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someguy66 commented on the blog post They who yell the loudest
“How can groups that seek tax exempt status as non political claim political harrassment?! Pure fallacy.”
Being a non political group does not preclude said group from political harassment from groups other than yourself which might be political. Logic fail.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post They who yell the loudest
So what if they hate government. The right to hate government and hate taxes is a first amendment right. As long as they are not directly harming anyone/property/actually evading taxes/breaking laws, they should be allowed to protest and organize without harassment. This should extend to all forms of organizations occupy included. Laws don’t live in a world of possibility or probability. They live in a binary world, its either legal or illegal. If we start going into deciding prosecution based on possibility/probability, then you are opening the doors for such things as racial profiling, religious profiling, age profiling, etc.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Oil Companies Raided In Price-Fixing Probe
The entire oil market is gamed. Think OPEC.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post IRS Commissioner Fired
“Its like a drivers license first you need to prove that you know the traffic laws and that yes you can drive before you get a drivers license.”
Wrong, driving is a privileged. The right to organize and petition government is the first amendment. I thought they always emphasized: “Driving is a privilege, not a right”
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someguy66 commented on the blog post IRS Commissioner Fired
This is where your argument falls apart. Yes advocating crimes is something that the FBI should investigate (not the IRS, they aren’t the police and I don’t know of any cases where they have “incited” crime). However, this is not the reason they are receiving increasing scrutiny. The reason is just because they have conservative labels in their names. If they make direct and credible threats, then that needs to be investigated, but not just because they are conservative.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Oh, the humanity
Lets just agree that targeting any group, by the government, because of their political affiliations is wrong. Tea partiers might not like taxes, might not like the IRS, might not like government, but that is not illegal, poses no public direct public threat, and, therefore, should not be treated differently under the law. If this happened to those 3 liberal groups because they were liberal, then that would also be wrong.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post AP Twitter Account Hack Leads To Dip In Financial Markets
Uncertainty is bad for business. When people are uncertain, people are less likely to spend. A terrorist attack that hits washington will induce uncertainty hence a drop.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post AP Twitter Account Hack Leads To Dip In Financial Markets
True, but that’s how news goes nowadays.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post AP Twitter Account Hack Leads To Dip In Financial Markets
Umm a terrorist attack on the white house that injures the president is a rational reason for the market to crash.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post MMT – Job Guarantee and Employer of Last Resort – We’re back, You Moneterist!! by Synoia.
“Yet, when speculators bet on how much a currency is worth in terms of other currencies, are they not treating money as a commodity?” No, that’s actually commodities trading which is done by wall street. Commodities are actually things you need to live and build. Commodities trading is just a way for wall street to [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post MMT – Job Guarantee and Employer of Last Resort – We’re back, You Moneterist!! by Synoia.
Money isn’t a commodity, its currency used in the exchange of commodities, such as food, energy, land, resources, services etc. You can create more currency, but you can’t as easily create commodities.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Chained CPI Means You Can’t Have Nice Things by masaccio.
“First, seniors have more non-discretionary expenses (rent/mortgage, utilities, health) relative to discretionary expenses than workers.” I know for health this may be true, but do you have any proof for the other two? Workers have to pay utilities as well and it would seem more likely that a senior would own a home outright than [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post The
Concern TrollsVery Serious People Are Out by dakine01.“average monthly benefit is $1,264 per month, which is barely more than a minimum wage job pays” Except you actually have to work for minimum wage so its not a real comparison. Also, you don’t have to pay taxes on SS. SS was never ever designed as the sole income source for retirement. If you [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post A Grand Conspiracy in Plain Sight by Ohio Barbarian.
“Among the lowlights is a proposal to cut Social Security and Medicare in exchange for a few very modest tax increases on the wealthy.” In actuality, the part that gets the least mention is the amount of new taxes. Chained CPI: 136 billion over ten years Medicare Premiums: 50 billion over 10 years Limit on [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
A token 5% I guess that’s better than 0%. Almost makes the deposit levy in Cyprus seem like a bargain.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
Read the plan yourself: “The replacement factor for a person’s first $767 of Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (“AIME”) is 90%. The replacement factor drops to 32% for AIME between $767 and $4,624 and 15% for AIME between $4,624 and $8,532.” What happens above $8,532? “If you feel discussing your personal circumstances, and assuming you’re not [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
If you want to know one thing about rich people, they don’t have much use for sympathy unless it benefits them, so I’d doubt they’d be too bummed out. As for whether people deserve to pay the same rate (unlimited contributions essentially) are you also will to remove the cap on distributions? If not, seems [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
Ok, I’m not talking about fica tax, I’m talking about federal income tax. 401k contributions do not pay federal income tax. The original article claims that this makes it a tax shelter. If thats true, then pension contributions which also don’t pay federal income tax could also be considered a tax shelter. The government provides [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
Finally, someone who can at least say what they want. No more “Chained cpi” => benefit cut, “scrap (half) the cap” => wealth redistribution prochoice/prolife political euphemisms.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Security For The 1%. by TomThumb.
You know, you won’t win if you consider everyone making more than 113k a Romney. He pays 12k (employer+employee) or so per year into social security and he’ll get back 2.5k per month when he retires. About right…
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