The top 10% do much better under Republicans when compared to the bottom 90% on average.

However, the EVERYONE does better under Democrats when compared to Republicans on average.

Seriously, how do these fucktards make it through the day, let alone a decade when supposedly things were so horrible? Fact is, nine out of ten of them made a lot more money under Clinton than they ever did under a Republican presidency.

Wow. Haplo9 can’t do basic math. Colour me surprised.

$2300 is roughly 0.8% of $300,000.

I’ll tell you who is concerned, US colleges and universities. Endowments are way down. I wonder why?

You mean trickle down doesn’t work so good in tough times like now, and all the fat cats who wrote off their university donations suddenly don’t need (or can’t get) all those tax deductions anymore? And of course this is all Obama’s fault, as is every single frelling event in world history since he took over the clusterCheney the Republican’t junta left him? Do tell…

It’s not just that the useless and hypocritical lies being told by the Rush Limbaugh Brigade have been proven so wrong for so long (and yet still keep being parroted here as if they are some sort of rational justification for their idiocy) – it’s that they just keep on driving off the cliff, oblivious to their lunacy.

But it is funny to see the Republican’ts still blaming the liberals for their own mistakes, and hammering them when they still try and rescue Republican’ts from disasters. A cinservative version of the odious liberal characters from the Young Ones (if anyone else remembers that short lived show).

I guess it’s okay if we laugh – as long as we don’t point…

Where’d all the conservatives go? Oh.. It’s past work time and they’ve all gone home. My bad.

But others say that if the rich are richer many of them will put their money into speculative investments, like real estate, mortgage backed securities, and commodities like oil, which winds up destabilizing the economy.

Dude, did you see the 2010 Bentley? Totally getting one.

Which is the funny thing: the $500,000 earner would not have to lay off one of the other ten, he’d just have to accept that this year he’s only making $475,000.

As Dennis tells me, such people want “everybody” to succeed, which seems to go against the idea of deciding that one of these people must fail.

In your thought experiment, the big earner is perfectly willing to watch 10% of his neighbors starve rather than give up even a fraction of their surplus wealth.

But remember, there’s no such thing as a rich, uncaring fat cat.

Easy. You give a tax cut to the 1 who makes $500,000, increase the taxes of the other ten and pass the deficit onto the next ten when you get booted out.

It is, trust me.

You have 11 citizens in your country, and a $50,000 tax bill to pay. You must decide between taxing:

A. the 1 who makes $500,000 a year (all $50,000 tax)
B. the 10 who make $50,000 ($5000 each tax) a year.

Those are the rules. Now the breakdown:

A. If taxed, the one $500,000 earner will have to lay off one of the other ten.

B. If taxed, the ten $50,000 earners will purchase $5000 less product from the big earner, resulting in one of them getting laid off.

It

That’s a shocker.

Not everyone is getting bailed out of their bad decisions. Guys who borrowed money to start a business and failed are not getting bailed out. But guys who took out a second mortgage for unnecessary and purely cosmetic home improvements in many cases are. Improvements that a lot of wealthier people might’ve passed on because the expense didn’t make sense to them.

That’s because the new bankruptcy laws (pushed by the ultra cons in congress, mind you) protect the former, but not the latter.

Tax cuts Tax cuts Tax cuts are what get the economy rolling.

Tried it, and it didn’t take.