do with my Ubuntu workstation...Just click for the dropdown, select the network (WPA encrypted) and put in the password, after that it saves the PW and I have never had to put it back in....I never realized it was a problem, it "Just Worked" for me.
Have you even seen the Apple ads? The characters talk specifically from the viewpoint of being a damn computer. They are defining the computers themselves, not the users. The point of the ad is to make the Apple computers look cool so the users want that product instead of the PC. It has nothing to do with defining the users.
The only way your statement would make sense is if nerdy guys would see the PC and go "that's me, I want to be PC". That's not what the ads are about.
Fair point, in terms of pure spending. What Clinton did was slow the rate of spending growth, then did the responsible thing and raised taxes to a point to cover what we were using.
At the same time, when I look at the charts of debt from the last century, no President, GOP or Dem, actually cut spending. You'd think with that as their tactic to win votes the GOP would at least cut some spending right? Yet they haven't done any of it.
Now honestly, I'm in the camp of wanting less federal spending and I'd also like to see public education switch to vouchers to put the money into competing private schools, and privatizing SS. But since neither party will actually do it, I'm more inclined to vote for the party that has at least tried to stop digging in the debt-hole we are in.
Had the GOP been in any way an actual conservative party, they would have managed to push through a ton of reform bills, controlling both lawmaking branches for 6 years. Why don't we have private school vouchers? Or privatized SS? Or anything on the agenda that they sold to the voters? Instead, all we got was huge spending increases, a pointless and costly war, economic crisis, a torture camp, and a massive erosion of our personal rights. Seriously, name one thing Bush actually did that he promised to do that falls in line with a conservative ideal, other than cutting taxes on rich people.
Shit, had I actually gotten a tax cut I wouldn't be so pissed off, but I didn't. I had the same taxes under Bush as I did under Clinton, but the rich folks got their cut and fucked around in the bond market, creating the chaos we are seeing now. How about give some of that damn money to those that will actually use it to stimulate the economy instead of giving the rich fuckers more money to gamble with?
What the hell? The first thing Bush did when taking office was cut intelligence and ignore anything they tried to tell him. Clinton actually had the plans for invading Afghanistan drafted and placed on the desk for Bush to use, because they knew it needed to be done. It was Bush and his administration that gutted the intelligence agencies.
How exactly is posting a link to another site in any way a suggestion of being endorsed by said site? With all of the links posted here on/. there's no possible way you could be confused into thinking any of the linked-to sites endorse the idiotic comments some people post here.
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God I hope so. I love this stuff.
As a taxpayer in IL I'm frankly insulted by the attitude of AK that they deserve that money. My state is equal to CA in getting less than we pay into the Fed in tax money, so honestly my taxes are subsidizing your state directly. Why should I pay for that? Why should CA be almost half owned by the Fed also and have to pay for your state?
So, over the last 8 years they threw $100k in tax breaks to small businesses, which big business gets too, and you think that somehow means something when huge corporations have gotten billions of tax breaks over the past 8 years as "better"?
Wow, I had no idea. And here I was thinking that my taxes have never gone down over the last 8 years while the top brackets have dramatically as a sign that they haven't helped us little guys at all! Hey, they might have bought every executive of Fortune 500 companies a new BMW but check it out! They gave us small businesses a coupon for some onion rings at Sonic! They really do care about us!!!
Holy shit. Paragraph tags are your friends.
You still haven't answered how the GOP has ever lowered taxes on "the little guy", small business owners and the like. The only tax breaks I see are for the big businesses.
I'm sorry, I'm an independent and I really don't want to but into the feverish partisan brawl going on here, but I honestly loath hearing any talk about taxes from the GOP. They have never done a damn thing to help small business.
So not being able to predict turnout makes you incompetent? WOW I suppose all non-psychics are incompetent in your book then?
And when I look at the 3rd party candidates and see none that represent me? Choosing the person out of the pool that stand the best chance of leading the country is how we should vote, even if that person has a few contrary ideals than us. This nation is too focused on single-issues that matter to them instead of looking at leadership skills overall.
