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Priority Club has been doing bonus miles on certain hotels. 5000 for select ones... That have happened to be on my route. 15,000 bonus points this week so far. I'm over 100k in this account in ~6 weeks of use.

We agree! Hiring and firing are functions of demand. If enough demand exists to necessitate staff you keep them, if it doesn't, you don't. You wouldnt idle factory machinery just because your taxes go up. The notion that business people hire employees out of the goodness of their hearts is one of the more bizzarre narratives lately of so called "job creators".

I have a client who is paying and needs an iOS app developed. Can you PM me his info?

And here it is:

You should probably be making quarterly payments. I'd suggest a CPA that works with you all year.

He also said he believed that they felt like they are victims; poor form. I dislike the poor more than most; what with the foul odor, the grammatical incompetence, the shifty eyes... the excessive mid-section skin, that greasy hair, and paltry grasp of any narrative more elaborate than the plot of Honey Boo Boo Child. I'd at least have the sense to suppress those feelings if I ever ran for office. I feel dirty just talking about them.... I'll need a shower before heading to the Country Club for dinner.

Right, you are arguing based on what you feel he said. I am arguing against the words and references he used. This is a chart that shows that the lower half of the taxpayer income level is not the same as those who don't pay income taxes. http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2012/09/pm-incometax/gr-pm-incometaxbreakdown-462.gif So you are saying you aren't arguing against those who don't pay income taxes, just poor people in general?

He's only allowed to barge in here when I'm arguing with you fuckers.

It's funnier when he pronounces it "elmoments". Since, in his world, on the evolutionary chart everything started with Elmo.

Don't mind that, my 2 year old was on my lap yelling about elephants. He was the source of the frustration, you were recipient. So we agree that the 47% does pay taxes in the form of payroll tax, sales tax, excise tax, etc. So what happens when we look at those remaining taxes as a function of overall income. As a percentage of burden it is exponentially greater than middle and top earners. Even when you add in federal income tax the percentage of burden is disproportional. The point of the progressive tax system is to even that out a bit. How do you suggest we remedy your concern?

You are either lying or ignorant. Your big "PAY NO TAX AT ALL" capitalization doesn't make it true. http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/18/breakdown3-06-17-11-01_custom-a75c8687649851cb34253472a5005ecb6a99a436-s3.jpg As a self-employed individual, I'd love for you to tell me that payroll tax is "NO TAX AT ALL" again. You seem upset that we have a progressive taxation system. What do you propose as the alternative? I do hope you realize that, while you deride "liberals" for the postion of the 46.2%, republican decreases of taxes over the last 40 years might have a little to do with it...

I think it resonated with the base at least. I have a few facebook friends who happen to work in industries in which they have much greater contact with the welfare stereotype; they sang his praises when this was released. Naturally this feels accurate when a majority of the people you encounter happen to be within the 3% of abuse that exists. I am all for welfare reform and addressing those that do fit the stereotype. I feel my outrage is in proportion to the amount it impacts me and the federal/state budget...

We should probably wait til after the election. I'll buy if your guy wins.

The 46.2% figure includes the elderly on Medicare (Almost half of that), Army Veterans, and plenty of people making 50+ K who still receive government assistance. He used that figure as red meat implying that 47% of Americans are the welfare queen stereotype that immediately triggers in your brain when you think food stamps. It was dishonest and deliberately deceptive. It shows that his narrative is different when he stands before his own people.

I was one of the first people in this thread to say he was losing. I still have objectivity. I think he thoroughly lost that debate on style. I think the fact checkers will judge substance in the next 24 hours. I think telling the moderator you'd fire him and big bird will become a meme. It is easy when you don't have a record. When you haven't made concessions. When you don't have to confront reality you can say things like "yadda yadda" about the actual and factual insolubility of an economic policy. When I am brought on to fix a small business losing 50k a month I have to lay out exactly what I am going to do in the next 12-18 months to fix it before I collect a single dime. In that plan the numbers have to add up and it has to be actionable. Can you imagine, as a business development dude yourself, telling a client to "just hire me and I'll tell you the details after"? I am only holding Romney accountable to the cosmically less important scale I am held to every day.

Ad hominem attacks now too? You're losing credibility by the post. Just so you know, since business success is your key indicator for presidential success: Likewise presidents with little or no business success: You made a good point. You have "Faith" and that's really what a vote for Romney is. He has give zero details of how to actually make any of his promises come to fruition. Paul Ryan actually said the "...math would take too long to explain". When you don't have any substance on which to make your decision it must be based on a feeling, some visceral response. Maybe that "faith" module would have been in the other half of a brain I don't have.

Dude, have you lost all perspective that you are using Donald Trump's teleprompter shtick? Obama behaved like an incumbent who didn't need to create waves. That said, he did perform horribly at holding Mitt accountable to his shaking of the Etch-a-sketch tonight. If I went unchallenged promising every citizen a 20% tax break while keeping everything they like about the world, I could get elected too. I wouldn't be surprised if a youtube parody was created with Romney debating himself from the primaries. He has doubled down on most every substantial conservative proposal. He once talked of hard decisions and tough cuts and is now attempting to convince us that his tax reductions will be paid for by firing the moderator and Big Bird. We seriously saw a conservative candidate promise us that we can keep everything we like about the ACA, Medicare, education funding, and other big government programs, get a tax cut AND magically cut the budget through his "deduction bucket" theory. The last candidate elected who followed through with that policy got us in into this mess in the first place. Edit: I forgot his rehashing the "Death Panel" bullshit. Sarah Palin is pleased with herself tonight.

Don't be so sure about that. http://Www.factcheck.org

I'm looking forward to seeing those "5 studies" Mitt referenced.

That it's happy hour? Cheers!

It's happy hour here and I lean left but I feel like Romney is "winning". It might be his half smirk disappointed dad look.

Yes, that is included in the actual 46.2%. I think he was conflating a number of different statistics that are individually accurate outside of his reference, which was not. No, it would be political suicide for Democrats or Republicans to put forward such a bill to reduce it. Congress would have to approve it after all. I'm 97% sure that could not be addressed via executive order.

So since the TARP was passed by GW, why did the GOP not pursue their free market principals back then?

Right, since Republican and Bush appointee of the independent Federal Reserve ,Ben Bernankie's, term doesn't end until 2013. What tools do you think the Fed should (or should not) be exercising that they aren't (or are) already

If the GOP wanted to attract voters outside of their base they would not have focused on these issues. You've seen the charts and graphs that show the sectors of the economy that are improving, reposting them wont make you believe them any more.