EnglishKimmy

You want a debate? haha
should immigrants be assimilated into American Political Culture?

paulpur

true, but then if you ask a lot of people, what is being done at the moment isnt 'working as intended'
as far as the parties and the pac's go, arent they always moaning anyways? lol

another thing ,from what ive seen , realistically, you have to be a millionaire to be able to run for any sort of political position which would suggest that you are gonna end up with just the same sort of people in any sort of power , perhaps im wrong and have the wrong impression of it so would be happy if someone corrected me
whilst i know that is a broad generalisation, thats just what ive seen so far

EnglishKimmy

Oh dude your totally right, one of the pointers to being able to run, you do have to have alot of money. Rick perry he spent like millions on his. And it didnt get him very far! haha

dakota44

Because of the intense fealty on the part of some to a 225 year old document that is, to say the least, lacking in specifics that relate to the current era, is vague in the extreme and was created in the absence of any imagining of what the next 200 years would bring, there will be no elimination of money in politics because it would, in the eyes of the true believers, be a violation of the Constitutional right to freedom of speech. Hence we now have corporations deemed to be people. It boggles the mind.

paulpur

yeah that whole corporations are people thing, how silly is that?? always gives me a giggle lol

EnglishKimmy

Oh the constitutional rights boggles my mind too. Its crazy cause in texas you can carry a gun and have it on you. Its scary knowing the person your next to could have a gun and if you piss them off over something silly they could shoot. SCARY :-( . maybe the document might need to be written in a modern way since it is 200 yearish old?

Michael

The constitution can be translated in any way that is desired but for some reason, conservatives feel that their translation is the only correct one just like for a 100 years, the supreme court ruled that states rights and property rights took precedence over all other rights and therefore slavery was allowed to continue.

So anyone that claims to be a constitutional scholar means that they wasted their entire life looking over a few hundred words in the constitution trying to justify their rational.

Michael

According to CNBC, the Buffett tax on millionaires will replace the Alternate Minimum Tax (AMT). This should get a lot of support from people with incomes in the $100,000-$1,000,000 range that can currently get hit with AMT.

Also even people with earned incomes of over a million dollars and limited unearned income with favorable tax treatment should get a tax break since they will no longer lose their deductions to AMT.

The primary losers will be millionaires that currently receive favorable tax treatment on their primary source of income (qualified dividends, capital gains, hedge fund managers, and private equity firms).