Bernie Sanders suporters = STUPID SLUTS!

[VOLracious]

With all of his itemized deductions, Sanders’s taxable income was significantly lower than it would have been if he had taken the standard deduction. The deductions left Sanders and his wife paying $27,653 in federal income taxes in 2014, on a joint income of $205,271 — an effective federal tax rate of 13.5 percent. If that seems low to you, your instincts are right: According to the Tax Foundation, the average federal income-tax rate for a couple making $200,000 to $500,000 in 2014 was 15.2 percent. The “millionaires and billionaires” that Sanders is so fond of berating payed, on average, just more than twice as much of their income (27.4 percent) in federal taxes as he did.


Bernie filthy 1 percenter

Really Bernie? You expect to provide free tuition with 13.5% you cheap bastard. Someone discuss his charitable deductions.

Obama's effective tax rate 18% - taxpayers heavily subsidizing his daughter's private school tuition.

VOL's effective tax rate 30.4% - Ha Ha. VOL cares more than Bernie and Obama.

[AerchAngel]

VOL you own a business a small one, what would happen if they force you to pay your caller/secretary/service desk tech 15$ and in turn pay your mechanics 45$ an hour to offset the minimum wage since they have degree or mech certs unlike your secretary, who has a high school degree/GED?

Right now you are clearing around 120k after payroll just to make a point, if you pay minimum wage and hike your workers, the mechanic will be making as much as you in the end.

Is that right?

I am a programmer but also an accountant (No CPA but a degree in it) and I see payroll of a LOT of small businesses which my wife caters to because firms charge too much for simple things), this hike is going to kill them. I have lawyers as business because firms charged too much and I don't and they said if they have to give their secretaries that much money, they would have to let them go and do it themselves unless they up their fees.

Now if this target only billion dollar own companies I don't have an issue with this but then those secretaries will work for Walmart/Target et al.

[goldfly]

yay

vol decided to stop by and post and run off

love when that happens

he is always a ray of sunshine in a dark and cruel world

[sturg33]

Why is anyone surprised that the old rich white guy is lying to the people?

[50PoundHead]

Why is anyone surprised that the old rich white guy is lying to the people?

I'm not. There's always a bit of verbal legerdemain in politics, but Sanders just boggles my mind.

As for the taxes, the more I read articles about taxes, the more I realize people don't fully understand them (not the people here per se, but the general public). Everyone thinks that the highest rate is applied against one's entire income if they are in the income range where the highest tax rate is in effect. Tax rates are marginal, meaning that each segment of income is taxed at the rate applicable to that range of income. When everyone talks about the 90% tax rate of the 1950s and 1960s, it didn't apply to the entire income of the wealthy, but only the portion of income that was in that tax bracket.

[Oklahomahawk]

I'm not. There's always a bit of verbal legerdemain

Hey, you watch your language!!!

[50PoundHead]

Hey, you watch your language!!!

I really have to get this dictionary "word of the day" app off my phone. It's making me sound pretentious.

[Oklahomahawk]

I really have to get this dictionary "word of the day" app off my phone. It's making me sound pretentious.

Is it like that Dennis Miller Thesaurus I've been meaning to get?

[50PoundHead]

Is it like that Dennis Miller Thesaurus I've been meaning to get?

It's just the Dictionary.com app from the Google store.