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marble falls

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23. Respectfully, your shorthand sentences lacked any real clear meaning, so it was your last sentence..

Reply to Thatmoderateguy (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 5, 2015, 08:03 PM

Feb 2015

that got me, "So, even with the simplest numbers businesses pay 27% of the taxes. " Assuming thats true, and its not - 1/3 of corporations paid any income taxes, Romney paid less than 14% - how would 1% owning at fifty percent of whats owned only be paying 27% of the taxes? How does that seem right? 'Splain that.

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America�s Recipe For Disaster: How New Corporate �Amnesty� Plan Could Doom The Economy - Salon [View all] WillyT Feb 2015 OP

Corporate America has ALREADY Doomed the Economy Teutonic Samuel Feb 2015 #1

Of course they're going to try to avoid taxes. Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #2

And the influx continues... woo me with science Feb 2015 #3

I'm not a propagandist. Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #4

This would be true except for tax loopholes nakocal Feb 2015 #6

Eh. Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #7

Do you have a link that supports that? cyberswede Feb 2015 #8

It's more complicated than that. Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #9

Krugman: "The Tax Foundation is not a reliable source" cyberswede Feb 2015 #11

You don't have to accept it. Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #15

And a partisan blogger isn't reliable either. FOH Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #16

What does "FOH" mean? Front of house? uppityperson Feb 2015 #17

F*ck Outta Here. Raine1967 Feb 2015 #20

So with that reply you seem to admit your conservative Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #19

LOL cyberswede Feb 2015 #24

Why do you link to a conservative think tank on a Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #18

+1 n/t Raine1967 Feb 2015 #21

Respectfully, your shorthand sentences lacked any real clear meaning, so it was your last sentence.. marble falls Feb 2015 #23

I'm also looking at a simple little graph in one Thatmoderateguy Feb 2015 #10

Corporate governments don't represent human beings. woo me with science Feb 2015 #5

One thing is for sure. The more money they have, the less democracy we have. raouldukelives Feb 2015 #12

+1 woo me with science Feb 2015 #14

If the US Corporations don't bring the loot back, tax them. Octafish Feb 2015 #13

K/R marmar Feb 2015 #22