Author: Stable Genius

I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.

At 102%, His Tax Rate Takes the Cake

At 102%, His Tax Rate Takes the Cake

That doesn’t mean Mr. Ross pays more in taxes than he earns. His total tax as a percentage of his adjusted gross income was 20 percent, which is much lower than mine. That’s because Mr. Ross has so many itemized deductions. Since taxable income is what’s left after itemized deductions like mortgage interest, charitable contributions, and state and local taxes are subtracted, it will nearly always be smaller than adjusted gross income and demonstrates how someone can pay more than 100 percent of taxable income in tax.

His tax rate is 102% His total tax on his adjusted gross income was at 20% So…does it make sense to cut his taxes when he rate he actually pays is only 20%?

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I am Asma Assad. I am the wife of a vicious war criminal. He murders innocent civilians. Asma Assad Official Website Did Anonymous hack this?

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you never do find conservatives arguing that we shouldn’t worry about higher tax rates on the rich, because they’ll just work harder to be able to afford those luxury goods; or that a higher inheritance tax probably expands work effort, because it would force the Paris Hiltons of this world to go out and get… Continue reading Untitled

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we have become a society in which less-educated men have great difficulty finding jobs with decent wages and good benefits. Yet somehow we’re supposed to be surprised that such men have become less likely to participate in the work force or get married, and conclude that there must have been some mysterious moral collapse caused… Continue reading Untitled

CPAC Set to Host White Nationalist Leader

CPAC Set to Host White Nationalist Leader

Following speeches from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Michele Bachmann, CPAC is hosting the panel “The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity” with Peter Brimelow, the founder and head of VDARE.com. VDARE is a White Nationalist website, run by Brimelow, which frequently publishes the works of anti-Semitic and racist writers.

Another one of those isolated incidents. Overt racism is now allowed at CPAC. The wiliness to excuse this has now become part of the conservative movement.

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it’s never really been about abortion, it’s always been about women not being properly punished for having unapproved sex. Eschaton: It’s Always Been About Birth Control And Sex

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Reading 21 books about the financial crisis does not sound, on its face, like a fun experience. After you talk to Lo, it sounds even worse. “After each book, I felt like I knew less,” he told me. “For an academic, that’s a pretty frustrating feeling.” What An Economist Learned From Reading 21 Books About… Continue reading Untitled

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the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be about $9.6 trillion.… Continue reading Untitled

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It would, of course, be absurd to think that the white working class is suffering because they live in ghettos which reflect and reinforce their shiftlessness in addition to the idea that our country is too soft on crime and too focused on rehabilitating prisoners. The last time the neoconservative intellectual movement had to explain… Continue reading Untitled