Damn right that it is all money well spent.

My neighbors are all tearing ther houses down and building McMansions and they all drive MBWs and I want one too. How is the company that I work for going to be able to charge federal agencies 180 dollars an hour for dubious IT services of little or no value if the Tea Party types win and cut spending accross the board? The county that I live in has 3.5 % unemployment, while out there in flyover country where my parents live unemployment is something like 12%. We can't cut federal spending now and not raise taxes. It will be a distaster.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language.

I'm easily in the 1%. And the bottom line is this: I am sacrificing precious little when I pay taxes. We just write a check and that's that. I could not even tell you when it hits the bank account.

Meanwhile, there are other people who have to make real family choices based on their taxes. The dollar amount of my bill, which is comfortably in the six digits, does not in any way represent the personal sacrifice of someone who has to pick and choose what clothes to buy for their kids or whether they can afford an apartment with an extra bedroom. It just doesn't and we should stop pretending that the absolute dollar amount measures sacrifice.

Thank you for this. Very well put.

I donate a lot of money. I would rather pay an organization that I trust to distribute my donations to the poor and needy then the inefficient method of government tax collection and assistance. If a charity does a bad job or I don't agree with what they do then I can pull the plug on them and move to a different one.

I would rather have a mandatory charitable donation percentage of my choosing be implemented then having to pay taxes which I have no idea how or where it is being spent.

It's spent paying the air traffic controllers to keep your plane from running into another airplane. It is spent on your military so that you can feel safer from militias and terrorists. It is spent on repairing roads roads to take you to your six figure job. It's spent on the bridges so that your car does not fall into the Potomac. It's spent on the local police so that you can have semblance of rule of law, unlike Mogadishu. It is spent on educating the next generation of children so that the future does not resemble Mogadishu. It is spent on the paramedics and firefighters to put out the fires and render medical assistance if your car was to hit that rough icy patch and collide into another vehicle. It is spent on the invention of new technology which allowed you to post your asinine comment in the first place. It is spent on medical research that produced vaccines you and your DC undoubtably utilized and thus did not die from polio, chicken pox, malaria, measles, smallpox like millions across the world are doing every month. It is used to provide intel for the FBI so that you don't live in constant fear of the DC Sniper. It is spent roviding low-income or no-income mothers of small children milk, cheese, bread, etc so that their children are not starving in the streets. It is spent on drug testing and food testing to protect you from unsafe drugs and contaminated deadly foods. It is spent on securing levies in Louisiana, breaking dams in overflooded Missouri, fighting fires in Coloroda, salting the streets to free up ice on the roads in Bethesda. And so on and so on. It is money well spent so that you can have the luxury to take it all for granted.

Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%.

This is why I will not vote republican.The statement shows the utter contempt the republicans have for the American people. Yes someone who make 100 million a year will pay more in taxes the someone who make 100k. 100,000,000 x .15 = 15,000,000; 100,000 x .35 = 35,000. So what dollar amount do you want everyone to pay?

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty easy to find out where your money is being spent if you want to take the time--

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb

For many functions the govt is much more efficient than the private sector. Look at social security, medicare and medicaid. The administrative costs for those programs is tiny compared to what the private sector or a charity would incur.

If your complaint is that the govt spends money on things you personally would not like to spend on, well then welcome to the club. Everyone could probably cut 10% of the federal budget, but it would be a different 10% for each of us. Living in a diverse democracy you have to be willing to fund some things you personally don't agree with, if the majority does.

If your complaint is that you think the govt's spending is dictated not by what people really want but by special interest lobbyists, then we have a club for that too, but the answer isn't just to cut spending for the people without lobbyists.

You will not gain credibility by throwing out an opinion govt is more efficient then the private sector by giving social security, medicare and medcaid as examples. Just google those terms and the word Inefficiency result from your query. Please send me some lines NOT from the whitehouse.gov or obama.com that tout government efficiency with social security, medicare and medicaid.

