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1. #101
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm, dadinseattle said:

   Our wealth for their power? Never!

   The left has done a decades worth of damage in a few weeks, they are just getting warmed up as there are a few areas left that they do not yet have total control of!

   Please read Randall Hoven’s Bingo! Call It Communism at AT.

2. #102
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

   There’s a new report on ABCNews.com about how upper-income business owners are looking for ways to reduce their earnings to deny the government their tax dollars.

   No surprise there.

   “We are going to try to figure out how to make our income $249,999.00,” she said.

   “We have to find a way out where we can make just what we need to just under the line so we can benefit from Obama’s tax plan,” she added. “Why kill yourself working if you’re going to give it all away to people who aren’t working as hard?”

   Yeah… that Obama… he’s a real motivator huh?

   What kind of Dope would do what he is doing in this climate? That would be like sticking some Community Organizer in the White House and expecting that he had a clue as to what to do.

   oh yeah.. that’s what happened.

3. #103
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm, steveegg said:

   I wonder how many ex-pats are being created this quarter. Those are the ultimate Galts, and I don’t blame them for bailing.

   I’ll be in Madison for that tea party.

4. #104
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:51 pm, southsideironworks said:

   Test

5. #105
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm, DerKrieger said:

   My personal John Galt:

   My wife and I make ~$200k. Before the election it was announced that our company was being acquired by a larger rival. Knowing that we’d likely get laid off I left for another position leaving her behind to collect her retention and severance when she is finally laid off. We decided after the election that when she finally did lose her job that she would stay home with the kids until Obama lost in 2012. Our gross income will be cut in half, I get another tax deduction with her as a dependent, and we’re in a lower tax bracket all resulting in our tax bill being reduced by more than half. I also took part of my new pay package in preferred stock which I’ll hold for years or decades if I have to just to avoid the taxes.

   Screw you Obama!

6. #106
   On March 4th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, wayiwalk said:

   Ex- pats?

   How about recent immigrants (chinese, indian) who work in our tech sectors and are the entrepreneurs of the present or future?

   There certainly would be a point where it is no longer to run your start-up or start a business in this country.

7. #107
   On March 5th, 2009 at 8:31 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

   From an exchange between Charlie Gibson and BHO at the dem primary debate in Philadelphia last April that bears repeating over and over and over again to every damn person who voted for Obama:

   GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,” which was 28 percent. It’s now 15 percent. That’s almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.

   But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.

   OBAMA: Right.

   GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.

   OBAMA: Right.

   GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.

   So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

   OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. …..

   (emphasis mine)
   There was no serious pursuit of that exchange in MSM to my knowledge but it would have been easy to challenge BHO with the question, IF you are so concerned about fairness then HOW will the federal government be better prepared to dish out that ‘fairness’ with less revenue?

   It’s just so strange to me. BHO appears to actually understand and believe the Laffer curve but really has this unshakable intention to simply PUNISH the rich.

   But how how in the world can he reconcile that idea when he IS rich himself? Could it be that perhaps OBAMA HATES HIMSELF (as do many males who were abandoned by their fathers)? To me, this is a VERY worrisome question…