Oh look, Bill O'Reilly is protecting the rich again! You will be very surprised to learn that in a Monday segment that was ostensibly about "income inequality in America," O'Reilly explained that the real inequality in America is all abouthow tough the rich have it,
Here's a true story: Two nights ago I had a dream that I randomly encountered Billo in a parking lot I was wandering through. It was a younger, even more aggressively assholish Billo. He was harassing someone, so I started snarking at him viciously. He turned his attention to me and tried to snark back, but was pathetically outgunned.
I finally got him irked enough for physical violence, and he says: "okay tough guy, let's settle this man to man". I said something like: "okay, you go find one and I'll wait here". He sneered at me as he took off his suit jacket and wrapped it around his right forearm. I noticed he was clutching a white plastic fork in his left hand as he struck a "menacing ready-pose" that would've made James T. Kirk proud. "Oh, I see what we're doing, we're gonna do it up gladiator-style!" I remarked as I wrapped my coat around my left forearm in kind.
Billo, or course, had to boast that he had more to lose because his jacket was more expensive. I told him he "probably shouldn't have invented a game where it was going to get wrecked then" and then I jumped in and smashed him hard in the face with my wrapped forearm, causing his head to snap back in an extremely satisfying manner.
I dropped my fork, my strategy was to use my right hand to grab his shirt and yank him toward my incoming left forearm smashes. It worked EVERY time, and every time he fell on his ass and then scrambled back to his feet, while mocking ME as if HE were the one who *wasn't* getting his ass kicked.
Interestingly, this wasn't frustrating to me in the least, it actually made it more fun to continue flawlessly dodging his inept attacks and then obnoxiously using the exact same tactic over and over and over and watching him land on his ass again and again, all the while learning nothing...
I'm not big on the idea of dreams having deep meanings, so make of it what you will, but I admit I had a lot of fun relentlessly tormenting and outclassing Billo at every turn...
The Laffer curve, in itself, makes a certain amount of sense. What does not make sense is the republican dogma that tax rates are always to the right of the peak, and that cutting tax rates will always result in a growth in revenue.
"This year — 2015 — the feds will gather more tax money than ever before, about $3 trillion.
That’s because since taking office President Obama has proposed 442 tax increases, not counting 20 others associated with Obamacare."
Bill's an old guy. You can't expect him to understand this kind of stuff anymore. He says this to other old folks and they can all go on about how it was different in "my day", because like Bill, it's too complicated for them. Of course, they pretty much thought the same about the old geezers when they were young geezers. So there is a nice circularity to it.
It's a gross oversimplification - eg - if you hid part of your income and declared part - there would be some revenue at 100% tax. I don't see any actual evidence that it would have one peak, or be a curve. It could even be a straight gently upward line - which would invalidate every argument it's ever used to support.
Its only practical use is as a marketing tool to justify lowering taxes for rich people, which is why you never see anybody refer to it except conservatives with an agenda to lower taxes for rich people.
and that's why they have Walmart - keep the poors sedated with some cheap goods ( shit they got a t.v so they aren't really poor- like the ones who make all that crap), and get rich doing it - American Exceptional ism all the way
I just read that Milo Yappalotomus article about WE NEED TO TAX TEH POORS MOAR at the Breitbart Home For The Batshit and now I have to light some heavy furniture on fire and hurl it out of an upper-story window.
My mother - a regular Faux Nooz viewer - has been saying that the rich have it so, so painfully rough for a while now. She's retired, living on a fixed income, and money is really tight for her, but she says she feels desperately bad for people making over 300K a year because of all the taxes.
It's just pure coincidence that she's estimated that my brother (widely acknowledged within my family to be her favorite child...to the point that we are amazed he's allowed to sit on the furniture, what with the sun shining out of his asshole and all) makes over 300K a year.
Here's a true story: Two nights ago I had a dream that I randomly encountered Billo in a parking lot I was wandering through. It was a younger, even more aggressively assholish Billo. He was harassing someone, so I started snarking at him viciously. He turned his attention to me and tried to snark back, but was pathetically outgunned.
