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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:38 AM Original message |
Mr. Spitzer had $80,000 to blow on hookers while I'm struggling to |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm sure the escort service and escort paid their taxes that subsidize state univ tuition |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
2. Our country is blowing hundreds of billions to kill brown people in other places in the world. (nt) |
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selador (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. not unless |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 12:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I want them to pay higher taxes than they do |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Why exactly shouldn't the rich be MORE patriotic than the Poor? My taxpayer hero is Elvis..... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-15-08 01:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
36. See. Elvis gave freely while those fucking beatles wrote a song bitching about taxes! |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. he was born into wealth, even he were to pay higher taxes he'd still have $80k |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
5. just a note about semantics... |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. As Sir Winston Churchill is reported to have said... |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. His daddy is very wealthy |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. What does anyone elses financial status have to do with yours? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. How about we had a tax structure |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I'm all for fair taxes, but the prevailing mentality that I've seen here is |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Once you have three houses, four cars, three boats and your kids education paid how can you possibly |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. "It seems you don't really realize the numbers here." |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. I provide Math you just push more opinion. Hokum just doesn't fly. |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-15-08 12:30 AM Response to Reply #30 |
35. You provided math??? What a joke! |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 04:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Please don't use "to tax the rich until they're poor" That is a Rush Limbaugh quote. |
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CRF450 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 08:15 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. If my memory's correct, I believe I'v seen many here who uses that same line as well |
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CRF450 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. I'm seing that same attitude too. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 06:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. I wish I had said that! |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 01:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Obscene wealth |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Exactly... he was acting in a self destructive manner... |
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VotesForWomen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. uh, because the super rich often get super rich by accumulating the wealth generated by the not-so-r |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. not sharing equitably in the fruits of their labors?? |
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VotesForWomen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
12. the Gilded Age is back (if it ever left). nt |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. He's in Government the object of political aspirations is |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well, you know how it works |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
16. The tax structure is far more obscene than any sex trade. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. to be fair, he was fighting for people like the rest of us who don't have it all |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
22. It would interesting to know how much he gave to charities. |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
26. He was just practicing "dribble down" economics. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
28. I am quite sure he is'nt the only one...nt |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
29. How is it that these people aren't taxed more? This pisses me off. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 08:07 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. How much was he taxed?... |
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CRF450 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-14-08 08:22 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. So you want the riches stripped of their wealth? |
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