#4 POSTED BY ZED

How small is it, exactly?

About $99.00.

I see no connection between the criminal act of identity theft and immigration policy.

38....

"How could it be that the tax code of the 1950s had a top marginal tax rate of 91 percent, but resulted in an effective tax rate of only 42 percent on the wealthiest taxpayers? In fact, the situation is even stranger. The 42.0 percent tax rate on the top 1 percent takes into account all taxes levied by federal, state, and local governments, including: income, payroll, corporate, excise, property, and estate taxes. When we look at income taxes specifically, the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an average effective rate of only 16.9 percent in income taxes during the 1950s."

#38....

"...the effective tax rate for the top 1% of households (by income) was 42% in the 1950s, versus 36.4% today."

There was no 90% effective tax.

#23 | POSTED BY BORED....

OK, so you deduct business expenses to arrive at taxable income which your employees are not allowed to deduct which gives you a lower taxable income and a lower tax.

#8 | POSTED BY BORED ....

Explain how you do it.

#1....What percent of their income did they pay under Eisenhower?

Lawmakers have recently announced plans that would increase the tax burden on wealthy Americans, ranging from higher marginal income tax rates to wealth taxes. These proposals are flawed in several ways, including in their lack of understanding of tax history.

While marginal income tax rates have come down from their highs of 91 and 92 percent in the 1950s, changes in the tax base"how much and what types of income are subject to the tax"mean the effective rates on the wealthy haven't changed nearly as much.

President Clinton granted 456 pardons. How many more pardons does President Trump have to grant to equal Clinton?

The Electoral College was a stroke of genius by the founders.

#1....

Here's how one of the founding fathers explained the purpose and intent of the 2nd Amendment:

"The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American....the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.

-Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb 20, 1788