Obama - What is your opinion so far on his Presidency

Goober

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I wasn't referring to patent infringements, just legal generic stuff, and your right India makes them also.

Little to expensive for most Americans, lets not compare ourselves with these countries as good examples of who to copy for anything.

Current European tax rates:
United Kingdom Income Tax: 50% VAT: 17.5% TOTAL: 67.5%
Germany Income Tax: 45% VAT: 19% TOTAL: 64%
France Income Tax: 40% VAT: 19.6% TOTAL: 59.6%
Greece Income Tax: 40% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 65%
Spain Income Tax: 45% VAT: 16% TOTAL: 61%
Portugal Income Tax: 42% VAT: 20% TOTAL: 62%
Sweden Income Tax: 55% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 80%
Norway Income Tax: 54.3% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 79.3%
Netherlands Income Tax: 52% VAT: 19% TOTAL: 71%
Denmark Income Tax: 58% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 83%
Finland Income Tax: 53% VAT: 22% TOTAL: 75%

Do you think Tax Increases for persons over a certain income would be warranted. Considering the debt load - Personal & Govt - That includes fed & State.
 

ironsides

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Do you think Tax Increases for persons over a certain income would be warranted. Considering the debt load - Personal & Govt - That includes fed & State.
How many people actually make say over $250,000, they would end up paying the brunt of the tax increase. What would the incentive be to make more only to give 50+% to the goverment?


I would be infavor of a flat tax, no deductions for anything for everybody making over $35,000.
 

ironsides

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For those of you who have never traveled to the west,
or southwest, “cattle guards” are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings,
in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways
), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area.
For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting
their feet caught between the rails.


A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report
that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . The Colorado ranchers
had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary
of the Interior to fire half of the “cattle” guards immediately!

Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten
President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request
that...before any “cattle” guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining
for Arizona border guards. 'Times are hard', said Joe Biden, 'it's
only fair to the cattle guards and their families!'

And these two guys are running our country.
 

DaSleeper

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May 27, 2007
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Man.....that was a joke...

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mentalfloss

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When Bush was president everything that went wrong, including Katrina, was Clinton's fault and when the next Republican get's in anything that goes bad for him/her will be Obama's fault.

Ah. All this time I thought YukonJack was non-partisan.
 

Avro

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Feb 12, 2007
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For those of you who have never traveled to the west,
or southwest, “cattle guards” are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings,
in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area.
For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting
their feet caught between the rails.


A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report
that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . The Colorado ranchers
had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary
of the Interior to fire half of the “cattle” guards immediately!

Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten
President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request
that...before any “cattle” guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining
for Arizona border guards. 'Times are hard', said Joe Biden, 'it's
only fair to the cattle guards and their families!'

And these two guys are running our country.

See how a lie spreads.
 

Goober

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How many people actually make say over $250,000, they would end up paying the brunt of the tax increase. What would the incentive be to make more only to give 50+% to the goverment?


I would be infavor of a flat tax, no deductions for anything for everybody making over $35,000.
Flat tax will never pass - to many special interests - also it benefits high income over low income. You know that as well as I -