Beer and Taxes

The only bit of politics that I will formally post on here.  So pass by if you get easily politically offended, no hate for Obama just a nice insight to the tax system.

OUR TAX SYSTEM: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for a beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1.00 The sixth would pay $3.00 The seventh would pay $7.00 The eighth would pay $12.00 The ninth would pay $18.00 The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.00

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Student Loan Bailouts


These occupiers drive me nuts, they have zero sense for what they are protesting and they’re goals are disheveled.  The clowns that are wasting time and tax payers money to “stand up” for what they think is right is a joke.  Explain to me how bailing students out of loans that they signed up for is going to help the economy as a whole?  It will only further their thought process that they don’t have to own up to their decisions.   Continue reading