Maybe he was using a "euphemism".
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
No, we just threaten to sue them into bankruptcy.
Hope is the denial of reality
No, you just give them lead-poisoning and poorly managed asthma
http://www.businessinsider.com/epa-s...r=US&IR=T&IR=T
Lmao at this embarrassing country.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...lphone-n732746
None of this applies if you're Muslim of course.
Hope is the denial of reality
Even in a party full of idiots, Steve King's idiocy seems singular.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
It pretty much is.
Twitter Link
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Just put the tweet ID between the code blocks. So:
Twitter Link
Also, although it's never really used and the twitter API kinda sucks in what it delvers, there's the [tweetconv] tag:
Can't we just get tax reform? All I want is tax reform. Once the GOP shoots its wad on that, there will maybe be an opening for constructive conversations about climate policy.
What We Already Know About Trump’s Ties to Russia Amounts to Treachery to the Republic
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...-republic.html
We haven't moved on from defining treason have we?
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
She makes $26k, will pay $14k for health care
A new report by the Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 64-year-old making $26,500 per year would pay $14,600 under the proposed American Health Care Act.
$26,000 yearly wages
$3433.75 in federal taxes
$22566.25 after taxes (assuming you live in a state with no income tax)
$8566.25 after health care
$164.73 per week to survive
This party is insane
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
As long as she doesn't buy an iPhone.
Hope is the denial of reality
Her salary will increase to $100K #dynamicscoring
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
OG, you forgot copays for visits and prescriptions. But not to worry, when she is sick enough she visit the emergency room on our dollar. We got her covered.
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Wonder if the numbers included deductibles. I've seen plans that hit 8 grand before insurance kicks in.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Oh, I'm willing to entertain the idea that figures in the campaign have been/are being traitors (including Trump himself). I'm just not willing to accept declarations that anyone with a loud voice who supports Trump or denies the possibility has also committed treason. Being a deliberately blind partisan hack is not treason or grounds for declaring someone a traitor.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I haven't looked at the details of the plan but someone making 26K a year is likely not paying that much in federal taxes. When I was making just shy of 50k a year I had an effective federal tax rate of 2%. Granted I had a wife who didn't work but I doubt it is that far off.
Something about that example seems a bit off even though a 64-y-o is expected to have to pay much more.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Even if you cut those federal taxes in half thats still less than $200 a week to live off of. Completely ignoring taxes, that 60% of their income going to healthcare coverage (not actual healthcare expenses), compared to 21% of someone who makes $68k
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e4be3aa11e8a
On top of that, they want to claim HSAs will fix everything. How would that be feasible here?
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Typically what you pay into SS is substantially less than what you get back, obviously, since it's a pay as you go system - current SS taxes fund current SS benefits (though any excess is theoretically put in a SS 'trust fund' for future benefits). Since benefits scale upwards with time, typical amounts paid out over retirement will dwarf amounts you put in. But it will depend a lot on how long you live and the exact structure of your income during your earning years (and other obscure things like marital status changes, when you begin to claim benefits, etc.).
Regardless, that wasn't really what Lewk meant. He meant that the size of one's SS benefits will roughly correspond proportionally to the size of one's contributions. That is, SS benefits are calculated as percentage of SS tax-eligible income accrued over one's working years. There are a lot of sophisticated caveats, but it means that someone who generally earned higher amounts of income (and thus paid more SS tax) will also be eligible for higher SS benefits.
Now I'm not really sure I understand his logic about why this system should influence how it's viewed wrt to general revenue. It's true that the money is earmarked (theoretically, again, given issues with the trust fund) and that the tax is very different than typical income taxes (it's a highly regressive combination income/payroll tax), and the size of one's benefits do scale with the size of one's contributions, but at the end of the day it still is money that you don't have to spend on things like rent and food.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)