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Taxation: Where do you stand?
One of the biggest points of contention between Republicans and Democrats is the topic of taxation. It's a hugely important topic, and one unfortunately not sufficiently (or adequately) covered in the mud-slinging that has become this 2020 campaign and debates.
I favor the Democratic stance of a stratified tax structure where the rich and the corporations pay a higher tax percentage than the low and middle-class wage earners.
Yet I favor the Republican stance of a smaller, more agile government structure that enables economic growth in the private sector.
Monies from taxes should be used for the traditional uses like infrastructure, defense, health, education, immigration reform (not walls), etc.
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americans have a bee in their bonnet, their knickers in a right twist, about the word "socialism". The government should be taking care of society as much as possibe. the united states of GULAG should by now have a national health care plan that every single person is served by. For free. Only disgraceful "let them eat cake" rich, greedy assholes think that socialized medicine is a bad thing. They will get theirs one day and the world will laugh in their faces.
So I support taxing the rich to the tune of about 60% on their gross income. No loopholes and bullshit artist games with accountants.
Those earning less than $40,000 a year should pay ZERO FUCKING TAXES.
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Taxation is theft. It's not given freely or not at no consequence, it's a demand of government and for people who think government is way too big and provides way too much it's a burden. A burden only a few people actually shoulder while others just sit back in the social safetynet hammock and are carried.
Burdensome taxes kill jobs and motivation.
Our founding documents don't paint the United States or it's citizens as a charity. The government has no place in that. That should be the PEOPLE who address charity, the COMMUNITY...not at the threat of jail or point of a gun, but out of the goodness and kindness of their hearts, of their own free will. Perhaps then we'd care a bit more about just who is allowed into our great nation.
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And yet there are oh so many things in life that are supposedly "the government's job." Think roads, bridges, infrastructure in general. When one of these fails, it's the government that gets the blame. So yeah... I'm all for the right sized government. Said so at the outset. But to pretend many things can be done without it is just not practical, IMO. As of this moment in time, the government's main source of income is through taxes. If there was another source that could allow government to carry out its functions, then by all means. But so far nothing else exists. So in effect it's the people... yes... carrying some of the burden that otherwise would go unfinanced. The problem is it has never been done to the satisfaction of all. There are those who favor no taxes at all for some and a hell of a lot for others... and there are those who favor no taxes whatsoever and let the chips fall where they may. Both extremes are full of holes, IMO.
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NoSavingByTheBell
americans have a bee in their bonnet, their knickers in a right twist, about the word "socialism". The government should be taking care of society as much as possibe. the united states of GULAG should by now have a national health care plan that every single person is served by. For free. Only disgraceful "let them eat cake" rich, greedy assholes think that socialized medicine is a bad thing. They will get theirs one day and the world will laugh in their faces.
So I support taxing the rich to the tune of about 60% on their gross income. No loopholes and bullshit artist games with accountants.
Those earning less than $40,000 a year should pay ZERO FUCKING TAXES.
I’m not looking to stir the shit here honestly. But if you were “Rich” , I wonder how you would feel about paying 60% in taxes?
And without wanting you to answer necessarily because it’s none of my business, but I’m guessing you earn less than $40,000 a year.
I think your prosopal is a bit too radical and unrealistic.
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I wonder how much money @NoSavingByTheBell makes....
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So I support taxing the rich to the tune of about 60% on their gross income. No loopholes and bullshit artist games with accountants.
Those earning less than $40,000 a year should pay ZERO FUCKING TAXES.
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Primo Carnera
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NoSavingByTheBell
americans have a bee in their bonnet, their knickers in a right twist, about the word "socialism". The government should be taking care of society as much as possibe. the united states of GULAG should by now have a national health care plan that every single person is served by. For free. Only disgraceful "let them eat cake" rich, greedy assholes think that socialized medicine is a bad thing. They will get theirs one day and the world will laugh in their faces.
So I support taxing the rich to the tune of about 60% on their gross income. No loopholes and bullshit artist games with accountants.
Those earning less than $40,000 a year should pay ZERO FUCKING TAXES.
I’m not looking to stir the shit here honestly. But if you were “Rich” , I wonder how you would feel about paying 60% in taxes?
