mawilson

I can choose to help whomever I want to help. I can help cancer patients or animal shelters or poor children in Africa. My choice and one which doesn't make my help any less valuable or appreciated.
Who the fuсk do you think you are, telling people their help is worthless just because they don't extend it to EVERYONE? Just wow.

Why not? If there's one thing that Mormons are good at, it's helping each other out when times get tough.

The totalitarian regimes of the Democrat and Republican party need to be stopped in their squelching of the voice of the voiceless.
It's time all candidates be involved in the national debate.

It sucks that TOS doesn't allow personal attacks. I like personal attacks. I want to call everyone a сunt.

It sucks that TOS doesn't allow personal attacks. I like personal attacks. I want to call everyone a сunt.

It sucks that TOS doesn't allow personal attacks. I like personal attacks. I want to call everyone a сunt.

One of my favorite words!
If you want sunshine and rainbows, you probably shouldn't be in a forum about politics and religion anyway.

It sucks that TOS doesn't allow personal attacks. I like personal attacks. I want to call everyone a сunt.

He tried marijuana once as a teen and now the urine test is positive? Uhm, I'm no doctor, but it seems like he has a lot of liquid retention...

If administering the death penalty in absentia works for them, then it works for me.

That's fine, if you allow capital losses to be used against future earned income.
Investment, not speculation. Short-term speculative trading profits are taxed at the same rate as regular income.
Investment does create jobs.

Indeed, and here's another fact for those who say "but they pay OTHER taxes!"
26.7% of tax units have zero or negative sum of income and payroll taxes
So 26.7% of Americans really pay NO federal taxes. Not income, not payroll. Nothing.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?DocID=3055

How many people do you know that make any of the incomes you posted that don't owe ANY income taxes? I'd be willing to bet the number is a huge zero. You're blowing smoke.
You know as well as I do that the 47% we're talking about are of low income.

Apparently I missed the part where the story says that people should live the way the books say life was? All I saw was that people should read the books for a perspective on the times... Nothing about how things should be today in the way we live our lives...

I'm trying figure out why Steven has a problem with historical works?

I know you are excited about the upcoming event, so here is a preview of the festivities planned!

They do, eh?
I agree with MaWilson, you're giving folks far too much credit, especially the 47% who pay little to no taxes. IQ usually goes hand in hand with income.

You give people too much credit.

I don't think his message is that deep. I think he meant that your average Joe on welfare couldn't care less about lower taxes - he personally wouldn't see more money in his paycheck. It is safe to assume that Joe Welfare knows nothing about the trickle-down effect of lower taxes for the rich, and therefore Mitt's message would not resonate with him.

That's fine, if you allow capital losses to be used against future earned income.
Investment, not speculation. Short-term speculative trading profits are taxed at the same rate as regular income.
Investment does create jobs.

Most people don't understand that. All they know is that they're not paying any taxes now, so what will lowering taxes do for me? That's how most people think, and that's the point Romney was trying to make.

I'm no fan of Romney's, but I believe it means exactly what it says. The 47% who pay no taxes will see no benefit in tax cut policies. It has nothing to do with "trickle down" economics. If their not paying taxes to begin with then what would tax cuts do for them anyway. You're digging to deep for something that's not there.

You are not going to convince anybody, because Americans suck at Math (and evidently, teaching).
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923110.html

I think your limb just broke off.
I make a very good salary (low six figures), and I paid an effective Federal rate of 8.3%. If I paid 13% I would either handle my money differently or fire my accountant. Remember, we are are talking federal income tax here.

Wait. I thought Apple was a non profit religious organization?