As Poverty Rises, Bush Seeks Tax Cut For Paris Hilton
By on Aug 30th, 2005 at 11:04 am
As Poverty Rises, Bush Seeks Tax Cut For Paris Hilton
The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. But new data from the Census Bureau shows that more people are struggling just to make ends meet. AP reports:
The nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday…Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty [in 2004], up 1.1 million people from 2003…The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold — 11.3 percent of the population.
Sounds like the perfect time for a tax break for Paris Hilton.
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I sleep easier at night knowing someone is lookning out for my $3.5+ estate. Viva Bush!
August 30th, 2005 at 11:17 amIf someone can explain to me how the estate tax is going to get someone out of poverty, I’m all ears. Otherwise, cram it.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:25 amI too sleep easier. I’m dreaming of Paris Hilton’s next porn flick. Given her newfound tax break she can afford the “production” costs. Yea!
Not.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:27 amFree market capitalism, with its winners and losers, for the common folk, working over a flimsy, dwindling saftey net.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:36 amSocial welfare and certain security for the elite.
We’re #1………………….yey
NBC news interviewed William Rodriquez, but decided not to air the interview when it was obvious his story didnt line up with the governments.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:40 amleapoffaith,
It works the same way trickle down does. Too slow for anyone’s good. But a wee bit faster. (Cram it??) Up your nose with a rubber hose!
August 30th, 2005 at 11:49 amWho cares if you’re poor? It’s better to be rich; everybody pays attention to you. Paris Hilton could use a tax break and you don’t deserve one. Get to work and stop your complaining. Just be glad you’ve got a place to live or stay and something to eat.
Nobody ever appreciates what the US government has done for them. such ingrates murkans have become. Once a schmuck, always a schmuck.
long live George Bush may Paris Hilton never age
sarcasm mode *on*
har
Taxes should be at a 100 percent rate. Stand in line for your gruel.
Arbeit macht frei
August 30th, 2005 at 11:51 amWatching MSM TV, you would hardly know there are any impoverished people in America. The wealthy are more than well represented though.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:52 amI’m happy just knowing they’re happy. Every time a big Mercedes runs me down and splashes mud all over my raggedy clothes, a tear comes to my eye (totally unrelated to being cold and wet) and I say, “God Bless America!”
August 30th, 2005 at 11:53 amRepungican economics do NOT work.
How well off were you during Ray-gun’s and big dumbya’s administrations? Now measure that against how well you were doing during PRESIDENTS CLINTON’S administration.
If you TELL THE TRUTH, you will say Clinton.
If you TELL THE TRUTH, dumbya (according to is biography) was intent on invading Iraq BEFORE HE STOLE THE 2000 and 2004 elections.
I knew what would happen if dumbya became pRESIDENT so I started planning and saving. GOOD THING. Things are tightening up for me too, but not so much as if I hadn’t planned. Sad thing is, I didn’t have enough warning for Hurricane Georgie.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:10 pmOh, they are just following the KPMG lead. Screw the taxpayers and spoil the rich.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:27 pmI have worked for very wealthy people in the past and, IN GENERAL, their attitude is that their employees are living off of them, instead of seeing them as being integral parts of their success. This attitude is much like the neo-con attitude belched out every day on radio and TV towards the less well off, and stems from a subconscious desire to avert any feelings of guilt in treating others as well as they could be, or should be treated.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:30 pmYou know along the lines of the character Scrooge’s attitude in “A Christmas Carol”.
As the Kinks have said “it’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world” We need to all realize it is probably going to get worse before it gets better and Paris Hilton will get her tax break. It will be good for business on Rodeo Drive.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:32 pmClass warfare economics. Bring it on, people. We will blundgeon you with it in the next election.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:09 pmYou would think that Paris would have a pretty decent idea of how the poor live having done those dumbass reality shows of hers. It would be real nice if she were to speak up on the subject. That’s just dreaming of course.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:15 pmGet bent NED
August 30th, 2005 at 1:16 pmClass warfare economics. Bring it on, people.
