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Hey SVT2000SVT, Why fill this thread with propaganda directly from georgewbush.com??? Look here for realistic info.
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I thought I'd jump in and voice my opinion
Bush 04 ALL THE WAY..........
Supply Side works and I don't care how much we spend in Iraq, it was worth it.
Let the era of Conservativism flourish....
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What a long winded way of saying you want a tax change that benefits your family and that you don't care if that change is NOT revenue neutral, and any tax you don't like is exhorbitant, and no one can use the money as well as your family, so we should subsidize them.
Richard "Crook" Nixon thought he was better than the rest of us too.
Your prior George Will thread responses speak for themselves. You were smugly willing to put your foot in your mouth. Spare us your newly revised damage-control versions of those postings.
Since you said you follow this area, you should be able to educate us: Aren't estates now federally taxable ONLY AFTER the first one or two million bucks pass tax free? So how much are your family's farms worth anyway, if your family has exposure? Are those farms worth $3 or $4 or $5 million? And you gotta get the OTHER millions free too, before you're happy? You poor, picked on victim!!!
Care to speculate how many CEGers have that kind of accumulated worth?
Yeah, Bush is your kinda guy.
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Originally posted by PDXSVT: What a long winded way of saying you want a tax change that benefits your family and that you don't care if that change is NOT revenue neutral, and any tax you don't like is exhorbitant, and no one can use the money as well as your family, so we should subsidize them.
Reading comprehension obviously isn't a strong point of yours, nor is answering questions that I've posed, but going off on a litany of ill-founded, generalized and knee-jerk accusations you have mastered. I'll give you that.
Long-winded? Perhaps it is time to bring out the pop-up books and "Cliff Notes"...
In how many different languages need I say that money gained is most likely money invested to bring about GREATER gains, thereby bringing forth MORE taxes? Anyone that is moderately intelligent about money will INVEST those gains made, which ARE taxed. Again, what is so damn difficult to understand about this concept? I'm NOT for the elimination of taxes; I'm for the FAIR application of them, and by FAIR I mean not screwing those that planned, saved and invested so that future generations would have a leg up in life or by having the goverment take up to 90 cents on every dollar at the time of passing!
I'll go so far to say that the an estate tax elimination is tax beneficial over the long run, as anyone with half a damn brain will REINVEST the earnings that they gain. Few people with inheritance just simply SIT on what they get; they invest it or spend it, which is taxed. Many start small side ventures that provide additional work for people and additional taxes to the city, state and national coffers!
Yes, I am concerned that the property and wealth that my family worked hard as Hell for is put at risk due to an unfair tax that is aimed at those that are frugal, hard-working, successful and wise with their earnings and assets. I will never deny this. At the same time, I see small businesses and family-run farms/ranches get nailed to Hell and back unless they've gone through the contortions of setting up some serious estate plans over the years leading up to the death of the principles or owners.
Furthermore, it doesn't take a lot to hit the $2 million mark these days, especially if grandparents invested wisely and have property that they've held on to for 30-40 years. Hell, half-acre lots with a two-story house on it in many towns and cities are topping $400-500K, property values have shot up so much. Combine that with wise parents who have saved and invested wisely as well and you've got someone that can get hammered HARD. NOW combine that with your spouse's grandparents and parents legacy that they want to leave behind.
Things starting to dawn on you now? $2 million over the life time of two different sets of grandparents and parents is not out of line by any means...
Originally posted by PDXSVT: Richard "Crook" Nixon thought he was better than the rest of us too.
Coming from a thinly-disguised fiscal leech who appears to lack even the most fundamental and basic understanding of capitalism, I'll take that comparison as a complement, though I would consider it a base insult from anyone else.
Originally posted by PDXSVT: Your prior George Will thread responses speak for themselves. You were smugly willing to put your foot in your mouth. Spare us your newly revised damage-control versions of those postings.
Can't think of anything solid to present, so it's back to ripping off the coffin lids of discussions that were dead and buried, eh?
