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is carp a word for Asians? I didn't know.

I didn't know that either.

 

You learn something new everyday on this forum.

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I doubt you learn a fuking thing.

I learn some people on here are not very smart, and they prove it on a daily basis.

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Pot meet kettle.

I stand corrected

 

I don't learn anything, on here, from people that are not very smart.

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This is why I laugh out loud reading this forum. "Conservatives" ok with paying a tax rate significantly higher than corporate america but let's talk about fish names and assault weapons.

 

Conservative Conservative Satan Conservative Conservative

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Corporate taxes are stupid; they just get embedded in prices

 

A standard battle cry among liberals is that we need to hit corporations harder & make them pay higher taxes on corporate income. Sounds smart, but it's actually an utterly stupid plan. In reality, corporations don't pay taxes. That's right, not really. They collect taxes for the government and help the government deceive you into thinking that they are paying. But corporations and businesses simply do what they have to--pass the cost on to you, the unsuspecting consumer. It is for them the simple cost of doing business. For you, it's another way in which your government has collected taxes from you that you weren't even aware of.

The average embedded tax on what we buy in this country is 22%. That means that when you purchase something and pay $100, the provider got $78 and the government took $22. If you want Congress to put a greater tax burden on businesses, they certainly can do it, but don't think that makes you better off. It means the cost of the product you buy will be higher.

Source: Do The Right Thing, by Mike Huckabee, p.158 , Nov 18, 2008

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http://www.sanders.senate.gov/top-10-corporate-tax-avoiders

 

I have google as well and if you are quoting Huckabee as gospel I raise you a Bernie Sanders

 

Just ask yourself one question why would a shrewd billionaire businessman give a Presidential campaign millions of dollars? To keep gays from marrying?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/corporate-political-donations_n_1644375.html

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https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

 

Koch brothers are 48 in the top 100. You would have thought they were number one with the way Harry Reid and whining democrats complain but actually the top ten are dominated by groups primarily funding democrats.

 

Let's not forget George Soros and all the money he gives to left wing causes:

 

George has his fingers in a lot of pies!

 

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237

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You think George Soros does?

 

Higgardly Clinton's overseas arab donors?

 

Come on, think. don't always be like a liberal.

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Koch brothers are 48 in the top 100. You would have thought they were number one with the way Harry Reid and whining democrats complain but actually the top ten are dominated by groups primarily funding democrats.

 

Let's not forget George Soros and all the money he gives to left wing causes:

 

George has his fingers in a lot of pies!

 

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html?_r=0

 

Citizens' United, anybody

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And I've never claimed that the Democratic party doesn't have someone pulling the strings as well. I just choose to look at the problem, namely corporate tax issues and campaign finance reform as problems, not a problem with who is doing the financing for whom.

 

And I think that discussion warrants more attention than who is renaming fish or declaring next Thursday "Smaller Farmer Appreciation Day" in Iowa.

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We tried to get liberals to talk about Soros before.

 

Not one peep out of those chickens.

 

But Koch this, Koch that - yeah, they were all over that.

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Don't fear either, I fear that one has confused you into thinking they are in it for you and not themselves. I know neither represents my interests

 

I don't believe socialism is the answer. I cannot look to one country anywhere it has ever been tried and worked.

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I don't believe socialism is the answer. I cannot look to one country anywhere it has ever been tried and worked.

 

So if I pay 30 percent of my income in federal taxes and I expect Exxon Mobil to do the same, I'm a socialist?

 

And so I don't appear liberal throw Apple in the mix as well.

 

Why do we credit domestic companies for taxes paid to foreign governments?

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So if I pay 30 percent of my income in federal taxes and I expect Exxon Mobil to do the same, I'm a socialist?

 

Bernie Sanders is a self described democratic socialist and sure you can put all the higher taxes you want on business and corporations that will come back to you the consumer in embedded higher costs.

 

We had huge economic growth under Reagan with less taxes and regulations so why not go with what has proven to work.

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So if I pay 30 percent of my income in federal taxes and I expect Exxon Mobil to do the same, I'm a socialist?

 

And so I don't appear liberal throw Apple in the mix as well.

 

Why do we credit domestic companies for taxes paid to foreign governments?

 

No, if you expect Exxon to pay the % you pay then you'd be more of a pro-corporation capitalist.

 

Pick another corporation to whine about.

 

1. Exxon Mobil

> Income tax expense: $31.0 billion

> Earnings before taxes: $78.7 billion (the most)

> Revenue: $428.4 billion (2nd most)

> 1-yr. share price change: +14.5%

> Industry: Oil and gas

 

Exxon Mobil is one of the nation’s largest companies by a number of measures. The oil and gas titan trails only Walmart in revenue and has the highest pre-tax income of any American public company. Not surprisingly, Exxon Mobil also pays more in taxes than any other corporation. In its most recently reported full year, the company’s tax expenses totaled nearly $31 billion. Exxon Mobile’s foreign income totaled more than $67 billion in its most recent fiscal year, which helped boost its effective tax rate to 44% of before-tax income. However, foreign taxes are not the company’s only drain on profits. For much of last year, the company had to contend with diminishing profitability from its refining operations.

 

 

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No, if you expect Exxon to pay the % you pay then you'd be more of a pro-corporation capitalist.

 

Pick another corporation to whine about.

 

1. Exxon Mobil

> Income tax expense: $31.0 billion

> Earnings before taxes: $78.7 billion (the most)

> Revenue: $428.4 billion (2nd most)

> 1-yr. share price change: +14.5%

> Industry: Oil and gas

 

Exxon Mobil is one of the nation’s largest companies by a number of measures. The oil and gas titan trails only Walmart in revenue and has the highest pre-tax income of any American public company. Not surprisingly, Exxon Mobil also pays more in taxes than any other corporation. In its most recently reported full year, the company’s tax expenses totaled nearly $31 billion. Exxon Mobile’s foreign income totaled more than $67 billion in its most recent fiscal year, which helped boost its effective tax rate to 44% of before-tax income. However, foreign taxes are not the company’s only drain on profits. For much of last year, the company had to contend with diminishing profitability from its refining operations.

 

 

I actually do. When I pay taxes I have two choices, itemize or straight deduction. Unfortunately I'm not able to itemize my annual income down to 18% of my annual income. Corporations are able to take income (revenue) and itemize (expenditures, tax loopholes) to outrageously low ratios.

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