Who is Yuri?

It would have to be through the Capital Gains tax. Buffet's annual salary has remained at 100k for a long time. Maybe create marginal rates for Capital Gains. The rates on Capital Gains would have to be lower that the rates on ordinary income. Otherwise, the Capital Gains tax would be a disincentive to investing and bad for the economy.

I'm on record for an 80% marginal tax rate on individuals who make over $3,000,000,000.00. If you're not affected by that, I've got some pretty strong opinions about Monsanto that might rile you up. I don't think that corporations should be able to patent the genomes that they scrape from farmers.

Uh.. gee. Kasich is the only Republican that I'd consider voting for, but, if you say so. #feelthebern

Ah, Hell, I like to Garden too. The old sarcasm, buddy. Nicely done. (He and I are old allies, for all the young dittoheads out there) It will all make sense come election time, folks.

Now I'm hoping for you to teach me about 1935 Europe, because I didn't have that in mind at all!

And, even though it was her own phone, I thought that, because it was the gov't server mail, all that was copied to the gov't server.

A you talkin' t'me? Aw said. A you talkin' t'me? Take a look at my litle friend.

So you are saying that Kasich is electable?

I think the margins would evolve with the times. We really need to pay down the debt but that is a shared issue. Obviously, I was just ballparking what I predict Bernie will propose. He doesn't like just a few individuals to just run away with the money. I, personally think that over half a billion is the point where the wealth becomes obscene. There's a lot more to be said about this issue, so it will be an ongoing discussion I think. You can't write checks that your congress can't cash, man.

Eisenhower built the Thruways. That was awesome. You couldn't imagine how hard it was before them. Imagine how much more Eisenhower would accomplish were he still alive. In his absence, at least we have Bernie, the one candidate loudly advocating for American Infrastructure. That sort of investment creates jobs in a more definite way than your average billionaires increasing wealth and power. Buffet brought up the point himself. He thought the system was imbalanced, because he was just playing the game and ended up paying less tax per dollar income than his secretary. He thought that needed to be called to attention for the betterment of the country. That just earns me points with Buffet. Earning point with Bernie? Yeah right. He only makes a couple hundred G's per year.

If she was Thanks. I still can't really pass judgement yet. Maybe it took her a while to turn things over? Maybe she didn't take it seriously enough? I'm still not sure what the specific accusations are.

Alright, brother, I'm listening. I'm just not sure what I'm listening to yet. Keep your comments coming. Bumping the Bernie thread above the Hillary thread is always appreciated by this poster.

Yeah, but I'll bet he wasn't better than Putin. Libs know that Cons missed the ticket by not wooing Puting back in March when they had the chance. Talk about a guy who is good in bed. Does Trump hunt animals? Or is he just a city queer?

I dunno. "Mexican Expansion" I've never heard about. I searched Google under "mexican expansion" and just hit the opposite of Mexican Expansion with the Mexican-American War in the mid 1800's. General/President Grant was ashamed of this war, as he wrote in his memoirs. It was just robbing territory, starting with the creation of the State of Texas. I guess that would make Grant a closet Mexican Expansionist but he did fight against the Mexicans in that war. Maybe there are Grant fans among the Mexicans. They would need to pay more attention to their cyber presence if they would like to be taken seriously, it seems to me, if they do, in fact, exist.

I'm not a big Hillary fan, but in her position, I wouldn't know what was meant by "wiping the server," either. Doesn't that mean deleting everything? Or in this instance, does it mean, cleaning up the mess? Is this an argument about the e-mails being vulnerable to cyberhackers? I thought that the government had been hacked, but I've heard nothing about Gmail. I'd like it if the problem could be identified first. I can't really analyse this information.

I don't get why more Republicans aren't promoting Kasich.

He might hit the over 3 billion bracket really hard, like 80% I haven't had the chance to mention Warren Buffet paying a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, so I'm just going to prematurely ejaculate that sentence all over this conversation. And this 90% thing can't be attributed to me, though I appreciate your humor.

Bernie doesn't have strict plan yet. He's looking to tax the "super-rich." I take that to mean billionaires, rather than millionaires. I'm sure he'll come out with specifics, but I would predict 35% marginal tax rate for millionaires and 60% marginal tax rate for anything above half a billion. That's just a guess. Where the hell is everyone getting this 90% from? From the damn commie Eisenhower, that's who it's from.

How should BobinMichigan's hypothetical brackets be adjusted? We are currently at the following: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kellyphillipserb/files/2014/10/Single_rates.png

Gross yearly income. How do you like me now?

What? I was attempting to clarify your vague statement. The 90% figure comes from references made to Bernie and by Bernie about Eisenhower. Are you having a laugh? 90% tax rate sounds extreme. Xtreme Fuzzy Math. Call it Income Tax, and surf through the confusion and havoc. Xtreme!

When you say 90% tax, I hear 90% on all income. A 90% marginal tax rate on the super-rich, isn't a flat 90% income tax, it's a 90% tax on each dollar they make above, say $1,000,000,000. You may already know that. I just wanted to clarify for any bright young dittoheads that might be in our audience.

To be clear, the 90% figure you quote isn't tax on income. It's the marginal tax rate under Ike in the 50's which Bernie's been quoted as admiring. According to Google, The marginal tax rate is the percentage of tax applied to your income for each tax bracket in which you qualify. In essence, the marginal tax rate is the percentage taken from your next dollar of taxable income above a pre-defined income threshold. Income tax under Ike wasn't anywhere near 90% for the super-rich, and wouldn't be near 90 for Sanders. Marginal tax rate is the source of confusion.

Can you explain to me why every other of your posts ends with #feelthebern? Explain yourself, young man. At some odd level, I thought you we're one of us - the friends of Bernie who have united to make this thread strong. No more rabble rousing in Bernie's thread. We stand together. No more hair questions. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/17/bernie-sanders-is-not-impressed-with-your-questions-about-hillary-clintons-hair/