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Traffic stop-ee: "Officer, I..."
Police officer: "SHUT THE FUCK UP"
Traffic stop-ee: "I am carrying ..."
Police officer: "NOBODY IS TALKING TO YOU, SHUT UP"
Traffic stop-ee: "Officer! Here is my permit for..."
Police officer: "SAY ONE MORE WORD AND YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL"
Traffic stop-ee: "..."
[Police officer searches car, comes to driver]
Police officer: "GET OUT OF THE CAR! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT CARD YOU KEEP WAVING AT ME?"
Traffic stop-ee: "Officer, I am carrying a concealed weapon. This is my permit."
Police officer: "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT IMMEDIATELY! I SHOULD EXECUTE YOU RIGHT HERE AND NOW"

On video, of course.


[Poll #1763936]

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Date: 2011-07-27 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swwoodsy.livejournal.com
How so? Link me?

OH! And when I come to power, I'm taxing the churches. Double if they're evangelical, and triple if they do mission work and require the people they are ministering to to submit to indoctrination to benefit.

I hate proselytizing.

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Date: 2011-07-27 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
You're giving a 25% cut to the rich while taxing more of the poor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States) *and* eliminating credits and deductions that poor people depend on. In the process, you haven't touched sales taxes, which again eat up a vastly disproportionate part of the income of the poor.

Under your plan, rich people get a massive tax break, and poor people pay more than they do now.

"Flat taxes" are superficially appealing, but always turn out to be massively regressive in practice. This is why millionaires support them so much.

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Date: 2011-07-27 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Oh, and: You need to define "income" VEEEEEEERY carefully, to avoid fun tricks like "I was paid exactly $20,000 last year as CEO. The company paying for my house and car and credit cards and contributing to my RRSP were all perks, not income"

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Date: 2011-07-28 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swwoodsy.livejournal.com
Oh, no. Perks get taxed.

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