It's kind of hard to know what turnout is going to be until the day of, yes.
Urrr, that might be because the Democratic areas are the more populated areas and the polling places were packed the whole day?
Looks like you also quit believing in education at an early age as well....
How exactly could the Democrats have blocked anything the Republicans wanted to do in the last 8 years when they completely controlled majority of both House and Senate, and the Executive? I smell bullshit, it's coming from the post above...
Wow. You're one of the people being talked about in the article.
Are you serious? He opposed the Bush tax cuts before, and now he's demanding they be permanent. Tax cuts that must be undone if we are to have any hope of balancing things in the short term. He opposed government regulation of financial institutions and now he's screaming for it. He was opposed to corporate welfare then in June he was proposing billions in relief to corporations, prior to the massive collapse now. He opposed government bailouts for the institutions a few weeks ago and this week he's embracing it.
The man is nothing like the McCain that ran against Bush in '00 and '04. Period. He's so desperate to be President before he dies that he's willing to do anything the GOP tells him to do, and he's clearly little more than a GOP puppet now. NO VOTE FROM ME.
I'm enlightened now.
What I do know is the only Presidents to reduce the federal debt every time have been Democrats. Lower fed debt == dollar worth more == more money in my pocket. No Pub has ever reduced my taxes either, so they have never done anything for me except run us further into the ground. You're not convincing me.
I disagree. McCain might have voted against that, but the McCain running is not the old McCain. He's being controlled entirely by the party to do whatever they want right now, and I refuse to vote for that. Remember, Bill Clinton also pushed for universal health care yet under him we had the best debt ratio we'd had in decades. Obama is still getting my vote, the GOP has not been the party of less spending in the past 50 years.
Eh? This is all I have to do with my Ubuntu workstation...Just click for the dropdown, select the network (WPA encrypted) and put in the password, after that it saves the PW and I have never had to put it back in....I never realized it was a problem, it "Just Worked" for me.
The only way your statement would make sense is if nerdy guys would see the PC and go "that's me, I want to be PC". That's not what the ads are about.
No, it isn't saying shit about the users. I'm even a PC user and I can at least see that much. -1 FAIL
At the same time, when I look at the charts of debt from the last century, no President, GOP or Dem, actually cut spending. You'd think with that as their tactic to win votes the GOP would at least cut some spending right? Yet they haven't done any of it.
Now honestly, I'm in the camp of wanting less federal spending and I'd also like to see public education switch to vouchers to put the money into competing private schools, and privatizing SS. But since neither party will actually do it, I'm more inclined to vote for the party that has at least tried to stop digging in the debt-hole we are in.
Had the GOP been in any way an actual conservative party, they would have managed to push through a ton of reform bills, controlling both lawmaking branches for 6 years. Why don't we have private school vouchers? Or privatized SS? Or anything on the agenda that they sold to the voters? Instead, all we got was huge spending increases, a pointless and costly war, economic crisis, a torture camp, and a massive erosion of our personal rights. Seriously, name one thing Bush actually did that he promised to do that falls in line with a conservative ideal, other than cutting taxes on rich people.
Shit, had I actually gotten a tax cut I wouldn't be so pissed off, but I didn't. I had the same taxes under Bush as I did under Clinton, but the rich folks got their cut and fucked around in the bond market, creating the chaos we are seeing now. How about give some of that damn money to those that will actually use it to stimulate the economy instead of giving the rich fuckers more money to gamble with?
Agreed, the problem being neither party wants to do this, even if the left suggests anything like it the right calls them "weak" for it.
What the hell? The first thing Bush did when taking office was cut intelligence and ignore anything they tried to tell him. Clinton actually had the plans for invading Afghanistan drafted and placed on the desk for Bush to use, because they knew it needed to be done. It was Bush and his administration that gutted the intelligence agencies.
How exactly is posting a link to another site in any way a suggestion of being endorsed by said site? With all of the links posted here on /. there's no possible way you could be confused into thinking any of the linked-to sites endorse the idiotic comments some people post here.
Lawsuits like this will at least help stamp it out, if other dissidents learn that they can fight back against such power abuse.