tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post7857065908576473172..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Why Do Republicans Castigate the Poor and Unemployed?Bud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-89654239881646595012012-01-26T04:06:58.752-08:002012-01-26T04:06:58.752-08:00Did Mitt Romney pay a zero percent tax rate in 200...Did Mitt Romney pay a zero percent tax rate in 2009? That's what David Shuster, filling in for Keith Olbermann on Countdown on Current TV, planned in last night's report. Meanwhile a disabled worker is fired for stealing twenty cents!<br /><br />http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120120/BASU/301200052/-1/LIFE04/Basu-20-cent-theft-leads-firing-disabled-workerBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-6017730596988142322012-01-26T04:03:37.511-08:002012-01-26T04:03:37.511-08:00"Typical investors drawing from their 401k sa..."Typical investors drawing from their 401k savings pay taxes at ordinary rates -- whatever they would pay if they earned it at a job."<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-tax-return_n_1229301.htmlBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-77213097699177134912012-01-26T04:01:31.027-08:002012-01-26T04:01:31.027-08:00Lowering the corporate tax rates will only enable ...Lowering the corporate tax rates will only enable these CEOs to pay themselves bigger salaries, it would NOT create more jobs.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-56097315611060343802012-01-26T03:57:56.884-08:002012-01-26T03:57:56.884-08:00It's hypocritical, dishonest and morally wrong...It's hypocritical, dishonest and morally wrong for the millionaires, billionaires, CEOs, bankers, and rich Republicans to point accusing fingers at those that don't even earn enough to pay federal income taxes...and then castigate them for being poor and unemployed...when it was THEY that put those people in poverty in the first place by outsourcing jobs, paying poverty wages, and laying them off to save themselves the money that enabled themselves to become as wealthy as they are...but yet they STILL insist on paying a lower tax rate than those who can barely survive.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-55064578295730034082012-01-26T03:39:06.562-08:002012-01-26T03:39:06.562-08:00According to a poll which was conducted immediatel...According to a poll which was conducted immediately after the president's State of the Union address, 91 percent approved of the proposals that Mr. Obama put forth...almost the entire "99%".<br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20029581-503544.htmlBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com