Nah, he wants them on his bullet train. Speaking of trains, a “spiffy-looking" light-rail train in St. Paul ran off the tracks just hours after Obama praised it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
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Nah, he wants them on his bullet train. Speaking of trains, a “spiffy-looking" light-rail train in St. Paul ran off the tracks just hours after Obama praised it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Hello again,
Hickenlooper didn't support pot legalization either.. The people DID it anyway. California will follow.
excon
FREE and freely elected Dem. Rep Karen Bass wants you to know that Hollywood just may be able to get America past its 200 year denial of slavery. Huh?
Dem fighting to keep his Senate seat which "has been in his family for a total of three decades" accuses his opponent of having "a sense of entitlement" to the seat because he served in the military.
The irony.Quote:
Can a Democrat Still Get Elected in Arkansas? - NBC News
The quick rise has won him an attack ad from Pryor, who says that Cotton has "blind ambition" and a sense of entitlement that will turn voters off, even considering his military background.
"There's a lot of people in the Senate that didn't serve in the military," Pryor told NBC News. "Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds—and I think that's part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that's not how it works in Arkansas."
Proof you need absolutely no education or common sense to get elected to office.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
So much for hopenchange...it doesn't seem to translate into results.
Poll: Just 11% of blacks say life under Obama is better for young African-Americans
So much for hope and change as repubs are scared of their own plans.
House GOP tax plan runs into resistance in Senate | WashingtonExaminer.com
LOL, not surprised the GOP defending corporations who don't even pay the high tax rate. I can see where they wouldn't want voters to be distracted by this BS. Heaven forbid they pay ANY taxes on all those profits.Quote:
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But Camp is expected to answer those tough questions Wednesday, when he unveils his plan. He is betting that the promise of lower rates and a simpler tax system will shield House Republicans from attacks for proposing to cut popular deductions, credits and exemptions.
Democrats and tax experts question whether Camp can reduce the top income tax rate to 25 percent without touching some of the most popular tax breaks. Among the largest tax breaks for individuals: exemptions for retirement contributions and employer-sponsored health plans, and deductions for owning a home and paying a mortgage.
Corporate America has been a big backer of tax reform, arguing that the 35 percent tax rate on most corporate income is the highest in the industrialized world. However, few corporations pay the top rate because the tax code is filled with tax breaks that many businesses are gearing up to defend.
Reform? I don't think so!!
Warren Buffet and George Soros don't pay the high rates the left expects businesses to pay.
Few of them do but they all should don't you think?Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothy
Flat tax with ZERO deductions or credits would ensure EVERYONE pays the same percentage of their income no matter how much or little they make... which is the only FAIR way to do it.
Do you think 20% is fair for the rich?, do you think 20% is fair for the poor. The fact is it doesn't matter much to one and it matters a lot to the other. This is why your argument fails. For the poor no rate of tax is "fair". If you want to debate some other rate let's hear it. A better idea is to have a supertax on accumulated wealth, if you don't spend it it gets taxed, that would move some money around, same with wealth after death tax it heavily so it is vested before death in relatives who can use it
What is needed is to remove all the loopholes and tax havens, remove all the deductions and sweetheart deals so that what is earned is clearly stated and taxed. The only "fair" tax is a consumption tax not an income tax, the more you spend the more you pay and if you applied it to corporations then you would pay down your debt very quickly, of course, you would have to deal with the cash economy first so it has to be applied to movement of funds
What's fair is everyone pays the same percentage of their income... period.
Being lazy should not be rewarded.. and working harder than average should not be punished...
Fair is everyone being treated equally... which means everyone paying the same percentage.
If thats not fair enough...I think Liberals should pay a much higher percentage than conservatives because they feel entitled to more stuff...and that stuff needs to be paid for somehow.
you have almost grasped the principle but you see it isn't the poor who complain about better roads and bigger bridges, they don't need the super highways for expensive fast cars and quicker transit to airports, nor do the poor need another aircraft carrier since they would be as well off under one regime as another, but the rich on the other hand...no, conservatives should pay more because they have more to lose call it insurance ot simply protection. If you haven't worked it out yet taxation is a protection racket and each gets something out of it
Maybe not in Australia... but here the poor tend to live further away from the centers of employment and as such depend MORE on those roads and bridges than the wealthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by paraclete
Liberals HERE are the ones that think the government should give them everything... SO that same group should be taxed at a far higher rate than everyone else to pay for that "stuff".
Whats fair is if you want "stuff" you get off your butt and work to pay for that "stuff". If you want more than you can pay for...you get a second job or work overtime. Or you do what responsible people do....live within your means.
Well said by an old duff who got in the system when it was easy and jobs were all over the place. That's no longer the case. Technology has made many people obsolete, and retraining is expensive. You leave out the 40/50/60 year old who lost a job and home the last 5 years, who had a life within there means and adjustments to that dilemma takes years.
The issue is still JOBS. Just ain't enough.
Throw out the 20 to 30 million illegals here that are working... and you have 20 or 30 million jobs instantly. Few of them require much in the way of skills.
What jobs do you mean?
THey actually work all kinds of jobs... they don't all wash dishes, work in McDonalds and mow lawns.
A LOT of them work construction and about every industry you can think of.
Then I have to ask how an illegal can get a job, and an American cannot? Especially at the numbers you ascribe them too.
I didn't dream those numbers up... The current administration claims there are that many. Nobody has claimed there are not that many...not the Republicans and not the Democrats either.
