Posts for: buffalo
Feb 24, 2019 03:49:14 #
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Larry the Legend wrote:
Nice idea. Would you also increase the payout the... (show quote)
FV(K YOU! I am not envious of anyone and I damn sure don't depend on the non-existent generosity of the rich bastards for anything. I paid into Social Security since I was 14.
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS ARE EARNED! In order to collect a retirement or disability benefit, a worker must pay into the system for at least 10 years. In some cases, nonworking family members, such as a spouse, may be eligible for benefits based on the worker’s record. Tough rules in place assure that only citizens and legal residents who have met the 10-year qualification can collect retirement benefits.
It is a tax on poorer working people. Someone making 132,400.00 or LESS will pay in 12.4 % of that income or 16,417.60 into Social Security. Someone making 1,324,000 or more will only pay in that same 16,417.60 or 1.24% or less.
When all taxes are considered, NOT just the federal income tax the wealthiest 1% actually pay a less percentage of their income in taxes. Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance taxes (known as payroll taxes) are paid mostly by the bottom 90 percent of wage earners. And they still pay plenty of other taxes, including federal payroll taxes. Between gas taxes, sales taxes, utility taxes and other taxes, no one lives tax-free in America. When it comes to state and local taxes, the poor bear a heavier burden than the rich.
Pundits like you always claim the wealthy pay most of the (income) taxes. While true, people forget that the income tax is less than half of federal taxes and only one-fifth of taxes at all levels of government.
The wealthy do not have any "goodwill"!
So I really don't want to hear your fv(k!n9 bulls**t about the wealthy being taxed unfairly and blaming the poor on their plight when it is the wealthy and corporations that control most of the wages that have been stagnant for 50 years.
Feb 23, 2019 20:15:59 #
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debeda wrote:
This is where the arguments about social security ... (show quote)
As you should know I am not a big fan of trumpy. I did v**e for him because the alternative would have been a disaster aside from her and her slick willies' obvious criminal lifestyle.
His income was the just the example in the article I cited. But I agree ALL incomes, earned and unearned should be taxes for Social Security and unearned incomes should be taxed for Medicare.
i 'm not advocating this for me. It will mean nothing to me. I am advocating it for my grown children(thankfully both and their spouses are doing very well) my grandchildren and my 2 great grandsons 31/2 and 1. I wish the gddamn s**m artist raygun and his sidekick, greenspan, hadn't cooked up the scheme and convinced Congress make Social Security subject to the income tax. Which he did to offset his tax cuts for his rich buddies. The same way trumpy and his repulsive accomplices will probably use cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to offset the increase in the federal deficit and resulting unsustainable national debt. Rather than risk losing the white House and Senate, they will wait until after 2020 to fv(k the elderly, poor and disabled.
And you and other trumpy fans can give trumpy credit for the so-called good economy (that actually began to improve while his oliness was POTUS), the same way raygunites gave him credit, if it's all going to the 1%elite, then the middle and working class is not sharing in that economy and not raising their standard of living. Trump's is doing, or rather not do that either.
Feb 23, 2019 19:20:09 #
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You see, payroll tax applies to all earned income (i.e., wages or salary you're paid) between $0.01 and $132,900 (as of 2019). This "cap" rises annually with the National Average Wage Index (NAWI). If, for example, the NAWI rises 3.5% year over year, then the earnings tax cap will increase 3.5% in the upcoming year. More than 9 out of 10 working Americans will earn less than $132,900 in 2019, which means they'll have the payroll tax applied to every single dollar they earn.
Meanwhile, a single-digit percentage of the working population will earn more than $132,900 in 2019. Although they'll owe their portion of the payroll tax up to $132,900, all earned income above and beyond this amount is exempt. For some folks, this might represent a small amount of their earned income. But if you earn $266,000 or more, a majority of your income will be exempted from the payroll tax.
