http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/09/19/47gate-the-myth-of-progressive-taxes Comments On: 47gate: The Myth of Progressive Taxes by Bruce Barry en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by xray]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:14:48 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by xray]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:09:37 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by AnglRdr]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:42:03 -0500 Nashville Scene >I spent as a dental tech (Navy has rates, not MOS's), in the Navy.<<

Yes, I am quite aware of how the Navy works. I was in their men's dept: USMC.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:37:40 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by AnglRdr]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:27:21 -0500 Nashville Scene >I'm a vet, too<<

How long? What branch?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:22:30 -0500 Nashville Scene http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/1…

Also, I'm a vet, too, so please, feel free to put that card away.
Posted by AnglRdr]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:16:41 -0500 Nashville Scene >the urban legend of the $350 hammer rears its ugly, false, completely out-of-context head again.<<

Horseshit.

I am a vet & I know firsthand the amount of waste, fraud & abuse that goes on in the DOD procurement process.

I used the hammer as a metaphor, not as a specific, FWIW.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:26 -0500 Nashville Scene

Posted by AnglRdr]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:01:25 -0500 Nashville Scene
Holy lack of reading comprehension Batman!
Posted by bb]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:42:18 -0500 Nashville Scene >Conservative bitching about too much government spending is likely to focus<<

Proving once AGAIN you have NO clue about which you write.

Food stamps & welfare are but a small, small % of what conservatives believe could be cut from the budget. I also throw in defense spending on areas of fraud, such as those $350 hammers & such.


Posted by bobsguns]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:24:41 -0500 Nashville Scene >someone was willfully ignorant as bobsguns.<<

LMAO!!!!

You've been repeatedly caught spouting bullshit about gun laws & when you're called on YOUR ignorance, your only defense was "well, it ought to be the law"...........

I would call you a "tool" but that's an insult to tools, sir.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:19:37 -0500 Nashville Scene >And those people have been voting against their own best interests in favor of culture warriors for decades now.<<

Hardly, sir.

I am one of those "poor whites" you mention. I vote against a Dim president because I'm A) pro-military; B) wish to keep MY $ & not be paying higher taxes; & C) I'm against more gun control.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:17:20 -0500 Nashville Scene >Wealthy citizens are not leaving France in droves or at all<<

Hogwash. Two stories in the news just last week was about both Johnny Depp & France's richest man (can't recall his name) both announcing their plans to leave France over the proposed huge tax increase.
Posted by bobsguns]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:13:41 -0500 Nashville Scene
Gilbert Martin, of all things, does make a point that is absolutely correct and needs discussion.
Posted by Perry Aubric]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:43:31 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by no wimps allowed]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:29:02 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by xray]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:31:00 -0500 Nashville Scene
50% marginal. We also need a wealth tax.

Posted by TobintheGnome]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:09:10 -0500 Nashville Scene
If they hadn't been getting that military protection welfare , not only would none of them ever have been able to afford any of their welfare state programs, none of them would even be in existence at all as independent nation states today.


Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:28:19 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Chris Allen]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:22:33 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by bb]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:05:11 -0500 Nashville Scene
They aren't. Not even close.

You're making apples to oranges comparisons.

But I'm sure the wealthy are pleased you're carrying their water for them.
Posted by AnglRdr]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:34:35 -0500 Nashville Scene place with this 47% statement. Some with half truths many others with
totally deliberate distortions which any ethics should be disgraceful, bit
not this year and with this current crowd.
Posted by NeverFear]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:14:49 -0500 Nashville Scene >you can see that top rates currently in the U.S. lag those in European countries that do these things I think our federal government should do.<<

Yeah, great model that Europe. They're in a huge fiscal meltdown with the Greek bailout & wealthy French citizens are leaving in droves due to their recent tax hikes.

European model?
Posted by bobsguns]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:06:26 -0500 Nashville Scene
That won't breed any discontent as the ship of state sinks from the weight on the other end, will it? Naw.

What I heard Romney say is that, as a candidate, his job (the campaign) is not to worry about or focus on people who will not vote for him in any event.
Posted by Donna Locke]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:06:15 -0500 Nashville Scene