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Discussing the “fiscal cliff” deal, with Thomas Peterffy, Interactive Brokers founder & CEO. “As a result of the tax increases, we are going to collect substantially less revenues than we thought,” he says.
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Oh, come on. Raising tax rates always results in higher revenues.
Well, on Bizarro World, anyway.
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@ lobo91:
In Progressive land!
2+2=5
this country needs some sort of national venue that is so popular and informative that no pol dare resist an invite…a place where our Divine Elected are made to discuss issues and expose ignorance thus showing America the character and failed insights of our leaders….then I woke up and remembered my govt is a fraud, a criminal enterprise of deceit and arm busting
if Americans dig AmIdol politics, then I say cram it down their throats til they gag…of course, if you have no skin in the game you cannot vote
Once again Liberals get bit in the ass for ignoring the Laffer curve.
I maxed out my 401K contribution just to deny the government “my fair share”.
At least the big publicly owned companies have a chance to get me a little return.
Giving it to the government just goes to union extortionist, liberals, and corporate shakedown artists (like the Solyndra executives).
ObamaCare & his new taxes are killing job creation.
I think that BHO is cool with that, more government
dependecy.
@ lobo91:
they quit teaching economics in school for a reason
Rodan wrote:
insider trading…illegal
betting on a sport you participate in…illegal
influencing foreign elections…illegal
driving a car without a license…illegal
voting without paying taxes…legal and vigorously encouraged
@ heysoos:
Unless you’re in Congress.
the welfare state controls American economics…chew on that…illiterate and broke, living off the feds, they are empowered by liberals against us…herd them into fed housing, feed them food and water, cheat them out of any chance for a proper education, buy them a TV…these people control the working lives and personal economics of the working stiffs who are bound by law to be enslaved by them….the pigs are loose
and the feds threaten me with compliance or penalty?…hahaha!
go fuck yourself
heysoos wrote:
The pigs are loose? Drive them through Gaza, ten thousand strong!
lobo91 wrote:
that’s the point…an election to the House is the very best job ever dreamed up
heysoos wrote:
Just ask Hank Johnson!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
both my kids were unbelievably sloppy…straight A students tho…I’d look at their space, the material carnage and just shake my head…the pigs are loose…my daughter explained to me one time that when clothes need to be washed more than three times, throw them away dad…eeewwww!…they both survived and have cleaned up their acts…but really
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
arkansas razorbacks!
coldwarrior wrote:
Precisely.
by high school my boy, the Homecoming King, had learned to con his girlfriends into cleaning his cool T-Bird…I knew then he was headed for greatness
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
those are some mean and nasty and destructive swine right there
heysoos wrote:
impressive!
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep. That’s my solution to the Hamas problem; 10,000 of them stampeded south from the north end of Gaza.
coldwarrior wrote:
I tells ya…I never had so much fun in my life as raising my kids…very little trouble but tons of hilarity…now I have two new little pirates to corrupt
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
oh, i would pay money to see that!
achmed’s head would explode!
One of my suggestions years ago at 1.0 was to drop Hogzilla from 8 miles high right on top of the Borg ship in Mecca.
@ coldwarrior:
And, it’s organic!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
i was up in the wilds of the ozarks and came face to face with one of those big pigs. it wasnt scared of me one iota. i backed away real slow like…
the stink !!! wow!
Will they leave their heavily-armed security details at home?
@ lobo91:
he is desperate to cover up the economy.
The solution to the West Bank problem—the “Treif, Don’t Strafe Solution”—is more prosaic:
1) Israel announces that it recognizes Jordan as the only legitimate “Palestinian” state, and that it recognizes the Arab “right of return” to Jordan only.
2) Announce that the Arabs who claim to be “Palestinian” will receive $50,000 a head to exercise their right of return, upon signing a quitclaim to any claims they may have to anything whatsoever in the Land of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
3) This $50,000 will drop to $40,000 if it is not exercised in one month. It will drop $10,000 per month thereafter until it reaches $0.
4) Once the relocation allowance reaches zero, all the “Palestinian”-held areas in the West Bank will be systematically and repeatedly cropdusted with pig fat.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
hey now! thats a horrible waste of lard!
coldwarrior wrote:
I never realized just how big hogs could get until I stayed with my grandparents one summer back in the late 60′s. These beasts were huge, and yes the smell. Yowzer. I had to feed them and then shovel out the crap they wallowed in. I was glad when that summer was over.
@ lobo91:
I’ll have to ready my Obamitler sign for his Texas swing.
With my new standard greeting of course (1st Amendment and all that).
How can this be? We were told that raising these taxes would raise revenue by $60B. No way that the regime would lie to us. Nah, this hs to be wrong.
@ AZfederalist:
They did not lie. They were quoted out of context.
