Because Willie sees the big picture..I think overall Repubs see the big picture better anyways, but that's just my opinion. The people Willie is talking about don't have any skin in the game.. Taxes could be 100% of income and it wouldn't affect them in the least..until the working half stopped working.
Ya dig?
There are very few people who want higher taxes, let alone anything close to 100%. There are very few who pay no taxes -- even those of us who choose not to pay income tax still pay something. Those few kooks who do want a classless society or avoid using our money system shouldn't have any affect at all on your way of life unless you let them. So the question is, why do you let them?
me? I'm virtually immune from what the President does. Whatever they do, I get busier. At the end of the day, my life depends on me and me alone. I want everybody to be more like that, responsible for themselves and their families.
Having said that, Obamacare has adversely impacted my life, my wife desperately wants to quit her job but the cost of insurance is fucking insane because of Barrack Obama, INSANE, and I'd be taking a cut in the quality of benefits at a time it's not prudent to do so. I've also experienced first hand how he's fucked up many lives with his idiocy. Losers far far far exceed winners, slots pay off at higher percentages.
I have also witnessed the adverse impact the president has had on many many many lives. His regulations made borrowing money harder for credit worthy people. Obamacare has increased costs, lowered the quality of healthcare for far too many and generally sent people scrambling around wasting valuable time and money trying to comply with his idiocy.
He's hurt the defense industry, which actually creates jobs and new technologies that create even more jobs.
He's hurt the people he's supposed to help the most.
At the end of the day, upper income families and upper middle class families will be fine in just about any environment, but the lower income families suffer the most. That's what Obama's policies have done. The economic malaise he's created with his taxes, regulations, obamacare, race baiting, lies and his across the boards incompetency have hurt the poorest people the most.
A rising tide raises all boats, and those boats closest to the shore bottom out first when the tide's going out. That's Obama's world, that's reality, that's what I observe first hand. Nobody can teach me what I experience.
The best thing the government can do is keep us safe but otherwise stay out of the way. Modern day political Buffoons think they can micro manage the entire world, when they can't even boil water. The faith people put in them is mind boggling, although that requires a mind that can be boggled
did I answer your question somewhere in that there rant?
Not trying to argue, but what the hell do you think Obama's message was? All the talk about the rich being taxed higher, fair tax, progressive tax, corporate greed, closing loopholes, etc. etc.
I pay nearly 60% of my income in taxes. 39% right off the top federal income tax. State tax, SS tax, FICA, Medicare, (I get double taxed on these because I am self employed) sales tax, property tax, gas tax, and so on.
Are you Fking serious? You pay no tax? But, you feel it's ok to tell me how I should "not have any affect at all on my way of life"
I think you are wrong about very few who pay no taxes...about half of our country to be exact. Many of them get a fucking refund ! Please Tom, nobody is saying pay NO taxes. Do not put words in my mouth.
I choose to pay no income tax. You make different choices. Getting so upset, frustrated, and angry because there are a few people who want you to pay even more in taxes is another choice you make. I still don't why you do, but it strongly reinforces that the path I take on this issue is definitely the right one for me
Completely wrong. About 40% pay no federal income tax. You already did a great job of telling us that there are a lot of other taxes. Virtually no adult chooses to take on the hardships required to avoid all of them.
Your writing style tells a far different story.
In Connecticut Medicaid is available to anyone who makes less than 133% of the poverty threshold, according to my 30 second search. If your wife left her job how would she still be making more than that? Maybe I wasn't able to uncover some penalty to those who are married. If there is one, stop paying spousal social security benefits and stop allowing married people to file taxes jointly and there will be more than enough money to make up for that problem
Borrowing money means spending money you don't have. Good for Obama if that isn't so easy anymore. The defense industry should be solely about killing the enemy on the battle field. It should not be a jobs program. Good for Obama if he was able to help change that
ummmm, there's nothing to uncover
1) she / we are much too young for medicaid
2) she'd still be married to me, we have to follow the law despite what you choose to write
3) what about me? what about my insurance?
you're trying way to hard, just accept the fact that I tell the truth
I'm a man of deeds, words carry less weight in my world
When I'm complaining, I'm doing so for what I observe and experience on a regular basis. It's my job, I'm not your ten second sound bite man as so many are.
