My Paycheck Is Smaller Now
Thanks, Obama, for raising this lower-income lad’s taxes! Bravo, old chap, bravo indeed!
Here’s where you’re wrong: Everywhere.
-Obama didn’t raise the payroll tax 2%, you’ve been getting a 2% temporary cut (a payroll tax holiday) for the last two years, and you have Obama to thank for that.
-Whether McCain, Obama, Romney or Ron Paul were president right now, all other things remaining equal, those payroll taxes would be what they are now: 2% higher than they were two pay-cycles ago.
-According to the principle of right-wing bootstrap victim-blamery, your lower-income (a dubious term if I ever heard one) problem has nothing to do with the government. If 2% of your income is such a hit, maybe you should work harder and spend less time being a dick on a tumblr blog.
I’ll allow Forbes to explain why you’re wrong:
The expiration of the payroll tax reduction is not a “tax hike.”
When originally enacted in December 2010, the 2% reduction was originally scheduled to last only one year, it’s finite nature evidenced by its description in the statute as a “payroll tax holiday.”
The point of the provision, as you might imagine, was to help lower and middle-class taxpayers weather the recession by putting more after-tax cash in their pockets. Specifically, the payroll tax cut replaced and expanded upon the “Making Work Pay Credit,” which during 2009 and 2010 saved individuals earning less than $75,000 up to $400 and married couples earning less than $150,000 up to $800. Because the 2% payroll tax cut reduction applied to the first $106,800 of a taxpayer’s wages, the new law could save an indivdual as much as $2,136, or twice that for married couples.
As 2011 drew to a close and the sun was due to set on the payroll tax cut, Congress did what it does best, agreeing to a last-minute, ill-conceived two-month extension that was not offset with any increased revenue or spending cuts. In February, they did it again, this time extending the 2% reduction through the end of 2012.
Throughout this time, Americans got accustomed to their fatter paychecks. But if they’d been paying attention, they would have noticed that the end was near.
Leading up to the Presidential election, neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promised to further extend the payroll tax cut. In fact, if one were to dig deep into each man’s tax proposals, one would see that both Obama and Romney intended to allow the tax cut to expire. And effective January 1, 2013, it did.
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Gun Control doesn’t limit the ability to keep or bear arms
Having requirements on the purchase of a firearm doesn’t limit the ability to keep or bear it, just to buy or sell it. Just like it’s not illegal for minors to hold or smoke cigarettes, just for them to buy cigarettes or for you to sell them cigarettes. Same deal.
Domino's founder sues feds over health care law →
The founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law.
Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn’t health care but a “gravely immoral” practice.
Religion, as always, stands directly in the way of common human decency.
Actually, that’s not all you need to know. You need context. First off, the quote is manipulated, it’s not “will stand with the Muslims.” It’s:
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
The quote is a vow against internment camps, not evidence of a secret alliance with some Muslim cabal like you’re clearly suggesting.
Today in most sexist shit I ever heard: Fox News shithead says news women are picked out of "Victoria's Secret Catalog" →
During conservative idiot, Brian Kilmeade’s radio show, a guest called in and complimented Alisyn Camerota, the Fox News anchor who joins Kilmeade on his radio program and typically fills in for “Fox & Friends” host Gretchen Carlson.
“Well you and all the women of Fox, I don’t know who was the scout that got you guys, but they rock,” the guest said.
“It was Brian,” Camerota joked. “But thank you very much, that’s very sweet.”
Kilmeade, whose sexist joke once caused his female co-host to walk off the set of Fox News’ morning show, offered a different explanation. He said, “It was actually, we go into the Victoria’s Secret catalog and we said, ‘Can any of these people talk?’ And they all could and they all went to college.”
Incidentally, flipping through that catalog is the only outlet for Kilmeade to get off.
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An ABC News affiliate in Denver says that while attempting to report on the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus, the station mistakenly aired a photoshopped version of his mistress’ book with the raunchy title “All Up In My Snatch.”
KMGH-TV producer Deb Stanley told Raw Story that the wrong book cover had been “mistakenly picked up off the Internet” and aired during their 5 p.m. broadcast on Monday. Instead of displaying the actual book cover of Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus biography, “All In,” KMGH-TV aired the parody cover, “All Up In My Snatch.”
“That actually happened and it was a mistake,” Stanley explained. “And it was not something we created. We don’t want that mistake out there.”
While the KMGH-TV did not post the segment on its website, a viewer captured video of the broadcast and provided it to Americablog.
And it was clear from comments posted on KMGH’s TheDenverChannel.com that several other viewers also caught the mistake.
“Not sure at all where you got your picture of Broadwell’s book for your 5pm news cast,” one viewer wrote. “I AM sure the title is NOT ‘ALL up IN my snatch’ ‘the education of General David Patraeus’ as you showed. I believe it is simply titled “All In”. Clever photoshopping by someone – - not so clever use of sources for a news cast!”
“I saw it too!” another viewer added. “I have been looking for, at the very least, an apology from 7 News. I hope someone’s head is on the chopping block; this was inexcusable behavior.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1tfJa)
I wouldn’t care if a fetus were a human or had “personhood”
It doesn’t, but if it did, it wouldn’t matter. You’re not required by any law to keep another creature alive using your organs. The law can’t dictate that you breastfeed instead of use formula, it can’t demand you donate a kidney even if you’re a match and the person who needs it is a child who will die and the law can’t keep you pregnant against your will.
And it’s not immoral either, not that it would matter if it were since laws aren’t designed on the basis of morality.
