Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

YankeeFan · May 5, 2016

de Blasio is going to go to jail.

He also has a disturbing lack of knowledge about NYC schools:

BDC99 · May 5, 2016

da man said: ↑

Top 20% of Earners Pay 84% of Income Tax

Top 1% pay nearly half of federal income taxes

"According to a projection from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the top 1 percent of Americans will pay 45.7 percent of the individual income taxes in 2014—up from 43 percent in 2013 and 40 percent in 2012 (the oldest period available). (Tweet this)

The bottom 80 percent of Americans are expected to pay 15 percent of all federal income taxes in 2014, according to the study. The bottom 60 percent are expected to pay less than 2 percent of federal income taxes. "

High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?

"In 2014, people with adjusted gross income, or AGI, above $250,000 paid just over half (51.6%) of all individual income taxes, though they accounted for only 2.7% of all returns filed, according to our analysis of preliminary IRS data. Their average tax rate (total taxes paid divided by cumulative AGI) was 25.7%. By contrast, people with incomes of less than $50,000 accounted for 62.3% of all individual returns filed, but they paid just 5.7% of total taxes. Their average tax rate was 4.3%."

"Still, that analysis confirms that, after all federal taxes are factored in, the U.S. tax system as a whole is progressive. The top 0.1% of families pay the equivalent of 39.2% and the bottom 20% have negative tax rates (that is, they get more money back from the government in the form of refundable tax credits than they pay in taxes)."
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The tax part of this is irrelevant to me right now. I just got shit-canned less than a year after the company sold our prime real estate to double its initial investment, all the while not paying bills, hiding the money, cutting our pay, furloughs, layoffs, the whole fucking deal. And even before that, the whole fucking deal as well. Meanwhile, the top brass is raking in $1 million or more a year. If you don't see the problem, you're part of it.

Oggiedoggie · May 5, 2016

¡Feliz último Cinco de Mayo antes de Wallo de Trumpo!

Dick Whitman · May 5, 2016

poindexter said: ↑

I forgot this from a couple of months ago - Smarter-than-the-room Dick W was placing rock solid bets at rock solid odds on various candidates.
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I wouldn't ever say that a 30-1 bet is a "rock solid bet" to pay off.

But I would say that it was good odds at the time.

Decisions, not results.

da man · May 5, 2016

YankeeFan said: ↑

de Blasio is going to go to jail.

He also has a disturbing lack of knowledge about NYC schools:

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I find your lack of knowledge disturbing.

Dick Whitman · May 5, 2016

The liberal giddiness over the fact that people like Paul Ryan won't endorse Trump is kind of humorous to me, as a big hang-up is that they don't know that he's conservative enough. He's the presidential Harriet Miers.

TheSportsPredictor · May 5, 2016

Gawker on the case:

http://gawker.com/a-brief-history-o...cusations-agains-1774776293?rev=1462481799571

Inky_Wretch · May 5, 2016

Are you an anti-vaxxer who thinks the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked? You're likely a Trump supporter!

The outlandish conspiracy theories many of Donald Trump’s supporters believe

(No word on who the flat Earthers who think the moon landing was faked support. But Trump is a safe guess.)

Earthman · May 5, 2016

TheSportsPredictor said: ↑

Gawker on the case:

http://gawker.com/a-brief-history-o...cusations-agains-1774776293?rev=1462481799571
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The forgot to include a picture of the accuser:

Smallpotatoes · May 5, 2016

Inky_Wretch said: ↑

Are you an anti-vaxxer who thinks the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked? You're likely a Trump supporter!

The outlandish conspiracy theories many of Donald Trump’s supporters believe

(No word on who the flat Earthers who think the moon landing was faked support. But Trump is a safe guess.)
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Why's everyone looking at me?

Alma · May 5, 2016

da man said: ↑

Top 20% of Earners Pay 84% of Income Tax

Top 1% pay nearly half of federal income taxes

"According to a projection from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the top 1 percent of Americans will pay 45.7 percent of the individual income taxes in 2014—up from 43 percent in 2013 and 40 percent in 2012 (the oldest period available). (Tweet this)

The bottom 80 percent of Americans are expected to pay 15 percent of all federal income taxes in 2014, according to the study. The bottom 60 percent are expected to pay less than 2 percent of federal income taxes. "

High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?

"In 2014, people with adjusted gross income, or AGI, above $250,000 paid just over half (51.6%) of all individual income taxes, though they accounted for only 2.7% of all returns filed, according to our analysis of preliminary IRS data. Their average tax rate (total taxes paid divided by cumulative AGI) was 25.7%. By contrast, people with incomes of less than $50,000 accounted for 62.3% of all individual returns filed, but they paid just 5.7% of total taxes. Their average tax rate was 4.3%."

"Still, that analysis confirms that, after all federal taxes are factored in, the U.S. tax system as a whole is progressive. The top 0.1% of families pay the equivalent of 39.2% and the bottom 20% have negative tax rates (that is, they get more money back from the government in the form of refundable tax credits than they pay in taxes)."
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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Of course they pay a shitload of the percentage. They're rich. They make more. It'd be true under a flat tax, too. It'd be true under any tax.

Smallpotatoes · May 5, 2016

da man said: ↑

Top 20% of Earners Pay 84% of Income Tax

Top 1% pay nearly half of federal income taxes

"According to a projection from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the top 1 percent of Americans will pay 45.7 percent of the individual income taxes in 2014—up from 43 percent in 2013 and 40 percent in 2012 (the oldest period available). (Tweet this)

The bottom 80 percent of Americans are expected to pay 15 percent of all federal income taxes in 2014, according to the study. The bottom 60 percent are expected to pay less than 2 percent of federal income taxes. "

High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?

"In 2014, people with adjusted gross income, or AGI, above $250,000 paid just over half (51.6%) of all individual income taxes, though they accounted for only 2.7% of all returns filed, according to our analysis of preliminary IRS data. Their average tax rate (total taxes paid divided by cumulative AGI) was 25.7%. By contrast, people with incomes of less than $50,000 accounted for 62.3% of all individual returns filed, but they paid just 5.7% of total taxes. Their average tax rate was 4.3%."

"Still, that analysis confirms that, after all federal taxes are factored in, the U.S. tax system as a whole is progressive. The top 0.1% of families pay the equivalent of 39.2% and the bottom 20% have negative tax rates (that is, they get more money back from the government in the form of refundable tax credits than they pay in taxes)."
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So poor people aren't paying enough taxes and that's part of the problem? I don't think so.

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