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2011-04-11, 12:40 | Link #13002 | |
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2011-04-11, 13:39 | Link #13003 | |
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and they kinda aren't exactly professionals. mind you, trying to become a professional at that kinda stuff means you're likely to be a "pro" for a very short time.
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2011-04-11, 13:43 | Link #13004 | |
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Palestinian militants (Hamas and the other myriad of similar movements) are the ones usually firing the rockets, and their training and competence is abysmal. |
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2011-04-11, 13:55 | Link #13005 | |
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why do people keep saying Israelian ?
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2011-04-11, 15:04 | Link #13007 |
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but doesn't it make red squigly lines appear when you try and write it ?
many places have - nese at the end, doesn't mean you'd go around adding it to every country like "Americanese"
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2011-04-11, 17:10 | Link #13010 |
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Belarus metro blast kills 11, Lukashenko sees plot
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...73A41E20110411
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2011-04-12, 20:18 | Link #13012 |
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blogger sues huffpo and AOL for not paying freelance bloggers
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2011-04-12, 20:31 | Link #13013 | |
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Israelien and Israelienne are both French for Israeli.
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2011-04-12, 20:38 | Link #13014 |
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I'm okay with paying sales tax on online purchases. The national debt will hit our legal borrowing limit in less than a month. Taxes are going up. It's inevitable, no matter what the teabaggers say.
And personally I'm okay with it. I love America enough to help out my country during this crazy nonsense. If only the richest motherfuckers would do the same...
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2011-04-12, 20:50 | Link #13015 |
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My mom explained to me the tax bracket yesterday. ^
It astounded me that the middle class is paying proportionally (to their salary) larger sums of money in taxes than the richest of the rich. I mean, WTF? HOW? Only further shows the corruption bounding our country. I tried relaying this info my mom told me to my Republican friends, who still refused to think imposing higher taxes (or stopping these nonsensical tax breaks) on the wealthy is a good idea. BLAH.
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2011-04-12, 22:33 | Link #13016 | ||||
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here's what happens when you dare soak 'em dry http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329282377252471.html speaking of fleecing the rich... here's a good read by Roshawn Watson Quote:
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2011-04-12, 23:08 | Link #13017 |
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And yet, strangely, in the 1950s we had a 90% tax margin for the top-end and it was one of the most productive eras in American history.
I'd be all for a crafted no-loophole, no-exclusion no-exemption progressive tax structure. The corporations and the "top 400" might have to actually help support the communities they make use of. Either that or try their luck in a country more likely to nationalize them (or put them up against the wall).
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2011-04-12, 23:56 | Link #13018 |
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I'm always horribly, horribly amused whenever taxing the rich at higher rates is called "fleecing" them or some other nonsense like that. As if they haven't royally screwed over everyone else at every chance they've gotten. Expropriate from them all, I say.
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2011-04-13, 00:47 | Link #13020 | |
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For example, one dollar in 1950 could buy what $9.18 buys now. That's a rate of inflation change of 818%. High taxes on the rich will not help without considerable changes to the laws. There was no EPA restricting industry in 1950, nor was there "free trade" a la the WTO or NAFTA. We didn't have a wave of illegal aliens flooding the country from our southern border (there was some, but not like now), flatlining wages, consuming jobs the poor rely on, and sucking social services dry. Therefore, it is errorneous to compare the tax rates of the pre-1971 era (when we still were on a facimile of the gold standard) with the total fiat money system we now are under. There is a path to prosperity, but it requires undoing the failed policies of the past 98 years, starting with the Federal Reserve Act and an overhaul of the Revenue Act of 1913. However, no one--not the Republicans, not the Dems, and probably not even the Teaparty--are willing to do what has to be done as far as I can tell. When congress starts repealing laws and overhauling Title 26 back to a flat rate tax on income like it was in the late 1800s (1861 to be exact), then we'll see the big corporations actually start paying their "fair share" of taxes. Progressive tax rates are designed so that corporations pay less taxes (as Robert Kiyosaki points out in this book), while the rest of us are burdened. A flat tax is simple, and difficult to circumvent because of its simplicity. Consider how few businesses can skirt past their state sales taxes without getting caught compared to how many major corporations don't pay taxes period. A national sales tax or flat tax will make the rich poorer and the poor richer, however, it will be useless without reversing the outsourcing of jobs, massive government spending, and the influx of cheap slave labor. If these things are changed, we'll see a return of jobs, and an increase in the buying power of the dollar. Until then, the rich will get richer, the middle class will continue to evaporate, and the poor will slip further into economic slavery. Raising taxes will only accelerate the process.
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