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mdost03
09-25-2008, 05:57 PM
http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/Video.aspx?rsrcID=2036
mdost03
09-25-2008, 06:01 PM
McCains daughter is hot. I was listening to her on the radio the other day.
http://halfsigma.typepad.com/photos/misc_photos/meghan_mccain.jpg
Hellz yeah! He's gettin my vote!
311evo
09-25-2008, 06:15 PM
good vid, he has nothing to back his shit up. Obama gets the media and young people to love him because he says "change" and "Hope". Hes more of a celebrity that a candidate.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece Highly publicized speech by Warren Buffett where he is paying 17% on his taxes, but his secretary who makes $60k a year is getting taxed 30%
Tom, get a clue. That is because he uses tax shelters and hedge funds that doesn't make sense for the rest of us, or we don't have the disposable income to use. Your tax bracket is 25% and someone making $400k/yr is taxed at 35%.
Now if you really delve into the economics you will know that rich people like that don't sit with the money under their bed and hoard it. They reinvest the money. This leads to extra assets for companies, which allows them to expand, which allows them to hire more people. In my finance class we did scenarios where we lower the taxes on businesses and it created huge differences in the operating capital.
The biggest problem with the economy is shipping our money overseas. Our trade deficit has become rediculous, but for some reason that isn't getting much attention. I'll use the place I just worked at as an example. They would set someone up with a product, lets say a microwave. Target buys this microwave, we would take a small margin off the top (under 5%) and the rest of the money goes to China. So if you buy a microwave from Target for $100, Target gets $30, our company would have got $5, and the other $65 goes to China (those are all approximates). So 2/3 of that purchase was money leaving our country. That is the main reason our economy has tanked lately.
In my finance class we did scenarios where we lower the taxes on businesses and it created huge differences in the operating capital.
It took a finance class??? What school?
Anyone see the Sara Palin Inverview with Katie Curek???
clean2g
09-28-2008, 01:01 AM
Anyone see the Sara Palin Inverview with Katie Curek???
Yes, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
slowbubblecar
09-30-2008, 12:31 AM
In my finance class we did scenarios where we lower the taxes on businesses and it created huge differences in the operating capital.
The biggest problem with the economy is shipping our money overseas. Our trade deficit has become rediculous, but for some reason that isn't getting much attention. I'll use the place I just worked at as an example. They would set someone up with a product, lets say a microwave. Target buys this microwave, we would take a small margin off the top (under 5%) and the rest of the money goes to China. So if you buy a microwave from Target for $100, Target gets $30, our company would have got $5, and the other $65 goes to China (those are all approximates). So 2/3 of that purchase was money leaving our country. That is the main reason our economy has tanked lately.
How would the first part of this affect the average person? Just because a business is making more money doesn't mean it will go to the workers. The business owner will most likely reinvest it in a way to make even more money.
2nd part-So it would be better for everyone to pay more for just about everything they use daily than get them from another country?
slowbubblecar
09-30-2008, 12:37 AM
Maybe what you're trying to say is Obama wants to make it even more progressive so it's a steeper curve as you make more, whereas MaCain opposes this, I know a lot of republicans support more of a flat tax.
A flat tax would never work. A flat tax would only help the wealthy. The average person would have to pay a higher tax rate. The wealthiest people in america pay a bigger dollar amount of taxes as it is and making a flat tax would decrease the amount of taxes paid in by the wealthy and increase the rate of the lower classes.
slowbubblecar
09-30-2008, 12:41 AM
How can universal healthcare be a good thing? The government sucks are running things (IRS, social security, medicare, etc.). Why the hell do I want my LIFE to be in their control?? Do some research on goverment run healthcare (Canada, Sweden, etc.) and see if you think it works. Everyone can go in at no charge, why not go in for the sniffles? It will choke the system.
Does universal healthcare mean the private healthcare industry will go away? I would think those willing to pay would have no problem getting care.
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