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| Yao Last Online: Today 09:00 AM Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: At home
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| And the Clinton hits just keep on coming: Point: ABC News: Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination Quote:
Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 11, 2008) - These people are disgusting Quote:
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Calling all Clinton supporters to pack your billy clubs for the trip to Denver?
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| Senior Member | The Ant & the Grasshopper The Old Version: The ant works hard in the withering heat all sum mer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! The Democrat Version: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & Barack Obama exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the 2007 summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just h appens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008 Shamlessly ripped from here
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| Watching the Wheels Last Online: Today 10:00 AM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: east of Pattaya
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| Tempted to put this in the 'why Obama will win' thread, but do you reckon this little snippet of information might have some bearing on the election, indeed on the marketability of Obamas tax reform policies Two-thirds of firms avoid US income tax Two-thirds of US corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office released on Monday said about 68 per cent of foreign companies doing business in the US avoided corporate taxes over the same period. Collectively, the companies reported trillions of US dollars in sales, according to GAO's estimate. "It's shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country," said Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan, who asked for the GAO study with Democratic Senator Carl Levin. An outside tax expert, Chris Edwards of the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, said increasing numbers of limited liability corporations and so-called "S" corporations pay taxes under individual tax codes. "Half of all business income in the United States now ends up going through the individual tax code," Edwards said. The GAO study did not investigate why corporations weren't paying federal income taxes or corporate taxes and it did not identify any corporations by name. It said companies may escape paying such taxes due to operating losses or because of tax credits. More than 38,000 foreign corporations had no tax liability in 2005 and 1.2 million US companies, or 66.7 per cent of them, paid no income tax, the GAO said. Combined, the companies had $US2.5 trillion ($A2.87 trillion) in sales. About 25 per cent of large US corporations - those with at least $US250 million ($A287 million) in assets or $US50 million ($A57 million) in receipts - did not pay corporate taxes. The GAO said it analysed data from the Internal Revenue Service, examining samples of corporate returns for the years 1998 through 2005. For 2005, for example, it reviewed 110,003 tax returns from among more than 1.2 million corporations doing business in the US. Dorgan and Levin have complained about companies abusing transfer prices - amounts charged on transactions between companies in a group, such as a parent and subsidiary. In some cases, multinational companies can manipulate transfer prices to shift income from higher to lower tax jurisdictions, cutting their tax liabilities. The GAO did not suggest which companies might be doing this. "It's time for the big corporations to pay their fair share," Dorgan said. Two-thirds of firms avoid US income tax - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News What does Mr and Mrs middle America think about this, I wonder? It seems a strange dichotomy, but the staunchest Republican supporters seem often to be those decent, hard working folk who are actually the ones being most disadvantaged by the Bush admin's tax policies. I wonder why- the racial issue can only be a part of it.
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| What the Dormouse Said Last Online: Today 07:53 AM Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rabbit Hole
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| ^ Then those big companies must not be publicly listed (ie, with shares trading on a major exchange). I read P&Ls everyday and big companies DO pay taxes. Sure, every company looks for ways to reduce its tax burden, just like everyman does, but they pay plenty if they are based in the States and not Bermuda, etc. |
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| Born Again Pagan Last Online: Yesterday 10:33 PM Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Roiet
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Transfer pricing is not against the law but I do know some of the schemes in the companies I worked for would be questionable as to legality.
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| What the Dormouse Said Last Online: Today 07:53 AM Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rabbit Hole
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| ^ & ^^. True, guys. But auditors usually unravel stuff like Div A could not have sold this to Div B at this price, Norts. Sure, stuff can be hidden in shell cos and offshore biz and lots of other sneaky things. Still, big cos do pay pretty hefty taxes and hire lots of people that also pay taxes. The govt should still win if it had any brains. |
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| Born Again Pagan Last Online: Yesterday 10:33 PM Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Roiet
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| Heard on CNN this morning. Colin Powell is expected to announce his support of Obama. Should he do so, it would be a big boost to Obama. Now here would be an interesting VP choice. Too bad he is "black" or he would be a shoe in. A shame race is such an issue as Powell would be perfect VP for Obama. |
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| Yao Last Online: Today 09:00 AM Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: At home
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But the original report about Powell making the endorsement appears to have indicated Powell would not only endorse Obama, but would do it at the convention with a speech. Powell has seen come out to say he will not be attending the convention. But it did not directly address if he would be endoring Obama, or McCain for that matter: Kristol: Colin Powell to Endorse Barack Obama - America’s Election HQ Quote:
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| Yao Last Online: Today 09:00 AM Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: At home
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| Dead heat in the Pew Polls: Overview: Presidential Race Draws Even Quote:
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| Yao Last Online: Today 09:00 AM Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: At home
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| Some noise has been made by both candidates about getting support from the other side of the aisle. But it seems both have the vast majority of thier party tied up: Republicans For Obama , The Nation: "Obamicans" Are Throwbacks To The Days Of Traditional Republicanism - CBS News Quote:
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| What the Dormouse Said Last Online: Today 07:53 AM Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rabbit Hole
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| ^ Norts, very few Americans even know or give a flying fek about Russia/Georgia (lest they think it's Georgia State). Sure, oil pipelines, sure, if war breaks out they take their troops out of Iraq, but really, do Americans care about that? No US GIs over there and they don't get no oil from there either. |
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