billlingle

I have never heard of anyone laughing and walking away from a student loan. If fact of I know of a young man who was k**led in an accident and had the government come after his parents. No one is talking about a $1,000 increase to someone's taxes. We're talking about taxing capital gains as income and about the reclassification of other fund sources that have heretofore been classified other than income. In my example of Mitt Romney his 13% on $22M was $2.86M. If he were to simply to use the same formula as I had to use his 13% would become 28% or $6.16M - a bit more than $1,000. In the same light a tax discount of $300 for a guy making $30K is a windfall. Your characterization of a Democrat who would benefit from a realignment of the tax code is hilarious. Is Fat Donny the Loser still president in that alternative universe?

American Vet

I frequently hear the leftoids talk about "their fair share" - but none seem to know exactly what that is.

Do you?

billlingle

Their fair share would be their actual incomes including capital gains and prior to the application of the various deferrals, deflections or other "tools", like the carried interest tax provision, that their expensive legislators have arranged for them and then applying the same percentages to those numbers as are applied to the numbers that you and I have to report. That would be a great step in the right direction.

American Vet

Ah - so you are saying it is up to the "legislators" (as in Senators and Representatives) in Congress to address the issue via legislation?

Oscar louks

Thirty years ago I did not go because I could not afford payments for years. Now I have to pay for you socialist wanna-bes

billlingle

That seems to be the appropriate course unless, of course, you have serious indications that the wealthiest 1% are standing in line to pay on a voluntary basis.

billlingle

Based on what you've just said, it is obvious that you didn't go. There are also indications that you just might not have had the chops.

American Vet

So the blame falls squarely on the legislature. Who now controls the Senate, the House, and - of course - the Presidency?

billlingle

I***t! The laws that are in place that insure that the tax advantages fall to the wealthy and powerful were not put into place since January 20 of 2021. They've been in place for decades. Given the right wing love of "no taxes for the rich" along with the filibuster and you have the reason that the Dems have been unable to make the changes needed to begin to make the tax code more equitable.

American Vet

Why then don't the democrats fix the laws? Why didn't obama fix the laws when the democrats controlled both Houses and the Presidency?

Given the right wing love of "no taxes for the rich" along with the filibuster and you have the reason that the Dems have been unable to make the changes needed to begin to make the tax code more equitable.

So the democrats haven't tried? Looks like that would be a pretty potent political weapon to use.

Or might it be the democrats do not want their funding to dry up?

Here are some Democrat companies and their senior employees that give to Democrats.
1. Time Warner
2. DreamWorks
3. Saban Capital Group
4. Walt Disney
5. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
6. Apple
7. Centerbridge Partners
8. AECOM
9. Zumiez
10. Kaiser Foundation Group
11. Latham & Watkins )
12. Bloomberg LP (CFR Score = 68)
13. Manchester United
14. Aramark
15. Harbor Freight Tools
16. Sony
17. Netflix
18. Arnold & Porter
19. Salesforce.com
20. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
21. Emerson Collective
22. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
23. Schulte, Roth & Zabel
24. Paul Hastings
25. Nimeks Organics

Here Are The Billionaires Who Funded The Democratic P**********l Candidates
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/11/18/here-are-the-billionaires-funding-the-democratic-p**********l-candidates-as-of-september-2019/?sh=256bf7e5b5e0

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Exactly!!...👍

billlingle

You are politically quite naive. Every company that you listed as giving to the Dems also gives to the reactionary right wing. That's called hedging your bet and making sure that you can remind whoever wings that you supported them. That includes billionaires.
You knowledge of history is a bit remiss as well. The Dems have not been able to alter those tax law due to the filibuster and also due to the fact that all the Dems in the Senate are not in lockstep on every issue. The number of things that Biden et al have passed that no one else has been able to do are impressive and will increase after November when we have the 50 Senatorial v**es that we need.

American Vet

Not naive at all. Simply pointing out problems with the whole system. Republicans and extreme l*****ts (democrats) - but you are a bit biased and want to blame Republicans - then turn right around a say some democrats are 'not in lockstep'.

"The Dems have not been able to alter those tax law due to the filibuster and also due to the fact that all the Dems in the Senate are not in lockstep on every issue"

As far as the filibuster - you are a bit naive - what better weapon could the democrats have than pointing out Republicans don't want to change 'big, bad corporate tax laws'? Except, of course, the 'big bad corporations' might quite sending their dollars to the extreme l*****ts (democrats).

billlingle

Nice try but the premise was that all the companies that you listed are supporting Dems over the poor, down trodden right wingers and their Jesus substitute, Fat Donny the Loser and making their "struggle" even more oppressive. You sure backed off of that ruse quickly.

The right winger's reason to live, tax cuts for the wealthy and v**er suppression, is not a weapon to be used against them it is a simple fact of life that is eating away at the heart of the right wing all by itself. The right wingers are so out of touch that they don't recognize that the American public prefers at least a semblance of e******y in tax structure and they like to v**e. Their other "top priorities" that are laughably stupid and that will be the cause of them losing millions of v**es is their failure to realize that women really do care about their reproductive health and freedom and that the American people have a great fondness for their freedom to use birth control and that they don't care if interracial couples as well as same-sex couples want to marry. The only ones who "care" about those things are those who are morally depleted and self isolated from humanity and reality. They are the last guys that anyone with a brain would want in a position of authority.

American Vet

My goodness - that’s quite an ELWNJ rant. Full of left wing talking points but short on substance.

Tax cuts for the wealthy and v**er suppression - ROTFLMAO - the only thing missing is calling Conservatives ‘r****ts’.

While you were typing all of that, did any of the foam fall on the keyboard?