Billionaire President Donald Trump is a perfect example of everything the working public dislikes about the current scope of Social Security's payroll tax. Aside from earning $400,000 as salary for being president, financial disclosures filed by Trump suggest that he earns in the neighborhood of $600 million annually, primarily from his employment assets. That works out to $1.64 million a day, close to $68,500 an hour or 1,141.55 a minute in estimated earnings. At this pace, it would take President Trump just 117 minutes -- less than two hours -- to hit the payroll tax earnings cap. In other words, Trump was probably done paying into the system before 2 a.m. on New Year's Day.
If that were not enough, keep in mind that only earned income is subject to the payroll tax. This means investment income, rental income, and multiple other sources of income, most often taken advantage of by the well-to-do, are exempt.
According to an analysis from the Social Security Administration, between 1984 and 2016, the amount of earnings exempted from the payroll tax has quadrupled from about $300 billion to $1.2 trillion. At a tax rate of 12.4%, that $1.2 trillion represents close to $150 billion in lost revenue for the program.
http://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/donald-trump-done-paying-social-110600027.html
The easy fix for Social Security would be to tax ALL incomes and keep the cap. But the greedy, crooked, in the pocket of the wealthy are not likely to do that.
Meanwhile, a single-digit percentage of the working population will earn more than $132,900 in 2019. Although they'll owe their portion of the payroll tax up to $132,900, all earned income above and beyond this amount is exempt. For some folks, this might represent a small amount of their earned income. But if you earn $266,000 or more, a majority of your income will be exempted from the payroll tax.
Billionaire President Donald Trump is a perfect example of everything the working public dislikes about the current scope of Social Security's payroll tax. Aside from earning $400,000 as salary for being president, financial disclosures filed by Trump suggest that he earns in the neighborhood of $600 million annually, primarily from his employment assets. That works out to $1.64 million a day, close to $68,500 an hour or 1,141.55 a minute in estimated earnings. At this pace, it would take President Trump just 117 minutes -- less than two hours -- to hit the payroll tax earnings cap. In other words, Trump was probably done paying into the system before 2 a.m. on New Year's Day.
If that were not enough, keep in mind that only earned income is subject to the payroll tax. This means investment income, rental income, and multiple other sources of income, most often taken advantage of by the well-to-do, are exempt.
According to an analysis from the Social Security Administration, between 1984 and 2016, the amount of earnings exempted from the payroll tax has quadrupled from about $300 billion to $1.2 trillion. At a tax rate of 12.4%, that $1.2 trillion represents close to $150 billion in lost revenue for the program.
http://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/donald-trump-done-paying-social-110600027.html
The easy fix for Social Security would be to tax ALL incomes and keep the cap. But the greedy, crooked, in the pocket of the wealthy are not likely to do that.
Feb 23, 2019 08:56:00 #
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Feb 22,2019
CNN Spins Its Role in Jussie Smollett H**x
CNN is in the business of spin. Yet it is not doing a good job of spinning its own role in the imploded Jussie Smollett h**e h**x.
CNN propagandist Brooke Baldwin, personifying the l*****t “mainstream” media just as Jussie Smollett personifies black victimhood, sneered, “This is America in 2019” while hyping the h**x, even though Smollett’s story was conspicuously f**e from the beginning.
http://youtu.be/gzhIKXh2jno
Yet afterward, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked us to believe that CNN never bought into the h**x it helped promote:
She told CNN’s Brian Stelter, “I remember in the hours right after this happened that CNN, that our bosses were advising to pump the brakes a little bit because there were things already that didn’t add up. I was frankly surprised how many people jumped on board to side with Jussie Smollett before there were photos, before there were police statements, before all that stuff.”
Meanwhile, Jussie’s avid supporter and fellow homosexual of politically preferred pigmentation Don Lemon avers that it is not Jussie’s fault that he has lost in the court of public opinion:
CNN posing as a serious news organization is as much a h**x as the Jussie Smollett farce.
Maybe the Babylon Bee story about CNN offering Smollett a job is on the level. We will know it is true if CNN denies it.
CNN Spins Its Role in Jussie Smollett H**x
CNN is in the business of spin. Yet it is not doing a good job of spinning its own role in the imploded Jussie Smollett h**e h**x.
