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Dennis Hastert can go FUCK HIMSELF! He is a stupid, arrogant, piece of shit who doesn't give a good goddamn about anyone except himself and his Republican cronies.
Those of us who make $40K a year are entitled to just as much of a voice in government as any billionare or multinational corporation. Republicans are evil and deserve the guillotine. End of story.

What's amazing is that NO MATTER what crap they get caught doing, the repubs, like Hastert, just keep on proving to the world that they're greedy bastards who don't care about anything other than power/money. Given their history, though, I guess it's ridiculous of us 'average' Americans to even think they had a clue about what it takes to clothe/feed/insure/put a roof over/buy gas for a family on a average income (say, $40,000).

They just keep on truckin' right over us...yes, bring back the guillotine 'cause Bush has thrown out the rule of law and Hastert/Delay/Frist represent Congress.

I'm fucking angry!

And here all this time I've been saying I'm a taxpayer! Sorry folks, I was mistaken. I'm not a taxpayer, I'm a tax burden.

I guess the recent troll on here is right...all us lazy hippie pinko commies need to get off our asses and WORK* for a living.

(*Working for a living apparently means somehow netting millions of dollars a year--not doing whatever the hell it is I'm doing.)

Hastert can eat my shorts.

Many guillotines needed. I suspect this is the attitude of many slopping at the Washington trough. My best guess is that the $40,000 family pays about $2,500 in federal income taxes alone. Add Social Security and Medicare taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, the various taxes on utilities and gasoline and who knows what else, and that family is feeling pinched. My guess is that the $40,000 family loses a larger percentage of their income to taxes than the government types who have expense accounts and liberal deductions.
Instead of the guillotine, I want to turn the jerks out of office and mandate that they have to survive on that 40 grand. Think of the spectacle they'd provide.

Now, come on, you first two posters, remember that we are at WAR. This is no time to criticize our leaders, such as Majority Leader Rep. Hastert, who have sent our troops to die in a desert over a vast reservoir of oil that his benefactors are salivating to get at when/if the damned place can ever be sufficiently "secured."

Seriously, while this family of four with a household income of $40K may not have an income tax liability (depends on how much/many refundable tax credits they get), they certainly can't avoid the 6.2% (or 12.4% if independently contracted) social security tax that just goes straight into the general treasury fund for a few fleeting moments before finding its way into Halliburton's deep, non-bidded and well-connected pockets. Those well above $90K per year of earned income pay a much lower percentage of that tax, due to the cap, and those living on trust funds and investment income don't pay jack. So, in sum, let's consider tying Hastert's fat ass to the bumper of the first handy pick-up truck and dragging him down I-30 a ways.

Where are the hordes of peasants with torches and pitchforks when we need them?

we made just under 50K last year and paid no federal income taxes.

Most people making 40K get whatever they paid in back in refund, so he's right.

quit looking for reasons to bitch

Where are the hordes of peasants with torches and pitchforks when we need them?

Posted by: widj | May 19, 2006 09:57 PM

Where have YOU been these past several years? One can get arrested now based on what is printed on your t-shirt. Brandish a torch or a pitchfork in any manner, and you're sure to go to the supermax in Colorado, and that ain't nothing like a Wal-Mart. Welcome to the Fifth Reich, baby.

Does this mean that all the people making 40k and paying in taxes all these years get all that money back?

Surely will be a fine Christmas for many Americans if it's so. Do you call H-R Block or Huckabee or Hastert or who? No taxes for those 40k and under! Republicans rock!!!

Sorry, my irony made a wrinkly.

I meant that the peasants (we bloggers) should be carrying torches and wearing t-shirts around the White House, where the real evil resides. Blogging is just blogging. We need some old-fashioned justice, and soon.

Get the bums out of power before they ruin everything.

Gosh Max - considering how much you bitch about her are you man enough to use this space to praise Blanche Lincoln (and her former staff who you blame by extension for everything) for providing working families the only meaningful share of federal tax largess that has been passed in the Congress in the last 20 years in the form of the refundable child tax credit? She jammed that down the President's throat and embarrassed the Republican caucus basically by herself - she is the only Democrat who has taken on DeLay head-to-head as leader and actually defeated him. National Democrats love her for it while the Times whines about her position on passion-issues that are designed to never be resolved and meant to keep the Party-lemmings moving at pace.

Most people making 40K get whatever they paid in back in refund, so he's right.

That's simply not true.

quit looking for reasons to bitch

Please...monkeyboy and his worshippers will keep us awash in reasons to bitch for decades.

The best tax system for this country would go like this: Figure up what it takes to run this country for a year. Divide that amount by the number of people between 21 and 60 and that's how much every body owes in that bracket . No tax for those under 21 or over 60. . It's simple and fair.

Anon 12:31 -

Simple and fair? Calculating what it takes to run this country is not a simple task at all. And a system what does not make those that have benefitted from it pay more than those that haven't is not fair at all.

Hassert's comment is consistant whith the disconnect between our pols and the lower to middle classes.

One very reasonable solution to many of the financial problems facing this country would be to pass a constitutional amendment that mandates that congress' salaries, benefitsm health care - total package - be identical to the average American salary, benefits, health care - total package. Talk about motivation for congress to make meaningful reform in all sorts of economic areas, that would do it.

I make exactly $40K per year.

I take the standard deduction.

Guess what?

I got a refund.

What's next?

ARK. BLOG Was it a refund of ALL taxes paid during the year? Or only a portion? If not all, it means you paid taxes, contrary to what Hastert said.

Did the money you paid in taxes equal your refund genius? I used to wonder how stupid somebody had to be to believe the republican lies. Now I know.

Did the money you paid in taxes equal your refund genius? I used to wonder how stupid somebody had to be to believe the republican lies. Now I know.