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This is why so many of the rich don't mind taxes on the rich. It's class warfare, but the classes are tax-consumers such as Warren Buffett (http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/warren-buffett-eyes-big-bets-big-government - broken link)vs. tax-providers, such as the Koch Bros.
Anybody surprised? (Maybe someone needs to forward cc's of this article to the OWS crowd! )
"Washington, D.C., nosed out San Jose, Calif., as the nation's highest-income metropolitan region, fueled mainly by its army of attorneys, consultants, lobbyists and outside government contractors."
Funds set aside to reward traders, deal makers and the unit’s other personnel increased 4 percent to $9.73 billion, or an average of $369,651 for each of the 26,314 workers, the company said today in an earnings supplement. That’s 2.4 percent less than the average of $378,600 a year earlier, when 24,654 people worked there. Compensation amounted to 37 percent of revenue last year, up from 33 percent in 2009.
Waaaaah....there are people in D.C. who have it better than i do.
I think the point is that productive people are being heavily taxed to support a new aristocracy of political parasites that do nothing but destroy our economy, enable corrupt Big Business, encourage bankrupting war-mongering, and create a future of hopelessness and decline for our children.
I'd support Cain more if he wanted a 1-1-1 plan, since that's more than enough for Washington to waste.
No surprise here. The DC bubble is one of the reasons obama is so disconnected - looking around that area, everybody is thriving..on the taxpayer dime of course. Obama's massive expansion of the government takes bodies to apply.
I think the point is that productive people are being heavily taxed to support a new aristocracy of political parasites that do nothing but destroy our economy, enable corrupt Big Business, encourage bankrupting war-mongering, and create a future of hopelessness and decline for our children.
I'd support Cain more if he wanted a 1-1-1 plan, since that's more than enough for Washington to waste.
Fair enough. I don't believe that i'm being heavily taxed, though i do pay a nice amount, but i guess we see it differently. I certainly have a good idea of where i'd cut the spending, but it's sure as hell wouldn't be a popular idea amongst the folks on the right.
Who among these rich elites are the "parasite class" in D.C.? Gimme an example.
And please, don't tell me about the guy at some filing cabinet in the Department of the Interior.
That poor guy will be looking for a job if Paul should happen to win the job of President. He wants to get rid of 5 cabinet level bureaucracies and Interior just happens to be one of them.
That poor guy will be looking for a job if Paul should happen to win the job of President. He wants to get rid of 5 cabinet level bureaucracies and Interior just happens to be one of them.
HA! Go Paul!
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