Originally Posted by HIFLYER2:
Originally Posted by Quaildog:
wul Hi, we are on your side. if you fly that plane 24 hrs per day you ain't gonna get in the top %5 that don't pay the %33 you claim you pay. I think you need a new accountant and quit filling out your own forms on your knee.
I have a great accountant but regardless of what you say there is no legal way for a high earner who gets paid only by a paycheck "not a business owner or paid via stock options etc." to avoid paying the tax man.
And THAT is what I tried to say. If you work for a living (with emphasis on the word WORK) , you will never be in that top rung. You will pay 33% or 35 % or whatever in taxes. That top rung on the ladder does NOT work for their money. They use their money (some in good ways , and some in bad ways) to make more money. They are the ones payin 15% or less of their vast income in taxes.
And Hi, ole buddy, you seem concerned about stealing from you at 33% to give to people who don't work, or don't plan and save for retirement, basically some form of welfare. But , do you realize that welfare is only about 12% of the entire US budget, and the largest "takers" of those funds are people who actually work, work hard, stocking the shelves at Walmart, so we can save a buck or two, cleaning your room and making your bed when you travel, flipping your burgers when you don't have time for a decent meal. These people work hard for pennies.
The biggest welfare queen on the continent is Wal Mart., but what to me is even worse, is companies like Exxon who (SCOTUS now says they are a person, so can't use the word "which" ) makes more money than any other company and pays zero taxes. Worse yet, they get subsidies from your tax dollars. GE, much the same, and on and on.
While you appear to worry about roughly 3% fraud rate on 12% of the budget, Lockheed is still selling the Pentagon billions of dollars of airplanes that frankly just don't work , and congress is forcing the Pentagon to buy tanks , ships, and planes they don't need that are basically shipped to the Arizona desert and mothballed , brand new. There is way more of your tax dollars wasted on the Pentagon than is ever even spent on the thing you resent the most. While the rest of the world, mostly our allies , are improving the living and working conditions for their citizens, we continue to squander some 60% of our money on the military.
IMHO, I call that picking fly chet outta pepper, Scripture describes it as "gagging at a gnat and swallowing a camel"
Either way, the Pentagon wants to thank you .
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The biggest welfare queen on the continent is Wal Mart., but what to me is even worse, is companies like Exxon who (SCOTUS now says they are a person, so can't use the word "which" ) makes more money than any other company and pays zero taxes. Worse yet, they get subsidies from your tax dollars. GE, much the same, and on and on.
As to Wal Mart , proof please as to your claim. And, please don’t quote “studies” show 80 percent of their employees are on food stamps. Human Events researched this and found no such study. http://humanevents.com/2013/07...rent-on-food-stamps/
Actually, a corporation is a business formed by a number of investors in a manner to avoid liability beyond the assets of the company. IOW, it is a collective enterprise of individuals. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that if persons come together to act as one entity do they forfeit their rights. A corporation as a person for legal reasons is over 250 years old in Anglo/American law. It gives corporations the right to sign contracts and be held responsible for actions. Anyone who states this is a new thing is either ignorant or being disingenuous.
Seeweed, do you actually research any of your posts, or just take a leftie blogger’s statement.
Exxon Income Tax Paid 2010 -- $21.561.000 2011 -- $31.051,000 2012 -- $31,045,000 2013 --$24,263, http://investing.businessweek....ls.asp?ticker=XOM000
While you appear to worry about roughly 3% fraud rate on 12% of the budget, Lockheed is still selling the Pentagon billions of dollars of airplanes that frankly just don't work while there are aircraft with problems, its amazing that ours keep out flying anyone else’s and are desired by most other nations' military. , and congress is forcing the Pentagon to buy tanks , ships, and planes they don't need that are basically shipped to the Arizona desert and mothballed , brand new. There is way more of your tax dollars wasted on the Pentagon than is ever even spent on the thing you resent the most. While the rest of the world, mostly our allies , are improving the living and working conditions for their citizens, we continue to squander some 60% of our money on the military.The 2013 federal budget shows 19 percent for defense. Seeweed, you flunked math, right! http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258
IMHO, I call that picking fly chet outta pepper, Scripture describes it as "gagging at a gnat and swallowing a camel"
Either way, the Pentagon wants to thank you .
First, you blame the overspending on politicians buying things the Pentagon doesn’t want (this I agree with). Then, apparently shift the blame to the Pentagon Warning! Warning! Logic shift to null think!