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Offline gonales3209

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The Boma's Math
« on: December 23, 2011, 12:51:38 PM »
The payroll tax cut of two more months allows 20 more dollars per week on paychecks, and some 8.5 weeks times $20 I believe equals 170 more dollars in working taxpayer take-home pay - doesn't it?

But, this morning, according to the Boma in his calculations, 8.5 times $20 comes out to a thousand dollars in additional take-home pay.

Many will swallow the Boma calculations. And some say the American people are smart.

I think many American people are given too much credit.

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Re: The Boma's Math
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2011, 04:50:26 PM »
The payroll tax cut of two more months allows 20 more dollars per week on paychecks, and some 8.5 weeks times $20 I believe equals 170 more dollars in working taxpayer take-home pay - doesn't it?

But, this morning, according to the Boma in his calculations, 8.5 times $20 comes out to a thousand dollars in additional take-home pay.

Many will swallow the Boma calculations. And some say the American people are smart.

I think many American people are given too much credit.

Your calculations are correct but he is counting on extending it another 10 months which would total over a thousand bucks. However, he is counting his chickens before they hatch. The bad news is that chicken little Boehner will cave in.

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Re: The Boma's Math
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2011, 07:57:50 AM »
Regardless the Boma's intention on payroll tax extension, he continues to supply one example after another of falsity, to deceive, to hide, to pretend being something that he's not. Liberals, including the Boma, downgrade political opponents in accusations that precisely fit liberals on what they are.

Back in the beginning of the Boma's White House occupation and beforehand, many conservative talk-radio hosts warned of the national threat posed by the Boma. In March of 2009 I took his threat a step farther in commentary. I announced that President Obama is an enemy against the United States, an enemy of the Constitution. As far as I was concerned I had received enough evidence to make the claim.

A day after the commentary was published, Lara Ingram called and said I had gone way over the top. No one firmly informed and firmly on the right is disagreeing anymore.

I have much more to say on this matter if you're interested.


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Re: The Boma's Math
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2011, 08:22:13 AM »
Allow me a few lines and to jack the bandwidth a bit.

This "tax cut" is merely a vote-buying scheme, and neither party wants to play the Grinch at Christmas by letting it expire.  Problem is, you're taking in less to a system that's already overburdened, and extending it some more without any real idea of how to make up this several hundred BILLION dollar shortfall.  IOW, all they've done with this is cause SS to go into deeper distress even earlier than expected.

BOTH parties should be taking shit over proposing this scheme in the first place.  Yeah, the extra $2000 was nice, but knowing that it's going to make it that much more certain I'm not going to be able to get SS when I retire (to say nothing of my kids) and of course, the entitlement crowd can't look any further than the end of their paystub to know what kind of shitstorm is brewing.  Neither party is going to cut spending by any substantial amount, and even if there were tax increases to match spending, all the Dems (and to a lesser extent the Republicans) would do is find new shit to spend it on.

As Shakespeare said, a pox on both their houses.
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

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Re: The Boma's Math
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2011, 09:15:58 AM »
I teach many courses at a university, and one of them is economics.

By anyone's standard, I'm wealthy, the wealth attained by planning, by hard yet enjoyable work, by obligation, by high and strict conduct, by adventure.

I pay high taxes and wouldn't mind paying more if I knew the money wasn't going down a rat hole.

Yet, despite paying into social security, medicare, medicaid all of my life, I'll never take a dime from my contributions. I don't need to, merely my decision. So I think I'm contributing my fair share.

Back in the classroom, regardless the course, politics frequently comes up. Many students think they're liberal. I never impose my political views, but all the students know I'm conservative. Still I constantly remind students that actions lead to predictable results in everyday life, in a society, in a government. The principal of cause and effect never changes.

But liberals and conservatives in the classroom are arriving at an agreement: Regardless the outcomes of the next general election they think it's time for another movement to coalesce, another political party, to return the government back to the people for the best interest of the nation.

All the impressionable students are tired of politicians seeking their own gain, not really giving a damn about anyone else, and not at all giving a damn about their nation.

As my wife and I do at home in raising our three boys, I run a dictatorship in the classroom. Surprisingly the students enjoy the discipline because they're inspired by the questions I ask.

I always add classes before a semester to try and meet the demand. All my classrooms are stuffed, with more students waiting in line to enter. Many students have said that they chose the unversity that I teach at because they wanted to learn under me, and that I'm entertaining.

I'm doing my job at the university, I tell my students, and showing my value as an employee. "By your overwhelming attendance here, I'm increasing the profits of the university."

Everyone laughs, but all the students get the meaning.