Spoken like a true chickenhawk.
We will blundgeon you with it in the next election.
Stop trying to pretend the elections haven’t been fixed, Neddy. You aren’t fooling anybody except perhaps yourself.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:25 pmThe rich DESERVE to get the tax cuts! If Gawd wanted you to have money, you’d have been born rich! Now work like the little tools you are, and leave the rich alone! They’re getting SO picked on! You scumsucking liberals are too mean! Just think, if you had money people would hate YOU too! You’re better off poor!
August 30th, 2005 at 1:26 pmJust a quick factcheck: the United States is not the richest country in the world: 1. British Virgin Islands ($110k per capita), 2. Luxembourg ($58k per capita), 3. Norway ($39.8k per capita) and 4. The United States ($39.7 per capita)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp_cap#
But the point is still there I suppose…
August 30th, 2005 at 1:33 pm“Class warfare economics. Bring it on, people. We will blundgeon you with it in the next election.
Comment by The Northeast Dilemma — August 30, 2005 @ 1:09 pm ”
Another self-satisfied member of the Lucky Sperm Club heard from.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:34 pmGary – fine. Then, you have nothing to look forward to. Under your scenario, the GOP will keep fixing elections, packing the Courts with hard right judges and invading countries on false pretenses. You should just move to France where you belong.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:34 pm2.29% of Americans came out of poverty during the Clinton years. 4.33% went right back in during the Man-monkey years.
And that’s not including the latest Census info.
http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/print.cfm?contentid=252964
August 30th, 2005 at 1:37 pmNeD is really getting crazy lately. What could be the cause of his unrest?
August 30th, 2005 at 1:38 pmThe problem is, NeD, you care only about the GOP winning and the milk-of-human-kindness liberals can all die off. WE care about all Americans including your kind. Not you specifically, but your kind.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:40 pm“ZEDs’ dead baby, ZEDs’ dead”
Got your GOP gag ball inserted in your mouth ZED? You are going down ZED, suck and swallow now like a good bitch.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:41 pm#22 – Clinton inherited a recovering economy and sound national security. Bush inherited a recession and a weakened national security.
That point hit home when 51% of the nation voted to re-elect this President. Something Clinton never achieved.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:52 pm#23 – what is crazy about my argument in #26. It’s true – even the liberal MSM cannot deny those claims. I am sane. You people are not.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:53 pmMore on #26 – Recession in 1990’s was officially over in March 1991. Unemployment peaked in summer 1992, by year end the worst was over.
Q3 2000 produced negative GDP for the first time in nearly ten years. The economy did not officially enter a recession until November. It was over the following November 2001. Unemployment peaked in July 1993 and the worst is over.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:55 pmClinton rode Bush I coattails.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:56 pmI thought the recession started AFTER Bush took power. I mean Canada’s economy is booming… Hmmmm
August 30th, 2005 at 1:57 pm#26 Clinton inherited a real recession (not the little dot-com correction Bush got). We pulled out of recession a year or so into Clinton’s first term.
The first WTC bombing was less than a month into Clinton’s first term. And yet, strangely enough, we weren’t all jumping up and down to blame GHW Bush, were we?
Have you no shame, at long last?
August 30th, 2005 at 1:57 pmGOP is going down in the next two cycles. The skel trolls shrill cries and part of the “culture of worry” on the right. Who love’s the daddy, well the GOP core of fantasy loves daddy, but the majority does not. GOP is going to be “drowned in the bathtub”.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:03 pm#12 Jeff has it about right!
August 30th, 2005 at 2:04 pm#30 – the recession officially started in Nov. 2000. Because of 9/11, it took longer for unemployment to bottom out, but it did in July 2003. It peaked at 6.3% whereas the 1990 recession peaked at nearly 8%. Bush’s tax cuts and pro-trade policies helped the economy grow faster in 2003 which is creating jobs today.