It's pretty easy to find out where your money is being spent if you want to take the time--

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb

For many functions the govt is much more efficient than the private sector. Look at social security, medicare and medicaid. The administrative costs for those programs is tiny compared to what the private sector or a charity would incur.

If your complaint is that the govt spends money on things you personally would not like to spend on, well then welcome to the club. Everyone could probably cut 10% of the federal budget, but it would be a different 10% for each of us. Living in a diverse democracy you have to be willing to fund some things you personally don't agree with, if the majority does.

If your complaint is that you think the govt's spending is dictated not by what people really want but by special interest lobbyists, then we have a club for that too, but the answer isn't just to cut spending for the people without lobbyists.

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Anonymous wrote:She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language.

I'm easily in the 1%. And the bottom line is this: I am sacrificing precious little when I pay taxes. We just write a check and that's that. I could not even tell you when it hits the bank account.

Meanwhile, there are other people who have to make real family choices based on their taxes. The dollar amount of my bill, which is comfortably in the six digits, does not in any way represent the personal sacrifice of someone who has to pick and choose what clothes to buy for their kids or whether they can afford an apartment with an extra bedroom. It just doesn't and we should stop pretending that the absolute dollar amount measures sacrifice.

Thank you for this. Very well put.

I donate a lot of money. I would rather pay an organization that I trust to distribute my donations to the poor and needy then the inefficient method of government tax collection and assistance. If a charity does a bad job or I don't agree with what they do then I can pull the plug on them and move to a different one.

I would rather have a mandatory charitable donation percentage of my choosing be implemented then having to pay taxes which I have no idea how or where it is being spent.

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Anonymous wrote:She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language.

I'm easily in the 1%. And the bottom line is this: I am sacrificing precious little when I pay taxes. We just write a check and that's that. I could not even tell you when it hits the bank account.

Meanwhile, there are other people who have to make real family choices based on their taxes. The dollar amount of my bill, which is comfortably in the six digits, does not in any way represent the personal sacrifice of someone who has to pick and choose what clothes to buy for their kids or whether they can afford an apartment with an extra bedroom. It just doesn't and we should stop pretending that the absolute dollar amount measures sacrifice.

Thank you for this. Very well put.

Anonymous wrote:She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language.

I'm easily in the 1%. And the bottom line is this: I am sacrificing precious little when I pay taxes. We just write a check and that's that. I could not even tell you when it hits the bank account.

Meanwhile, there are other people who have to make real family choices based on their taxes. The dollar amount of my bill, which is comfortably in the six digits, does not in any way represent the personal sacrifice of someone who has to pick and choose what clothes to buy for their kids or whether they can afford an apartment with an extra bedroom. It just doesn't and we should stop pretending that the absolute dollar amount measures sacrifice.

She speaks about the lucky few paying foward to the "next kid". Well, the top 1% are paying 40% of the federal income tax. The top 5% are paying 60% of the federal income tax, and the top 10% are paying 70%. Admittedly, some may not be paying the same tax rates. If that is a concern, let's have a flat tax. But I really don't see how people like Warren can intimate that successful people are not paying forward. Obama always trots out the "fair share" language.

Trying to make a silly joke of a serious and persuasive political statement is on the level of the party's national candidate making a one-liner of the most serious threat to our life on the planet. GOP misdirection at its most inane.

Anonymous wrote:I like that she calls out corporations. They are really screwing over people and it's time people wake up to that.

so is she with pulling the fake native american card

The content of her speech was electrifying to me. Loved her, too.

I like that she calls out corporations. They are really screwing over people and it's time people wake up to that.

Well they may not love her up in Mass, but she's free to visit me in MD anytime.

She reminds me of a fired up librarian. I love librarians!

she's not popular in MA after the "pretend Indian" story broke.

She has the exact same amount of Cherokee ancestry as the current chief of the Cherokee Nation, Bill John Baker.

PP, I agree with you that she has a tendency to sound tired, though.