tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post6513863405310559117..comments2023-11-05T03:05:05.785-05:00Comments on MyRightWingDad.net: FW: European Tax RatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-40606214569921089592011-10-05T21:43:34.145-04:002011-10-05T21:43:34.145-04:00And since everyone loves charts, here are a bunch ...And since everyone loves charts, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4" rel="nofollow">here are a bunch</a> illustrating how the super-rich keep getting more of the money, while everyone else is getting poorer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-37870965652240129082011-10-05T21:40:33.300-04:002011-10-05T21:40:33.300-04:00Half of all American households make less than $50...Half of all American households make less than $50,000 a year.<br />Half of all Americans make $29,000 or less.<br />Incomes now are on par with the mid-'90s.<br /><br />If your entire household is making $250,000 a year, you are in the top 1.5% of all Americans.<br /><br />Why do people worry so much about the top tax rates when they will never be affected by them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-32402111206092733842011-10-05T11:20:10.290-04:002011-10-05T11:20:10.290-04:00Rightwing lying propoganda on display.
Take not...Rightwing lying propoganda on display. <br /><br />Take notes, kids: this is how they rook gullible rubes into drinking Kool Aid and saying: let's have the US middle class be stamped into oblivion so that the upper 1% can continue to enrich themselves at our expense. <br /><br />And let's just reflexively say that socialism is horrible even though we're f*cking clueless about what ferschitznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-86048640766894434462011-10-04T17:28:06.210-04:002011-10-04T17:28:06.210-04:00You know what France, Finland, the Netherlands, No...You know what France, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the U.K. have in common that the U.S. doesn't? A triple-A credit rating.<br /><br />Just saying.Marc with a Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185217636530362867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-81838558246731719432011-10-03T20:07:21.599-04:002011-10-03T20:07:21.599-04:00Socialism is awesome.
For everybody who isn't...Socialism is awesome.<br /><br />For everybody who isn't a billionaire.gruaudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-62991791497529487492011-10-03T17:54:05.442-04:002011-10-03T17:54:05.442-04:00Well they say only 30% of Americans have passports...Well they say only 30% of Americans have passports. Which means that less than a third - probably WELL under a third - of Americans have ever set foot in Europe.<br /><br />The next time a winger sends you something like this, I'd ASK if they'd ever been to any of the countries on that list, and if so, can they describe what, exactly, is so terrible abut life there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-43325566628682115782011-10-03T13:51:20.196-04:002011-10-03T13:51:20.196-04:00This is where Obama is trying to lead us!
Except...<i>This is where Obama is trying to lead us! </i><br /><br />Except that taxes are lower under Obama...but the Bush-low-taxes cure-all has had 10 years to prove itself. It Failed! Low taxes have not brought jobs, they have not brought prosperity. They have put lots of extra cash in the hands of the wealthy who did not use it to benefit society, but to greedily gamble the money into a financial Thx 4 Fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07626498268837878537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-88972714554337394732011-10-03T10:08:03.182-04:002011-10-03T10:08:03.182-04:00Glancing at the interwebs, I see that 50% is the t...Glancing at the interwebs, I see that 50% is the top <i>marginal</i> tax rate in the U.K. (applying only to income over 150,000 pounds). Which I would suspect is the case with the other stated income tax rates here as well (especially since none of these countries has a flat income tax).<br /><br />Also, combining VAT plus income tax to get a "total tax rate" only makes sense if the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-4237205774625042832011-10-03T09:45:28.876-04:002011-10-03T09:45:28.876-04:00These taxes are all lower than the marginal rate i...These taxes are all lower than the marginal rate in the US for most of the 20th century. We built the largest, strongest middle class in the history of the world and put a man on the moon with taxes higher than these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-5127699678821284782011-10-03T09:42:58.252-04:002011-10-03T09:42:58.252-04:00No mention here of the global economic collapse an...No mention here of the global economic collapse and its role in bankrupting Europe. The collapse created by the greed and arrogance of the free market. The collapse which was softened only by governments bailing out those who started it. <br /><br /><i>It is the very notion that with hard work and perseverance, anybody can get ahead economically here in the USA</i><br /><br />A bullshit Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com