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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@Kark
I was actually thinking more dissolution than succession. And who says it's the south that secedes. Maybe the North decides to jump ship. Who knows?
And honestly, if someone pointing out the (largely true) cultural division between different regions of the country, without any negative or positive assigned to either side, pisses someone off, let them be pissed.
@Ace
My bad, then.
I honesty didn't see the part about bombing. Or if I did it didn't register. That is, obviously, quite beyond the pale.
I thought we were discussing an amicable dissolution.
Utah is America's most conservative state.
Wyoming takes 2nd place.
Judge tells Obama to ‘directly address’ force-feedings at Guantánamo Bay
Glenn Beck Skeptical About Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Hospitalization: ‘You’ve Lied To Us Too Many Times’
Sort of. If you restrict yourself to individual income tax, the rich have been paying more of that of late, by sheer virtue of having unprecedentedly large amounts of money and unprecedentedly large numbers of lower earners being so low as to get tax credit at the end of the year.
If you look at revenue on the whole though,
◊ you see that income tax has kept a fairly consistent proportion of our revenue since the 1950's. What happened is that high-end corporate and excise taxes — formerly about half our total revenue — got almost entirely replaced with low-end payroll tax. So if you look at all sources of revenue, the rich are paying less of it than they ever have.
edited 8th Jul '13 4:53:27 PM by Pykrete
Typically, income tax is what you pay at the end of the year, and gets adjusted for how much you actually have after deducting off living expenses and other stuff. Payroll tax gets chunked off your paycheck before you ever see it, and tends to be considerably less sensitive to silly things like rent and food.
Here's
◊ a good graph illustrating that. Note that the rich pay almost no payroll tax.
And yeah, that's why. Capital gains taxes are typically lumped under either individual income or corporate, depending on the details of the transactions. The former hasn't changed all that much, and the latter has almost completely dropped off the map.
edited 8th Jul '13 5:10:52 PM by Pykrete
Ha!
State Department official accused of trading visas for sex and cash bribes.
GOP Strategist Mocks Joe Scarborough’s Praise Of Rick Perry: ‘He’s A Doofus!’
I was wondering what happened in the Wisconsin Supreme Court choking case.
Turns out the conservative wing of the court refuses to hear the case, and so....nothing is happening in the case because, it's the supreme court and there's no-one to appeal it to. Um, so, what would happen if her murdered her then and no-one allowed a case or investigation like this?...
The comments are calling justice bradley a liberal liar.
edited 9th Jul '13 10:34:02 AM by occono
Dumbo

Of course, I also think that it was his worst state in 2008 too, so it's probably a distinction without much difference.
edited 8th Jul '13 3:12:05 PM by KBSL