. Also, I'm from Alberta so my maximum capital gains tax would be 19.5%.It's not. The max is 28% on long term investments, set back in 1986 - which was increased from the 20% rate set back in 1981. (Increased during a recession by that ultra-liberal Ronald Reagan).Technically it's that 50% of our capital gain is subject to taxation but the math works out the same so who cares?
Still, if that 39% number Stienman was tossing around is correct... that's a pretty huge jump from 15%.
Because a great many "small" businesses are not incorporated, and thus all their finances are done under their owner's personal taxes. As for the other countries, none of them even have an economy the size of that of Texas, let alone the US.
If that is so, it is not because spending has been curbed, it's because inflation has been running away.
Oh, no, not at all. It's certainly a major shortcoming that I also blasted the Bush administration for as well. And I am under absolutely no illusions that republicans would make any meaningful budget cuts. Reference the Robert Higgs quote in my signature.
What exactly do you mean here? That in "real dollars" that spending was growing by 10% a year, then 9%, then 5%? Thus it's still increasing in real dollars, but not growing as fast? Or that spending in "real dollars" has declined year-on-year, it just looks like it's increasing because of inflation? The 2nd is fine. The 1st scares the hell out of me as a "spending cut" because it isn't, but is sometimes touted as such.
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I turned off sigs in the Great Sig War of 2009.
Ah, I getcha. Real spending has declined.
Cannot agree with this enough. Governments are supposed to do the stuff that nobody wants to do but everybody needs done. It's like health insurance for infrastructure and services: We pay taxes, and as a result our Society, our (country/city/State/province) doesn't get sick. The trouble comes when the people in government start putting their own welfare ahead of that of their constituents...many seem to have taken a semi-feudal attitude towards their job (arranging earmarks, contracts, e. g.) and have lost sight of the bigger picture.
He later tries to play it off, saying it was tongue in cheek and that the two employees weren't his top performers... but really? Asshole fired two employees for political beliefs and then makes a racist joke about how they deserved it.
Well, that depends on the game, I'd say. Certainly anyone forcing their kid to play a game published by 505 games could be construed as child abuse.
I have a very hard time believing that this will not hurt his business. To be perfectly honest I would not be surprised if the city/etc simply eliminated his contract for violating a required terms of conduct for using that phrase. Political affiliations are one thing, but having a city use a group (specifically for criminal matters) that uses oppenly racist terms is quite another.
I swear that if Clinton had won, Ryan would be saying Obama would have fixed the fiscal situation. I think he's just going to oppose any Democrat in office.
But wouldn't it have made more sense to claim that if his own party's nominee won, it would have fixed etc? Rather than ... well, I guess this probably gets more headlines.
Too bad Paul Ryan is now forever stained as Mitt's Vice presidential flop. Well not -too bad- but that's the way it is none-the-less.
Ehhhh, 3 years is a long time. In 05/06, It was supposed to be a Hillary landslide in 08, remember?
Well, yes, that is true too. Maybe "Romney and I would have fixed this" is just such an obvious statement for him to make that he doesn't think it needs to be said?
Except now she has the Sec. State experience under her belt.
I don't think the layperson really cares about cabinet experience. Hell, I bet the majority of people on the street, if confronted without preparation, couldn't tell you what the state department does.
It saddens me when I mention the State Department or Sec. of State and get that glazed over look. It's only one of the most important parts of the government!
Yeah, but to the layperson, she's no longer the wife Bill cheated on. She's been in the mainstream media news alot. Regardless of whether they know what she's been doing exactly.
The 4 words that are the touch of death for politicians: "Doesn't she look tired?"
At this rate, Christie is going to run as his own party. Not Independent, either. Just a party called Chris Fuckin'-Christie.
