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Old 07-08-2012, 10:15 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Actually when I saw my first tax bill I vowed I would never vote for a Republican ever since I was outraged at how high the rate was on my employment income relative to my corporate welfare check (aka dividends).
This surtax will be brought about solely by Barack Hussein Obama.
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:28 PM
 
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=I spent 4 years during college working at one of the nations largest telemarketers...
And you admit freely to this?
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:33 PM
 
Location: NJ
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And you admit freely to this?
Of course. It was actually a good employer who had a customer service department that went overboard to get customers anything they wanted. We also donated generously to various charities. Just part-time, and once I got my first professional job I left, but stayed friends with many for years.

Our Divison VP wanted me to go to corp in a professional role fitting my degree, but it was too far away, in a part of my home state I had no desire to live in.
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:37 PM
 
Location: NC
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This surtax will be brought about solely by Barack Hussein Obama.
It is not a surtax though since that is an additional tax or a tax levied at certain levels. It is just treating one form of income like other income. I think that in 99% of cases Income should be treated as income. Why the heck should I pay substantially less taxes on income I get from sitting on my butt then income that I gain from the sweat of my brow?
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:41 PM
 
Location: NJ
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It is not a surtax though since that is an additional tax or a tax levied at certain levels. It is just treating one form of income like other income. I think that in 99% of cases Income should be treated as income. Why the heck should I pay substantially less taxes on income I get from sitting on my butt then income that I gain from the sweat of my brow?
It is not taxing income-it is taxing someones choice not to buy a service/product.
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:42 PM
 
Location: NC
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It is not taxing income-it is taxing someones choice not to buy a service/product.
I think we are talking about 2 different things.
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Old 07-08-2012, 10:45 PM
 
Location: NJ
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I think we are talking about 2 different things.
Correct. I'm talking about the topic-Obamacare and its related tax as correctly identified by the SCOTUS.

Note per the Constitution tax bills are requirted to originate in the House, the ACA originated in the Senate. A poison pill from Judge Roberts perhaps?
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Old 07-09-2012, 03:01 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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It is not taxing income-it is taxing someones choice not to buy a service/product.
How about this>
For those that choose to not buy the product, they must pay before services are rendered, in CASH.
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Old 07-09-2012, 05:10 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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I don't think Obamacare is free. If it was free, you could not be taxed for not buying it.

They really didn't have to go the GOP mandate way. If people who could afford to buy Ins and didn't, when they use, they should just have to pay 3-4 times the normal price of any services rendered.
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Old 07-09-2012, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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And you admit freely to this?
Many neo-progressives here in the triangle freely admit to working for Cisco, IBM, Glaxo and other "evil" corporations and eagerly buying "evil" Apple products. Why not?
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