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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




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Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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Chip Bok posted:

President Trump introduced his tax reform plan last week. Critics in the media labeled it “tax cuts for the rich.”

But there’s a reason for that. The rich pay most of the federal income tax.

Democrats are running against income inequality. And they’ve got a point. According to the Tax Foundation the top one percent earn twenty percent of all the income in America..

But they also pay forty percent of all the federal income taxes in the country.

Half the working population can’t protest against Washington by demanding “I’m a taxpayer and ..!” That’s because they don’t pay federal income taxes. Though they do pay social security and medicare taxes.

Here’s a link to a Tax Foundation chart breaking down who pays what by percentile:

The data demonstrates that the U.S. individual income tax continues to be very progressive, borne mainly by the highest income earners.

• In 2014, 139.6 million taxpayers reported earning $9.71 trillion in adjusted gross income and paid $1.37 trillion in individual income taxes.
• The share of income earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers rose to 20.6 percent in 2014. Their share of federal individual income taxes also rose, to 39.5 percent.
• In 2014, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.3 percent of all individual income taxes while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.7 percent.
• The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (39.5 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.1 percent).
• The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 27.1 percent individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.5 percent).

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Oops, he forgot to tell a joke.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

it took me five seconds to google that that's roughly equal to the percentage of wealth they control so gently caress you bok

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Hey Bok, how much does everyone have left after they pay their taxes?


Also,
gently caress off.

Ramos
Jul 3, 2012



How does it always seem like Ramirez's Obama keeps get paler and whiter looking?

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Is drunky duck talking about something in particular here? Did I forget something?

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Honestly, with how much right wing media is talking up this book, it might handily contribute to it breaking that 1.1 million total sales amount and beating out Art of the Deal's lifetime sales in less than a year's time. Yay for no such thing as bad publicity?

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




Ramos posted:

How does it always seem like Ramirez's Obama keeps get paler and whiter looking?

Probably already prepping himself for the eventual party line of "we got along great with Obama, and were glad to work with the first half-white Preisdent".

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


Go to the pool, you fool!

Mermaid Autopsy
Jun 9, 2001


Guess he saw the Nazi edits and just said "looks like classic Zyklon Ben to me."

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!


Because the best time to have any serious discussion ever is when your partner is very clearly intoxicated.

the_steve fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Oct 2, 2017

IM DAY DAY IRL
Jul 11, 2003

Everything's fine.

Nothing to see here.
this thread is going to be a (bigger) shitshow for the next month thanks to this las vegas insanity. jesus christ.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

IM DAY DAY IRL posted:

this thread is going to be a (bigger) shitshow for the next month thanks to this las vegas insanity. jesus christ.
Wha--oh.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
Unless it was a minority shooter its gonna be forgotten about it in a few days. I really hate that shootings have become so common that I view them as mundane.

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Internet Kraken posted:

Unless it was a minority shooter its gonna be forgotten about it in a few days. I really hate that shootings have become so common that I view them as mundane.

Green Day tried to pimp their crappy new album last year with a song written from the POV of a mass shooter. Would probably have been controversial as hell a decade ago, literally no one cared or remembered now.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART
Yeah unless it breaks a record or is committed by a brown person, don't expect any mass shooting to gain much national traction. If the shooter's white, I'd be surprised if anyone's still talking about it in a week.

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



Normal Country

Lunatic Sledge
Jun 8, 2013

choose your own horror isekai sci-fi Souls-like urban fantasy gamer simulator adventure

or don't?

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Green Day tried to pimp their crappy new album last year with a song written from the POV of a mass shooter. Would probably have been controversial as hell a decade ago, literally no one cared or remembered now.

Green Day, or Offspring?

Offspring definitely did this, I'm going to have a dry chuckle if this is a reoccurring thing

Kerning Chameleon
Apr 8, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Lunatic Sledge posted:

Green Day, or Offspring?

Offspring definitely did this, I'm going to have a dry chuckle if this is a reoccurring thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg5Bp_Gzs0s

May not want to play this right now if anyone's around.

Lunatic Sledge
Jun 8, 2013

choose your own horror isekai sci-fi Souls-like urban fantasy gamer simulator adventure

or don't?

Kerning Chameleon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg5Bp_Gzs0s

May not want to play this right now if anyone's around.

Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA32ofgzBho

It's going to take my brain a minute to process that this is a thing that happens now

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

Pakled posted:

Yeah unless it breaks a record or is committed by a brown person, don't expect any mass shooting to gain much national traction. If the shooter's white, I'd be surprised if anyone's still talking about it in a week.

I don't even know if this is a good or bad thing anymore. It's bad how normalized shootings have become in this decade. But on the other hand the constant footage and coverage propels some of these attacks to happen. There have been shooters who have had media attention as a major contributing factor.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Ularg posted:

I don't even know if this is a good or bad thing anymore. It's bad how normalized shootings have become in this decade. But on the other hand the constant footage and coverage propels some of these attacks to happen. There have been shooters who have had media attention as a major contributing factor.

