buffalo Loc: Texas

Well, einstein, I worked in the banking industry for 171/2 years and was then self employed for over 20 years. I do not recall any union boss telling me shit. The union boss is then just like the rich, they don't care about anybody but themselves.

Do you think it is fair that because of their political influence and political power to gain even more advantage that the 1% now capture over 52% of ALL income and pay an effective tax rate of just over 20%? While the bottom 99% shares the remaining 48%? Is it fair that wages for the average American have been stagnant for the 50 years, even with trumpy's booming economy. That's because it may be booming for the wealthy but it still remains stagnant for the Average American.

Nickolai

If you want money you got to get it from them that got it you can't get it from them that don't got any. That's why willie Sutton robed banks because that's where the money was

Nickolai

It was never your money that's conservative me me me thinking. It is a social safety net for survivers. the disabled, and the loosers in our capitalist economic system that had an inability to make it in a competitive dog eat dog system

Nickolai

McDonalds is a free enterprise government provides services for the people

debeda

SSA and SSI are drawn from the same fund.

buffalo Loc: Texas

They provide plenty for the wealthy and their corporations, especially the military industrial corporations in the form of bailouts, tax breaks and subsidies. Helping the elderly, poor and sick is just wasteful welfare and entitlements spending.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Your right...the GENERAL FUND of the USTreasury.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Have to, you say? Then why do they have this?

https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0202409040

Tell me again how it's "THE LAW"...

tophat

Buff, consider the fact that corporations do NOT pay taxes--- that charge is merely passed along to the consumer as a cost of doing business!!!! The purchaser of their products just pay more for whatever that
corp. produces.

buffalo Loc: Texas

BULLSHIT!

Then why did trumpy and the repulsive feel it necessary to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%, a nearly 45% tax rate reduction if they don't pay taxes? Did they lower price ANY? Did it cause them to give their workers raises? Or, as they were already making record profits and awash in cash, did it cause them to just buyback more of their stock to increase major shareholder's wealth?

tophat

It went right over your head!

buffalo Loc: Texas

Then why don't you answer the questions and enlighten me? IF, as you (and I know others have) contend that corporations don't pay taxes, then why did trumpy and the repulsives "cut" the corporate "tax rate" from 35% to 20%? By your logic prices for their products should have dropped by the same percentage and wages for their workers should have risen as promised. Or is what your contending just BULLSHIT and corporations own the politicians in DC and are just greedy mfers?

tophat

you just should take a class on economics , no sense in arguing.

Seth

buffalo Loc: Texas

LOL! I bet I know more about economics in my little toe than you. I have a degree in economics and worked in the banking industry for 171/2 years.

Trickle down is a bullshit reagan lie! I suspect you can't answer the questions because you don't know. I know the answer.

IF, as you contend, that corporations don't pay taxes, they instead pass them on to their customers, then why, after their massive TAX CUTS didn't they pass that on to their customers in the form of lowering prices? Trumpy and the repulsives said, no lied, that the TAX CUTS would result in higher wages for the average workers. It didn't happen. Why? Corporate profits were at an all time high before their TAX CUT and corporations as a whole were awash in cash. So why weren't prices falling and wages rising? You don't have a clue, do you?

Maybe you should take a course in history. Raygun's steep corporate TAX CUT in 1986 did not result in higher wages for the average worker. Trickle down, expecting greedy corporations to pass TAX CUTS down to increasing worker wages and price cuts is illogical. The real reason worker wages have been stagnant over the last 40 years is because economic leverage and bargaining power that workers once had but which have been redistributed from workers to capital owners and corporate managers.

Think about it, do some HISTORICAL research into actual results of when and why wages stopped rising, and stop listening to corporate puppet politicians LIE about trickle down.

Real world economics is as much about human nature as it is theory bullshit.