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Showing posts with label Tax Revenues. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Say You, Say Me--Part I
Say You:
I try not to get too terribly worked up over columns on the business pages of newspapers--there's a logical explanation for why they lean strongly pro-business or pro-market forces. I'd be willing to bet a sizable chunk of a newspaper's readership doesn't even look at the business section, so it's not as if their viewpoints are as widely read as, say, the op-ed page. But every now and again...you get a piece like today's column in the Free Press from Susan Tompor on the effects of the special tax on capital gains being used to help fund Obamacare. Note this tax is if you sell a second home, a vacation home, stocks, or other investments north of $250,000. Tompor uses the example of someone making $80,0000 per year, selling a $400,000 vacation home, which would result in an extra tax of slightly less than $11,000. To which one of the people cited in the article, tax expert Clint Stretch, replied "It's not like having a lot of capital gains makes you sick when you retire and go on Medicare."
Say Me:
Unlike republicans and their ugly step-sisters the Antoinettes, I am not prone to having a lot of economic sympathy for anyone sporting the kinds of household worth numbers noted above. I mean, fucking really? I'm supposed to feel sorry for someone a) making $80,000 a year, b) able to afford a second home worth $400,000, and c) having to pay an extra $11,000 in taxes to help more Americans have health insurance? My guess is somewhere around 95% of Americans would absolutely fucking love to pay that $11,000 special tax to get to have those kind of dollars in their households.
I'll tell you what, though. Anyone who is so unhappy with it can sell that property to me for a dollar and I'll gladly pay that special tax. Hell, I'll fucking pay double that--and smile all the way to the bank.
Frankly, someone has to point out to people that greed is fucking ugly, and not a character trait to be proud of.
Peace,
emaycee
I try not to get too terribly worked up over columns on the business pages of newspapers--there's a logical explanation for why they lean strongly pro-business or pro-market forces. I'd be willing to bet a sizable chunk of a newspaper's readership doesn't even look at the business section, so it's not as if their viewpoints are as widely read as, say, the op-ed page. But every now and again...you get a piece like today's column in the Free Press from Susan Tompor on the effects of the special tax on capital gains being used to help fund Obamacare. Note this tax is if you sell a second home, a vacation home, stocks, or other investments north of $250,000. Tompor uses the example of someone making $80,0000 per year, selling a $400,000 vacation home, which would result in an extra tax of slightly less than $11,000. To which one of the people cited in the article, tax expert Clint Stretch, replied "It's not like having a lot of capital gains makes you sick when you retire and go on Medicare."
Say Me:
Unlike republicans and their ugly step-sisters the Antoinettes, I am not prone to having a lot of economic sympathy for anyone sporting the kinds of household worth numbers noted above. I mean, fucking really? I'm supposed to feel sorry for someone a) making $80,000 a year, b) able to afford a second home worth $400,000, and c) having to pay an extra $11,000 in taxes to help more Americans have health insurance? My guess is somewhere around 95% of Americans would absolutely fucking love to pay that $11,000 special tax to get to have those kind of dollars in their households.
I'll tell you what, though. Anyone who is so unhappy with it can sell that property to me for a dollar and I'll gladly pay that special tax. Hell, I'll fucking pay double that--and smile all the way to the bank.
Frankly, someone has to point out to people that greed is fucking ugly, and not a character trait to be proud of.
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Glieben, Glauben, Globen
Can someone please explain to me what the fuck it means when someone says that a U.S. citizen's share of the country's debt is "$50,000?" It's about as meaningful as saying the moon is made of cheese or that mermaids swim the deep blue sea. This "debt" is never coming out of anyone's pocket and is merely some lame-ass republican effort to put the problem in terms most conducive to the dim-witted.
Besides, if these people were truly concerned about their kids and this "debt" they'd raise taxes on the wealthy so we could hire more teachers and put more Americans back to work on public projects which would increase the tax revenue.
But let's be truthful--the kids are the last thing on their minds. Letting the wealthy get wealthier and propagating an American aristocracy is their only motive.
Peace,
emaycee
Besides, if these people were truly concerned about their kids and this "debt" they'd raise taxes on the wealthy so we could hire more teachers and put more Americans back to work on public projects which would increase the tax revenue.
But let's be truthful--the kids are the last thing on their minds. Letting the wealthy get wealthier and propagating an American aristocracy is their only motive.
Peace,
emaycee
Friday, March 4, 2011
For the record
Can I be one of the few ordinary people in the United States who just flat doesn't give a fuck about the deficit--either statewide or nationally? I...just...do...not...give...a...fuck. Want to fix it? Get people good paying jobs, get the unemployment rate down to 4-5% and all your troubles disappear. It's not a cutting issue--it's a revenue issue. Period.
Peace,
emaycee
Peace,
emaycee
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