Cheney's tax - WTF
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- utopian
Vice President Cheney and his lovely wife reportedly earned $2,528,068 in 2007 and ownly paid $602,651 in taxes. That is only about 24% in taxes. Must be nice, considering that the average working class American is paying the FUKN' government between 30% to 39% in taxes.
This country is so corrupt, we American's deserve nothing less than another "Great Depression" to wake our lazy apathetic asses up, period!
- Llyod0
how does gun ownership sound now?
- depends on who owns the guns...duckofrubber
- Lame try at a low blow. Soft banana.Transit_Broadcast
- You can take pills for that soft banana.duckofrubber
- JackRyan0
10% of Americans pay 90% of the taxes.
- bsLlyod
- 2% pay about 40-45% of taxes right now... your number is nutty mr. ryan!.PonyBoy
- I was just throwing it out there.JackRyan
- america allowed you to make that money, you couldnt rise up from nothing in mexico unless you killed dudes.mrdobolina
- Llyod0
what % do you pay on $100,000,000?
- PonyBoy0
lol...
... and yet one man and his wife had to pay $600k in taxes alone in one year...
... something about that doesn't seem 'fair' to be honest.
Just because people find a way to be more successful than you or I doesn't mean their share of the social burden should increase that much.
As a matter of fact... people like Cheney in the top 2% tax bracket of this country (regardless of the rich-boy Bush tax cuts) STILL FOOT 40% OF THE TAX BURDEN.
Yes... 2% of this country literally pays 40% of the entire country's taxes.
So before you get off complaining about one man's % burden being lower than your % burden... imagine you and your wife being forced to cough up $600k simply because you had an exceptionally successful year... doesn't seem fair... does it? Because it's not. :)
Rich people should not have the burden of handling 40% of this country's costs. THAT is wrong in my opinion.
Just because people are successful doesn't mean they use more roads, more public services... more public programs...
... oh SNAP... wait a sec... Rich people handle the entire burden of welfare etc... I forgot. :)... that is if you break down the money spent on welfare and 'the poor' in this country.
People should be rewarded for being successful... not over-burdened...
.. and yeah... Cheney's a Douche... but the douche paid out more money last year in taxes probably than you have in your lifetime thus far.
- Actually he paid only 24%, I paid 36% this year thats fair?utopian
- yes... considering the amount you paid in comparison to him is chump change. You're penalizing rich people.PonyBoy
- america let them make that money, wars cost money, kid.mrdobolina
- Conservatives claim to be patriotic but they still bitch when they have to pay like everyone else.
Transit_Broadcast - pay like everyone else? how is paying 600k a year 'like everyone else'?... why do...PonyBoy
- ... they (rich people) have to pay more than you because they did better than you?
*makes no sensePonyBoy - Where's your head, Pony? I'd love to pay $600k in taxes and you would, too. That tax bill should've been a lot higher.blaw
- You're doing an apple & oranges argument PB, it falls apart at the "imagine you being forced to cough up $600k "...it's a %...TheBlueOne
- i thought the more you made the more taxes you had to pay. so he should have at least paid closer to a mildtan
- your a fucking idiot ponyboy, if the figures utopian posted are correct then your an arsehole do you even read what you type.chossy
- type.
Cheney paid less tax percentage than utopian the fact that he paid 600 billion dollers doesn't matter he owes more money so fucking pay it up.chossy - and it also works the other way just because you pay more tax doesn't mean your percentage should be less your rich you CAN afford to pay the same percentage the common man seems to be able tochossy
- can afford to pay the same percentage as the common man.chossy
- ukit0
- Llyod0
I bet he goes back to halliburton as a contractor at the end of his term so he can get paid a huge chunk of dough
- frannyc280
$2,528,068? he is not reporting all the money he made with Blackwaters isn't he?!
- +1utopian
- hah...hell no. thats totally under the table.akrokdesign
- strictly a cash operationdtan
- Llyod0
I can't even imagine how much cash Rummy is making now. He had to sell $90 million when he took the job. He much be cleaning it with businesses hold gov contracts.
- mrdobolina0
I would never want the burden of that much money.
- doesnotexist0
burden? BURDEN? more like a privilege. let's use the right words here.
- The right word is blood, since that's what's on his money.CyBrain
- cosmoo0
i will never make that kind of money.
- molo0
i think he should host saturday night live some time
- mikotondria30
Actually the principle of taxing pro ratio for your income is that like air, water, radio frequencies, light, etc, the whole of the money belongs to the whole of the people, there is only one money, and it belongs to us all, in that that portion that is claimed back as being of joint collective ownership, and recouped from the individual is known as taxation, and in theory is used to be spent by everyones 'collective' decision-making government.
Tax is an illusion, just think of the money you earn as mostly yours, with a bit of everyone elses tacked on the end.
Don't be fooled by the integer-bias of currency designers - think of a $1 bill as really three quarters of yours with some extra baggage that represents our collective societal wealth.
- killerqueen0
I love how PonyBoy is ready at the trigger to always rally the USA's Right-wing causes on QBN.com
Taxes are the cost of doing business in the world's biggest and greatest economy, the USA. If you want to bitch about taxes (PonyBoy) feel free to take advantage of the infrastructure, and the political and economic environment of Somalia, or perhaps Guam.
Taxes are a byproduct of wealth, not an obstacle to its creation. Christ almighty your right-wingers are braindead.
- +1utopian
- +1000000000000000000...utopian
- +1 more than utopian +1'nd itukit
- UM... I didn't BITCH ABOUT TAXES... utopian came in saying 'it's not fair... wahhhh!!!'...PonyBoy
- ... who's rallying anything here outside of wanting 'fair' tax burdens amongst a nation?PonyBoy
- Yes... you are right queen... I personally am going to go take advantage of somalia and guam..PonyBoy
- ... and canada.PonyBoy
- You totally missed my point anyway, Queen... taxes are fine... they should just be structured fairly...PonyBoy
- ... making anyone pay $600k in taxes is ridiculous... that's one's family's share? No fucking way.PonyBoy
- AndyRoss0
If I was in Congress, I would push forward the Cheney/Halliburton Retributive EvilMotherfucker Tax, and take all their money away, run them out of business, burn all their contracts, toss their women into the sea, have them all waterboarded, and videotaped naked, and make them all work as galley slaves at Guantanamo, and in Kabul.
- cramdesign0
Cheney probably did use more resources to create that wealth. Not himself directly but he makes money from the labor of others who, while acting on his behalf, must use public resources.
Look at it on a dollar to dollar level, when Cheney earns a dollar, he gets to keep 76 cents. When most folks earn a dollar, they keep 66 cents. What he paid is more than fair compared to someone paying a higher percentage. Each dollar is taxed. Bring in more dollars, tax more dollars.
Don't worry about Cheney. He will get by.
- Really, I think I am sorta repeating mikotondria3 in a different way... at least that was the intent...cramdesign
- boobs0
It pisses me off that Cheney will get by since he's such a fuckwad.
