Nevermind. Should have checked the dates. That was last year.
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Nevermind. Should have checked the dates. That was last year.
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Skepticat
One? As in 1?
Kennedy
Working as intended. They’re supposed to receive tax dollars, not actually paythem.
34% is still punitively high. It clearly inhibits Goldman’s profits and ability to compete globally. What we really need to stimulate the global economy is a corporate tax cut and more deregulation.
In other news, I just saw the first “Buy your spouse a fucking Mercedes/other luxury car” moronic commercial of the pre-emptive holiday season. God help us.
Nick
Back when the highest tax bracets were at like 80%, this is how the rich got around their taxes.
licensed to kill time
__
Uh, yeah!
How do we get rate declines like this? Srsly, from 34.1 percent to ONE percent?
Immoral Majority
Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war with
cross of Jesus marching on before…wait. Jesus was
that turn the other cheek guy. Didn’t he say “As you
do unto the least of these….never mind. In Gold we
Trust. That’s the country club motto now.
Kennedy
Christ, I initially read this as it dropped by 1 percent, to 34.1 percent. I guess I should know better.
dmsilev
So, they’re no longer a US company then? Fine, let them beg for bailout money from the Cayman Islands or whatever.
And might I suggest an import tariff on all exotic financial instruments?
-dms
Chuck Butcher
I wrote a a little thing today on a bit different aspect of fed income taxes.
jwb
@Kennedy: Ah, but you forgot to add that in order for our government to afford the Goldman Sachs tax payout we really need to cut government spending and raise taxes on families making less than $50,000. I say it’s only fair that the less well off pay those bonuses that ensures that the Goldman Sachs traders don’t go Galt on us.
licensed to kill time
Oops! Never mind. Hey, I read it too and didn’t see a date. Just looked again and it says Dec.16, which should have been a clue….
Napoleon
Keep in mind that one of the reasons the financial industry has been advancing for why Congress should not increase regulation on the finance industry is that if you do they will pick up and go somewhere with less regulation, like London.
jeffreyw
Neither the post nor any of the comments make any sense at all to me, I feel as if I’ve missed something.
jeffreyw
Have you taken down a post?
licensed to kill time
@jeffreyw: That’s because John magically disappeared the article he originally posted when he realized it was out of date, which didn’t stop any of us from jumping on the spitting on Goldman Sachs bandwagon, ptah!
Napoleon
Consistently wrong since 2002.
;)
geg6
Well, John, take comfort that you are not nearly as big an idiot as Chuck Todd. Or, as Harry Reid pointed out, David Broder. Or as Fallows pointed out in conjunction with his oh so polite takedown of Chuckles, Chris Matthews. So, basically, you’re not as idiotic as the average Village Idiot. There. Feel better?
Trollhattan
Not an idiot, but sadly human ;-)
But speaking of idiots, this blogging of reading Caribou Barbie’s tome is a thorough and proper shellacing.
http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/reading-sarah-palin-live-with-rudolph-delson#more-19225
Demo Woman
Take comfort John, most of us have no idea what you are talking about.
harlana pepper
I join to spit on Goldman Sachs, as well. And Geithner just needs to go, stat, that worthless sack of shit.
jeffreyw
@licensed to kill time: Time for a blogger ethics panel?
jeffreyw
Damn, strange days. I post pic after pic of food pr0n, and what gets the most views? Jack gettin a bath in the sink. LOL
shoutingattherain
@John:
Nah. You’re just a Stiller fan. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Could be worse. You could be a Seahawk fan.
Here ya go. Read this. It ought to pep ya up sum:
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3397
In this grotesque carnival, the US military’s contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. And it is a deadly irony, because these funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban. “It’s a big part of their income,” one of the top Afghan government security officials told The Nation in an interview. In fact, US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10 percent of the Pentagon’s logistics contracts–hundreds of millions of dollars–consists of payments to insurgents.
Foam fingers, baby!
Warren Terra
Could you put back the post with strikethrough or something? I hate this sort of “guess what I was wrong about” post.
Martin
@Napoleon:
Yeah, it’s important to back that up now and then.
Notorious P.A.T.
Time to do my Matt Taibbi impersonation: How assholish are the heads of Goldman Sachs? Even their stockholders are getting cheesed at them.
Goldman Holders Miffed at Bonuses
2th&nayle
@shoutingattherain: Does this remind anyone else of a Milo Minderbinder operation?
Of Bugs and Books
@shoutingattherain:
Thanks, you just turned whatever-John’s-mistake-was into a worthwhile post for me.
shoutingattherain
@2th&nayle:
It really is hard to believe. We are paying the Taliban to not shoot at our supply trucks, and they’re taking the $ to buy arms to shoot at us someplace else. We are funding our own opposition. How does this make any sense?
2th&nayle
@shoutingattherain: Well, the making of ‘sense’ in these kind of matters can be so elusory. Maybe better to ask who is profiting?
Anne Laurie
@shoutingattherain:
It is VERY good news for
John McCainXe, ex Blackwater. And who’s more important to the average redstate Congresscritter, some poor American mopes getting shot up, or the smooth flowing of tax dollars from those mopes’ fellow sufferers to the military-industrial megacorps that pay for said Congresscritter’s nice lifestyle?2th&nayle
@Anne Laurie: Ahh, THAT’s what I’m talkin’ bout! Well said.
Delia
@shoutingattherain:
There’s a line from a song on George Harrison’s last album:
I think that sums up the situation quite nicely.