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01-30-2011, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Charles
If the Middle East melts down, I suspect that a shitty look on one's face will be a global expression.
We're close to that now.
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Prolly so.
Dave
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09-30-2011, 08:19 PM
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For a simple reason....the top 10% in income receive 45% of the income and pay 67% of all Federal income taxes. According to the IRS statistics for 2010, these are returns with AGI over $113,000.
Where do most of these people live? New York, California....
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03-25-2012, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by vinyl1
For a simple reason....the top 10% in income receive 45% of the income and pay 67% of all Federal income taxes. According to the IRS statistics for 2010, these are returns with AGI over $113,000.
Where do most of these people live? New York, California....
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Sorry but I think you might have that backwards; they pay 45% of all income taxes but receive 67% of the income.
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10-01-2011, 07:35 AM
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Being from Missouri, I'd like to thank ya'll for the handsome return on our taxes.
Of course, if you were to base the B2's somewhere else, shut down Fort Lost in the Woods, and cut the welfare for the corporate farmers, we wouldn't be getting shit.
Chas
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10-01-2011, 09:58 AM
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Here in Brooklyn the rate is 8.2 but on the surface people seems to be doing well. I notice a lot of late model cars clogging the streets, name brand clothes are still in vogue and the area seems to be attracting more working whites. The big employer here is education and health care services. On almost every corner someone is selling or promoting some health service. However that alone cannot explain the apparent well being of the populace. I suspect that there is a thriving underground economy.
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03-24-2012, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Dondilion
Here in Brooklyn the rate is 8.2 but on the surface people seems to be doing well. I notice a lot of late model cars clogging the streets, name brand clothes are still in vogue and the area seems to be attracting more working whites. The big employer here is education and health care services. On almost every corner someone is selling or promoting some health service. However that alone cannot explain the apparent well being of the populace. I suspect that there is a thriving underground economy.
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On one hand the tough times have caused an increase in drug activity and related violence in Philadelphia.
On the other hand, especially in the suburbs, new cars, electronics and nice clothes abound. There's no recovery to see really because the only people hurt by the downturn were the poorest of the poor.
Ironically, most of them are republicans.
There really is merit in the understanding that different parts of the country have been effected differently by the downturn. I live in an area where the only reason you don't have a job is because you haven't been looking hard enough. I just moved home from the Florida panhandle, which is agrarian with no centers of commerce, no infrastructure for the poor to get around, and no service sector to benefit the wealthier and employ the poor. Other than McDonalds and Walmart that is
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03-25-2012, 12:58 PM
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Jigsawed
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no infrastructure for the poor to get around,
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That is the main cry from some New Yorkers who returned from Florida.
Here in Brooklyn gentrification is gathering steam, but people seem to be
ok with it. I quess it improves the cultural/artistic atmosphere....more avenues for live jazz and book clubs.
There must be something going on in this economy. The kids are wearing designers clothes accented with expensive Beats headphones and there is nowhere to park these shiny new cars!
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03-25-2012, 01:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
That is the main cry from some New Yorkers who returned from Florida.
Here in Brooklyn gentrification is gathering steam, but people seem to be
ok with it. I quess it improves the cultural/artistic atmosphere....more avenues for live jazz and book clubs.
There must be something going on in this economy. The kids are wearing designers clothes accented with expensive Beats headphones and there is nowhere to park these shiny new cars!
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No! You're imagining it! It's all a big lie! Americans are dumpster diving and eating their own pets! We're all beaten down and horribly oppressed! Come on, man, get with the program!
Dave
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03-26-2012, 11:11 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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So poor people in Philidelphia vote for the GOP? Can I has something that supports this?
Pete
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03-26-2012, 02:20 PM
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So poor people in Philidelphia vote for the GOP? Can I has something that supports this?
Pete
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A lot of the white, blue collar labor force diffidently identifies as Republican. There are still racial issues in some of the unions too, even though those are going away.
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