Because “gun control” doesn’t poll well, the new hotness is “reduce gun violence”. Never mind that none of what they are proposing will do that — hasn’t worked in Chicago, NYC, or D.C. with the draconian gun laws they already have and their rates are higher than those places that are less restrictive. But somehow, that flies right past the dense skulls in the democrat media (but I repeat myself).
It’s not about guns ,it’s about control.
ozzy, ozzy, ozzy…
I like the way Peterffy refused to let Maria control the conversation.
He just shrugged off her questions and said what he came on to say.
Maria thinks people can’t comprehend the problem of SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN YOU HAVE. Helloooo. Too deep for the little people who have made a family budget all their lives. /
OUCH
It’s not the debt ceiling that’s the problem. It’s the debt. It’s the lying liar investment banks and hedge funds that created derivatives which required bank bailouts at the taxpayers expense.
Risk management implies that you get a reward commensurate to risk. For the well-connected financial manipulators, there is no risk. They make bets (aka derivatives) that are like turtles all the way down. Except there are no turtles because there’s no counterparty if you are Goldman Sachs and take both sides of the bet while making money on commissions and such.
Eeeeevil.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Good one!
@ coldwarrior:
http://www.fakeposters.com/posters/meanwhile-soup/
Hmmmm. Getting closer to my Thursday night ebay addicts anonymous meeting.
@ song_and_dance_man:
yeah, whoa
Passing this along for those interested. No link. Info is from another forum. Many confirm it is ligit and have taken advantage of the offer.
another magnificent sunset ready to impose itself on the citizens of Albuquerque…what’s not to like about New Mexico?
@ Dolphin:
Thank you.
House Republicans weighing short-term debt limit increase
Actually they’re fine with less in… the faster they can do in the currency and make their own
@ Guggi:
One more step toward political oblivion…
…but hey they can enjoy the dinner parties until then.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Guggi wrote:
Boehner must be a masochist.
And the smears begin:
What did a Georgia congressman have to do with the Newtown shootings? Not a damn thing, aside from believing in the Second Amendment.
Of course, the gutless punks who created this video diabled comments…
I believe…
I believe I’ll dust my broom
Off topic. The Algerian hostage standoff is over. The bus attack that occurred between the plant and airport was beaten off and most potential hostages escaped. The second attack on the plant was successful and up to 41 foreign hostages were taken as well as hundreds of Algerian workers who were only lightly guarded and most escaped. Now the foreign hostages are free with an unknown number killed in the rescue attempt.
This is what happens when you let idiot politicians write laws about things they don’t understand:
yenta-fada wrote:
After the 2008 bail out the bankers are back in the derivative business yet again. Goldman Sachs has just posted a massive profit back into the billions yet again. And so the money merry-go-round continues until the next collapse and harvesting of taxpayers’ dollars by these banking raiders.
Obama whores small children to ramp up gun-grab.
What a despicable piece of shit.
I think an inherent desire to not experience rural and suburban America is the greatest fault of liberals…cooped up on the coasts is no way to live but their instinctive resistance to reality delays their enlightenment…they prefer to isolate themselves and are then shocked when principled disagreement does not favor their view…sorta like children, and that’s how they should be treated
heysoos wrote:
Lord help me, I am late to the party but heysoos is making sense tonight.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
yup…a new form of liberal pedophilia
and this is news worthy ?
(WaPo)
No representation without taxation.
Everyone needs some ‘skin’ in the game to ensure that they concentrate!
coldwarrior wrote:
In church they have big tin containers on the candle stands filled with clean sand. You put the candles in there. When they burn down to the sand, they go out. No glass that can break.
The kids are taught early on to keep their clothes and hair away from the candles.
@ lobo91:
That article is wrong, BTW. NY State Police don’t carry 9mm sidearms, although NYPD do.
The State cops carry the Glock 37, which is a 10 shot pistol chambered for the .45GAP round.
what do events mean to a welfare mother that has lived off the feds for 3 generations?…they are like cattle, you can’t let them starve, so you feed them…to allow this liberal created class of people to vote is preposterous…I’m flexible but this is suicide
our niceness will be our downfall…bet me
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What about sales taxes, excise taxes, property taxes, use taxes, license fees, and so on… I don’t believe that there is anybody that doesn’t pay some sort of tax or fee now days. I really think the “tax free person” is an urban legend.
@ heysoos:
Technically, I think it’s more like homicide. The left created this situation deliberately in order to destroy the country.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
well what about the entitlement class? If you pay sales tax with someone else’s money are you really paying tax?
heysoos wrote:
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Sun Tzu: if you feed your enemy you have a well feed enemy.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I got the tax me, tax you blues dude…it never ends, but how is it spent?…we have lost the ability to control govt, now it controls us…unacceptable
New thread.
@ brookly red:
Yes. It’s yours after you receive it. Just because someone may be completely supported by the Government doesn’t mean they don’t pay any taxes. I don’t pay any income taxes but I do pay the other taxes and fees and I don’t get one cent from the government. The “skin in the game” test is based on a faulty premise.