[DeTomaso] REALLY, TOTALLY NPC - Where are vehicles made

[Rob Dumoulin]

You had me until Gross Profit. Net Profit is fairer, encourages investment,
and does not punish low margin businesses.
On May 11, 2011 10:19 AM, "michael at michaelshortt.com" <
michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this.
>
> Every person pays 10% of what they make PERIOD. in Federal Taxes ( If you
> cheat, you go to jail for one hour for every dollar or your pay $10.00 for
> every $1.00 )
> 2% for State Taxes
> 1% for Local/County Taxes/School Board
>
> If you work at McDonald's or if you own FaceBook, everybody pays.
>
> Every Corporation pays 15% of Gross profits before shareholders are paid.
>
> No Deductions for anything.
>
> No property taxes, ( i already paid for it once ...WTF )
>
> If you aren't a legal citizen, you have 72 hours to get OUT. or we give
you
> to Sheriff Joe in AZ who will be the new Illegal Immigrant Czar.
>
> We man our borders, stop being Policeman to the world and if anybody
messes
> with us, we simply nuke the bastards.
>
> We place tariffs on items that are subsidized by other governments to
> equalize the playing field.
>
> If you cheat on Medicaid, Medicare, SSi, Welfare and are caught, you get
> NOTHING from that point on.
> We offer a generous reward to turn cheats in, equal to 1 years of what
they
> were getting.
>
> Government agency heads are given bonuses to save money, they are free to
> divide the bonuses up
> among their managers, divisions, employees.
>
> Jail means Jail, no TV, No ping Pong, No A/C, and you stay as long as your
> sentence was given.
>
> If you kill somebody, you die. If you rape a woman, you lose your package,
>
>
> Michael ( If I were King ) Shortt
>
> P.S. the left lane is for people who know how to drive, Hogging it is a
> $500.00 fine.
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> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Christopher Kimball <
chrisvkimball at msn.com
>> wrote:
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>> Entitlement programs for 2010 totaled about 1.5 trillion. According to
the
>> stats below, that's more in one year than the total combined cost of the
>> conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to date... Add up the total
expenditures
>> for entitlement programs over the last ten years and you'll get an idea
of
>> the real perspective.
>> I don't know about you, but a strong armed forces is pretty important to
>> me, even if I may not agree with every conflict in which our leaders
embroil
>> us.
>> Chris
>> PS I really enjoy these debates (but not as much as I enjoy my Pantera!)
>>
>> To: chrisvkimball at msn.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] REALLY, TOTALLY NPC - Where are vehicles made
>> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 01:41:30 -0400
>> From: fresnofinches at aol.com
>>
>> I
>> almost hate to weigh in on this, but in fact, since 47% of Americans pay
>> no income tax (source: USA Today), the impact of welfare moms, if you
>> include people who not only pay no income tax but also receive the
>> earned income tax credit--a rebate from those of us who do pay taxes--is
>> quite large.
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>> Chris
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>> Okay, I'll accept your 47% if you accept this from the NY Times:
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>> A Government Accountability Office study
>> released in 2008 found that 55 percent of United States companies paid
>> no federal income taxes during at least one year in a seven-year period
>> it studied.
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>> Need more realities of how Capitalism run without thought to Country,
>> fellow citizens or employees works out??
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>> Just off the top of my head, with a little help from Google-
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>> Bernie's Ponzi scheme - 50 billion
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>> S&L fraud of the 80's - 160 billion
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>> AIG 182 billion
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>> EITC cost for 2004 was about 36 billion
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>> AFDC cost for 1996 was about 20 billion
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>> War on Terror to date - Iraq - 815 billion
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>> War on Terror to date - Afghanistan - 445 billion
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>> Are you REALLY worried about how much of your tax dollars go to
>> welfare/EITC when compared to the other ways our tax dollars are wasted
to
>> support never-ending wars and never-ending bailouts of those whose lives
>> revolve around their never-ending greed and corruption?
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>> Larry
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