It's not like they don't get tons of coverage, it's just that people don't watch/discuss it as much because it's become exhausting instead of shocking.

Neodoomium
Jun 20, 2001

You are now hearing this
noise in your head.



That Ramirez one is missing a panel wherein the Obamacare Ambulance was deliberately and repeatedly run over by a GOP Semi Truck

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

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Look, I'm sure it was just a single outlier case of a person who needed mental help and doesn't represent a trend we need to worry about, unless he was Muslim in which case he knew exactly what he was doing and let's get back to passing that travel ban already.

Zemyla
Aug 6, 2008

I'll take her off your hands. Pleasure doing business with you!

cheetah7071 posted:

it took me five seconds to google that that's roughly equal to the percentage of wealth they control so gently caress you bok

I literally have more money in my pocket than the bottom 40% has in total wealth.

DreamingofRoses
Jun 27, 2013
Nap Ghost
They're reporting 50+ dead. I think that might break the Pulse shooting.

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013

DreamingofRoses posted:

They're reporting 50+ dead. I think that might break the Pulse shooting.

CNN is calling it "the deadliest mass shooting in US history." :smith:

moskiitto
Feb 27, 2013

Overlardness
Most likely done by old white man, who is a member of NRA. Prepare for shitstorm october.

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

moskiitto posted:

Most likely done by old white man, who is a member of NRA. Prepare for shitstorm october.

The suspect has been named and a rough age given. Old whiteness confirmed, NRA membership status unknown.

After The War
Apr 12, 2005

to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Lunatic Sledge posted:

Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA32ofgzBho

It's going to take my brain a minute to process that this is a thing that happens now

2008? That's a long time after I stopped paying attention to Offspring, but I'm glad that they went back to their roots of sounding exactly like Bad Religion.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Trapezium Dave posted:

An Australian cartoon about football:


Whoever that is, they're no Squires. :colbert:

some FUCKING LIAR
Sep 19, 2002

Fallen Rib


Ramos posted:


Is drunky duck talking about something in particular here? Did I forget something?


I think it's just about men's fashion with no subtext. It's a fashion faux pas to wear brown shoes with a black or charcoal-grey suit.

It's totally fine to wear brown shoes with a navy blue suit, though, so this comic is Tinsley exercising a pet peeve as usual.

Post 9-11 User
Apr 14, 2010
Well, this day can suck a cock.

Paging the, "favorite fables" about a hero gun owner stopping a shooter, and Ramirez's lovely comic about shooting a shooter.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Kegluneq posted:

The suspect has been named and a rough age given. Old whiteness confirmed, NRA membership status unknown.

Oh then it's just the price you have to pay for your God-given rights to bear arms. Nobody will care about the victims; at least nobody will care enough to end the absurdity that is the second amendment.


Post 9-11 User posted:

Ramirez's lovely comic about shooting a shooter.

It's going that cartoon, 50 times, once for each victim:

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

(draws single tear falling from face card)

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Sadly the Onion will never be wrong.

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Wait, it's literally the anniversary of ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

http://www.theonion.com/article/no-way-prevent-says-only-nation-where-regularly-ha-51444

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


Kerning Chameleon posted:

Green Day tried to pimp their crappy new album last year with a song written from the POV of a mass shooter. Would probably have been controversial as hell a decade ago, literally no one cared or remembered now.

Not really, we have definitive proof that if this was done nearly a decade ago it would not be controversial, in fact it would be a huge hit. Because Foster the People did this first and they did it better: https://youtu.be/rnO-MflYxCw

Also, holy gently caress 50 people are dead and we're never going to get reasonable gun laws passed in this country gently caress.

Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Oct 2, 2017

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames
~Garrison gleefully scribbles cartoon, hears shooter was old white man, sighs and throws it into trash~

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

OldTennisCourt posted:

~Garrison gleefully scribbles cartoon, hears shooter was old white man, sighs and throws it into trash~

eh I'm sure we'll be hearing rumors he was a Soros-funded antifa-backed radical socialist before long

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

loquacius posted:

eh I'm sure we'll be hearing rumors he was a Soros-funded antifa-backed radical socialist before long

I checked Alex Jones' comment section, they're already psyching themselves up for it.

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames

loquacius posted:

eh I'm sure we'll be hearing rumors he was a Soros-funded antifa-backed radical socialist before long

Already happened. /pol/ and others are spreading rumors that the shooter was an anti-fa Bernie supporter and are desperatly spreading it as fast as they can to ~control the narrative~. They're using his asian female friend as "proof" he's liberal and did this to 'kill as many white country fans as he could'

These same people are making HILARIOUS joke tweets where they put popular meme figures into posters saying they are victims of the shooting

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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

"We'll just stop enjoying Football. That'll show those liberals." :downs:

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