The democrats screwed over millions with the ACA. It’s not -- Hokieesith 12/13/2017 3:08PM Whataboutism.... -- Freddyburg Hokie 12/14/2017 10:03AM So? My point still stands. ** -- Hokieesith 12/14/2017 10:46AMInsert a Link
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GOP expanding tax cuts for wealthy (that headline will galvanize support -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 1:26PM The democrats screwed over millions with the ACA. It’s not -- Hokieesith 12/13/2017 3:08PM Whataboutism.... -- Freddyburg Hokie 12/14/2017 10:03AM So? My point still stands. ** -- Hokieesith 12/14/2017 10:46AM There are plenty in middle class that will get cuts. -- psychobilly 12/13/2017 2:32PM Unless we have so much revenue we are just wasting it by paying down the -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 3:05PM You and Obama showed us debt clearly is not an issue ** -- TomKazanski 12/13/2017 3:21PM Speaking of Obama...whatever became of these? (link) -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 3:34PM Apparently the Secret Service still has them. -- HowieT3 12/13/2017 4:30PM What should happen in a tax cut is a matter of debate... -- Beerman 12/13/2017 3:04PM A few will pay a little more in taxes ..... Hahaha -- PalmyraHoo 12/13/2017 3:01PM My tax rate will not double in seven years...my Healthcare did ** -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 3:05PM This bill crushes the middle class investor -- PalmyraHoo 12/13/2017 3:32PM I don't like the provision as I own a lot of individual stocks vs. mutual -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 5:18PM Like depreciation, in the long run it ultimately makes little difference -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 5:54PM Yeah, I agree with all of that. Hence my question, "does this -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 5:56PM Boca, old chap, how dare you accuse me of being inconveniently gimmicky! -- PalmyraHoo 12/13/2017 8:03PM Not that I can see in the long run, or any class for that matter.Just can't -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 6:05PM How do you define "middle class investor" ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 3:57PM See MassHole's article below. This is a big issue IMO ** -- HoosGuy 12/13/2017 4:10PM A big issue not getting anywhere near enough coverage. -- PalmyraHoo 12/13/2017 4:17PM Sad ** -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 2:57PM The new Senate stock sales FIFO rules will hurt investors -- MassHoleHoo 12/13/2017 2:25PM What can go wrong when one political party -- walkthecorner 12/13/2017 2:03PM Without reading it... ** -- 81_Hokie 12/13/2017 2:42PM Re: GOP expanding tax cuts for wealthy (that headline will galvanize support -- Beerman 12/13/2017 1:41PM It's what their middle and lower class voters want, for some reason. ** -- hokeyhokie 12/13/2017 1:32PM Even the fly-over dullards realize that they were never hired by a poor man ** -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 1:45PM Anyone who believes in supply side economics is in fact a dullard. -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 2:35PM Does this sound familiar? -- Seattle .Hoo 12/13/2017 2:03PM Govt shouldn’t legislate to make anyone prosperous -- TomKazanski 12/13/2017 2:11PM Gov't legislation doesn't make people prosperous. ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 4:06PM What a goofy statement. Of course it can, and often has. ** -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 4:24PM Get ready. Here come the Libertarian rabbit-hole questions. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 12/13/2017 4:25PM If legislation can create prosperity, why does poverty still exist? -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 6:04PM If we give everyone a home we could end homelessness -- PalmyraHoo 12/13/2017 9:05PM Precisely my point. ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 9:07PM So Beavis AND Butthead are in agreement . Bravo ** -- 111Balz 12/13/2017 10:40PM So, Ace, why not give an example of gov’t legislation -- Hokie5150 12/14/2017 05:25AM As I said below, every tax credit. The argument you and palmyra -- 111Balz 12/14/2017 07:51AM You have an extremely odd definition of "prosperity". ** -- Hokie5150 12/14/2017 08:03AM He is too busy searching for Blanket and Armpit -- PalmyraHoo 12/14/2017 07:41AM Yeah, best to avoid the vortex of stupid in general, but this one was just -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 4:45PM Such as what legislation made people prosperous? ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 4:28PM That which required RQ's past employment? Plenty getting -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 4:49PM Even then, it wasn't the legislation that made him prosperous. The -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 4:58PM Well, by that definition any gov't handout program would qualify. It may -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 5:07PM I suppose...if one considers eking out a living to be "prosperity". ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 5:48PM In theory any tax credit granted to an industry is making an investment -- 111Balz 12/13/2017 5:31PM The 13th Amendment especially didn't make anyone more prosperous. ** -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 5:04PM It didn't. In theory, it gave people the opportunity to seek -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 5:07PM LOL, can always count on you to dig your heels in on the world's dumbest -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 5:09PM Just as I can always count on you to never address the point being made. ** -- Hokie5150 12/13/2017 5:51PM Haha! You KNEW it was going to happen! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 12/13/2017 5:19PM Government provides the structure and environment to make them prosperous. -- Seattle .Hoo 12/13/2017 2:17PM The Iceman only drives on roads he built himself. -- HowieT3 12/13/2017 3:25PM What makes them dullards isn't that. -- Beerman 12/13/2017 1:52PM The high corporate tax rate might be why a US company that -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 2:04PM Only fools actually believe the companies pay taxes, when in fact -- QBSacker 12/13/2017 3:53PM Apple doesn't pay taxes because of something other than that though, right? -- southdenverhoo 12/13/2017 10:34PM The point is that the money never comes from Apple, it comes from YOU -- QBSacker 12/14/2017 12:21PM That's pretty much simplistic nonsense. Apple doesn't unilaterally -- WahooRQ 12/14/2017 1:27PM You're talking about pricing, I'm talking about the real source of -- QBSacker 12/14/2017 1:35PM Well if you're not talking about pricing, what do you suppose is being -- WahooRQ 12/14/2017 1:38PM Evidently you think corporate taxes are paid out of something other -- QBSacker 12/14/2017 1:46PM You stopped making sense four posts ago, so maybe I'll just leave it at -- WahooRQ 12/14/2017 1:53PM You keep obfuscating the truth about corporate taxes by tying that into -- QBSacker 12/14/2017 1:56PM You are the one who keeps claiming that corporate taxes are passed on -- WahooRQ 12/14/2017 2:04PM Thank you. Amazing how clueless or disingenuous folks are on this simple -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 4:11PM The rate is comparatively high, but after tax breaks what they pay isn't ** -- hokeyhokie 12/13/2017 2:13PM The "breaks" you reference is primarily them avoiding the high US tax -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 2:21PM No, the breaks are built in to appear they pay a lot but they really don't ** -- hokeyhokie 12/13/2017 2:31PM Which breaks are those? ** -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 2:32PM All of them ** -- hokeyhokie 12/13/2017 2:44PM No, Seriously. Which tax breaks are companies taking advantage of to -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 2:52PM I don't get your angle. There are lots of them. Check out irs.gov ** -- hokeyhokie 12/13/2017 2:57PM So you have no answer, you sound bite spouting shit bag. ** -- Generic 12/13/2017 11:03PM My angle is a lot of people put "accelerated depreciation" -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 3:13PM Depreciation (here we go ) reduces taxable income. If one believes -- 111Balz 12/13/2017 3:38PM Right but that's purely timing differences. If you purchase -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 4:15PM Yes...there is a time value of money from deferring taxes to a latter -- 111Balz 12/13/2017 5:25PM I agree, but to HokeyHokie's point that companies pay less than the -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 5:31PM Well it could, depending on how it times successive capital -- 111Balz 12/13/2017 5:37PM Right, but EVENTUALLY it evens out. ** -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 5:39PM So GOVCO is a better steward of a person's income than is the person? ** -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 1:55PM Different issue -- Beerman 12/13/2017 1:58PM The cutting of the tax rates is for.... -- Freddyburg Hokie 12/13/2017 2:28PM Yes. Of course. ** -- Beerman 12/13/2017 2:34PM Just curious do you call the gruberites -- TomKazanski 12/13/2017 2:19PM We're gonna need to organize an intervention for use of -- wahoo138 12/13/2017 2:45PM You know that quote you love to drop was candidate Obama in June 2008, no? -- WahooRQ 12/13/2017 2:40PM You will also note -- Beerman 12/13/2017 2:33PM I am generally against the notion of government health care -- Beerman 12/13/2017 2:32PM You didn’t answer my question -- TomKazanski 12/13/2017 2:53PM Dullards? -- Beerman 12/13/2017 3:02PM They also realize none of the rich man's tax savings is coming down to them -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 1:49PM Maybe they also realize the rich man is still paying -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 1:56PM +12.4% (both EE & ER share) for S.S. up to the cap. ** -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 4:07PM Yeah,but I'm assuming the "rich man" long stopped paying that on -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 4:17PM Understand, but they still pay it up to the $112K or whatever the cap is. I -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 4:28PM O, the humanity ** -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 2:12PM Sorry, but the federal government taking 40% of someone's -- BocaHoo91 12/13/2017 2:22PM I don't like it any more than you do (I'm in that bracket) -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 2:27PM No you're not, you unhinged asshole. You're a psycho... -- Generic 12/13/2017 11:12PM Wow. Back on your meds, pronto. The guys in the white coats are coming -- WaxHoo 12/14/2017 10:38AM The only fraudulent representation is from those claiming this screws the -- Hoodafan 12/13/2017 4:14PM The rich man got rich by hiding his money under the mattress ** -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 1:52PM One word: Kansas ** -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 1:54PM Kansas took the reduction too far...as did Connecticut in the other directi ** -- Tuckahokie 12/13/2017 1:58PM While the DC morons aren't? ** -- WaxHoo 12/13/2017 2:14PM Trump told them it's a cut -- Beerman 12/13/2017 1:43PM