But my own life is fantastic, no thanks to Obama, although he's doing what he can to fuck that up
Every Democrat running for President and every member of the Democratic leadership in Congress wants higher taxes.
For example:
Pressure Rises for Higher Taxes
WASHINGTON — The Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley wants to raise capital gains taxes. His rival Bernie Sanders seeks to tax stock trades and increase personal income tax rates
Another example:
[h=1]Democratic Governors Enact Billions In Higher Taxes, While Republicans Enact Billions In Tax Relief[/h]
Your posts represent utter cluelessness and I often wonder if you are just joking.
1) Medicaid is for the young
2) The laws give married couples far more economic benefits than burdens, especially if only one is working
3) How much did you pay the last time it wasn't part of a compensation package by an employer? How do you know it would be so much more expensive now?
Also, if your wife leaves her job Reagancare requires that you be allowed to keep your insurance for the same exact price the employer was paying before for at least 18 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Omnibus_Budget_Reconciliation_Act_of_1985
It sounds like your wife is very well compensated at her current job and if she quit you wouldn't be able to afford to buy as much stuff as you currently do. Damn you Obama
I'm not sure what to think when people try to talk to ME about MY life like this
I mean, I get paid a lot just to talk to others, wealthy successful movers and shakers call ME for advice
fucking wiki link? what next, a Home & Garden magazine article? seriously?
WTF, that there gene is fucking powerful, it's incomprehensible
PS: my wife makes jackshit, unless you count what I pay her, although she does have great benefits
PSII: he thinks we qualify for medicaid, I don't even know how to respond, it's actually not worthy of a response, should just shake my head and move on
how do I know it would be expensive? I've been shopping, and I deal with people in that profession on a regular basis, and I've seen what other people pay, and I've helped business owners shop, and I've completed multiple "exchange' applications for clients from every walk of life, and I applied for myself for haha's
any more questions?
Willie, if health care is paid for by your wife's employer it is part of her compensation. If her employer pays jack shit for that insurance your wife can leave her job and for the next 18 months your entire cost of health insurance will be jack shit +2%. At that time Obama will no longer be our president
My good friend Willie so ready to defend his woeful troubles is simply confusing Medicaid (available to nearly all Americans in some format, usually thru state-managed programs supplemented with major federal cheese) with Medicare - the 50+ year federal program available to Americans mostly aged 62+.
Since Willie and his sainted Mrs are a bit short of that threshold they do not yet qualify for Medicare but could well qualify for Medicaid thru the state of CT if their household income descended as far as Willie implies it would should the lovely Mrs choose to leave her current employment
And yes, federal law would protect her for up to 18 months via the "Cobra" adjunct to employer subsidized health insurance. Her current insurer would have to deliver same coverage for same full price, less the amount subsidized by the employer
Meanwhile, if my other buddy Gasman is honestly facing a federal income tax levy of 39% he is at or near the top racket, meaning his AGI is well over 250k annually.
In that case if he has not yet made the aquaintance of other people in that income bracket, now's a great timecto do so. Because people with that much cash flow seem to be really, really smart in how they invest their earnings so as to avoid high levels of federal taxation
In that case if he has not yet made the aquaintance of other people in that income bracket, now's a great timecto do so. Because people with that much cash flow seem to be really, really smart in how they invest their earnings so as to avoid high levels of federal taxation
the libbys around here have an abundance of advise concerning matters they have little or no experience with
kinda like going to some community college and telling us they're an economic and monetary expert based on that education
please do tell old friend, what can one do to avoid paying taxes when earning more than 250k? What has Barry, Harry and Nancy taught you about this matter?
this ought to be as good as advising me I qualify for medicaid, or my wife's compensation includes her benefits (and it's still jack shit and she'll tell you that)
stop beating around the bush, why don't you just tell me what I'd be paying and what kind of coverage I qualify for
then tell me exactly what a family of two has to earn to qualify for medicaid in CT