I finally got him irked enough for physical violence, and he says: "okay tough guy, let's settle this man to man". I said something like: "okay, you go find one and I'll wait here". He sneered at me as he took off his suit jacket and wrapped it around his right forearm. I noticed he was clutching a white plastic fork in his left hand as he struck a "menacing ready-pose" that would've made James T. Kirk proud. "Oh, I see what we're doing, we're gonna do it up gladiator-style!" I remarked as I wrapped my coat around my left forearm in kind.
Billo, or course, had to boast that he had more to lose because his jacket was more expensive. I told him he "probably shouldn't have invented a game where it was going to get wrecked then" and then I jumped in and smashed him hard in the face with my wrapped forearm, causing his head to snap back in an extremely satisfying manner.
I dropped my fork, my strategy was to use my right hand to grab his shirt and yank him toward my incoming left forearm smashes. It worked EVERY time, and every time he fell on his ass and then scrambled back to his feet, while mocking ME as if HE were the one who *wasn't* getting his ass kicked.
Interestingly, this wasn't frustrating to me in the least, it actually made it more fun to continue flawlessly dodging his inept attacks and then obnoxiously using the exact same tactic over and over and over and watching him land on his ass again and again, all the while learning nothing...
I'm not big on the idea of dreams having deep meanings, so make of it what you will, but I admit I had a lot of fun relentlessly tormenting and outclassing Billo at every turn...
So, you were Billo in your dream? Weird....
The Laffer curve, in itself, makes a certain amount of sense. What does not make sense is the republican dogma that tax rates are always to the right of the peak, and that cutting tax rates will always result in a growth in revenue.
"This year — 2015 — the feds will gather more tax money than ever before, about $3 trillion.
That’s because since taking office President Obama has proposed 442 tax increases, not counting 20 others associated with Obamacare."
Bill's an old guy. You can't expect him to understand this kind of stuff anymore. He says this to other old folks and they can all go on about how it was different in "my day", because like Bill, it's too complicated for them. Of course, they pretty much thought the same about the old geezers when they were young geezers. So there is a nice circularity to it.
I think you have a bright future in this sort of commentating. To aid in your development, I would suggest that you review this classic:
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The poor have it very well, that must be what "rush to the bottom" phrase I hear about actually means.
It's a gross oversimplification - eg - if you hid part of your income and declared part - there would be some revenue at 100% tax. I don't see any actual evidence that it would have one peak, or be a curve. It could even be a straight gently upward line - which would invalidate every argument it's ever used to support.
Its only practical use is as a marketing tool to justify lowering taxes for rich people, which is why you never see anybody refer to it except conservatives with an agenda to lower taxes for rich people.
Shorter Billo: Eat Me!
and that's why they have Walmart - keep the poors sedated with some cheap goods ( shit they got a t.v so they aren't really poor- like the ones who make all that crap), and get rich doing it - American Exceptional ism all the way
As with all religious icons, Bill is free to pick and choose what Reagan said and did.
I just read that Milo Yappalotomus article about WE NEED TO TAX TEH POORS MOAR at the Breitbart Home For The Batshit and now I have to light some heavy furniture on fire and hurl it out of an upper-story window.
That minger has no gag reflex for the Big Business oligarchs. Probably swallows, too.
He deserves to be punched right in his tea bags.
My mother - a regular Faux Nooz viewer - has been saying that the rich have it so, so painfully rough for a while now. She's retired, living on a fixed income, and money is really tight for her, but she says she feels desperately bad for people making over 300K a year because of all the taxes.
It's just pure coincidence that she's estimated that my brother (widely acknowledged within my family to be her favorite child...to the point that we are amazed he's allowed to sit on the furniture, what with the sun shining out of his asshole and all) makes over 300K a year.
Maybe we could just make all teh poorz Amway distributors.
[citation needed]
Mmm, what a pleasant image that conjures up...