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Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

Post by aTm » Wed May 02, 2012 11:23 am

My question was for crash
45 % of the population pays nothing to the government
17% of the workforce is employed by the government
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 11:54 am

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crashcourse wrote:45 % of the population pays nothing to the government
ummm..

FICA
state and local income taxes
property and sales taxes
we have poor taxes, really just ignorance taxes

cigarettes
scratch tickets
lottery
chewing backy

of course, these are all taxes they CHOOSE to pay, so its a little different
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Re: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

Post by Toemeesleather » Wed May 02, 2012 12:21 pm

Good God man, it's chewbacky!



..idiot..
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 12:29 pm

Toemeesleather wrote:Good God man, it's chewbacky!



..idiot..
i stand corrected
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Post by AlabamAlum » Wed May 02, 2012 12:56 pm

Around here it's "chaw".
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Post by 10ac » Wed May 02, 2012 12:59 pm

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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 1:09 pm

Toemeesleather wrote:
Certainly repubs hands are not clean everywhere, but you can certainly see who the sickest children are, that is California...Detroit...New Orleans....Michigan...New York...Illinois...D.C....all run (into the ground) by dems.
http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/20 ... education/

Blue states at the top; red at the bottom. Pick any K-12 achievement category and it's almost always the same. Along with per capita funding.
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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 1:14 pm

How 'bout that? It's almost like the '08 prez election map...the top categories voted overwhelmingly for the winner, while the bottom categories threw in with the gop loser.

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Post by Toemeesleather » Wed May 02, 2012 1:16 pm

Obviously my metaphor was way over yer head....
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Post by aTm » Wed May 02, 2012 1:33 pm

So the best educated people in the country elected Romney?
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 1:36 pm

bluetick wrote:How 'bout that? It's almost like the '08 prez election map...the top categories voted overwhelmingly for the winner, while the bottom categories threw in with the gop loser.

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how about that? location, location, location! the states where they have the biggest problems with English as a Second Language/illegal imigration are also the states that get clobbered in math. why are you so surprised?

I grew up in Massachusetts, the state smart enough to elect our next President as their Governor. We all cranked the SATs and ACTs tick. And that is because the Boston suburbs are very homogenous, with near 100% literacy rates. the illegals they have in Boston are from Ireland
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 1:37 pm

aTm wrote:So the best educated people in the country elected Romney?
tick will never touch that
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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 1:41 pm

Toemeesleather wrote:Obviously my metaphor was way over yer head....
The 'Detroit et al as-the sickest-children(states/cities) run into the ground by dems' metaphor?

I absolutely think it's your best work to date.
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Post by sardis » Wed May 02, 2012 1:44 pm

bluetick wrote:
crashcourse wrote:45 % of the population pays nothing to the government
ummm..

FICA
state and local income taxes
property and sales taxes
They paid more under Clinton...

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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 1:52 pm

aTm wrote:So the best educated people in the country elected Romney?
Yepper, a blue state elected Romney.

Which, as we all know, led to romneycare...which, as we all know, led to obamacare.

this is going to be the best 6 months ever around here
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 2:01 pm

bluetick wrote:
aTm wrote:So the best educated people in the country elected Romney?
Yepper, a blue state elected Romney.

Which, as we all know, led to romneycare...which, as we all know, led to obamacare.

this is going to be the best 6 months ever around here
as I said, Massachusetts is homogenous. the illegals they have are Irish (and maybe Domincan.) It is much easier to enforce a health care mandate at a state level when 90% of the state was already working technology/academia jobs and HAD health insurance, than it is to enforce a Federal mandate that reaches Arizona where 10%+ of the population is living here illegally. why the fuck would criminals buy health insurance simply because NOT having it was against the law?

having fun yet?

Tick, do you have a CLUE what Federalism is? It is okay if you don't, our President doesn't know what Federalism is either. But Mitt Romney knows.
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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 2:07 pm

oprama vs the mittster

It's like 7/27 - and I'm holding a five and a pair of aces.

y'all just keep feeding the pot, ok?
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Post by bluetick » Wed May 02, 2012 2:09 pm

innocentbystander wrote:
bluetick wrote:
aTm wrote:So the best educated people in the country elected Romney?
Yepper, a blue state elected Romney.

Which, as we all know, led to romneycare...which, as we all know, led to obamacare.

this is going to be the best 6 months ever around here
as I said, Massachusetts is homogenous. the illegals they have are Irish (and maybe Domincan.) It is much easier to enforce a health care mandate at a state level when 90% of the state was already working technology/academia jobs and HAD health insurance, than it is to enforce a Federal mandate that reaches Arizona where 10%+ of the population is living here illegally. why the fuck would criminals buy health insurance simply because NOT having it was against the law?

having fun yet?

Tick, do you have a CLUE what Federalism is? It is okay if you don't, our President doesn't know what Federalism is either. But Mitt Romney knows.
lmao

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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 2:19 pm

tick, there was going to be a GOP candidate for President

seriously, among the GOP candidates, who is most qualified to describe the differences (to the moderates) between Romneycare and Obamacare than Willard Mitt Romney?
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Post by innocentbystander » Wed May 02, 2012 4:43 pm

bluetick wrote:oprama vs the mittster

It's like 7/27 - and I'm holding a five and a pair of aces.

y'all just keep feeding the pot, ok?
Its not that Obama is a bad guy, but the marginal benefit of putting him in power has unequivocably been negative.

There is nothing in his agenda that would lead any rational person to believe that the economy will prosper, any uptick is in spite of his agenda, not because of it...
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