And without wanting you to answer necessarily because it’s none of my business,
but I’m guessing you earn less than $40,000 a year.
I think your prosopal is a bit too radical and unrealistic.
Fair and respectful post, unlike certain others.
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NoSavingByTheBell
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Originally Posted by
Primo Carnera
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
americans have a bee in their bonnet, their knickers in a right twist, about the word "socialism". The government should be taking care of society as much as possibe. the united states of GULAG should by now have a national health care plan that every single person is served by. For free. Only disgraceful "let them eat cake" rich, greedy assholes think that socialized medicine is a bad thing. They will get theirs one day and the world will laugh in their faces.
So I support taxing the rich to the tune of about 60% on their gross income. No loopholes and bullshit artist games with accountants.
Those earning less than $40,000 a year should pay ZERO FUCKING TAXES.
I’m not looking to stir the shit here honestly. But if you were “Rich” , I wonder how you would feel about paying 60% in taxes?
And without wanting you to answer necessarily because it’s none of my business,
but I’m guessing you earn less than $40,000 a year.
I think your prosopal is a bit too radical and unrealistic.
Fair and respectful post, unlike certain others.
Disrespect is earned just as much as respect is so you should value the fruits of your labor.
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Re: Taxation: Where do you stand?
I stand on viewing it from the beginning and working my way to the present. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was denied any powers of taxation. But under the Constitution, Congress could and would do this.
Alexander the forerunner to the modern Republican Party known then as (Federalists) believed federal taxation should increase with increased income. Working-class Americans were supposed to pay taxes within their means, and wealthy Americans were supposed to pay higher taxes.
https://www.usrepresented.com/2018/0...0to%20taxation.
Anti-Federalists like Patrick henry was even against attending the Constitution's ratification. As a result it seems a fact that under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no power to tax the people, thus one of the many reasons for bringing the constitution into existence.
Alex H argued: How is it possible that a government half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfill the purposes of its institution"[How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?]
--Hamilton’s solution to these rhetorical queries was to tax. He proposed federal freedom to tax the occupants of all states without objection. Modern Republican choose to omit and or forget this. I don't. For those interested check out: Federalist papers No. 30 by Alexander Hamilton Dec. 28, 1787 titled "Concerning the General Power of Taxation".
There is ample history to see Anti-Feds reject the usage of taxing to help the common people.
1794, Congress appropriates $15,000 dollars to help French refugees. The purpose is to place ourselves in the day of America’s founding fathers. Rather than speculate what they felt, let us read how they viewed helping immigrants with American taxation.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
--James Madison.
House Representative William Giles of Virginia condemned relief for fire victims, insisting it wasn't the purpose of Congress to attend to what generosity and humanity require. (especially by means of taxing)
President Pierce vetoed a bill to help the mentally ill. "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity....it would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."
President Cleveland vetoed bill for charity relief, "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering.”
"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers...”
President Madison
James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined ... (to) be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce."
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare...”
Thomas Jefferson later reiterated the same point in a letter to Pennsylvania Representative Albert Gallatin,
If given the chance Ron Paul wants to eliminate the 16th amendment.
https://youtu.be/NPkmDJ5dCSY
Based on the founding dudes point of view(that were Anti-Fed), they would have been incensed to see all that we spend taxes on. Their wording IMO is precise and unmistakable as were acts of benevolence should occur/or come from; The document known as the Virginia Declaration: And that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.”
The reasons for such was: great gifts bestowed by the Creator, is conscious of a duty to give due worship to that Creator under no coercion whatever. Since this duty is sacred, and prior to all other duties either to civil society or to the state---- it is a duty owed to the Creator.. it must entail a right to exercise that duty (acts of charity, benevolence), It is prior to every other duty.
The religious foundation for religious liberty, therefore, begins with each of us owing duties to our Creator.
Who were the people debating such an issue?
The early Americans were the Virginians, the Pennsylvanians, they declared the federal Congress incompetent to make any law respecting the establishment of religion or inhibiting the free exercise thereof. “separation of church and state.” They took the government out of the business of religion & as a result all acts of charity, benevolence, must come from the people by being Christians to their neighbor. not by politicians via government.
