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Do Your Damnedest In An Ostentatious Manner All The Time!
-General George S. Patton
I'm choosing to mostly ignore your fatuity here and instead overwhelm you with so much data that you'll maybe, just maybe, realize that you have reams to read on this subject before you can contribute meaningfully to any conversation on this topic.
-DOCTOR Wuap
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Originally posted by Goatnapper'96 View PostI understand and agree, but nobody wants you to cry on their shoulder either."Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
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Originally posted by Topper View PostOf course not, but it was advertised as an annuity. You don't lose an annuity simply because you have other assets.Do Your Damnedest In An Ostentatious Manner All The Time!
-General George S. Patton
I'm choosing to mostly ignore your fatuity here and instead overwhelm you with so much data that you'll maybe, just maybe, realize that you have reams to read on this subject before you can contribute meaningfully to any conversation on this topic.
-DOCTOR Wuap
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post1)I'd lower corporate tax rate to 28%, or 20% if you have a defined-benefit retirement plan that meets criteria determined down the line (not by politicians)
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post2) Raise capital gains exceptions for sale of primary residence to $350,000 per person, $700,000 per couple, once every 3 years.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post4) Raise SSI eligibility age to 72 for people born after 1970. 73 born after 1980, 75 born after 1990. 77 after 2000, 79 after 2010. 81 after 2020.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post3)Eliminate cap on Social Security max annual tax. All earnings will be taxed.
5) Social Security should require a means test to begin drawing it. If you have assets over a certain amount, you don't need "Social Security Insurance." Just because I've paid into my home, fire, and auto insurance policies my whole life doesn't mean I'm suddenly entitled to checks all the time....Social Security is insurance. The law should be written so that people can't put all their assets in trusts to avoid this rule.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post6) Eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. Only slightly more than half of all Americans own a home and interest rates are at near historic lows. Kill the cow before the rates go back up.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post7) Reauthorize deductions for EnergyStar windows, doors, appliances, insulation, etc on primary residences.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post8) Special 5% deduction in corporate tax rate, beneath the 20% possible one, in any year that a company with over 300 employees keeps a full janitorial staff on the payroll the entire year (no outsourcing allowed) and the executive officers' pay (including options and bonuses--gross compensation) does not exceed the lowest paid employee's annual compensation by more than 35x his/her hourly wage. Also, all employees must enjoy the same health insurance package in order to qualify for this tax rate.
Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post9) Raise the federal excise tax on gasoline from $18.2 where it's been since 1993 to 32¢, where it should be when adjusted for inflation. A gallon of gas costs double what it did in 1993. The tax should go up, and we could use the tax revenue for infrastructure."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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I find it funny that none of the talk about taxes is ever that we should ensure the government is using the money with some level of responsibility. I work very closely with a government agency and the idea of saving money or not spending every penny designated to them is worse than rape. If they get $10,000 for a project, they are going to spend $11,000 minimum every single time.Get confident, stupid
-landpoke
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostI am going to assume you are trolling with this one.
I also don't understand what having an in house janitorial staff matters. If the company is hiring someone else to do janitorial, aren't they supporting jobs either way?Get confident, stupid
-landpoke
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Originally posted by Topper View PostAlso lifting the tax cap is counter-intuitive. It is already at $127,000. Imagine that you have a means test where people who pay unlimited into the system have a promise they can never receive anything from it? Doesn't that strike resident socialists or redistributionists as somewhat unfair?sigpic
"Outlined against a blue, gray
October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
Grantland Rice, 1924
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Originally posted by Maximus View PostSo, thoughts on getting rid of student loan interest and medical expense deductions?
Personal exemptions are now gone.
I am fine with the business side of it, not pretending I understand it all but whatever.Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.
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Originally posted by Goatnapper'96 View PostI am in favor of some types of SSI means test as a pragmatic necessity but it grates on me to some extent as it encourages irresponsibility wrt to saving and planning for one's future, IMO. You call it insurance, I call it a tax designed to redistribute wealth especially if you uncap its assessment levels. But nobody is likely to want me to cry on their shoulder about it.
Really like #10 if it went to funding the only socialistic fund that I like - Federal Universal Service Fund!
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Originally posted by Crockett View PostLucky you! Looks like the hyperbole police let that one go."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by BlueK View Postaren't all tax law changes basically an attempt to distribute the wealth a different way?"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by BlueK View Postaren't all tax law changes basically an attempt to distribute the wealth a different way?
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