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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:01 PM Original message |
"Only the little people pay taxes" |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Removal of corporate personhood needs to be a priority. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. See my post below. What if people are corporations? |
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The Big Vetolski (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. How about abolishing the corporate veil as well? That way, the |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. We can blame this on Republicans all we want... |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. A nice DLC critique... |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. enablers? No. Accomplices and collaborators. |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yeah... |
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zalinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Part of the reason that taxes won't get raised |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
18. well the column does start out with Obama appointing Immelt |
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vi5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I know... |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. Mark Shields- I'll recommend his columns any day. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. Guy on Thom Hartmann last week was promoting the tactic that as many families as possible should Inc |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
26. it's very likely that the benefits of being a corporation |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sadly, there are simply no reasonable Republicans in the House or Senate left. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. was Packwood really reasonable? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. LOL! how screwed up are the republicans then, if Packwood is "reasonable". Sorry for not putting |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
11. Looks pretty much that working America is going through hell anyway, so at some point one |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Leona Helmsley was ahead of her time. |
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checks-n-balances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Thank God there are still people like Mark Shield who remember |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 06:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. not really, it was Vanderbilt who said "Law? What do I care about law? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. I've been wondering if this isn't the little guys way of saying they don't want to pay taxes either. |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. By "this," do you mean the lack of public outrage? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. There is public outrage...just not to the point of rioting or lawbreaking. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. There needs to be such outrage. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Nobody wants to be arrested or thrown in jail. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Nope, the actions of one are easily cast as nuttery and criminality |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Well that is 10% with nothing to lose...no home no job no income nobody who relies on them. |
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