Bravo North Carolina.....

[nic34]

Pass a law that will increase taxes on the poor (defined as including an income of $67,000 per year) while decreasing taxes on the Wealthy.

And what will North Carolina do to close the estimated $2 Billion budget shortfall over the next 5 years? Why, cut services for the poor of course.

The state’s tax system already favors the wealthiest, as the bottom 80 percent pay between 9 and 10 percent of their income in combined sales and income taxes compared to just 6.5 percent for the top one percent of earners. The plan passed Tuesday would exacerbate that inequity.

Super. Ask where all this income inequality is coming from and Republicans tell you "computers" (while laughing hysterically.)

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Wait, won't the poor people be upset about all this, and make their voices known in the voting booth?

Redistricting and voter ID laws, suckers!


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/16/2308621/north-carolina-lawmakers-ram-through-plan-to-tax-poor-people-more-after-just-25-minutes-of-debate/

[Cigar]

People remember when you take money from them ... they remember a long time.

[Mister D]

$67,000 is poor in NC? For what? A family of 12?

[Common]

Pass a law that will increase taxes on the poor (defined as including an income of $67,000 per year) while decreasing taxes on the Wealthy.

And what will North Carolina do to close the estimated $2 Billion budget shortfall over the next 5 years? Why, cut services for the poor of course.

The state’s tax system already favors the wealthiest, as the bottom 80 percent pay between 9 and 10 percent of their income in combined sales and income taxes compared to just 6.5 percent for the top one percent of earners. The plan passed Tuesday would exacerbate that inequity.

Super. Ask where all this income inequality is coming from and Republicans tell you "computers" (while laughing hysterically.)

--

Wait, won't the poor people be upset about all this, and make their voices known in the voting booth?

Redistricting and voter ID laws, suckers!


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/16/2308621/north-carolina-lawmakers-ram-through-plan-to-tax-poor-people-more-after-just-25-minutes-of-debate/

This represents everything thats wrong the teaparty far righters and it represents what will make them fail in elections in the future

[patrickt]

You don't have a link to a real website?

[nic34]

More of the working and middle classes supplying "handouts" to the wealthy moochers.

[nic34]

You don't have a link to a real website?

Did you follow the link I gave......?

There are links inside.......!

what a maroon....

[keymanjim]

Did you follow the link I gave......?

There are links inside.......!

what a maroon....
I tried to click on the link. But my BULLSHIT filter wouldn't let the page load.

[Chris]

This represents everything thats wrong the teaparty far righters and it represents what will make them fail in elections in the future

What the hell's it got to do with tea parties? Why inflame so many threads with that?


What this is is a problem with the big government you favor.

[Chris]

I tried to click on the link. But my BULLSHIT filter wouldn't let the page load.

LOL, kinda stinks.

Here's the facts they're whining about:

http://i.snag.gy/QBZq5.jpg

[pjohns]

Pass a law that will increase taxes on the poor (defined as including an income of $67,000 per year) while decreasing taxes on the Wealthy.

And what will North Carolina do to close the estimated $2 Billion budget shortfall over the next 5 years? Why, cut services for the poor of course.

The state’s tax system already favors the wealthiest, as the bottom 80 percent pay between 9 and 10 percent of their income in combined sales and income taxes compared to just 6.5 percent for the top one percent of earners. The plan passed Tuesday would exacerbate that inequity. ...

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/16/2308621/north-carolina-lawmakers-ram-through-plan-to-tax-poor-people-more-after-just-25-minutes-of-debate/

And this from the far-left ThinkProgress website (including the quotation contained in the third paragraph, above)...

[pjohns]

Note: Personally, I would prefer that any given state should reject any sort of state income tax on its citizens, regardless of their income level...

[Chris]

Here's the Dem version: http://myfox8.com/2013/07/16/tax-reform-bill-passes-nc-house-and-senate/

And the Rep version: http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/article_bae3d578-ed96-11e2-be73-001a4bcf6878.html

The premise is lowering corporate and higher income taxes will attract more business and result in higher revenues. Think Laffer curve.

As I said above this is not tea party starve the beast. It's grow big government bigger politics. Libs should like that!

[Mainecoons]

They probably looked at the Texas boom in the middle of ObamaStagflation and learned from their mistake. No wonder the libs are ranting about this, they are incapable of learning from their mistakes. Every one of their liberal lands are in decline and they can't figure out how their ideas are causing it.

