So if you made over $9 million dollars in a SINGLE YEAR then you paid 90% of that to the gov't.
No they didn't. In fact, the scope of the tax deductions and loopholes available then ensured that people with that sort of income actually paid LESS than they did when the Reagan administration helped reform the tax code by eliminating a lot of this mess.
Maybe not evenly, but it's better than phoney job creators hording it and holding up human progress by sitting on their fat rears with all the money in the world...
It amazes me that on a site like Slashdot, with a bunch of intellectually-minded people, that we only seem to value physical labor with all this "sitting on their rears" talk.
I'm also saving money. Some of it is for retirement, some in other investments (essentially also for retirement), some it is a liquid emergency fund, and some of it is for charity. I do this because smart people recommend it, and I, through study, have found it to be smart and moral. I am not in the 1%. Neither are the folks who write to Dave Ramsey, or call in to Suze Orman. There are people who make $45,000/year, and they still have 3 month emergency funds. Figure out a way to get it done. If anything is in your way, solve it, then get it done.
BTW, the Swiss bank accounts were opened up years ago. Get a new meme.
I don't think many people lump veteran benefits in together with other entitlements like Medicare. I mean, you might have gotten shot at to earn that medical care and pension.
That being said, I don't see eliminating Medicare as a platform for any of the major groups like Tea Party Patriots.
You just multiplied the weekly cost of food for one person by the household size? Your very next stat points out that most people on food stamps are elderly, children or disabled-- and we know that those groups all eat less than healthy adults. In addition, buying for a household is more economical because you can buy in bulk.
This is only the case because the entity forcing the insurance providers to fill out a bunch of paperwork-- the government-- is waiving that bureaucracy for themselves.
This is a fun meme that just won't go away, but the USA is a melting pot of many nations and religions. It's mere internet nonsense that claims to know the basis of American culture based only on the fact that Puritans composed one of the earliest permanent colonies.
If this nation has slipped so far that people who have peaceful demonstrations and write blogs are considered extremists, then I guess it's time for the revolution.
I appreciate that analysis. Criticizing medieval art as being "primitive" is as unfair as calling impressionist works "blurry" or expressionist works "a child's finger-painting", or postmodern as "some poop in a jar"; which, to be fair, it often is.
I understand that some people are afraid of guns, but I don't understand how one one hand the average Slashdotter worries about government surveillance and intrusion, but on the other hand opposes the right to self defense against said oppressive government.
My friend, when there are Black Panthers standing outside the polling place, we still need anonymous voting. The fact that it was a polling place in Philadelphia where over 90% of votes go to Democratic candidates anyway doesn't constitute an answer.
Please don't pull the race card. If there were skinheads outside the polling place, I would make the same argument.
My cruise control just stopped working, so I've found out just how bad my ability to maintain a steady highway speed has become. Every car I've owned (since 1990) has had a cruise control. Going to have to fix it!
Good point. You could tie on a feedbag and walk away, too, instead of having to stand next to your car waiting for the pump to fill your tank at 2 gallons per minute. Tailpipe is a little messy, though.
This is why the Democrats in the Senate should just accept the bill waiving the individual mandate for a year. People who really, REALLY need insurance will be the only ones hitting the beleaguered sites, and the Dems will come out smelling like a rose. But they won't, because they are petty and obstinate, and far past caring about their constituents.
I thought you always lost signal in the rain with a dish. I've never seen a system that didn't. Seriously, 100%, of an admittedly small sample size. That's why I'm still wrestling with Comcast.
Use the 5 GHz wireless N band. Yes, this probably means buying a new router (if it says it's more than 300 Mbps, it must support 5 GHz) and WLAN card. I bought a new laptop just last year, and someone saved $1 by putting a card that only supported 2.4GHz 802.11n in it.
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No they didn't. In fact, the scope of the tax deductions and loopholes available then ensured that people with that sort of income actually paid LESS than they did when the Reagan administration helped reform the tax code by eliminating a lot of this mess.
