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Donal — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:34:40 +0000

In reply to Counting Saverin's Lucky Stars (and Tax Obligations)

Then he cheated Facebook -

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:29:03 +0000

Then he cheated Facebook - gave them $15K for a data center, walked away with $1 billion+. Welcome to capitalism - even Sweden works like this (the new girlfriend of the right-wing class for some reason)

Me, I'm happy if he pays some taxes and we have some social programs in place to funnel to. Sadly, #2 has taken a beating.

Look, nobody personally

kyle flynn — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:28:55 +0000

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Look, nobody personally controls a billion dollars without cheating everyone.

No, you're not progressive -

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:24:38 +0000

In reply to Yeah, we get it. Taxes

No, you're not progressive - you're ridiculous.

He didn't cheat anyone, he wasn't greedy - he just moved.

You can blather on about 90% all you want, but right now it's 15% on capital gains if lucky.

And he's paying that.

So get your Congressman to stop cutting the tax rate - which favors everyone in Congress. Complain to Obama about extending the tax cuts for the rich, not 1 guy who happens to be a world traveler from Brazil.

And call me progressive or not, I don't see anything useful in a 90% tax rate if there's not going to be something useful done with the money - the last thing I want is a Pentagon budget of $3 trillion, 7 more Afghanistans and 50,000 more drones.

Yeah, we get it. Taxes

kyle flynn — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:14:39 +0000

In reply to Counting Saverin's Lucky Stars (and Tax Obligations)

Yeah, we get it. Taxes collected by the United States are too often used to pay for some lame ass shit. But what's worse is when we borrow fifty cents on the dollar to pay for it.

Call me progressive, but I don't like it when rich fuckers aren't paying 90% of every nickel they amass after their first million and at least 50% of the nickels they accumulate between 250k and a mil. And sure, it may seem weak to single this particular fucker out, but give me a list. We can go at these greedy cheats one at a time.

I enjoyed reading this.

Resistance — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:42:33 +0000

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I enjoyed reading this.