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Old 01-18-2015, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Near Manito
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You're right. That doesn't help the lower income families.. What would? Incentives to reinvest for corporations. Take the penalty out of bringing income back into the states with the provision that those funds be reinvested in growth. Create more jobs, not more welfare.
What you describe is more welfare for corporations and the already wealthy. American coorations are sitting on billions of capital right now. By the time more trillions in corporate welfare trickle down to the serfs, we simply stir our current stew of low pay for employees and obscene profits for wealthy chiselers and corporate interests.

As long as the smug rich deny our people living wages, government has to do something to keep people at work. If not, we most assuredly WILL create more welfare.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:01 PM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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President Obama proposes higher taxes for couples making $250,000 a year.

When I was dating my ex, we just decided to not getting married. Financially, getting married when you both make decent income just doesn't make any sense.
Well, it does if you marry for Love and the many protections that it offers.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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Well, it does if you marry for Love and the many protections that it offers.
That is true. But you can love somebody without getting married.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Lost in Texas
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What you describe is more welfare for corporations and the already wealthy. By the time trillions in corporate welfare trickle down to the serfs, we simply stir our current stew of low pay for employees and obscene profits for wealthy chiselers and corporate interests.
And if that money remains out of the country to avoid tax consequences, how much will it help stimulate job growth?
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Lost in Texas
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longevity =/= good. For all we know you have been hovering just above the flood line for all of those 30 years.
Nobody hovers for 30 years..
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Near Manito
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And if that money remains out of the country to avoid tax consequences, how much will it help stimulate job growth?
Corporate traitors are a despicable group, I agree.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:08 PM
 
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Well, it does if you marry for Love and the many protections that it offers.
I know several couples who got married in all other ways except signing the legal documents. Name change, using the husband/wife term, ceremony, the works. Some of them got formally married years later when they needed something they had to do that to get. Anyway, "should or should we not file the formal papers with the government?" isn't a question anyone should have to ask.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:09 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Nobody hovers for 30 years..
Oh yes they can.

but my point is that your personal preferences dont make you right or wrong.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:10 PM
 
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What you describe is more welfare for corporations and the already wealthy. American coorations are sitting on billions of capital right now. By the time more trillions in corporate welfare trickle down to the serfs, we simply stir our current stew of low pay for employees and obscene profits for wealthy chiselers and corporate interests.

As long as the smug rich deny our people living wages, government has to do something to keep people at work. If not, we most assuredly WILL create more welfare.
Clue for you: forcing companies to pay a "living wage" to people whose job duties and required skillsets don't command a living wage in the free market is simply welfare paid for by the private sector.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:17 PM
 
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Notice Obama didn't propose this in 2009 when it would have passed and he could have signed it into law.

He's a fraud.
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