Why am I not surprised?
Again, I never heard of George Will before you mentioned him. I still haven't changed my opinion that his characterization of Iraq is unfounded and incorrect; I even provided mention of a counter article in the Wall Street Journal by Mark Bowden that shows things the way that I feel best represent the current insurrections. There is NO version. I've stayed rock-steady with what I said and continue to say on that topic.
I challenge you to prove otherwise. Please, go back to the original post and pull up where I've put up another "version".
Originally posted by PDXSVT: Since you said you follow this area, you should be able to educate us: Aren't estates now federally taxable ONLY AFTER the first one or two million bucks pass tax free?
The exemption rate is at $1.5 million as of '04; it goes up until it's (hopefully) repealed in 2010. Originally posted by PDXSVT: So how much are your family's farms worth anyway, if your family has exposure? Are those farms worth $3 or $4 or $5 million?
None of your damn business.
Originally posted by PDXSVT: And you gotta get the OTHER millions free too, before you're happy? You poor, picked on victim!!!
What is it about personal wealth that bothers you and pisses you off so much? If you don't have a trust-fund in your name or don't have an estate to benefit from when your loving elders pass on, take your vitrolic out on YOUR own parents or elders, not through a death tax on someone else who planned and saved for future generations. You sound like a child that since he can't have as good a sweater as some of his other classmates, he has to go over and push them in the mud or take a pair of scissors to them.
If you do have a sizeable "pot of gold" waiting for you and are still screaming for it to be taxed to Hell and back, you obviously think that the Government can manage your money better than you, which scares the s**t out of me and begs me to question your sanity.
Originally posted by PDXSVT: Yeah, Bush is your kinda guy.
As Lenin most certainly is yours, to bring back mention of the Bolsheviks...
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I won't become a registered voter due to the fact that I don't want jury duty. If I had to vote, I'd vote for Kerry.
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Originally posted by da red one: I won't become a registered voter due to the fact that I don't want jury duty. If I had to vote, I'd vote for Kerry.
Seems kind of silly. What is you're problem with jury duty that is worth not having a say in the country's political direction.
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JaTo, I quoted George Will to show that you're on the neocon fringe AND that you shoot off your keyboard about topics on which you are half as aware as you pretend to be. But you getting caught making a fool of yourself was not enough to teach you to back off.
You'd once commented you'd picked up habits of heated debate with philosophy and divinity students and others, and you imply or out-and-out represent you're well-read on domestic policies, international relations, and now the tax code. There seems no limit to your knowledge about which you are self-compelled to preach on this site, nor by implication your opinion of yourself.
You cry about your family farms being threatened by your family's ONLY being able to pass on the FIRST $1.5 million free of federal estate taxes while not disclosing how many OTHER $$millions they hold and are at risk to have taxed or lose.
You make your political beliefs everybody's business by your political preaching and judge others with smug put downs. But then when your objectivity and financial bias is questioned, it's none of anyone's business. That pretty well establishes your bias and lack of objectivity for us.
Your professed philosophy SEEMS to be one in favor of a meritocracy: Personal responsibility, hard work, self-reliance. We greatly agree there. But now we see that philosophy you'd sell us requires that kids and grandkids of your parents and grandparents get a headstart of tax-free accumulated $$MILLIONS. Gee, that's fair to those of us that weren't born to your family.
(Was there a silver spoon in your mouth at birth, disguised as 400 acres of windblown sod and a huge John Deere contraption that now includes air conditioning and a CD player? Is your family like those which want the gub'ment to send a check when the crops fail, but EVERY OTHER gub'ment program is wasteful?)
So back on point, you're in like the top 4% telling the other 96% that what's best for you is best for them, and they are not allowed to disagree without having your haughty quotes cast at them. And you can't back off when I mock you as being a bad posterboy for the Bush cause. You're making my case for me.