So in conclusion the Constitution IMO absolved itself of the duties to help its citizens in times of trouble. It was relinquished to Christians. Who fuck it all to be damned. :eek: They were too busy stealing land from the natives, making liquor as one of the nation's 1st trade. Brought about an enslavement that denied the right to be human. That is what Christians in America were doing.
After a few hundred years- seeing the racist, biased, bigot views of many religious, Government would intervene.
The last group IMO to back up taxes came through the Democratic party known as socialists who were running the show in Government. From 1900s when over 50 mayors across the country ran as Socialists to the imprisonment of Eugene Debs wanting a free army & not a draft- the rights of children, women were championed (1905-1920) Then a few decades later with Roosevelt & his social system of security to the elderly/retired to his New Deal...Up to Lyndon Johnson & John Kennedy who used the Federal government to intervene on behalf of negros still denied voting rights...well these actions as beautiful as they are, were not supposed to have been acts mandated by a federal government.
But the Fed stepped up, because the Christian to religious overall stepped back from acts of benevolence to those not like them.. F- those Niggers. Damn Wetback Mexicans taking all our job, damn jihadi Muslims the real terrorists I tell you! Oh the Jews taking it all. Damn those lezbo lesbians. Don't you ever marry a catholic, especially an Irish one (ethnic differences) to religious & denominational differences were the acts of the so called pious.
And the Alexander Hamiltonian thinker remained among them so as a result warfare was paid in full, while Democrats focused on Welfare in full.
Cronyism took control over both parties & as a result: Government should be run like a business, so vote Reagan. Bush, Trump. That in turn allows taxes to go off the rails as we just witnessed a lying ass president say for 4 years he would release his taxes--and when he did he paid $750 damn dollars in one year.
I make over 40k, no dependents so I owe taxes.
Well taxation is all messed up and seen through the lenses of ideology; Republicans cut it. Democrats add more.
so we have to use taxes to our best interest given one major problem: unlike FDR who had more paying in then taking out- we have more taking out, than those paying in.
We got temp service jobs, contractors based out of the country backed with the greatest tax cut in history for the wealthy made permanent by this inept jacktail in office. 40 hours is no longer the threshold for qualified as full time it is now 37.5 hours. One doesn't need to work 52 weeks to be called fulltime yearly.
Where Do I stand? fuck talking taxes, dissolve the nation. Christians under Donnie say they have given way too much and blacks & liberals just want free shit. BTW exempt taxes for the wealthy only.
Democrats want to tax people who kicked ass the right way, invested, invented. So those who actually earned their money have to be victimized by their own success, aint that a bitch.
Taxation, no, dissolve the union or watch the nation implode. Oh, wait...its happening right in front of our eyes.
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O yes dissolve
Oh yes it's done
Dissolve the union
Attila the Hun!n
Dissolve the union
no "legal" moves need to be taken to dissolve the U.S.A. It is already an entity that has no legal authority. In this case, the Union does not legally exist.
I endorse dissolving the U.S.A. This does not mean that I endorse the 50 states or whatever political combinations of states result as a final ideal political system. I simply view that outcome, which ends the national (usually called the federal) government as greatly preferable to what we now have. Individual states could profitably break up too, but that is another matter.
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NoSavingByTheBell
O yes dissolve
Oh yes it's done
Dissolve the union
Attila the Hun!n
Dissolve the union
no "legal" moves need to be taken to dissolve the U.S.A. It is already an entity that has no legal authority. In this case, the Union does not legally exist.
I endorse dissolving the U.S.A. This does not mean that I endorse the 50 states or whatever political combinations of states result as a final ideal political system. I simply view that outcome, which ends the national (usually called the federal) government as greatly preferable to what we now have. Individual states could profitably break up too, but that is another matter.
Sometimes a wife and husband can see things clearer after the divorce. Husband & Wife aka Citizens & government have some soul searching to do for the welfare & health of their children's children.
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For the record I don't want it; dissolution. I'm acknowledging that when Abe Lincoln fought to preserve the union (marriage) he didn't have 1/8th of the problems we got today. A 2nd Civil War is just a rematch for the south & a losing battle for those who fought & died for freedom, not in context of an ideology, but definitive wise.
