gininitaly Forum Posts (2,454)

RE: Hello! this is mnowsa....

Congratulations Mnowsa darlin'!!!!

All the very best to you and the new Mrs.

RE: Should We Cull The Over-50s??!

.... that was directed towards the whipper snapper T.Blue.

RE: Should We Cull The Over-50s??!

I'll be happy to have a chat about that with you in 40 yrs darlin'.



Snivel to the men...'bout the rest.

RE: Which is the most expensice country?

Yes I did actually.... I didn't catch the small print on the first link. But just as everywhere, a little digging can get you some cheaper prices... unfortunately that doesn't usually apply to tourist areas.

But the Scandinavians are running close behind you.

RE: English To Blame for the Worlds Problems

I hate marmite.... but that's about as hateful as I get.

RE: Osama bin Laden was EXECUTE by US forces illegally

..... or maybe Bush and Bin laden were a tag team... which is why they never managed to want to catch him before?

RE: Which is the most expensice country?

RE: English To Blame for the Worlds Problems

Absolutely.

Unfortunately....

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden

Or....

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
~Robert C. Gallagher

RE: English To Blame for the Worlds Problems

Bit paranoid aren't you? I don't even know you or paid any attention to what you said.

RE: English To Blame for the Worlds Problems

Hi Best.... Oh just needed a breather out in the real world, where most ford ahead and oddly enough live their little lives pleasantly, oblivious to the worlds machinations.

So for awhile anyway, while the sun shines, might as well take it one day at a time.

RE: English To Blame for the Worlds Problems

Isn't it interesting to notice... that no matter where you are, people find reasons to hate each other... is this the real ying and yang of life? Petty differences?

Whether on the same island or continent, someone is pointing and someone accused... when we are exactly the same people no matter what color, accent or past; we all put our britches on one leg at a time, work, eat, marry and raise families and yet............

RE: Is Capitilist Consumerism sustainable?

And I always get a kick out of people thinking it's too much 'Government'.

RE: cool

My sign in page was the same... but now the profile pages have gone all black and racy, was that so you can see the adverts for the young russian and oriental mail order brides better? Because it seems they are all over MY profile now.

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

Hi D'Agosto... always nice to see you.

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

Now, let's consider somebody like Warren Buffet (only less wealthy) who made most of his money by investing in the stock market. Let's assume that Richie Rich made $1 million in the same tax period. We'll even be generous and assume that a good chunk of that came from a high paying day job: say, $150,000 a year. Let's assume that another $300,000 came from short term capital gains (which, again, is taxed like earned income). The remaining $550,000 came from long term capital gains - he bought stock or real estate, held onto it for 12 months or more, then sold it.

FYI

"On his earned income and short term gains, his tax bill would look like this:

$5840.4 for Social Security (remember, only the first $94,200 is taxable here)
$2731.8 for Medicare (again, only the first $94,200 is taxable here)
$755 for the first $7550 of his income
$3465 for the next $23,100 of his income
$10,887 for the next $43,550 of his income
$22,568 for the next $80,600 of his income
$59,977.50 for the next $181,750 of his income
$39,707.50 for the last $113,450 of this income type

Total Earned Income/Short Term Gains taxes (the first $450,000 of income): $145,932.20

However, the last $550,000 of his income is long term capital gains, so it's only taxed at 15%, for a total of $82,500.

Stop right there before I even compute the total. The first $450,000 of his income cost him almost $150,000 in taxes. The last $550,000 cost him less than $85,000 in taxes. The second group was 22% more income, yet cost him 43% less in taxes.

Add the totals together and you get $228,432.20 in total taxes - a hefty tax bill, to be sure. But it's only 22.8% of his total income - dramatically less than poor Joe Schmoe above."

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

But found this:







"An analysis by The Wall Street Journal found that pay and benefits at the top 25 publicly traded banks and security firms on Wall Street hit a record of $135.5 billion."

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

I have no idea... I don't watch or follow football.

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

Maybe the bankers could take a cut in salary and bonuses Deus?

RE: Robin Hood is alive and well

Vinny... great idea btw, nice to know some are thinking about the other 95%.

RE: MEN AT 45

The luck of the genetic draw.

I've seen it go both ways myself... all you can do is what you can with what you've got.

RE: Who usually ends a relationship ?

yep... tho the men rarely do the face to face ending, they really hate that whole owning up that they've been a jerk thing ... but they are quite good at simply being vacant and disengaged so that they have to be kicked out.

That way it's never their...Ahhem .... fault, so to speak.

RE: The Nanny State

Of course not... but it's come to that.

You can probably thank the lawyers for all this baloney and the sue happy Americans.

Some kid gets bonked on the head with a stick and his parents instead of talking to the other kids parents, sue the city with some lawyers push.

I can remember thinking when my kids were little to hang a big sign around their necks saying WE WILL NOT SUE! if my idiot kids fall out of your tree and breaks a leg.

Wealth for the common good

Wealth for the common good

I personally don't spend money on organizations, probably because I don't trust most 'group' agendas, even tho they may 'seem' to bend my way cause I'm an individual or 'whatever kind of name you want to call me'... what can you do, I'm just not a good follower ? I just watch the way the cookie crumbles and have opinions and I voice them... because I can and it isn't yet against the law in most western countries to do so... but that will probably change.

As for Nanny nanny poo poo?... from what I can see the only ones being taken care of by YOUR government (as in the wealthy and powerful controllers, it hasn't mattered which party btw)..... are the mega conglomerates, bankers, military contractors, pharma ect... well you know the deep pocket free traders, the already rich and powerful spending the money to manipulate whatever supposed government/country to their advantage and John Doe be damned.

Wealth for the common good

that was addressed to Con.

Wealth for the common good

What are you talking about theft by government??? The government has been bought and paid for by big business for years ... I mean you're telling me you hadn't noticed? You have more 'visible' power now than you have ever had in 40 yrs and you're STILL complaining?

Do you just sprinkle fairy dust that forces you to repeat the same old deluded mantra ad nausium and that's supposed to make it true... or SCREAM IN VERY BIG LETTERS and that will make a difference? Oh come on, are you getting a kick back for spreading the propaganda?

Wealth for the common good

I have to say I am always quite amazed at the conservatives cold blooded hatred of the other 99% of the humans on this planet... and maybe even the people from whence you came?

Are the only values you respect.. in your bank account? I do wonder what you are afraid of, that the seething masses will take over your controlling world with song, kindness, art and OMG.... messy and radical creativity? That we'll grab all your hard manipulated dollars and feed the poor with them? What a fate and what a really terrible thing to worry about.

Hadn't you heard... you really can't take it with you?

Wealth for the common good

Ohh you mean like the citizens taxes to bail out Wall St.?

Wealth for the common good

look I could've gone offshore and chose not to... so yeah, guess I'm an idiot because it didn't seem the right thing to do.

Actually what I bought was a piece of the tail fin on Goldman Sachs private jet.

Wealth for the common good

Yeah well.... I didn't get the memo and paid over 12k last year.