How about you spend less time rationalizing your stand and preaching at us (you're on this board doing that ONLY a TINY bit) and more time learning the estate and gift tax code and all those things that the Kerrys and Kennedys know that your family of poor ol' dirt farmers are too busy pushing beeves to learn for themselves while you'd been off debating with the philosophers and divinityers. That would be doing your family a favor, since Bush is unlikely to win and end that estate tax for you. (Could your preaching be more important to you than your family's holdings?) (OMG, if we all dropped the political preaching, this would be a CAR site again!! I'm up for that. JVT, what did you expect would happen when you posted your poll? Do you dislike this being a car site?)
Since I struck a nerve JaTo, that's supposed to be a hint for you. You might pick the log out of your own eye. Churchill did not say that one, so maybe you're unfamiliar with it.
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You know...after this thread, I am now MORE resentful of paying Federal taxes than before the thread. I pay my share and then some. I benifit primarily from the security I recieve from our military (and I did my fair share for them too). No handouts, no free medical care, no gimmees. And I am fortunate in that I have a good life and thank America for that..
BUT..when liberals start complaining that I get a tax reduction.. That I do not pay enough.. That it is "fuzzy math" that the more tax you pay, the more tax break you get. That our DEFENSE is costing too much BUT we are not paying enough in handouts, free this, free that to others..I start to get a bit annoyed.
I will keep paying and liberals will keep whinning...and GOD bless America. UhOHhh..the G word in the same sentance with America. I'm toast..
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Originally posted by Rogerm60: Originally posted by Dan Nixon: Or Kerry, VERY RICH (not that he made any money on his own) who is literally making LOVE to the Hienz corporation... (gag)
Are you saying that there is something wrong with him making love to his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry???
Only from an asthetic perspective..
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I benifit primarily from the security I recieve from our military (and I did my fair share for them too). No handouts, no free medical care, no gimmees. And I am fortunate in that I have a good life and thank America for that..
Come on, you benefit a LOT more than just your security.
Every item you purchase, from a load of bread to a car, was able to be produced at the price it was because of federal subsidies in some form.
Social programs, yes, are expensive and you might not ever need them. But, chances are at some point in your life your either did or will need them in some capacity. Whether it's WIC when you're a baby, federal unemployment as an adult, or Medicare when you retire.
Obviously, those paying for many of those programs are not using them at the time. That's sort of the point. If you need many of those programs you're probably not paying a great deal of taxes at the time -- but you probably did at some point in time.
Without many of those social programs are society would be a cesspool. There wouldn't be healthy workers to flip your cheap burgers; or provide tens of millions of workers the health insurance, food, and shelter they need to be the backbone of our industrial society (whether currently or what they will be in the future), millions would be unemployed without federal subsidies to protect their industries, millions of farmers would go bankrupt in a bad year causing food shortages in the future, so on and so forth.
I'm not saying that all the social programs are good. But to say that you don't benefit from any (or even most) social programs is a very narrow view of the situation. You might not be benefitting directly, but the minimum/low wage back-bone of our society would cease to exist without the numerous federal programs that provide basic needs for those people. Without those people you would most certainly be affected.
I guarantee that no one here pays as much taxes off their paycheck as I do. Thanks to the great thing (no being sarcastic, it really is great, but it is expensive) that is Railroad Retirement, 13% of my check goes straight to them on top of my federal taxes. I pay my Medicare/Medicaid taxes even though the railroad will provide me benefits forever. But, I don't complain. I know that, while I would rather not pay for something I don't need, I realize that some people do need that. And, while it would be great if I could just donate that money to some sort of insurance provider for the elderly that would be a little more trust-worthy than our government, that's not an option right now. I've needed help at some point in my life, and the government helped me then. That help got me through the tough time and now I do incredibly well for myself -- without the government assistance, I never would be able to pay the taxes I pay now (and they're a lot, trust me). The government got a HUGE return on their 'investment' in me.
That's not even counting the government assistance that is education loans -- another social program that turns the wheels of our economy.
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