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Cornbread wrote:
Weekly jobless claims fall 13,000, to 348,000! Oh no...Obama re-election is about sealed.

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Govs93 wrote:
Funny how TA's year old analogy e-mail doesn't take into account corporations like Goldman Sachs who paid 1.1% in taxes on their $2,000,000,000 profits. It doesn't take into account the fact that Citigroup paid 0% in taxes on their $4,000,000,000 profit the same year that Dubya gave them a $2,500,000,000,000 bailout. Exxon Mobile took in $19,000,000,000 and paid how much in taxes? That's right, 0%. How much of a rebate did they get from the IRS? $156,000,000.

That's the answer, BB. Well, that, and putting an end to Dubya's unnecessary war that cost us trillions as well. That'll save us a bundle in defense spending.

CNT, TA, and the rest of their crowd like to send around dumbed down chain e-mails and try to pass them off as the whole story, even though their chock full with half truths, and blatant lies. If they were smart enough, they'd simply do a quick check of Snopes.com before they spammed the rest of their sheep friends with this ****, and save them some storage space in their inbox. But why do they do this? To try and rile up the rest of their crowd that is scientifically proven to be dumber on average, and chain mails are an easy way to do it.

The real sad part (for you sheep anyway) is that the chuckleheads you're trotting out there as candidates are spouting the same garbage that TA is... And fighting like a bunch of 13 year girls all the while. Further proof that conservatives are incredibly stupid. You seem to think you have a chance to knock Obama out of office, and what do you do? Call each other liars and dirty politicians. That'll help. Morons.

And don't get me going on the Minnesota GOP. If they have the balls to run in 2012 on a platform of "fiscal responsibility" while they're in $2,000,000 worth of debt... Uffda. How come the sheep that donated aren't up in arms about how their money was spent with them?!

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Even in your Darwin world their were those that had and those that didn't..and just because the smarter, resourcful one had something, that didn't mean the one that didn't was entitled to any of it, and if they tried to force take it they got the club! thus the begging of the Democrats today!

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As Americans sit down to file their federal tax returns, a simple question comes to mind -- what's a "fair share" to give the federal government in taxes?

For half the working population, fair means paying almost no income taxes at all.

"The top 10 percent income earners pay about 70 percent of federal income taxes," says Will McBride of the Tax Foundation. "The bottom 50 percent of tax filers have, they pay almost no federal income tax. They pay about 3 percent of federal income taxes."

President Obama’s phrase that everyone should “pay our fair share of taxes” has become something of a political mantra. He has used the expression in dozens of speeches, beginning back in his State of Union address in January. More recently, he told University students in Virginia, "we do expect everyone to do their fair share.”

But for many of the people who pay no taxes, the government also allows tax credits, which end up providing refunds.

"Close to a hundred billion in checks sent out by the IRS (go) to folks who have no tax liability," McBride said. "So the IRS is becoming a spending agency."

Arthur Brooks, head of the American Enterprise Institute, put it this way: "Half of the people who don’t pay anything in federal income taxes -- about half of them pay less than zero."

But Brooks says the system is tilted even more toward those in the middle class and below because they also get services from the federal government. As a result the per capita value of government spending exceeds what those individuals pay in federal taxes.

"Right now about 70 percent of Americans take more out of the tax system than they put into it, according to the Tax Foundation," Brooks said."That's something that should really alarm a lot of Americans."

The policies that left so many people paying no income taxes have been supported by presidents of both parties, and despite what Americans tell pollsters they believe is fair, that’s not how it shakes out.

"The interesting thing is that about two-thirds of Americans think that everybody should pay something,” Brooks said, "so they remember that our government isn't free."

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Cornbread wrote:
if i was sec of d and the prez gave me permission the iran navy would be at the bottom of the gulf, nuke plant would be ashes, afghan and pakistan border area would be a wasteland, a-10's and apaches with border state NG troops would be patrolling the borders daily, no troops in afghan, iraq and many other countries.

sounds better than your sanctions and lets talk policy!