The Goat Pen

from where is this info taken, I mean the previous post by Toe? I'd like to steal... I mean copy it.. to post on my FB page.

wsj.com

*Tax cuts - even under Reagan and Bush, only the Elites received a substantial rate cut.

Bottom rate was cut 33% and the share of taxes paid by the bottom 50% of taxpayers dropped. More people paid zero federal tax.

Top rate was cut 11.6%

Only in the mind of the intellectually dishonest did the bottom rate not receive a larger cut than the top.

W's cuts made the tax code MORE progressive not less. He should be a hero of the left.

In 2010, as the nation continued to recover from the recession, a dizzying 93 percent of the additional income created in the country that year, compared to 2009 - $288 billion - went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those with at least $352,000 in income. That delivered an average single-year pay increase of 11.6 percent to each of those households.

Still more astonishing was the extent to which the super rich got rich faster than the merely rich. In 2010, 37 percent of these additional earnings went to just the top 0.01 percent, a teaspoon-size collection of about 15,000 households with average incomes of $23.8 million. These fortunate few saw their incomes rise by 21.5 percent.

The bottom 99 percent received a microscopic $80 increase in pay per person in 2010, after adjusting for inflation

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opini ... .html?_r=0

"W's cuts made the tax code MORE progressive not less. He should be a hero of the left."

He is a hero of the left. Thanks to him, we're going to have 16 years minimum of a Dem in the oval office...

It ain't ffaaaaiiirrrrrr!

btw - what's the ratio for Pey Pey to the average fan??

What's this hard working entrepreneur's ratio????


Five years after Caroline Kennedy refused to release financial information during her bid to take over Hillary Clinton’s US Senate seat, newly filed documents reveal a personal fortune that could be as high as $500 million.

Toemeesleather,

We sincerely want to thank you for your years of unflagging support and devotion. You being you helps so much in allowing we to be us.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as the hectic fall soiree season has begun in earnest.

Ta ta for now,

The Upper Crust

ut I also think that the Bubba's are about done with the R's. I know I am. The plutocrats that really run the GOP are fairly contemptuous of the social conservatives - almost as much as liberal Democrats. Social conservatives are getting the hint from our betters and aren't voting for the nominees that were picked on the greens of Augusta National anymore.

Does this mean you will vote for a libertarian or conservative 3rd party?

Guardian newspaper was threatened by the UK govt if they did not hand over or destroy all information passed along to them by Snowden

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... CMP=twt_gu

Owlman wrote:

ut I also think that the Bubba's are about done with the R's. I know I am. The plutocrats that really run the GOP are fairly contemptuous of the social conservatives - almost as much as liberal Democrats. Social conservatives are getting the hint from our betters and aren't voting for the nominees that were picked on the greens of Augusta National anymore.

Does this mean you will vote for a libertarian or conservative 3rd party?

I already did. I wrote in Ron Paul in the 2012 general election. I'll probably vote for Rand Paul in the primary, but the Establishment will make sure he never wins the nomination. I suspect the Establishment has already nominated Chris Christie, and all the primaries are for PR purposes only.

The establishment doesn't want Rand Paul to win the primary because they know he's a lock to win the general election!!!!!

McDonnell Scandal update...as a recap for those who aren't aware, Bob McDonnell is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, stock, and other benefits in exchange for favors done for a company called Star Scientific. It's basically ruined his political carreer (he was talk about as a running mate for Romney!!) but it may now also send him to prison.

Maureen McDonnell, the first lady of Virginia, twice purchased thousands of shares of stock in Star Scientific, a spokesman for McDonnell’s legal team confirmed Friday night. The stock was bought and held in the same time frame that she and Gov. Robert F. McDonnell were taking steps to promote the dietary supplement company.

Spokesman Rich Galen said the first lady did not inform the governor either time she purchased stock, which Galen said she bought for herself and her children.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vir ... story.html

Conservative radio host says McDonnell should resign based on most recent allegations

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/19/va-ra ... to-resign/

McDonnell's attorneys meet with federal prosecturos...the CEO of this diet supplement company is supposedly going to turn state's evidence on McDonnell

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vir ... story.html

Obama wants to search your cellphones without a warrant.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... s/?print=1

Dr. Strangelove wrote:The establishment doesn't want Rand Paul to win the primary because they know he's a lock to win the general election!!!!!

For what Dog Catcher?

Rand Paul for the GOP = Ross Perot. 0 electoral votes.

innocentbystander wrote:
Rand Paul for the GOP = Ross Perot.

Probably.

innocentbystander wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:The establishment doesn't want Rand Paul to win the primary because they know he's a lock to win the general election!!!!!

For what Dog Catcher?

Rand Paul for the GOP = Ross Perot. 0 electoral votes.

At a minimum, he'd win Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tenn, Kentucky, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, West Virginia but he'd lose California, New York, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, New Mexico, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Mass, New Jersey, Conn, Del, Rhode Island and probably what is every normal swing state.

Is Rand Paul for legalizing drugs? That might not fly in South Carolina. Then again, maybe it would: "I never thought heroin would get applause in South Carolina"...

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sardis wrote:Obama wants to search your cellphones without a warrant.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... s/?print=1

Naturally I have to side with the crack dealer and sardis on this one.

But the decision by the scotus may be a foregone conclusion, right? Individual liberty has taken several punches to the groin the last dozen or so years. As the usual suspects - patriots to the core - always say: 9/11 changed everything.