A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23…
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23 in other parties and 117 who did not list a party. That breakdown is echoed by the overwhelmingly Democratic makeup of Assembly District 52, as well as that of Brooklyn, which voted 79 percent for Senator John Kerry in 2004.” The McCain supporters are old school Slopers, writes the Times: residents from long before the Manhattan exodus who say the block was full of Roman Catholics and firemen when they arrived. But donkeys and elephants alike seem to be getting along: old and new, Obama and McCain-lovers. As one Democratic neighbor said about his neighbor’s signs, “To me, that says the person’s possibly open to some dialogue.
An Outpost in the Blue Sea of Brooklyn [NY Times]
Photo by moralesdirect.
Point well taken DIBS and Profrobert but it’s not just federal….it’s also state and local, then I’m phased out on absolutely every possible state and federal bailout one can get! So my actual tax burden rises lots more than the marginal increase projected.
from the IRS as of last October:
The top 1% paid 39% of the total taxes
The top 5% paid 60%
The top 10% paid 70%
The top 25% paid 86%
The top 50% paid 97%, and
The bottom 50% paid only 3% of the total taxes.
To make the top 1%, one needed to earn $364,657; to
make the top 5%, the break point was $145,283; to make
it into the top 10% on needed $103,912; the break for the
top 25% was at $62,068, and for the top 50% the break
came at $30,811.
I’m all for paying my fair share but JESUS CHRIST! I’ve taken to adding tons of “green” crap to my house just to write shit off.
Listen, I don’t expect folks to pull out a violin for me but I pay ALOT in taxes already….and to increase them while everything else I pay increases (RE Taxes also) to pay for Iraqi infrastructure while we have bridges falling here is tough for me to swallow.
DIBS – you beat me too it – Ever so What-like! Whoa!
PS, dear, what is it that you and What are seeing that I do not see…pray do tell so I can get my ‘go bag’ together.
I wish her inarticulate flubs were as comical as Reagans.
Snarky – you do know that the income tax you pay is the minimum you need to pay? You can write an extra check to the IRS if you want.
Learned man that OWH was, unfortunately only a small portion of our taxes go to what he hoped for. Plenty goes to the military.
Now charitable contributions, they do buy civilization. or acres of rainforest, or medical aid for Africa.
daveinbedstuy-
I can assure you I am not The What, honestly.
Also, for those who in the past have mistaken my handle for me being a religious zealot, I’m not that either. My belief in apocalypse has nothing to do with religious silliness.
Sarah Palin will be ruling the Senate if she gets elected. never mind what the constitution has to say about that!!
It won’t get us out of that hole, it will make it grow more slowly though. US hedge”money” is over.
“I like to pay taxes,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes. “With them I buy civilization.”
“who wants to pay more taxes than they currently pay”
if it means climbing out of the fiscal hole the borrow-and-spend policies have got us into, me.