Congratulations, House Republicans!

How have you done financially in the last few years? From the comments you have made here on A2K, you have done pretty well. The stock market is at an all time high and because of that you are doing better now then you were a few years ago. You and CI and maybe 1 or 2 others have claimed this.

If only the top 10% are doing well in this economy does that make you in the top 10%? I believe CI has responded with a yes on this subject, that we do count as the 10%. Does that mean you and CI should taxed higher?

Actually, we pay capital gains tax on our IRA withdrawals and 85% of our social security benefits. Since we're relieved from paying FICA, unemployment, and other deductions of workers, our tax rate isn't all that bad, and we pay it gladly.

The IRS requires everybody with an IRA to make minimum withdrawals (called RMD's or Required Minimum Draws) at 70.5 yo, and the percentage divisor gets smaller at we get older. For example, if one has $100,000 in their IRA at 70.5, the divisor is 25. $100,000/25 = $4,000 is the minimum withdrawal requirement for that year. The divisor gets smaller with every year. When one reaches 90 yo, the divisor is 11.4, so if the IRA balance is $10,000, the withdrawal is $877.19. These are only examples, not the actual divisor.

Alaska Republican says immigrants are gang members who will take your guns away
By Arturo Garcia
Thursday, August 14, 2014 17:15 EDT
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Alaska GOP senatorial candidate Joe Miller [Facebook]



A Tea Party Repubilcan senatorial candidate in Alaska says a vote for immigration reform would imperil the Second Amendment and gun ownership in America. And to make that point, he’s put images of Mexican gang members on a flier that’s so over the top, it’s become a news story, Think Progress reported.

A flyer for Joe Miller’s campaign features the image, taken from a 2007 book, Young and Lethal: Life in a Mexican Drug Cartel, and says incumbent Sen. Mark Begich (D-AZ) “wants them to vote.”

“If 20 million illegals vote, you can kiss the 2nd Amendment goodbye,” a quote attributed to Miller states. “I am the only candidate who favors Voter ID.”

The Alaska Dispatch News posted the flyer online on Monday:



That same day, Miller defended the use of the image in a primary debate. But instead of citing sources related to immigration, he used remarks made by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during an interview with Fox News. According to Miller, Cruz said immigrant children were being forced to cut other children’s fingers off.

“They’re being sexually abused, all at the hands of the gang members like the gang members that are portrayed on this card,” Miller argued. “Sometimes the truth is hard.”

Miller also insisted there was a “clear correlation” between immmigration and gun ownership rights.

“If you end up granting amnesty to those who don’t value gun rights, who have not been raised in an environment where the Second Amendment is cherished — is considered to be a God-given right — the reality is over a generation or two, the likelihood is very strong that the 2nd Amendment will not be here,” he was quoted as saying.

Both Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who defeated Miller in the 2010 election via a write-in campaign, and Begich voted for the immigration reform plan that passed in the Senate last year. The bill, which stalled in the GOP-dominated House, would have prevented confirmed gang members from being eligible for the bill’s path to citizenship.

NBC News reported that Miller is currently “a distant third” in the current Republican Senate primary, behind Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) and former state Attorney General Dan Sullivan. The primary is scheduled for Aug. 19, with the winner moving on to oppose Begich in the November general election.

[Image via Joe Miller campaign Facebook page]

[h/t Salon]

Anyone who believes anything a politician says in an election year deserves the fuken he will get for voting for them.

It doesn't even have to be an election year to question what any politician says.

True!

Obama is the perfect example.

Please CJ. Dont ever agree with anything I say. When you do I have to reexamine what I posted because I'm sure I have screwed up.

Now, that was really funny! Thanks for my laugh for today.

No problem, you never say anything.

Mirror stop working for you?

Seriously. Are you in the fourth grade or what? Someone comments on your comments and you make a nasty crack about the commenter. What the **** is your major malfunction?

I am shocked, cj. We agree on something.

The hypocrisy and irony of your post runs deep.

North Carolina Republican Making Six-Figure Income Gets Busted For Welfare Fraud
Author: Stephen D Foster Jr October 2, 2014 7:53 pm

You know how Republicans have been referring to welfare recipients as lazy moochers who are stealing money from taxpayers? Well, get ready for a huge helping of hypocrisy.

A North Carolina Republican is in hot water after documents revealed that he committed welfare fraud in the 1990s.

GOP state Senator Wesley Meredith currently enjoys a double-digit lead against his Democratic opponent Billy Richardson. But on Tuesday, Richardson released documents that could be a potential game-changer with a month to go before Election Day.
North Carolina GOP state Senator Wesley Meredith via ABC 11



North Carolina GOP state Senator Wesley Meredith via ABC 11

According to ABC 11,

Richardson released a load of Meredith’s public and private financial and public assistance documents. They indicate Meredith and his ex-wife, Elizabeth Meredith, received welfare in the late 1990s. At the time, the couple earned annual incomes in the six-figure range.

In an interview with the Fayetteville Observer, Elizabeth Meredith confirmed the authenticity of the accusations against her former husband.

Apparently, the Merediths went to the county Department of Social Services in 1996 and applied for Medicaid benefits. The Merediths also applied for WIC (food stamps) benefits at the same time. The released documents corroborate this information.

The documents also show that Wesley Meredith had a gross income of over $100,000 and received benefits at a time when people had to be making less than $19,800 to qualify for government assistance.

The bottom line here is that a Republican who has worked with his political party to punish welfare recipients and the poor in recent years has been caught putting his own hand in the cookie jar. Furthermore, the revelations come as North Carolina Republicans continue to block Medicaid expansion through Obamacare, which would give thousands of North Carolinians the health coverage they desperately need.

And the welfare fraud may not even be the worst of it. The documents also suggest that Meredith abandoned his wife and child financially. Of course, Meredith claimed that he has no memory of signing up for state assistance and then tried to shift the blame to his ex-wife. So much for so-called Republican “family values.”

The Cumberland County GOP issued a statement on Wednesday calling on Meredith to re-pay the taxpayers for the funds if the allegations are true like the documents show. And the North Carolina Senate Caucus called the accusations “desperate and despicable” and proceeded to smear Democratic candidate Billy Richardson.

In the end, the documents show that Meredith did indeed make a six-figure income and that he and his family did apply for and receive welfare benefits, even though they didn’t need the aid. Republicans have been attacking welfare recipients for years, accusing them of stealing money from taxpayers. As it turns out, a real thief of tax dollars was hiding right under their own noses in their own party. That has got to be embarrassing.

North Carolina College Republican shuts down campus voter registration drive
David Ferguson
04 Oct 2014


The head of the College Republicans at one North Carolina college is determined to stop voter registration drives on her campus, whether they’re being sponsored by conservative or liberal groups.

According to MSNBC, Chairwoman Leigh Thomas of the High Point University College Republicans was caught on camera on Wednesday telling a conservative group that it could not register voters on campus because she wasn’t comfortable with it.

Wednesday, as MSNBC’s Zachary Roth noted, was also the day that state Republicans vowed to keep pushing for more restrictions on North Carolina voters, even if that means taking the fight all the way to the Supreme Court.

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In a number of states, Republicans have been attempting to limit voting by doing away with early voting and registration, tightening voter ID laws and, on the whole, making it as difficult as possible for black voters, working women, hourly workers, the elderly and students to vote. These are all constituencies that have traditionally voted Democratic.

Watch video about this story, embedded below via Campus Reform, at link~

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/north-carolina-college-republican-shuts-down-campus-voter-registration-drive/

Please show us an example of each.

You are the example of each. We all keep pointing it out to you every time you post.