You know how illegals get a job, they are prepared to work for low wages and put up with unsafe conditions, crowded housing, etc. They do the jobs others don't want. Would your older people take on those jobs, maybe, but maybe not. You haven't got it if you want to say, well that might be all right someplace else but not here. Where I come from we talk about a two speed economy, but I think you have a half speed economy where half the population are standing still. You are lost in the mystique of what a wonderful place this is, you can't see that for a big percentage of the population this isn't so, they are not really sharing in the good times.
This is what you get when you place youth above being inclusive you like the young because they can be exploited into working long hours chasing the carrot and you say if you can't make enough at one job get a second job when millions are out of work, The way the economy should work is you can make enough out of one job so someoneelse can have that other job and older workers should be respected and valued
That only applies if someone has enough work experience at a job to be worth that higher pay.
Nobody straight out of school has that experience because they can't do the same work someone with 10+ years experience does... and as a result they don't deserve the same pay until they do.
Nobody straight from high school gets the same pay as a person that's been there and learned from experience. No one I know has even said such a thing. But in a tight job market, you take what you can get. 4 applicants for every job doesn't cut it. Workers subsidized by tax payers instead of the JOB doesn't cut it either.
patent phonies. Shill for a higher minimum wage and then champion illegals coming in to do the jobs.
noone expects youth to be paid the same wage as more experienced workers. That is the strawman argument just as the excuse that a higher minimum wage is an excuse to attract migrant workers is a strawman argument. Actually I think your hollowmen have been working overtime thinking up these shell arguments
There is no different wage scale for youth that I am aware of here . And my argument about immigration is quite valid . With a wink and a nod ,both the Dems and the Repubics have exploitation of immigrants on their mind. I've been told many times on these pages that I would pay a higher price for goods and services if these immigrants weren't doing the crop picking ,dish cleaning and car washing . So what are these advocates of higher min wage saying ? Do they want more illegals to come in to work under wage scale ? Or do they want higher prices ?Quote:
no one expects youth to be paid the same wage as more experienced workers
How about letting profiteers pay their workers so I don't have to. Big business exploits cheap labor any way they can, be they illegal, or legal.
No more pork pie, bacon or sausage for some British students, instead they can have halal meat.
Parents fury as pork sausages are banned from the school menu and replaced with halal meat | Mail Online
Cue the liberal outrage.
I wasnt aware that the Brits were forcing religion down anyones throat until I read what Halal food actually is.
Halal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and so they should be outraged why should traditional foods give over to muslim foods just because they exist
Yep, that's why I'm waiting for the liberal outrage. Governments can't be forcing religion down anyone's throat, can they?Quote:
Originally Posted by cdad
well who knows but I know most of the meat that comes out of our abbatoirs is halal anyway just because of the export market, incidious those muslims
According to the White House obamacare signups were lower in February than January because January has fewer days.
That explains a lot.
Apparently we know where the rocket scientists AREN'T working these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
I guess that would depend on what is explicit or implicit in the British Constitution.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
I would also imagine their constitution is not as explicit in this area as your constitution. A bit of research for someone?
way I hear it Obamacare signups have skyrocketted after Obama did a between the ferns show
It come to this,
Cleaning Technology Needs to Catch up to Fracking
Report: Radioactive waste from fracking plagues Ohio - Ellwood City Ledger: EnergyQuote:
Fracking produces very large volumes of waste water and, because of the concentration of NORM it contains, a permit is required to manage it. As yet, there is no economic way to clean up the waste water for drinking or irrigation purposes, but other dissolved minerals and rock debris can be removed to allow its reuse to frack additional wells. Reusing flowback like this minimizes the volume of water used in fracking, but does not avoid the problem of having large volumes of radioactively contaminated waste water that needs to be managed.
Radioactive oil patch waste on the loose in N.D. : Energy NewsQuote:
A 2011 U.S. Geological Survey report by research geologist, Mark Engle, found that millions of barrels of wastewater from unconventional fracked wells in Pennsylvania and vertical wells in New York were 3,609 times more radioactive than the federal limit for drinking water and 300 times more radioactive than a Nuclear Regulatory Commission limit for industrial discharges to water.
In Pennsylvania, officials are studying the issue, too.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced in January the agency's plan to study radiation in natural gas drilling wastewater as part of a one-year study.
In April, the DEP began testing for radioactivity in waste products from natural gas well drilling as part of the study. In addition to analyzing wastewater from fracking, the study also will analyze radioactivity in drill cuttings, drilling mud, drilling equipment, treatment solids and sediments at well pads, wastewater treatment and disposal facilities and landfill leachate.
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townn...review-620.jpgQuote:
Safe disposal
Where the waste should go, if it is radioactive, is to an approved waste disposal facility — and there are none in North Dakota, Tillotson said. The closest are in Colorado, Utah and Idaho.
Next General Solutions has about 30 sites where it has set up lined and sealed containers to collect such materials as filter socks that are then transported to approved facilities. Most of those sites are at saltwater disposal wells.
Rhea figures maybe 20 percent of the radioactive waste is being handled the way it should be by conscientious companies.
That other 80 percent? Good question, he said.
Tillotson said the department knows some radioactive waste is properly handled. “Where the rest of it is going, we have no idea,” he said.
Socks that glow in the dark??
fracking releasing radioactivity seems to be a problem in more than one place, what I want to know is why they are drilling in areas where there are known uranium deposits
not going to read the links . Question... do they identify what the type of "radioactive " material ? Everyone here in NY potentially have 'radioactive ' homes because of radon. Well if we can't dig wells because of radon concerns then none of us would be able to drink water unless it came from a lake in the Catskills .
If you read the links, your questions would be answered.
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