Stat of the Day: 20 percent of South Carolina Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal. Maybe they should watch this.
GUYS WE NEED TO MAKE SURE “THE HELP” GETS AN OSCAR, THAT WILL FIX THIS 5EVER
Rachelle Grimmer, a 38 year old mother of two in Texas, had been trying to qualify for food stamps "for months" without success. On Monday, she went to a San Antonio welfare office with her kids and a gun. After a seven-hour standoff, she killed herself and shot both of her children, who are now in critical condition.
See, this economy would get back on track if people just applied themselves.
(Source: joshsternberg)
New numbers prove the “Buffett Rule”: One quarter of U.S. millionaires pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than do 10 million families with moderate incomes, according to nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
The report found that when all federal taxes are taken into account, households that earned more than $1 million in 2006 paid as little as 24 percent to the IRS. Families making less than $100,000 a year faced a tax rate exceeding 26.5 percent.
Bafflingly, America is taxed under a worse setup than a true flat tax. (Of course, we’re still better off than Steve Forbes’s “flat tax” that doesn’t count capital gains as income.)
