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To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 10:49:47 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573924

I'm not even 30 and I've lived nothing but the "real world." You're lying. You are a liberal. Fess up.

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 10:50:45 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

They all have to pay the same taxes they would if they were working for someone else. I'm not sure why that's a problem. This, of course, is not how it works. As an employee, a person pays 7.65% in social security and medicare taxes (up to the max). Then, the employer matches it for a total of 15.3%. A self-employed person is required to pay the full 15.3% out of his own pocket (although he gets a partially-mitigating income tax deduction).

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 11:06:22 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573924

Z, > I decided at a very young age that that wasn't going to happen to me,* and I got some good opportunities and took them.* I think you've also decided that once you've made it, you're not going to let that happen to anyone else, either. > I'm not even 30 and I've lived nothing but the "real world." I thought you already got to 30. No? You're quite a workaholic ... Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 11:34:40 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573924

"I'm not even 30 and I've lived nothing but the "real world."" I don't know. You have to wonder at alleged human beings who take as their basic premise that anyone who doesn't agree with them has got to be lazy, unemployed and unemployable and lacking in ambition. And then when you point out they are FOS, that you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and have worked hard all your life, they then attack your parents and say they never should have had children unless they were economically well off. And then they start with the same bullshit all over again. If they hate other people so much, why do they get up in the morning?

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 11:54:23 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573924

TC thinks he has everyone figured out. He needs to spend more time improving his communication skills and figuring why he gets things wrong so consistently.

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 12:59:07 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573924

"They all have to pay the same taxes they would if they were working for someone else. I'm not sure why that's a problem." That's incorrect but it appears that i-node has already explained it to you. As for your background, it appears that I was wrong and I apologize. Now all I have to wonder about is how you became such a flaming liberal. :-)

To: SilentZ who wrote (458737)	2/23/2009 6:03:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

Gillibrand nervous about re-election? Days after a recent Quinnipiac poll shows newly-appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand losing badly to Rep Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) in a primary, the New York Post reports that Gillibrand is worried about her political prospects in 2010. SEN. Kirsten Gillibrand is nervously telling friends that Gov. Paterson's sharp drop in popularity may lead to her defeat in next year's all-but-certain Democratic primary. Party insiders who have had recent contact with Gillibrand, a former Albany-area congresswoman who has had to backtrack on her past pro-gun and anti-illegal-immigration positions since being named to her post by Paterson, said she appeared nervous, frightened and even shell-shocked over the growing opposition to her. "She's looking more and more like the proverbial deer in the headlights as she tries to convince activists to support her," said one of those she's courted. "She's very nervous and scared."