As for the left’s use of Herbert Hoover – Hoover was anti-trade, pro-tax, just like John Kerry was. Amazing how the left and the MSM get away with lying about the economy.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:05 pm#32 – keep dreaming. Besides, won’t the GOP just steal to stay in power. I am for staying in power til you pull the trigger on yourself. lol!
August 30th, 2005 at 2:06 pmNED – you are laughable.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:08 pmClinton inherited a deficit! Bush inherited a surplus!
Society did well under Clinton and ended up with a surplus!!! Bush ate the surplus, and society is getting worse by the month.
You LOVE to blame Clinton for everything, because there is no logical defense of the moron-in-chief.
#5 Do you have any more information on William Rodriquez? I heard that his apartment was broken into when he was gone over the weekend. I also heard his life was threat by the government.
None of the rich Republican should get a tax break. There is too many loophole for them. You can tell that they are only for the corporation that fund the Republican campaign.
Next year look out you Republican the Dem are going to win and take over the house or senate.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:11 pmNED has succeeded in baiting everyone to debate the merits (or demerits) of Clinton vs. Bush instead of focusing on the topic, which is the rise in poverty in America!!
August 30th, 2005 at 2:12 pmMust we go back to the days before the programs of the 60’s when the majority of populations in many states were in poverty and their children were undernourished and undereducated.
The comfortable NEDs of the world have only contempt for those whose fortunes have not been as good as his.
Ummmm… NED, you just cited unemployment figures that show Clinton inherited a worse economy than Bush. In fact, if not for 9/11 (Bush’s worst vacation ever) there was hardly a recession to speak of. That’s saying something considering the irrational exhuberance of the 1990s. We had a stock rise akin to 1928 without the subsequent depression. Even with 9/11 it was one of the mildest recessions on record. Contrast with GHWB, who enjoyed the fruits of victory in the Cold War and a stunning military victory over Iraq, and the economy still tanked. Neil Bush and his S&L pals had something to do with that.
If you want to make the argument that you prefer the 1990 recession, go right ahead. There’s plenty of people complaining about lack of good paying jobs today. Go tell them they’re a bunch of idiots.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:16 pmI love watching the Fox money report shows, especially “Cashin’ In” — a bunch of millionaires talking about how great the economy is, and how horrible these people are who keep complaining. Poor people are such downers!
August 30th, 2005 at 2:18 pmMary, yes, his life was threatened recently, and his apartment was broken into. thats all the info i got too.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:51 pmDoes that mean Bush’s tax cuts didn’t work?
August 30th, 2005 at 3:21 pmNever mind about that. Better keep focused on those homo’s who want to marry your son, burn the flag, and take God out of our government—and that traitor Cindy Sheehan.
August 30th, 2005 at 3:25 pmThe only traitor is Bushie and his cronies friends for lying to the american people putting us in the war that was not just. Bushie will be impeached before 2008. Sooner I hope!!!
Bush and the Republican party are behind 9/11. William Rodriquez was at the WTC on 9/11 and his story needs to be told. The media will not let his story be told because Republican control the media.
August 30th, 2005 at 3:47 pmSomeone ask Bush soonest if the Census Bureau will still be allowed to report publicly about such statistics next year. It is easier to stop the public disclosure than it is to address or fix the problem. This seems to be the model for sweeping such problems under the carpet.
August 30th, 2005 at 5:03 pmNED is like Baghdad Bob.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:12 pmI noticed something odd about NED’s blogger profile. His favorite book is Treason, by Ann Coulter, but right after that he cites: Any right wing propaganda. He actually calls it propaganda, which is what most of it is. If his apartment was broken into, he’s not that rich, he’s a renter. I think he’s just a garden variety racist.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:19 pmHave some more fun with those retards.
http://theyhateamerica.blogspot.com/
http://nerepublican.blogspot.com/
August 30th, 2005 at 6:25 pmWhen I die, I’m leaving 100% all my estate to third world charities, so there will be no estate tax on it, and so the pitiful poor in America will still rot, like they deserve to, the lazy bums.
