Brooklyn Life Open Thread by Emily Nonko 12/08/2010 430 Share Share Brooklyn Life Brooklyn Life Open Thread What's Your Take? Leave a Comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Register to leave a comment, or log in if you already have an account “My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now.” You see no reason for things to improve? Log in to Reply CH – is Mr. B gonna post the link to the holiday party on the main page today? Log in to Reply DC games, cobble, just games. it’s all politics and doesn’t lend itself to logical reasoning. Log in to Reply “Income tax or social security…it really doesn’t matter either way” So then why bother to get involved with SS, then? If it’s the same monies, why not just cut income tax below $1MM, and let the rich pay what they used to pay anyway!! Log in to Reply It’s an aspirational issue, like joe the plumber everyone things they’re going to be rich(thru work or lottery) and not want to pay taxes. DC listens to this drivel and I wonder why smart savvy folks still want to send their money to the swamp. Log in to Reply m4l, it’s just a start. DCB is right, if taxes go up, we will take steps BACKWARD in getting the economy moving and eventually creating jobs. My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now. Log in to Reply Social Security is the most regressive tax we have. Punishes the working poor the most. Log in to Reply “Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it.” I know! I have new found respect for the man! Log in to Reply By Petebklyn on December 8, 2010 9:32 AM Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it. After you’re worth a certain amount of money, say $500MM you automatically turn Democrat anyway. I think most people making more than $1MM would pay more….nobody has actually asked them though!!!!! Log in to Reply < 1 … 43 44 45 46 47 >
“My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now.” You see no reason for things to improve? Log in to Reply
DC games, cobble, just games. it’s all politics and doesn’t lend itself to logical reasoning. Log in to Reply
“Income tax or social security…it really doesn’t matter either way” So then why bother to get involved with SS, then? If it’s the same monies, why not just cut income tax below $1MM, and let the rich pay what they used to pay anyway!! Log in to Reply
It’s an aspirational issue, like joe the plumber everyone things they’re going to be rich(thru work or lottery) and not want to pay taxes. DC listens to this drivel and I wonder why smart savvy folks still want to send their money to the swamp. Log in to Reply
m4l, it’s just a start. DCB is right, if taxes go up, we will take steps BACKWARD in getting the economy moving and eventually creating jobs. My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now. Log in to Reply
Social Security is the most regressive tax we have. Punishes the working poor the most. Log in to Reply
“Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it.” I know! I have new found respect for the man! Log in to Reply
By Petebklyn on December 8, 2010 9:32 AM Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it. After you’re worth a certain amount of money, say $500MM you automatically turn Democrat anyway. I think most people making more than $1MM would pay more….nobody has actually asked them though!!!!! Log in to Reply
“My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now.”
You see no reason for things to improve?
CH – is Mr. B gonna post the link to the holiday party on the main page today?
DC games, cobble, just games. it’s all politics and doesn’t lend itself to logical reasoning.
“Income tax or social security…it really doesn’t matter either way”
So then why bother to get involved with SS, then? If it’s the same monies, why not just cut income tax below $1MM, and let the rich pay what they used to pay anyway!!
It’s an aspirational issue, like joe the plumber everyone things they’re going to be rich(thru work or lottery) and not want to pay taxes.
DC listens to this drivel and I wonder why smart savvy folks still want to send their money to the swamp.
m4l, it’s just a start. DCB is right, if taxes go up, we will take steps BACKWARD in getting the economy moving and eventually creating jobs.
My belief is that 2011 GDP number is above 2% yet unemployment still well above 9% and close to where it is now.
Social Security is the most regressive tax we have. Punishes the working poor the most.
“Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it.”
I know! I have new found respect for the man!
By Petebklyn on December 8, 2010 9:32 AM
Warren Buffet has no problems with his class paying more taxes. And if he thought would stifle job creation, he would be against it.
After you’re worth a certain amount of money, say $500MM you automatically turn Democrat anyway.
I think most people making more than $1MM would pay more….nobody has actually asked them though!!!!!