Wow!!!!!

[Boehlertaught]

All of this made me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[TurboFinger]

this cartoon is from 100 years ago. they knew then what would happen.....why is anyone shocked?

 

[Hobbes]

The government can tax the "rich" at a 100% and still can't pay for the Obama spending for more than 90 days.

By your logic here there is no reason to end the Obamphone program because the savings wouldn't even run the government for a single day.

 

[RickN]

We might could get some of the big corporations to bring at least some of that money back to the US, if we were not the only country to double tax the same money they pay taxes on in other countries. Might also help if we did not have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world.

 

[dowmace]

One thing that ultimately pisses me off is that I will never receive social security I'm far too young for what the cutoff was a few years ago I think it was something like you had to be 55 in 2005 to expect to receive social security in your old age.

So this is something that I will never have an option to receive and am paying for. I have no qualms with paying it currently because it pays for all of the current citizens in their golden years. But in 40 years when they are all gone I'm sure I'll still be paying social security, where will it all be going? I don't have the numbers on who gets social security in what percentage but I have heard previously that it was something like 30% disabled and 70% elderly. Where will that percentage be in coming years?

Example.

My ex-wife had a worthless boyfriend who was blind in his left eye because he was too stupid to wear his welding hood at work. He was a druggy so he didn't get any workers comp (moron) so she tried to get him disability from the government because he is "handicapped". Guess why I left her....

 

[freeranger]

Best solution is to cut the federal government down to the enumerated powers mentioned in the Constitution. The result is that the federal government will be small and thus requiring only a small amount of funds to operate. And we get to keep more of our money to spend on more guns and ammo and bacon.

 

[ez bake]

We might could get some of the big corporations to bring at least some of that money back to the US, if we were not the only country to double tax the same money they pay taxes on in other countries. Might also help if we did not have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world.

Would love to see some proof of this. I'm honestly not being augmentative either - I just know that while our taxes are high, we have plenty of loopholes and what not and it's not as if other countries don't come with penalties (lots of best-shoring companies are finding out the hard way that those countries' benefits come with a hefty price-tag in the way of governance, workforce, infrastructure, or Government control).

 

[mikey3452]

did the state ever start drug testing the ppl that applied for welfare? I would like to see that.