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ParticipantDitto what nost said. Takes 10-30 seconds for pages to load. I have to do something else and come back everytime I click a link on the site. It’s pretty consistently this way now.
ParticipantDitto what nost said. Takes 10-30 seconds for pages to load. I have to do something else and come back everytime I click a link on the site. It’s pretty consistently this way now.
ParticipantDitto what nost said. Takes 10-30 seconds for pages to load. I have to do something else and come back everytime I click a link on the site. It’s pretty consistently this way now.
ParticipantTo me it seems rather inconsistent to say that you think that debt is bad and that you want us to pay our bills and then suggest taxing the crap out of capital gains.
Capital gains are realized from savings and investments. If we want to encourage saving and investing (as opposed to spending) the way to do it is not to penalize those that do by confiscating their gains.
In general (ignoring the current crop of bankers who have their hands out) investors alone, incur the risk for their investments. If they lose, they get nothing. If they win, however, the government puts IT’S hand out for a portion of the gains, having incurred none of the risk of the investment.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal for the government…Frankly, if the government wants to tax the crap out of my wages and then, after they’ve already taxed that money, try and tax any gains I make trying to put that money to work, maybe I’m better off just spending like a drunken sailor using credit and then just walking away. It sure seems to be what we are encouraging by penalizing wealth building.
ParticipantTo me it seems rather inconsistent to say that you think that debt is bad and that you want us to pay our bills and then suggest taxing the crap out of capital gains.
Capital gains are realized from savings and investments. If we want to encourage saving and investing (as opposed to spending) the way to do it is not to penalize those that do by confiscating their gains.
In general (ignoring the current crop of bankers who have their hands out) investors alone, incur the risk for their investments. If they lose, they get nothing. If they win, however, the government puts IT’S hand out for a portion of the gains, having incurred none of the risk of the investment.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal for the government…Frankly, if the government wants to tax the crap out of my wages and then, after they’ve already taxed that money, try and tax any gains I make trying to put that money to work, maybe I’m better off just spending like a drunken sailor using credit and then just walking away. It sure seems to be what we are encouraging by penalizing wealth building.
ParticipantTo me it seems rather inconsistent to say that you think that debt is bad and that you want us to pay our bills and then suggest taxing the crap out of capital gains.
Capital gains are realized from savings and investments. If we want to encourage saving and investing (as opposed to spending) the way to do it is not to penalize those that do by confiscating their gains.
In general (ignoring the current crop of bankers who have their hands out) investors alone, incur the risk for their investments. If they lose, they get nothing. If they win, however, the government puts IT’S hand out for a portion of the gains, having incurred none of the risk of the investment.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal for the government…Frankly, if the government wants to tax the crap out of my wages and then, after they’ve already taxed that money, try and tax any gains I make trying to put that money to work, maybe I’m better off just spending like a drunken sailor using credit and then just walking away. It sure seems to be what we are encouraging by penalizing wealth building.
ParticipantTo me it seems rather inconsistent to say that you think that debt is bad and that you want us to pay our bills and then suggest taxing the crap out of capital gains.
Capital gains are realized from savings and investments. If we want to encourage saving and investing (as opposed to spending) the way to do it is not to penalize those that do by confiscating their gains.
In general (ignoring the current crop of bankers who have their hands out) investors alone, incur the risk for their investments. If they lose, they get nothing. If they win, however, the government puts IT’S hand out for a portion of the gains, having incurred none of the risk of the investment.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal for the government…Frankly, if the government wants to tax the crap out of my wages and then, after they’ve already taxed that money, try and tax any gains I make trying to put that money to work, maybe I’m better off just spending like a drunken sailor using credit and then just walking away. It sure seems to be what we are encouraging by penalizing wealth building.
ParticipantTo me it seems rather inconsistent to say that you think that debt is bad and that you want us to pay our bills and then suggest taxing the crap out of capital gains.
Capital gains are realized from savings and investments. If we want to encourage saving and investing (as opposed to spending) the way to do it is not to penalize those that do by confiscating their gains.
In general (ignoring the current crop of bankers who have their hands out) investors alone, incur the risk for their investments. If they lose, they get nothing. If they win, however, the government puts IT’S hand out for a portion of the gains, having incurred none of the risk of the investment.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal for the government…Frankly, if the government wants to tax the crap out of my wages and then, after they’ve already taxed that money, try and tax any gains I make trying to put that money to work, maybe I’m better off just spending like a drunken sailor using credit and then just walking away. It sure seems to be what we are encouraging by penalizing wealth building.
ParticipantNope, it’s not just you. It’s become dreadfully slow.
ParticipantNope, it’s not just you. It’s become dreadfully slow.
ParticipantNope, it’s not just you. It’s become dreadfully slow.
ParticipantNope, it’s not just you. It’s become dreadfully slow.
ParticipantNope, it’s not just you. It’s become dreadfully slow.
ParticipantSeems like tax reform should be this easy – make everyone who voted for Bush have to pay for his mistakes. Y’all wanted this crap and forced it down everyone’s throat – so put your money where your mouth is and, to paraphrase Colin Powell, ‘you pay for it because you broke it.’
Ok, I’m game. Since it is the Democratic majority in California state government that has been spending like a drunken sailor and bankrupted this state despite all time highs in revenue, I’d be fine if all the Democrats who voted these idiots in office have to pay higher taxes to bail our state out of this mess.
Sound fair?
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