It amazes me that on a site like Slashdot, with a bunch of intellectually-minded people, that we only seem to value physical labor with all this "sitting on their rears" talk.
I'm also saving money. Some of it is for retirement, some in other investments (essentially also for retirement), some it is a liquid emergency fund, and some of it is for charity. I do this because smart people recommend it, and I, through study, have found it to be smart and moral. I am not in the 1%. Neither are the folks who write to Dave Ramsey, or call in to Suze Orman. There are people who make $45,000/year, and they still have 3 month emergency funds. Figure out a way to get it done. If anything is in your way, solve it, then get it done. BTW, the Swiss bank accounts were opened up years ago. Get a new meme.
I don't think many people lump veteran benefits in together with other entitlements like Medicare. I mean, you might have gotten shot at to earn that medical care and pension.
That being said, I don't see eliminating Medicare as a platform for any of the major groups like Tea Party Patriots.
You just multiplied the weekly cost of food for one person by the household size? Your very next stat points out that most people on food stamps are elderly, children or disabled-- and we know that those groups all eat less than healthy adults. In addition, buying for a household is more economical because you can buy in bulk.
This is only the case because the entity forcing the insurance providers to fill out a bunch of paperwork-- the government-- is waiving that bureaucracy for themselves.
Gee... shouldn't that same doctor be helping him to lose the weight? Hit the road, fatty! Sounds just like government "health care" to me.
Brainwashing your kids into believing that the state should rule over personal freedom is far more evil.
"Hive immunity" is insufficient to overrule individual choice.
This is a fun meme that just won't go away, but the USA is a melting pot of many nations and religions. It's mere internet nonsense that claims to know the basis of American culture based only on the fact that Puritans composed one of the earliest permanent colonies.
Since when is "50 Shades of Grey" a romance novel?
Hope you don't choke on that cloud of smug.
Because we can just dump the toxic chemicals in the solar panels and batteries in the river.
Goodness ,that's hard ,to read
I'm sorry, but you haven't paid your ball-squeezing licence this year.
If this nation has slipped so far that people who have peaceful demonstrations and write blogs are considered extremists, then I guess it's time for the revolution.
That's the joke.
I appreciate that analysis. Criticizing medieval art as being "primitive" is as unfair as calling impressionist works "blurry" or expressionist works "a child's finger-painting", or postmodern as "some poop in a jar"; which, to be fair, it often is.
I understand that some people are afraid of guns, but I don't understand how one one hand the average Slashdotter worries about government surveillance and intrusion, but on the other hand opposes the right to self defense against said oppressive government.
My friend, when there are Black Panthers standing outside the polling place, we still need anonymous voting. The fact that it was a polling place in Philadelphia where over 90% of votes go to Democratic candidates anyway doesn't constitute an answer.
Please don't pull the race card. If there were skinheads outside the polling place, I would make the same argument.
My cruise control just stopped working, so I've found out just how bad my ability to maintain a steady highway speed has become. Every car I've owned (since 1990) has had a cruise control. Going to have to fix it!
Good point. You could tie on a feedbag and walk away, too, instead of having to stand next to your car waiting for the pump to fill your tank at 2 gallons per minute. Tailpipe is a little messy, though.
Don't like it? There's the window!
What right wing sites, partisan?
This is why the Democrats in the Senate should just accept the bill waiving the individual mandate for a year. People who really, REALLY need insurance will be the only ones hitting the beleaguered sites, and the Dems will come out smelling like a rose. But they won't, because they are petty and obstinate, and far past caring about their constituents.
I thought you always lost signal in the rain with a dish. I've never seen a system that didn't. Seriously, 100%, of an admittedly small sample size. That's why I'm still wrestling with Comcast.
Use the 5 GHz wireless N band. Yes, this probably means buying a new router (if it says it's more than 300 Mbps, it must support 5 GHz) and WLAN card. I bought a new laptop just last year, and someone saved $1 by putting a card that only supported 2.4GHz 802.11n in it.