The Goat Pen

bluetick wrote:91%? It may take the Second Coming to move from 33 back to 36..

and Jesus said "let the pre-2001 rates come unto mine"

bluetick wrote:1933 - Alarmed by newly-elected Roosevelt's plan to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, a group of millionaire businessmen led by the Du Pont and J. P. Morgan empires, plans to overthrow Roosevelt with a military coup and install a fascist government modeled after Mussolini's regime in Italy. The businessmen attempt to recruit General Smedlley Butler, promising him an army of 500,000, unlimited financial backing and generous media spin control. The plot is foiled when Butler reports it to Congress.

sardis wrote:Top rate is 43.4%. You are forgetting the extra hit from ACA. I know it's still not enough for you.

Professor Tiger wrote:The heavy hitters have a whole army of tax lawyers and legal maneuvers that ensure they will never pay their nominally astronomical tax rate.

Jungle Rat wrote:[youtube]IVNKNz-lc6k[/youtube]

When the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination broke, it was met with a level of shock and horror that may be difficult for fully appreciate 50 years later. On the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, the Boston Symphony Orchestra was preparing for its usual Friday concert, to be broadcast live on WGBH. Music director Erich Leinsdorf learned of the president's death less than 10 minutes before the concert was to begin, according to NPR. He relayed an urgent message to the symphony librarian, William Shisler, to get the music for the funeral march from Beethoven's Third Symphony and distribute it to all the musicians immediately. Listen to the clip above as Leinsdorf calmly breaks the news to the audience that Kennedy is dead and the symphony plays a heartbreaking requiem for the city's beloved native son.

Toemeesleather wrote:Will/Scalise nails it.....



For concision and precision in describing Barack Obama’s suddenly ambivalent relationship with his singular — actually, his single — achievement, the laurels go to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.).

After Obama’s semi-demi-apology for millions of canceled insurance policies — an intended and predictable consequence of his crusade to liberate Americans from their childish choices of “substandard” policies sold by “bad apple” insurers — Scalise said Obama is like someone who burns down your house. Then shows up with an empty water bucket. Then lectures you about how defective the house was.