Freedom isn't conservative.
Freedom isn't Democratic.
Freedom is the ability to co-exist with those whose ideology differs from one's own without either having to sacrifice integrity, truth, justice, land or peace of mind in order to claim we in fact have it: Freedom.
We're denied truth- unless it is wrapped in an ideology.
As a result we sacrificed our own integrity as people and as a nation- Just to side with our own political partisan viewpoints.
Justice is 1st and foremost for those who can afford a damn good ass lawyer, while the poor are given some district attorney, most with a track record comparable to Reggie Strickland.
We've lost our land to the central bankers who in turn make deals with the elite, which in turns keeps us at a distance from the resources we need in order to live a decent life.
End result, collectively we have lost our minds.
But, we're free to complain about it.
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amerikkins -- cursed since Day One from genocide of native Americans and enslavement of Africans -- have been poisoned since the mid-50s, with chemicals in the water and food chain, with sick messages on TV and radio, etc. Now the most disgusting nation on Earth, with the most disgusting people on Earth, and the most hated nation on Earth.... by far. There is no nation on Earth more hated. But oh, "they are all jealous of America".
Yeah, that's why... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::vd:
Damn, those chickens have come home to roost.
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NoSavingByTheBell
amerikkins -- cursed since Day One from genocide of native Americans and enslavement of Africans -- have been poisoned since the mid-50s, with chemicals in the water and food chain, with sick messages on TV and radio, etc. Now the most disgusting nation on Earth, with the most disgusting people on Earth, and the most hated nation on Earth.... by far. There is no nation on Earth more hated. But oh, "they are all jealous of America".
Yeah, that's why... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::vd:
Damn, those chickens have come home to roost.
So why do you live here? Honest question.
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I don't. its like a transit visa..... Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again. (not saying you are one)
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NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
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El Kabong
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NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
No, you can ask. We can do it peacefully Im sure. Yes, I returned to America in August 2015 for the first time since June 2007. 8+ consecutive years abroad without so much as a quick visit to the States. Whilst completing my contract in Ankara, Turkey, in 2015, a co-teacher had gotten a good ESL job in Manhattan, and he offered me a job there upon my completion in Ankara. Seeing as the job I had lined up for September 2015 in Nairobi had fallen through, and our Alien Registration Cards for Turkey were expiring just 30 days after my contract completion, and also had to get out of storage some belongings back in NYC in 2007, we decided to go, briefly, and also... --- in-laws in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn, also Jersey City. Took the job in NYC and held it til Dec. 2018 --- 3 years and change. Started and Won a court case against a sleaze landlord in Jersey City, took 8 months for that in 2018-2019, awarded a hedge fund check from the company that repossessed his house, and traveled across the country from NJ to SF and on the way back stopped in Texas, and out of the blue landed a teaching job.... took it and after a year we got shut down (the schools and the travel). And here we are.
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NoSavingByTheBell
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El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
No, you can ask. We can do it peacefully Im sure. Yes, I returned to America in August 2015 for the first time since June 2007. 8+ consecutive years abroad without so much as a quick visit to the States. Whilst completing my contract in Ankara, Turkey, in 2015, a co-teacher had gotten a good ESL job in Manhattan, and he offered me a job there upon my completion in Ankara. Seeing as the job I had lined up for September 2015 in Nairobi had fallen through, and our Alien Registration Cards for Turkey were expiring just 30 days after my contract completion, and also had to get out of storage some belongings back in NYC in 2007, we decided to go, briefly, and also... --- in-laws in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn, also Jersey City. Took the job in NYC and held it til Dec. 2018 --- 3 years and change. Started and Won a court case against a sleaze landlord in Jersey City, took 8 months for that in 2018-2019, awarded a hedge fund check from the company that repossessed his house, and traveled across the country from NJ to SF and on the way back stopped in Texas, and out of the blue landed a teaching job.... took it and after a year we got shut down (the schools and the travel). And here we are.
Oh ok so you were LIVING here and WORKING here but you were planning on leaving? That's fine.