CNN propagandist Brooke Baldwin, personifying the l*****t “mainstream” media just as Jussie Smollett personifies black victimhood, sneered, “This is America in 2019” while hyping the h**x, even though Smollett’s story was conspicuously f**e from the beginning.
http://youtu.be/gzhIKXh2jno
Yet afterward, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked us to believe that CNN never bought into the h**x it helped promote:
She told CNN’s Brian Stelter, “I remember in the hours right after this happened that CNN, that our bosses were advising to pump the brakes a little bit because there were things already that didn’t add up. I was frankly surprised how many people jumped on board to side with Jussie Smollett before there were photos, before there were police statements, before all that stuff.”
Meanwhile, Jussie’s avid supporter and fellow homosexual of politically preferred pigmentation Don Lemon avers that it is not Jussie’s fault that he has lost in the court of public opinion:
CNN posing as a serious news organization is as much a h**x as the Jussie Smollett farce.
Maybe the Babylon Bee story about CNN offering Smollett a job is on the level. We will know it is true if CNN denies it.
Feb 23, 2019 08:12:26 #
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Radiance3 wrote:
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Something is wrong with your brain buffalo.
Something is wrong with your brain buffalo.
And what makes YOU an expert?
EXPERT=pronounced...Ex-Spurt=drip that has been
That makes something wrong with your brain to believe the propaganda that comes out of DC.
Feb 23, 2019 08:07:24 #
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Bad Bob wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-farmer-ba... (show quote)
I read that bulls**t article, boob. The $7.7 BILLION "bailout" read "WELFARE" has gone mainly to big corporate and co-op farming operations and has done nothing to help the small family farmers. The current bushel price of soybeans is US$9.075. Why do the big corporate farms need welfare? They don't! The objective is to drive as many small family farmers out of business or into bankruptcy.
Why don't you research and find out how many family farms have been driven out of business by evil Monsanto Corporation suing them over Monsanto's harmful GMO patented seeds of soybean, corn, cotton, etc?
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost/
http://jayandivakaran.blogspot.com/2014/12/monsanto-and-gmo-ultimate-evil-of.html
http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-gmo-seeds-farmer-suicides-every-30-minutes/
Not to mention evil Monsanto's deadly cancer causing weed k**ler Roundup.
Feb 23, 2019 07:48:18 #
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Evil Orange Man Trump, the evil successor to the throne of his O'liness, Barack Hussein Obama (PBUH) is punishing women and innocent children who happen to be US citizens.
ISIS bride's dad suing Trump, US to let her back into the country
The Donald has completely ignored all Bowe Bergdahl policies and precedents and told the Secretary of State to not let her or her brat back in the country.
After being denied reentry to the U.S. by President Trump's Tweet, the repentant ISIS bride Hoda Muthana wanted to express her vast range of emotions with a string of emojis, but her ISIS-Phone only offered only this default set.
Evil Orange Man Trump, the evil successor to the throne of his O'liness, Barack Hussein Obama (PBUH) is punishing women and innocent children who happen to be US citizens.
ISIS bride's dad suing Trump, US to let her back into the country
The Donald has completely ignored all Bowe Bergdahl policies and precedents and told the Secretary of State to not let her or her brat back in the country.
After being denied reentry to the U.S. by President Trump's Tweet, the repentant ISIS bride Hoda Muthana wanted to express her vast range of emotions with a string of emojis, but her ISIS-Phone only offered only this default set.
Feb 23, 2019 07:24:26 #
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old marine wrote:
I do not deal in foreign policy I only deal in facts that pretain to my business.
I no longer export to foreign countries after Obama's rules and regulations ruined that market.
I no longer export to foreign countries after Obama's rules and regulations ruined that market.
OOOOK...
Feb 23, 2019 06:21:02 #
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emarine wrote:
Guess who supports Bernie Sanders for President???...Venezuelan Dictator Maduro...
Like Putin supports Trump?...
Like Putin supports Trump?...
Do you think Maduro will v**e for the bern?
