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[kharmii.livejournal.com]

All of us should have a tax burden that light.

[american-geist.livejournal.com]

LOL enjoy not having roads.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

And enjoy all your medics and computer technicians being from India.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

While being an unemployed medic or computer technician over here, don't forget.

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

Let's get rid of medicare, medicaid, and about 90% of the military. Then you can have your peanuts.

Of course, that means lots of people will die preventably, but who gives a shit about them. They're poor and/or old. They're just a burden on a capitalist society.

[thies.livejournal.com]

They're poor and/or old.

get a job commies!

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

...and disabled. don't forget the disabled. Oh wait, that was the point...

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

must not godwin thread.... must not godwin thread...

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Cause TCP/IP would have totally happened without DARPA.

[thies.livejournal.com]

without the government throwing tax money at elitist scientists the free market would have developed a better and cheaper alternative instead of the socialist internet we have today. Same with NASA, without the government fat cats meddling in spaceflight we'd have colonies in Andromeda by now, obviously.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The free market would have ended (exported) slavery without that nasty government civil war. The free market would have stopped hitler too!

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Oh, Free Market! Is there nothing you couldn't have done without the hobnailed boots of government on your wonderful neck?

[american-geist.livejournal.com]

Whoever colors Lukovich's work should be fired immediately.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Why's it always gotta be about color?

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

purple *is* royalty

[forevernew.livejournal.com]

It looks like he's bleeding from the eye. I was quite startled at first.

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

hmm yes it would have been better to have given him a gold chain

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

For 1999, 6.3 million taxpayers whose incomes were in the top 5 percent paid more than 55 percent of all income taxes. They had adjusted gross incomes above $120,846 a year, meaning spouses could earn a bit over $60,000 each and be considered among the nation's richest.
The wealthiest 1 percent — those earning $293,415 and up — paid more than a third of the taxes, while their share of the nation's taxable income was 19 percent. They pay income taxes at the top rate, now 38.6 percent, compared with a maximum rate of 15 percent for most lower-earning taxpayers.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/taBx.htm

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

I already have a bowler hat I need to get myself monocle and cig holder so I can get some tax breaks!

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Honestly, old thing, he's wearing a topper. Bowlers are more like the Orangemen wear.

Get ye down to Lock & Co.

http://www.lockhatters.co.uk/

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

well heh bowler's what I have, it's very western :)

[sophia-daniels.livejournal.com]

i saw an interesting facebook comment that's related to this topic.

"So how many hours of work per month should a person contribute to the general welfare in order to be paying their "fair share." I speak in hours because it is the one commodity that we all have the same of, that is what makes it "fair" at least in some sense of the word. Why should a garage mechanic have to contribute 4 days a month of work to the country, and a hedge fund trader only one day a month? Or whatever it is."

wait a second...

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

why is he labeled "rich"? Come on people...

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[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

IKR

Surely the monocle, the international sign of wealthy fat cat straw man, is enough :P

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[rimpala.livejournal.com]

Of course it may be a form of bling, like remember those necklaces with the giant $'s ? Almost along the same lines...

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[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Bling is the black man's monocle...

It all makes sense now.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I thought he just couldn't afford a whole pair of glasses.