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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (595618)	12/13/2010 9:18:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583555

"And if you got your increase, you'd immediately start whining its still not high enough" I've gone on record saying I'm not against letting them all expire, unless of course, deficits don't matter. As for class war, it is getting tiring, but they have won't accept our unconditional surrender. They want nothing less than serfdom... Mr. Buffett compiled a data sheet of the men and women who work in his office. He had each of them make a fraction; the numerator was how much they paid in federal income tax and in payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, and the denominator was their taxable income. The people in his office were mostly secretaries and clerks, though not all. It turned out that Mr. Buffett, with immense income from dividends and capital gains, paid far, far less as a fraction of his income than the secretaries or the clerks or anyone else in his office. Further, in conversation it came up that Mr. Buffett doesn’t use any tax planning at all. He just pays as the Internal Revenue Code requires. “How can this be fair?” he asked of how little he pays relative to his employees. “How can this be right?” Even though I agreed with him, I warned that whenever someone tried to raise the issue, he or she was accused of fomenting class warfare. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” nytimes.com "since when does $200K get you a penthouse anyway?" You should check google B4 you ask questions which highlight your stupidity. Well, Obama's cut-off was $250K, which not too many see as the penthouse folks, but for a little over 100K a year, you can rent one belonging to a famous person, and have $92K left for everything else. On Broadway; in NY,NY, the city that never sleeps. They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway... If you decide you like this, tell them to send me a finder's fee. huffingtonpost.com Josh Hartnett's Williamsburg Penthouse For Rent (PHOTOS) First Posted: 06-17-10 06:02 PM Josh Hartnett's vacating his lavish Williamsburg penthouse, and for the small monthly price of $9,000, you can rent it! The 2,645-square-foot apartment boasts a 1,450-square-foot terrace with a jacuzzi, "a chef's kitchen, flat-screen TVs, a state-of-the art music/video system, a gas fireplace and 13-foot ceilings," reports the New York Post. The 13-foot ceilings cater well to the floor-to-ceiling windows, which overlook the East River and display views of both the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines. Hartnett's former digs occupy the top of the Grestch Building, a once musical-instrument factory on 60 Broadway.