Awful nice of you to take time to shit all over this country which afforded you such opportunities. I've traveled abroad, I would live abroad....I doubt I'd shit on where I lived though....seems like an asshole thing to do. Not calling you and asshole, but saying that shitting on where you choose to live is kind of an asshole thing to do. And you're free to disagree with that which I assume you do.
I mean there's complaining about a place, but you seem to genuinely have a distaste not only for the area in which you live, but the people that inhabit that area.
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El Kabong
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NoSavingByTheBell
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El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
No, you can ask. We can do it peacefully Im sure. Yes, I returned to America in August 2015 for the first time since June 2007. 8+ consecutive years abroad without so much as a quick visit to the States. Whilst completing my contract in Ankara, Turkey, in 2015, a co-teacher had gotten a good ESL job in Manhattan, and he offered me a job there upon my completion in Ankara. Seeing as the job I had lined up for September 2015 in Nairobi had fallen through, and our Alien Registration Cards for Turkey were expiring just 30 days after my contract completion, and also had to get out of storage some belongings back in NYC in 2007, we decided to go, briefly, and also... --- in-laws in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn, also Jersey City. Took the job in NYC and held it til Dec. 2018 --- 3 years and change. Started and Won a court case against a sleaze landlord in Jersey City, took 8 months for that in 2018-2019, awarded a hedge fund check from the company that repossessed his house, and traveled across the country from NJ to SF and on the way back stopped in Texas, and out of the blue landed a teaching job.... took it and after a year we got shut down (the schools and the travel). And here we are.
Oh ok so you were LIVING here and WORKING here but you were planning on leaving? That's fine.
Awful nice of you to take time to shit all over this country which afforded you such opportunities. I've traveled abroad, I would live abroad....I doubt I'd shit on where I lived though....seems like an asshole thing to do. Not calling you and asshole, but saying that shitting on where you choose to live is kind of an asshole thing to do. And you're free to disagree with that which I assume you do.
I mean there's complaining about a place, but you seem to genuinely have a distaste not only for the area in which you live, but the people that inhabit that area.
My answer to you was 0% sarcastic, and you managed to reduce your reply to maybe 2% sarcastic. Not bad from the 100% we were both giving a few posts earlier.
Yes LIVED and WORKED (just returning your 2% there ;) ) .... and yes, totally from day 1 planning on leaving, as odd as it seems to look to you, as that is a long-term temp stay you could say I had in NYC.... but yes, always planned on leaving, and BTW after about 4 months, the job wasnt as great as it was advertised and in NYC, when you signed a 1 year lease and you pay $2150 per month rent, you get stuck and the time flies by. Respect your opinion its an asshole thing to do, and yes you nailed it, I do disagree with that. Sometimes you get stuck temporarily more so, rather than it was just you choosing to live somewhere. I fought like an alley rat to scrape out whatever I could find over the past 3 years here, patched together 5 part time gigs like I was clawing at a concrete wall with my fingernails until they bled. NYC is tougher than most people can imagine, its a totally different animal than ANYWHERE I ever lived, and I've lived in A LOT of places, here and abroad. --- it was more torturing to get it all together than anything else. You're also free to disagree with that characterization and I too assume you do.
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NoSavingByTheBell
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El Kabong
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NoSavingByTheBell
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Originally Posted by
El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
No, you can ask. We can do it peacefully Im sure. Yes, I returned to America in August 2015 for the first time since June 2007. 8+ consecutive years abroad without so much as a quick visit to the States. Whilst completing my contract in Ankara, Turkey, in 2015, a co-teacher had gotten a good ESL job in Manhattan, and he offered me a job there upon my completion in Ankara. Seeing as the job I had lined up for September 2015 in Nairobi had fallen through, and our Alien Registration Cards for Turkey were expiring just 30 days after my contract completion, and also had to get out of storage some belongings back in NYC in 2007, we decided to go, briefly, and also... --- in-laws in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn, also Jersey City. Took the job in NYC and held it til Dec. 2018 --- 3 years and change. Started and Won a court case against a sleaze landlord in Jersey City, took 8 months for that in 2018-2019, awarded a hedge fund check from the company that repossessed his house, and traveled across the country from NJ to SF and on the way back stopped in Texas, and out of the blue landed a teaching job.... took it and after a year we got shut down (the schools and the travel). And here we are.
