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#2622
I have put much thought into a flat tax or consumption tax Both would be awful for many reasons I don’t want to get into right now.
I’m for eliminating pretty most all loopholes and retain a slightly progressive income tax at the federal level And All forms of income being treated the same for tax purposes.
Romney’s tax plan is basically to make the tax rate for his class of un-earned income extractors or so called job creators (doublespeak right there) zero while eliminating existing tax loopholes for the poor and middle class ~98% of everybody else to pay for it claiming his plan is revenue neutral.
Its just class warfare he is proposing. It will most likely lead to decline and distruction of the nation.
I’m for eliminating pretty most all loopholes and retain a slightly progressive income tax at the federal level And All forms of income being treated the same for tax purposes.
Romney’s tax plan is basically to make the tax rate for his class of un-earned income extractors or so called job creators (doublespeak right there) zero while eliminating existing tax loopholes for the poor and middle class ~98% of everybody else to pay for it claiming his plan is revenue neutral.
Its just class warfare he is proposing. It will most likely lead to decline and distruction of the nation.
We're LIVING class warfare, courtesy Obama. If you want to take out the loopholes and have a slightly progressive tax rate, I'm all for it. It's good to agree on something, right?
Romney has said that--besides knocking out loopholes, he agrees with the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles study (what did Obama do about that?!), and that taxes would NOT be reduced on high income individuals. Further, SS would become means tested.
There's a lot of faulty information about Romney out there. I am NOT his #1 supporter, but feel that with Obama that the U.S. could very well not recover.
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Speaking of the war on drugs...
Team USA judo player disqualified and struck from Olympic records after failing a drug test via marijuana.
Team USA judo player disqualified and struck from Olympic records after failing a drug test via marijuana.
#2625
Ah.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
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Romney has said that--besides knocking out loopholes, he agrees with the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles study (what did Obama do about that?!), and that taxes would NOT be reduced on high income individuals. Further, SS would become means tested.
There's a lot of faulty information about Romney out there.
There's a lot of faulty information about Romney out there.
#2627
Ah.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
#2628
Ah.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
Broadly speaking, I tend to favor solutions that involve legalization. More realistically, I'd settle for controlled and regulated like alcohol.
I realize that's not a perspective on drug charges, per se, but since my perspective on drug charges is informed largely by my preference for some sort of drug legalization, I figured that was the most cogent response I could offer.
Those happy, harmless pot smokers (and their children) do not need to be on the public dole.
#2629
If we had a government system that absolutely did not tolerate freeloaders, I'd support legalization. As it is, Obama quietly took off the requirements for the unemployed to actually look for work in order to get their unemployment checks.
Those happy, harmless pot smokers (and their children) do not need to be on the public dole.
Those happy, harmless pot smokers (and their children) do not need to be on the public dole.
This only makes sense from a "I'm going to make wild claims of a huge, enormous amount of people who don't work", which requires you to provide proof.
So, let's see statistics on these large amount of people who smoke pot and draw unemployment instead of working, Cord.
P.S. Remember that it can cost up to 45k-50k/year to incarcerate a single "harmless happy pot smoker".
#2630
So, in other words, you support our government spending far more money on enforcement of drug laws as opposed to the chance you may support a miniscule minority that are "harmless happy pot smokers"? Let alone the substantial societal costs of drug cartels and the resultant violence?
This only makes sense from a "I'm going to make wild claims of a huge, enormous amount of people who don't work", which requires you to provide proof.
So, let's see statistics on these large amount of people who smoke pot and draw unemployment instead of working, Cord.
P.S. Remember that it can cost up to 45k-50k/year to incarcerate a single "harmless happy pot smoker".
This only makes sense from a "I'm going to make wild claims of a huge, enormous amount of people who don't work", which requires you to provide proof.
So, let's see statistics on these large amount of people who smoke pot and draw unemployment instead of working, Cord.
P.S. Remember that it can cost up to 45k-50k/year to incarcerate a single "harmless happy pot smoker".
What's that worth?
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Emails: Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi pensions | The Daily Caller
Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.
The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.
Read more: Emails: Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi pensions | The Daily Caller
The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.
Read more: Emails: Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi pensions | The Daily Caller
#2633
I'm working with a family right now trying to place an innocent 2 year old whose parents are crack addicts. So I'm not really cool with the idea of legalizing drugs. Can you tell me what kind of chance this little girl has when she gets kicked around by the system, and may even end up with her drug-addicted mother? PS. they found her living in a house with no electricity, unattended, with a soiled diaper.
What's that worth?
What's that worth?
Imagine how much financial support the child could get with all the money wasted battling drugs and locking up non-violent criminals. The parents could likely get some help as well. But I’d still be all for neutering them. The Human race has a serious problem in that it is mostly the stupid people who are breeding like rabbits.
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#2635
I'm working with a family right now trying to place an innocent 2 year old whose parents are crack addicts. So I'm not really cool with the idea of legalizing drugs. Can you tell me what kind of chance this little girl has when she gets kicked around by the system, and may even end up with her drug-addicted mother? PS. they found her living in a house with no electricity, unattended, with a soiled diaper.
What's that worth?
What's that worth?
And you come up with a single personal example of one family that follows the very definition of an appeal to emotion logical fallacy? Wut?
Seriously. You are arguing against hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of families being destroyed by this drug war*, in favor of a single family you personally know? WUT?
*: Depending on whose numbers you accept
#2638
So, you allege a massive amount of people siphoning off the system...
And you come up with a single personal example of one family that follows the very definition of an appeal to emotion logical fallacy? Wut?
Seriously. You are arguing against hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of families being destroyed by this drug war*, in favor of a single family you personally know? WUT?
*: Depending on whose numbers you accept
And you come up with a single personal example of one family that follows the very definition of an appeal to emotion logical fallacy? Wut?
Seriously. You are arguing against hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of families being destroyed by this drug war*, in favor of a single family you personally know? WUT?
*: Depending on whose numbers you accept
And YES, I allege a massive amount of people siphoning off the system. The REAL problem is that it's with the complicity of the U.S. government. When more people get on disability than get jobs in the past four months, it indicates that the system is becoming a nanny state.
You can't borrow 42 cents of every dollar, shut down industries (coal, for example), and then tell the unemployed that they don't need to look for work--just collect a check for 100 weeks.
I guess while you're on the couch, pick up some good weed at the dispensary for your back. Cool.
#2640
If we had a government system that absolutely did not tolerate freeloaders, I'd support legalization. As it is, Obama quietly took off the requirements for the unemployed to actually look for work in order to get their unemployment checks.
Those happy, harmless pot smokers (and their children) do not need to be on the public dole.
Those happy, harmless pot smokers (and their children) do not need to be on the public dole.
Anyhooters, my point is that rules have now been placed in effect to at least give people some trouble to claim benefits. People still abuse it though. Funny story, while I was at the agency to turn in some documents a lady walked-in bitching that due to this "new" regulations she could no longer claim benefits. She had been receiving a check for TWO years...