Sortasober
Why, are you voting for him?
Sortasober
Why, are you voting for him?
Last edited by HawgZWylde; 11-28-2015 at 01:32 PM.
How amusing it took a muddled post to break your addled silence. We can always count on you to lower your own bar.Originally Posted by HawgZWylde
I'm pretty sure he was talking about the past epic failure GDub, not the potential future epic failure Jed.
Welcome back sunshine. I look forward to dealing with your miserable nonsense again.
Last edited by Lady Quagga; 11-28-2015 at 11:16 PM.
Living in the past again ?
Obama has to own his issues, when was the last time you gave the average black man a break for not doing his or any job ?
I'm not voting for Bush and never have, any of those clowns. My attempt to be funny. It didn't work, hostile and aggressive is what this site understands, I'll be more pissy with my next post. My generation is getting ****** and my kids are worse off than me, let's lower the tax rate on dividends I feel bad for rich guys paying 13%. Bunch of whinny assholes, is that better. You right wing assclowns ****** yourselves in the past, why would anyone elect any of those candidates? I'm independent, a free thinker and won't be pigeonhold into voting for a specific party, I'm going to evaluate whose going to the best job as president, and vote accordingly. You guys can vote for your favorite color red or blue. I can't believe your vote counts the same as mine, one things for sure I do vote.
I got jealous when I read about you getting busted stalking M.O. while hanging out in that tree in front of his business.
How long did they keep you locked up in the 5150 pen Darlin? I was truly worried about you!
Meh, pay no attention to her Theos, she's the resident troll/stalker. See if you can find a single post where she is actually fishing...
I’m not so sure you’re even close to being sorta sober. Let’s look at some facts. First those dividends were issued to stockholders that purchased the company’s stock with AFTER TAX money with no guarantee of growth to their investment. Second those dividends paid were taxed at 35% by the government to the company’s that paid the dividend. Third for 2014, the tax rate on qualified dividends was between 0 and 20 percent, the same rate as long-term capital gains, reports the Internal Revenue Service. The government taxed nonqualified dividends at the taxpayer’s nominal tax rate, from 0 to 39.6 percent. Your RICH got taxed at the highest rate plus an additional 3.8% investment income tax.
Before we start talking about taxing the rich or anyone for that matter how about cutting some government waste. Here are only 50 examples for a start.
1. The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper payments in 2008.
2. Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.
3. Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.
4. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.
5. The Congressional Budget Office published a "Budget Options" series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts.
6. Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs.
7. Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
8. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, including "over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold." The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.
9. Federal agencies are delinquent on nearly 20 percent of employee travel charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission spent $3.9 million rearranging desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
11. The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
12. Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000.
13. Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually.
14. A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.
15. The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.
16. Washington will spend $126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
17. Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.
18. Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year's 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.
19. The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes.
20. The Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.
21. Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.
22. More than $13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.
23. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation.
24. Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.
25. Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.
26. The Transportation Department will subsidize up to $2,000 per flight for direct flights between Washington, D.C., and the small hometown of Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY) -- but only on Monday mornings and Friday evenings, when lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists usually fly. Rogers is a member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes the Transportation Department's budget.
27. Washington has spent $3 billion re-sanding beaches -- even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.
28. A Department of Agriculture report concedes that much of the $2.5 billion in "stimulus" funding for broadband Internet will be wasted.
29. The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.
30. Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.
31. Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least $102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.
32. Members of Congress are set to pay themselves $90 million to increase their franked mailings for the 2010 election year.
33. Congress has ignored efficiency recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services that would save $9 billion annually.
34. Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece.
35. The state of Washington sent $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in order to raise state caseload figures and trigger $43 million in additional federal funds.
36. Suburban families are receiving large farm subsidies for the grass in their backyards -- subsidies that many of these families never requested and do not want.
37. Congress appropriated $20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
38. Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.
39. Two drafting errors in the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act resulted in a $2 billion taxpayer cost.
40. North Ridgeville, Ohio, received $800,000 in "stimulus" funds for a project that its mayor described as "a long way from the top priority."
41. The National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot use.
42. Congress recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.
43. Lawmakers diverted $13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers -- the agency partially responsible for the failed levees that flooded New Orleans.
44. Medicare officials recently mailed $50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients.
45. Audits showed $34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.
46. Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.
47. The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 million annually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies.
48. Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.
49. The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.
50. The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing Americans' personal data.
No, not living in the past, simply clarifying an earlier post.
About the same time I gave a less-than-average white man a break for the same thing.
I suppose this was your pathetic attempt at topical humor.I got jealous when I read about you getting busted stalking M.O. while hanging out in that tree in front of his business.
How long did they keep you locked up in the 5150 pen Darlin? I was truly worried about you!
Of course it's no surprise you get jealous of a 5150'd stalker - just one more example of you lowering your own bar.
Ah yes, more boo-hooing from Hawggy. More hypocritical "troll" remarks, followed up with the same failed "no fishing posts" argument. Once again, you're living proof that fishing posts don't reflect intelligence or cohesive thought.
Dev, are you ever going to post original, current thoughts of your own, instead of resorting to agenda-driven, six-year-old Heritage Foundation blogs? You can find plenty wall-of-text posts supporting both conservative and progressive agendas, both present and past.
Granted, your method requires very little effort (or independent thought), so it's no surprise you took that route.
All those tax laws sound convoluted and confusing, you need an algorithm just to work out how much tax you should pay. I used the 13% number because that's what Mitt Romney said he paid in taxes during his failed campaign. He made his money off dividends. Do you know how much I made in dividends? Ever? Why not a flat tax without any tax breaks? What I do know is I make an ok living working at the same hospital for the last 17 years, I graduated without any student debt. Now with my wife's student debt and my son away in school, 40% of my income goes to student debt. Your generation didn't amass this kind of debt. This generation is in deep trouble with student debt. I'm not going to insult you or badmouth you for your opinion, it's just a different perspective. Your ideas are different than mine. That's it. Don't like social programs? Stop cashing your social security checks. Equal opportunity should be available, it's not. Tax all income equally no tax breaks, capital gains, dividends, income. Why am I paying 33% of my income? In another generation or two your perspective will go the way of the dinosaurs. Your kids kids won't be talking the way you do, well armed militia, seriously? Need one in Devore do you?
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