Feb 23, 2019 06:18:32 #
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Radiance3 wrote:
================= br God bless president Trump pro... (show quote)
All I can say is trumpy should heed his own words. The US has no business interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. Maduro was freely and fairly elected Venezuela's president.
"While many ideologues blame “socialism” for the country’s economic ills, most economists point to a set of policy errors that have little or nothing to do with socialism. Most devastating has been the dysfunctional exchange rate system, which has led to a worsening “inflation-depreciation” spiral over the past four years, and now hyperinflation. Free gasoline and price controls that didn’t work also contributed to the crisis. The Trump administration’s financial sanctions—more than all previous destabilization efforts, which were significant—have made it nearly impossible for the government to get out of the mess without outside help.
More importantly, there has been scant U.S. media reporting on the further economic damage provoked by the Trump administration’s financial sanctions, announced in late August last year (shortly after Trump’s statement about a “military option” for Venezuela).
As my colleague Mark Weisbrot has explained, Trump’s unilateral and illegal financial embargo – which cuts Venezuela off from most financial markets – has had two major consequences, both of which entail increased economic hardship for the Venezuelan people. First, it causes even greater shortages of essential goods, including food and medicine. Second, it makes economic recovery nearly impossible, since the government cannot borrow or restructure its foreign debt, and in some cases even carry out normal import t***sactions, including for medicines.
Aside from fomenting greater economic havoc in Venezuela, Trump and his coterie of advisors on Venezuela, including Republican Senator Marco Rubio, have supported opposition hardliners in their efforts to scuttle attempts at dialogue and undermine e******ns, even when these offer the possibility of a peaceful political t***sition.
Regardless of how one feels about Venezuela’s current government, it is time to acknowledge that U.S. policy towards that country is making things worse. It is generating greater economic pain, instability and political polarization in Venezuela and undermining the odds of reaching a peaceful solution to the country’s political crisis. "
Here if you care to get a more detailed account of what has and is happening in Venezuela, instead of what comes from the lying corporate monkeys in Washington DC.
http://nacla.org/news/2018/05/18/united-states%E2%80%99-hand-undermining-democracy-venezuela
Feb 22, 2019 19:15:49 #
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old marine wrote:
Buffalo your sratement is your opinion and I have seen no other people agree with it. You are a puppet of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their Socialist agenda.
Have a nice afternoon and strive for a better day tomorrow.
Have a nice afternoon and strive for a better day tomorrow.
And you have no idea, obviously, how US foreign policy is shaped and controlled by corporations for their benefit.
Feb 22, 2019 18:55:41 #
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Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
God knows there are plenty of those; otherwise the unhung scoundrels in DC would not get reelected at a rate of 97% in the Senate and around 90% in the House. At least Democrats don't hide behind a facade of Conservatism like these damn RINOs.
We have the best liars corporate money can buy...
Feb 22, 2019 18:53:29 #
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Bad Bob wrote:
So where are the jobs going?
Somewhere else but not New Jerk!
Feb 22, 2019 18:51:58 #
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Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
We were unprepared for WWI, and the men of the Armed Forces paid for it. We were unprepared for WWII and the men and women of our Armed Forces REALLY paid for it.
We were promised the US would not get entangled in either of those wars. The American sheople were lied to. "War is a racket!", Gen. Smedley Butler. Many US corporations did business with both sides and made BILLIONS from the 2 wars.
Feb 22, 2019 13:35:28 #
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emarine wrote:
the plutocracy runs both party's... Obama is more of a people person than Trump... Trump sees how Putin did it...
As I stated before:
The identity politics of both arms (dimwits and repulsives) of the corporate party is a distraction and a s**m. It divides Americans harmed by run-away economic ine******y into hostile camps who are so preoccupied with each other that they fail to see their common oppressor: a wealthy capitalist elite that has captured their government by funding the e******ns of politicians in both parties and those elite could care less which arm wins as they will still be in control while you sheople are distracted by the identity politics of r****m, sexism, xenophobia, big vs little government, and on and on and on... while they continue to fleece the ignorant and distracted sheople. The last thing they want is for the sheople to realize their using government to continue their thievery.