Oh ok so you were LIVING here and WORKING here but you were planning on leaving? That's fine.
Awful nice of you to take time to shit all over this country which afforded you such opportunities. I've traveled abroad, I would live abroad....I doubt I'd shit on where I lived though....seems like an asshole thing to do. Not calling you and asshole, but saying that shitting on where you choose to live is kind of an asshole thing to do. And you're free to disagree with that which I assume you do.
I mean there's complaining about a place, but you seem to genuinely have a distaste not only for the area in which you live, but the people that inhabit that area.
My answer to you was 0% sarcastic, and you managed to reduce your reply to maybe 2% sarcastic. Not bad from the 100% we were both giving a few posts earlier.
Yes LIVED and WORKED (just returning your 2% there ;) ) .... and yes, totally from day 1 planning on leaving, as odd as it seems to look to you, as that is a long-term temp stay you could say I had in NYC.... but yes, always planned on leaving, and BTW after about 4 months, the job wasnt as great as it was advertised and in NYC, when you signed a 1 year lease and you pay $2150 per month rent, you get stuck and the time flies by. Respect your opinion its an asshole thing to do, and yes you nailed it, I do disagree with that. Sometimes you get stuck temporarily more so, rather than it was just you choosing to live somewhere. I fought like an alley rat to scrape out whatever I could find over the past 3 years here, patched together 5 part time gigs like I was clawing at a concrete wall with my fingernails until they bled. NYC is tougher than most people can imagine, its a totally different animal than ANYWHERE I ever lived, and I've lived in A LOT of places, here and abroad. --- it was more torturing to get it all together than anything else. You're also free to disagree with that characterization and I too assume you do.
The capitalization for emphasis was just solidifying the point I was making by the way not sarcasm.
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El Kabong
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NoSavingByTheBell
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El Kabong
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NoSavingByTheBell
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Originally Posted by
El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
I don't. Ever hear of a transit visa? Some countries aren't directly connected to others. Plus got locked down here, you know airline travel is 99% restricted now to most countries. If you're trapped, you're not choosing to live there. Just waiting for the world to accept amerikkkin COVIDIOTS again.
You were here well before COVID kicked off. But you want peace, I'll leave that alone so you can carry on as you were.
No, you can ask. We can do it peacefully Im sure. Yes, I returned to America in August 2015 for the first time since June 2007. 8+ consecutive years abroad without so much as a quick visit to the States. Whilst completing my contract in Ankara, Turkey, in 2015, a co-teacher had gotten a good ESL job in Manhattan, and he offered me a job there upon my completion in Ankara. Seeing as the job I had lined up for September 2015 in Nairobi had fallen through, and our Alien Registration Cards for Turkey were expiring just 30 days after my contract completion, and also had to get out of storage some belongings back in NYC in 2007, we decided to go, briefly, and also... --- in-laws in Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn, also Jersey City. Took the job in NYC and held it til Dec. 2018 --- 3 years and change. Started and Won a court case against a sleaze landlord in Jersey City, took 8 months for that in 2018-2019, awarded a hedge fund check from the company that repossessed his house, and traveled across the country from NJ to SF and on the way back stopped in Texas, and out of the blue landed a teaching job.... took it and after a year we got shut down (the schools and the travel). And here we are.
Oh ok so you were LIVING here and WORKING here but you were planning on leaving? That's fine.
Awful nice of you to take time to shit all over this country which afforded you such opportunities. I've traveled abroad, I would live abroad....I doubt I'd shit on where I lived though....seems like an asshole thing to do. Not calling you and asshole, but saying that shitting on where you choose to live is kind of an asshole thing to do. And you're free to disagree with that which I assume you do.
I mean there's complaining about a place, but you seem to genuinely have a distaste not only for the area in which you live, but the people that inhabit that area.
My answer to you was 0% sarcastic, and you managed to reduce your reply to maybe 2% sarcastic. Not bad from the 100% we were both giving a few posts earlier.