[patrickt]

More taxes, more regulations, more debt, more deficit, and more spending is the liberal way. They also like more on the dole, more receiving food stamps, more with bogus disabilities, and more dead people voting. They are death on more jobs, though.

[Mainecoons]

Ah, but not part time, low paying jobs. It is the great success of the Obama regime, the extent at which full time jobs have been replaced with part time ones.

The other sterling achievement was the amazing enrichment of the one percent, wall street fraudsters and banksters (neither of the last two of which have been seriously prosecuted).

Holder is too busy using the Department of InJustice for spying on journalists and race baiting to do his job, I reckon.

[strollingbonez]

nc gop also voted to not extend unemployment benefits and get federal monies.....cost to the state 600 million .....money saved ....0

[Trinnity]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/16/2308621/north-carolina-lawmakers-ram-through-plan-to-tax-poor-people-more-after-just-25-minutes-of-debate/Propaganda site. Not a reputable source. Nuff said.

NC just eliminated the estate tax. That means family farms are helped and all the people whose elderly parent(s) from the WWII generation (who managed to save a few hundred thousand $$$) can leave their struggling middle class overtaxed adult children more of the money THEY EARNED.

THAT MONEY IS the only hope they have of paying off their homes and NOT eating cat food in their "retirement" years WHICH are starting in their early 50's for many who had their jobs downsized (fired for nothing) and no one will hire them BECAUSE they're in their 50's.

NC also lowered corporate taxes so companies will come here and bring JOBS.

I'm fine with the changes.

Young liberal knuckleheads disgust me. Wait til it's "your" turn to deal with middle age and have skills and wisdom that no one values.

[nic34]

NC also lowered corporate taxes so companies will come here and bring JOBS.



So why is unemployment still over 7%?

This "lower the taxes for corporations to create jobs" scam has been going on since Reagan.

[nic34]

Propaganda site. Not a reputable source. Nuff said.

Feel free to provide a source that refutes it then....

You do know there are links within the one I provided...

http://www.wral.com/details-of-north-carolina-tax-overhaul-agreement/12666057/
(http://www.wral.com/details-of-north-carolina-tax-overhaul-agreement/12666057/)
Come on, you know better....

[Trinnity]

<meh> If I gave a crap about what you think, I would. As it is, I don't. If you run to thinkprogress for your mindfuck, I can't help you. But NC will be just fine. We finally got rid of the long string of democrat governors that have been robbing us for the last couple of decades. .The last few have all gotten caught in serious wrongdoing <$$$> . Crooks, they are.

Pat McCrory isn't a libertarian, but at least he's not a democrat. We have a republican majority in the house and senate too. That's a start.


Oh.....

So why is unemployment still over 7%?
Democrats, economy crippling regulations, and obamacare.

[Cigar]

When you vote for a republican, you say okay to:... rolling back regulation that keeps your food/air/water/soil/medicine/etc. safe

..and in the areas of businesses, can mean life & death for you if you live near one

old white men being in charge of women's reproductive rights/health care availability

old, angry white men deciding which people are worthy of keeping voting rights

[nic34]

can't wait to see the length of the voting lines next election.....

[Mister D]

can't wait to see the length of the voting lines next election.....

Those long black lines you see are for unemployment benefits. Si se puede! Morons. :grin:

[Cigar]

can't wait to see the length of the voting lines next election.....

... they'll won't be alone next time.

Hispanics, Gays and Women ... will be the new ass-kicking they'll get.

Especially if it's Hillary

[nic34]

That was clever mrdee, you think that one up today?

[Cigar]

Those long black lines you see are for unemployment benefits. Si se puede! Morons. :grin:

:grin:

[Mister D]

... they'll won't be alone next time.

Hispanics, Gays and Women ... will be the new ass-kicking they'll get.

Especially if it's Hillary

Hispanics are the reason the lines are so long but...si se puede! :smiley_ROFLMAO:

[Chris]

http://snag.gy/fWri8.jpg

[nic34]

http://snag.gy/fWri8.jpg

If it's THAT bad, I'd move......................

[Chris]

If it's THAT bad, I'd move......................

Why, just don't vote.

http://i.snag.gy/eq09e.jpg

[lynn]

Many states are going to follow North Carolina tax hike after Obamacare kicks in.