“These millionaires and billionaires have contributed $3 trillion to our deficit.” Guess who said it. Was it (a) Nancy Pelosi. (b) Tim Geithner. (c) Barack Obama. (d) None of the above. If you picked (d) you are correct. It’s a quote from well-known economic genius Harry Reid.
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Did the white house staffers ever pony up the tens of millions they owe the IRS?
Scrap the current tax code completely & go to a national sales tax. Billions & billions of dollars would find it's way back home that is being kept offshore to avoid the IRS. It's so simple, it's sad that there is no will to think outside of the box.
That would be raaaaacist!!!
Wouldn't it be sexist...?
I'd say dingy Harry got his money's worth for his frontal labotomy (and then probably wrote it off as a medical expense).
I would have guessed 'all of the above'.
Does poor Harry Reid have many working brain cells left? How many trillions of dollars has Congress wasted with some of their so-called 'worthwhile' pet
projects over the years?? Too many in Washington, DC are living in a fantasy
world.
The left has the mistaken idea that all money is rightfully theirs except for what they let people keep. The right understands that all money belongs to the people except for what the people give the government.
They can't help but use the word Bush, can they. I'm with stoopid is right. The people they are playing to don't know the difference between tax rate and total tax paid. 15% of a million dollars is a lot more tax revenue than 21% of 79K dollars, or eleventy dollars for that matter. Warren Buffet pays a lot higher total tax bill than his secretary does, guaranteed.
Haven't you heard? Warren Buffet hasn't paid taxes in years ... he may actually owe the Feds over $1,000,000,000 in back taxes already.
Ya know - if you're gonna live in a glass house ...
Millionaires and billionaires contribute to the intellectual deficit of this country every time they write a check to the Democrat Party. They should be required to wear T-shirts that say "I'm with STUPID."
They should be required to wear T-shirts that say “I’m with STUPID.”
With the arrow or finger pointing up!
The arrow should point at a picture of the jerk they contributed to.
OK ... so these millionaires and billionaires contributed $3 tirllion to our deficit ... where did the other $11.4 come from?
Just a question...
Could it be the consumer? For sure it didn't come from any other tax payer group.