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Warhorse46 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
And what is one of the largest slices of the federal budget each year? Paying the interest on the national debt, currently at 10.6 trillion and going up at 3.6 billion dollars a day at current rates, bailouts, etc. (google "national debt clock")
Warhorse46 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The typical American pays about 30% of total income to income tax, and this might be conservative. Here's another way of looking at it. The first 3 months of every year you work (Jan, Feb and March) pays only income tax. Or the first 2 and 1/2 hours of every 8 hour work day at work, pays only your income tax. Remember before 1913, or for the first 120 some years of the country, no income tax, it came in at the same time as the bill to establish the Fed.
PersonsNathan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
how much is the income tax?
kylatruther (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
summersidebeach,
Yeah...that's the main point of this whole documentary. Focus on the way he's pronouncing words...
EntheosEpignostic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
These are the "principalities and powers" that the apostle Paul mentioned that we must do battle with.
gsg03 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The auto bailout pales in comparison to the bullshit $700 billon bailout for shady, greedy lenders. I don't like the idea of bailouts period, especially when these companies could save money by cutting the salaries of board members and upper management. However, there's potentially somewhere near 1.6 million jobs at stake if the big three go under. We need to keep as many jobs and manufactured goods here in America as much as possible. Trade is good but self-sufficiency is even better.
PINApwns (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
a tax revolt
IntelligentCreature (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
US...loaning major money to GM today..will they buy it with pennies on the dollar in the future...
now we have iraq afghanistan and soon pakistan and iran right....geez...
what can we do???
hotsauce3888 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What I hate most about all of this is the fact that we the people, or should I now refer to common citizens as plebs since we really have no say in the direction of our country, are used as cannon fodder to do the dirty work and fight wars and provide luxury for those in office, but not limited to the US alone. If you've seen the "The Time Machine," the relationship between the Morlocks and Eloy are the same as we the plebs and those in office, the only difference being we're not being eaten
malloy12321 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Interesting video however the facts on WWI are very wrong. The narrator makes it seem as though the US entered the war soon after the sinking of the Lusitania, however the US would not actually get involved for two years and the main reason for entry was because of an attempted alliance between Germany and Mexico. Also 116,000 Americans died in that war. No where near 300000+ that the author arrogates. |