//sarcasm, like this tag will make a difference
By the way, the Hilton Estate’s (along with all ‘rich people’ and their estates) effective tax rate, considering inflation, is negative, regardless of how the government supposedly taxes it, or for how much. However, anyone who thinks higher taxes helps poor people can’t be counted on to understand relatively simple economic statements like this.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:40 pmI almost forgot this headline:
WORLD TO END TOMORROW: Homeless, minorities, and women to be impacted the most.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:54 pmAmazing how the left and the MSM get away with lying about the economy.
Comment by The Northeast Dilemma
See, if you take him in small bits he ALMOST SOUNDS CORRECT.
I try to educate nor east dimentia, but alas, he is not teachable. A product of no billionaire left behind. You can only beat the farts out of a dead horse for so long. I can’t fix stupid, so nor east dimentia is on his own.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:21 pm#38, I suspect he hasn’t been all that fortunate. I am sure he is an under educated manager at McDonalds.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:24 pmDown On The Farm With A Horse Named Trek, Jerry Politex
August 31st, 2005 at 2:10 amPrior to buying his farm near Waco around the time he decided to run for president, Bush’s idea of a summer vacation was to hang out at his house in a gated club of summer homes deep in the piney woods of East Texas. To give you an idea of the culture of the area, the gated club next door called itself the KKK. Let’s just say the racist past in Texas still was alive and well in certain enclaves in the state. This was hardly the place for a would-be president of all the citizens to live.
So his smoke and mirrors folks decided to turn Bush into a cowboy presidential candidate in the spirit of Teddy Rooselvelt, LBJ, and Reagan. The probem was these men could ride a horse, and Bush can only ride a bike. This became obvious when the candidate visited President Fox on his spread in Mexico, and turned down a ride on horseback offered by the Mexican rancher president. Bush wearing a belt buckle the size of a hub cap didn’t make him a rancher, either.
So Bush created a fantasy world for the voters. He calls his 1,583 acre farm a ranch, but he only has 4 or 5 head of cattle on it. “‘There are some guys that are all hat and no cattle. The president’s not that way; he’s hat and five cattle, joked Austin lawyer and former U.S. Rep. Kent R. Hance, who as a Democrat beat Bush in a 1978 congressional race by portraying him as an Ivy League interloper,” reports Warren Veith in the LA Times. Veith continues: “Do four or five cows, plus two visiting Scottish terriers, constitute a true ranch? ‘Well, I guess it’s just up to the people,’ said 74-year-old Ray Neuman, who runs 55 Hereford cattle on the property next to Bush’s. ‘We have trouble with just calling anything a ranch around here.”
We can sympathize, Mr. Neuman. Many have trouble with just calling anyone a president. –Politex, August 31, 2005
If your computer can play little web-movies, please go to http://ecolanguage.net/ and scroll down to “The Bush Tax Cuts.” This is a flow-chart animation showing the economic effects of this Administration’s policies.
August 31st, 2005 at 10:03 amWe need better words to describe America’s economic condition. I propose
September 11th, 2005 at 1:44 amBushflation: An economic condition characterized by rising cost of basic necessities such as, food, fuel, healthcare and housing in the face of a relative low core inflation rate. This condition is accompanited by stagnant to falling wages in the face of overall economic growth and employment growth. To a classical economist, everything looks fine, GDP is growing and inflation is low, but normal, working people barely hand on while the things they need to survive get more expensive.
I we can get terms like this into the American political lexicon, we will have better tools to fight for equality. We won’t have to explain at every turn what the problem is. Even better, bush gets permanently associated with his failed economic policies.
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