Recent content by geoff787

Oh, and stupidity is also unbecoming but all too common. But of course you've gone to the right forum and aren't reading this, so you will remain invincibly ignorant. That is a loss to us all. In any case, I must be off to my ugly sleep, so don't anyone think I'm running away 'cause I'm...

I didn't see anyone talking about the wealth inequity on this page or the previous. We've been talking about paying your fair share of the tax burden. Perhaps you got lost and landed in the wrong forum?

Oh, my God (see flying spaghetti monster), I just advocated a flat tax and I'm a progressive. Off to the emergency room I go!

I'm not averse to a flat rate for everyone ala Steve Forbes, as long as the exemptions are adequate. I mean by that that it should be high enough (for earner, spouse, kids and other dependants) that they can live a decent life even if they're receiving minimum wage. In most states they're...

EB, you almost have a point in there somewhere. You're right, either nobody or next to nobody paid 91% then, are you suggesting anyone (who can afford good tax lawyers {they're part of the economy too}) is paying 35%? Au contraire. And what do you mean by [large] corporations moving offshore...

Oh, and Snakedoc, my snake has been exposed to that Republican BS and has started eating his own tail. What should I do?

Also, I'd like to remind everyone that the top marginal tax rate under Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican) was 91% throughout both of his terms - that's eight years straight. The top marginal tax rate now is 35%. What'll those damn socialists do next? Drop the top rate to 20%? No wonder our...

You're not entitled to any of it. You get Social Security because you paid for it. You get Medicare because you paid for it. We get a defense because we all pay for it. We get fire, police, roads, schools, river dikes, bridges etc. etc. etc. because we pay for it. Oh, did I say "we"? Not...

Also, sorry about using "site" when I meant "cite". I'm so embarrassed.

By the way, I'd be careful about capitalizing "founders" in such an idolatrous fashion. Some of them were first class A-holes and many were slave holders (the mark of great gentlemen). None of them were women, a deficit we are oh so slowly repairing.

The only redistribution of wealth going on here is from the middle class to the hyper rich. It began with the war on the middle class started by the Republicans when Reagan was elected. They (the Hyper rich and their minions (most of whom are R pols)) have been winning this war hands down. Go...

And I suppose it's socialism that's been redistributing the nation's wealth northward so dramatically since Reagan, unlike those "socialist" countries in Europe where the disparities are much less than here. I know, I know, the French always retreat blah blah blah. How about Japan where a CEO...

:cuckoo: They can't even get their lies right. Mombasa (where he was allegedly born even though there's zero evidence his mom was there {kind of necessary I think} or where she got the money to go to) was part of Zanzibar at the time, not Kenya.