My mood is a little better I guess. Must be my audacious nature once again seeing a little hope for us to come out of this mess better and stronger for the struggle, and beginning to believe that change is once again actually possible after all these years. :D
The $250k mark is for individuals, not couples.
And there's a HUGE misconception/illusion that the pubs have perpetrated on America as far as the US having the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the industrial world.
It is high, for those who actually pay the taxes. Unfortunately, better than half of them have found ways to off-shore their money and don't actually pay much if any taxes.
I don't know the exact figures, and I don't know if anybody does, but I'm sure that if all U.S. corporations had to pay a fair tax that the overall corporate tax rate could be cut by 1/2 and we'd still have more revenues coming in.
They would definitely whine about it and try to foist it off on the little guy, but REAL COMPETITION would actually kick back in and they'd be limited to what they could charge or they'd price themselves right out of the market altogether.
Besides...they never pass the savings on to the little guy when their profit margins rocket because of not having to pay taxes, so we're not seeing any benefit from it anyway. That's another part of the illusion of all this.
It's strange and ironic that the corporations are actually voting against THEIR OWN LONGTERM self-interests by not paying taxes to support the economy. They use the infrastructure more than anybody with their trucks and planes, and they take money out of the pockets of the very consumers that buy their products on top of that. It's the same old "short term self interest" aka personal greed, that is keeping us from propering as a whole nation, together.
A little short term pain for them will do them and us a lot of good in the long run. They just can't see the forest for the trees as their vision is tainted by short term greed.
Now what's this "estranged wife" stuff all about? She's just away temporarily on some job thing right? Or is something else going on?
McBUSHIE'S choice of Palin was irresponsible, dangerous and insulting to America's intelligence. That choice and his continuing smears/lies prove he'll do anything to win this election even to the point of endangering his own country.DEFEAT HIM!
