Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:02:36 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:02:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Apple to Pay Dividend, Plans $10 Billion Buyback From: George Kerby Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Apple to Pay Dividend, Plans $10 Billion Buyback Thread-Index: Ac0I/Zhj4tMcah/z2UCjkM/KYlbVog== References: <4f678593$0$4786$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com> <4f678e2b$0$9114$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Trace: sv3-27OU5W2eGQrEvwz/qMNWsg/4hHz86GANQa+bl7/6yDyaMNl0n7s/JWcUX4/0NS/ix3EV19NMflbDf42!0SIE6a69CtW+ZP2TyUxirXIaq84O6yfeL/D0j54I5n+tvvua0UgqjRlR3iWtf5s24Y59UNhiPzrF!aQ== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2866 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:10391 comp.sys.mac.system:22683 On 3/22/12 1:34 PM, in article lMmdneQicc447fbSnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@earthlink.com, "Kurt Ullman" wrote: > In article , > "D.F. Manno" wrote: > >> In article , >> George Kerby wrote: >> >>> But what about the 48% who pay NO taxes. Is THAT fair? >>> But that is another subject. >> >> That's a fucking lie. When you consider FICA taxes, state and local >> income/wage taxes, gasoline taxes, liquor taxes, tobacco taxes, sales >> taxes, use taxes, real and personal property taxes, excise taxes (e.g., >> on airfares, tanning services), estate taxes, inheritance taxes, gift >> taxes, tariffs, hotel taxes, car rental taxes, occupational privilege >> taxes, etc., just about _everybody_ pays taxes. > > I always love how the discussion of income taxes and specifically > federal income taxes all of a sudden morphs into things like this. It's in the Liberal Talking Points Handbook. First indoctrination class 101. Right up there with when Liberals have no real factual answer to illegal immigration or defense of Obama's socialist behavior they are trained to bark and howl "RACIST!".