Yes LIVED and WORKED (just returning your 2% there ;) ) .... and yes, totally from day 1 planning on leaving, as odd as it seems to look to you, as that is a long-term temp stay you could say I had in NYC.... but yes, always planned on leaving, and BTW after about 4 months, the job wasnt as great as it was advertised and in NYC, when you signed a 1 year lease and you pay $2150 per month rent, you get stuck and the time flies by. Respect your opinion its an asshole thing to do, and yes you nailed it, I do disagree with that. Sometimes you get stuck temporarily more so, rather than it was just you choosing to live somewhere. I fought like an alley rat to scrape out whatever I could find over the past 3 years here, patched together 5 part time gigs like I was clawing at a concrete wall with my fingernails until they bled. NYC is tougher than most people can imagine, its a totally different animal than ANYWHERE I ever lived, and I've lived in A LOT of places, here and abroad. --- it was more torturing to get it all together than anything else. You're also free to disagree with that characterization and I too assume you do.
The capitalization for emphasis was just solidifying the point I was making by the way not sarcasm.
OK thanks for clarifying. After our sniping going on for so long, one just takes practically everything as sarcasm. All good.
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Re: Taxation: Where do you stand?
https://taxfoundation.org/summary-la...a-2018-update/
The top 50% pay 97% of the tax bill. The bottom 50% pay 3%
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Re: Taxation: Where do you stand?
I think a lot of what sets taxpayers the wrong way is the disconnect to how money in used and misused. Guess that's why we have elections though eh. I can see both sides on the "wealthy" paying a bit more compared lower middleclass but I'm also not a fan of requiring more by hand of Government from an individual based largely on feelings of fairness. Then again when you here about a billionaire (?) dropping the annual income of lower middleclass on haircuts and gel, well that's BS too. But hey..their money. Could be worse like Broner and be sitting in a Popeyes bathroom wiping his arse with hundreds :p. Lets not kid ourselves and think all rich have logged direct miles on the earning front, hands full of calluses and 80 hr weeks. Some are literally born into it. Or win the lotto etc. On the flip side people earning 40k or below get a BS stereotype wrap as settling on less, unmotivated or lower educated etc. You don't know how life has knocked the best laid plans sideways per the individual. Who are we kidding, I'm not rich nowhere near so defuq do I know. What I know is I'm a workaholic and Uncle Sam has been dipping his fingers into my wallet since 1986 and there always seems to be the exact same pothole sitting on my City street waiting to hand me an unexpected bill or some slick hair politico telling me how the price of Pentagon toilet seats has gone up so I better get ready to feel a pinch. People just want to keep their money, especially the ones who literally bleed, sweat and bruise all in a days work to support their family. "Retirement fund"..ha!
What about a flat tax? I've heard it knocked around and on it's face would seem to fall into the fair category. It's simple but maybe that's what some of these codes need. I would be in favor of an incentive and more benefits available to those under a base rate of maybe 50k and without knowing the language some of the write off loopholes in much higher brackets might need some rework. I dunno. I find it hard to hold out hope for individual and corporate tax reform with the current situation and the fact we've boiled everything down to class warfare much of the time.
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Re: Taxation: Where do you stand?
I'm not in favor of the flat tax rate. Same percentage for every wage group? Nah. I just think the stratification needs to be worked on, to create a fair system which yes... puts more burden on the rich... but doesn't create ridiculous extremes that hinder economic growth. Low income wage earners should pay some taxes. Just how much is above my pay grade, but again... the stratification should be fair to all.
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Re: Taxation: Where do you stand?
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Originally Posted by
NoSavingByTheBell
amerikkins -- cursed since Day One from genocide of native Americans and enslavement of Africans -- have been poisoned since the mid-50s, with chemicals in the water and food chain, with sick messages on TV and radio, etc. Now the most disgusting nation on Earth, with the most disgusting people on Earth, and the most hated nation on Earth.... by far. There is no nation on Earth more hated. But oh, "they are all jealous of America".
Yeah, that's why... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::vd:
Damn, those chickens have come home to roost.
Getting worse by the day. And few nations have been spared the wrath of the loser-really loses. USA, Britain and now China has pissed on shat on stepped on developing nations to the point it would make little sense living elsewhere.
