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aggiesal

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12. Yup you're right.

Reply to graham4anything (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 11:18 AM

Dec 2012

Let me borrow money from the gov't, to buy that discounted car,
so I can avoid paying more to the gov't.

The fact is corporations are by far the biggest welfare queens around,
then the Walmarts of the world defend their non living wage salaries.

I thought Corporations are people, yet we the people are not allowed
the same tax breaks!

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CEOs Ring in New Year With Early Pay-Day Windfall to Beat Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts [View all] aggiesal Dec 2012 OP

It's also to avoid the ACA's 3.8% surcharge on unearned income witch starts Jan 1. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #1

It would make me feel better to see a lot of these people in prison Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #2

And your tax dollars are paying for it :-( commenter8 Dec 2012 #3

The tax code, simply the biggest welfare king/queen program ever. ... And, it's untouchable! Bozita Dec 2012 #4

To hell with morals and ethics, it's legal Brother Buzz Dec 2012 #5

The Washington Post helps people cheat taxes bloomington-lib Dec 2012 #6

The Bush tax cuts expired RandiFan1290 Dec 2012 #7

can I interupt this witchhunt for a moment... graham4anything Dec 2012 #8

Just like a Third Way Democrat to disregard ethics. closeupready Dec 2012 #9

another boring new stereotype name to divide. I am just a regular liberal. graham4anything Dec 2012 #10

why would you be 'derelict in your duty' for not taking advantage of an unethical loophole? PaulaFarrell Dec 2012 #11

Yup you're right. aggiesal Dec 2012 #12

You really are "4anything," aren't you. WilliamPitt Dec 2012 #13

As in "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall 4anything" . . . HughBeaumont Dec 2012 #17

Why stop at one year of dividends? Why not pay a decade's worth? A century's worth? high density Dec 2012 #15

Good thinking! Turbineguy Dec 2012 #14

No end to their hell-bound, unpatriotic greed. aquart Dec 2012 #16

I remember reading a couple of years ago... primavera Dec 2012 #18