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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 01, 2008, 12:48:55 PM
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Saw this posted on a blog today. It sparked quite a discussion.
If you think about it, Jesus was about as far left as you can get.
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Probably, but somewhere there's gotta be a verse in the Bible on not putting stickers on their paint. :rolleyes:
I just looked closer.. That's where I buy my cars. :O Small world.
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If by left you mean killing unborn babies and forced socialism, I couldn't disagree more. Love your neighbor as yourself has nothing to do with stealing from the rich to buy the poor's votes.
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If you think about it, Jesus was about as far left as you can get.
Yeah but Jesus packed :aok
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If by left you mean killing unborn babies and forced socialism, I couldn't disagree more. Love your neighbor as yourself has nothing to do with stealing from the rich to buy the poor's votes.
You mean "steal from the poor"? :cool:
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You mean "steal from the poor"? :cool:
How do you steal from the poor? :huh They don't have anything.
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No he means stealing from the rich to give to the poor in order to buy votes.
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'Jesus was about as far left as you can get'
Lets ask Jesus if he's pro-choice..
:D
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How do you steal from the poor? :huh They don't have anything.
I'm far from rich and I look at the payroll "Deductions". It is a politician's job to steal from the poor and give the rich tax breaks.
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I'm far from rich and I look at the payroll "Deductions". It is a politician's job to steal from the poor and give the rich tax breaks.
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Hi-diddlying-larious.
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I'm far from rich and I look at the payroll "Deductions". It is a politician's job to steal from the poor and give the rich tax breaks.
Sounds to me like everyone who makes the same or less than you is poor, and anyone who makes more is rich. :rolleyes:
Define rich? Most "millionaires" in this country are first generation millionaires who got there by working 60-80 hour weeks for 50 years and investing wisely. Unfortunately, once they actually get there, they're villified and taxed to death by politicians in an effort to pander to their "less motivated" constituents.
Those "rich" people, as you call them, are your hard working neighbors, not that guy in the middle of the Monopoly board, and they're paying a hugely disproportionate share of the taxes in this country.
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Pointless in continuing this. Obviously the "rich" need more breaks in life.
Enjoy! BTW, you haven't a clue of my income, let alone, of my "work ethic". I've seen enough at my age to live in fear for my 6 year old son.
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The rich dont get that way from 'breaks in life' as you put it.
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Hi-masking-larious.
I was thinking the same thing......the term "no clue" comes to mind. :lol
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Lets ask Jesus if he's pro-choice..
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Next time you actually see him. Ask him.
Then come tell everyone what he said.
Better yet. Go to any court in the nation and tesify that you spoke with Jesus and what he told you.
Then lets see how well it holds up before the Judge orders the nice young men with their clean white coats to come and take you away
haha
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Saw this posted on a blog today. It sparked quite a discussion.
If you think about it, Jesus was about as far left as you can get.
if jesus was a leftist, how come he hung from the center of the cross?
Oh thats right gravity caused that.
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Pointless in continuing this. Obviously the "rich" need more breaks in life.
Enjoy! BTW, you haven't a clue of my income, let alone, of my "work ethic". I've seen enough at my age to live in fear for my 6 year old son.
Wow, someone tries to enlighten you to some facts and you run from the conversation.
The truth of the matter is that the "rich" pay a bigger percentage of the overall total taxes paid.
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I believe the top 1% of income producers pay about 40% of the overall income tax.
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I believe the top 1% of income producers pay about 40% of the overall income tax.
True.
Yet many think that the "rich" get tax breaks.
Same thing happens with the perception of oil company profits. Yes, they have big profits but they also give up somewhere around 45% of their revenue to taxes.
Here's a nice illustration:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers, he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. What happens to the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’ declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, ‘But he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
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The misconception of oil company profits centers around always record breaking profits seemingly every quarter.
in actual amounts, the percentage of profit per barrel of oil is in line with any major corporation on a percentage basis of profit markup. somewhere around 17% i believe.
the constant record breaking profits arise from the continued worldwide increse in demand and sales, which will not stop until global demand starts retracting instead of growing.