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The tax return listed as dependents:
42 million people on food stamps
3 million drug addicts
12 million illegal aliens
535 fools in Congress
2 in the White House

Somehow I am legally REQUIRED to support those people and probably many others.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...

Honest Abe says

Somehow I am legally REQUIRED to support those people and probably many others.

Dood, that's nothing at all compared to being required to support the rich!

The rich take WAY money from you and are much less socially useful than illegal aliens. Those aliens are cutting our lawns. The rich just take from you without working.

How does your money go to support the rich? Let me count the ways:

1. They evade taxes with their 15% rate (or less!) and leave the tax burden on you.
2. When they make bad investments (banks!), they make you pay for it with bailouts.
3. They create regulations specifically to keep small businesses from competing with larger businesses, especially licensing regulations. But at the same time they oppose regulations that limit their ability to monopolize markets.
4. They prevent the creation of a national health insurance option so that you have to pay extortionistic premiums.
5. They charge you rent simply to live on land in America, land they did not create.
6. They prevent the importation of cheap drugs from Canada, even when those drugs were originally made in America!
7. They control the supply of oil (which they did not create) and eliminate all public transit options so you must pay them to work, shop, etc.
8. They arrange subsidies for debt (mortgage, student loan) to have additional opportunities to trap people in debt and charge interest.
9. They eliminate competition in health care, cellular service, and others so that they can charge much more than in other countries.

10. They lower interest rates to punish you for saving, and to prop up the value of their own assets.
11. They confiscate part of every dollar that you don't spend right away by relentlessly expanding the money supply faster than the economy.

12. They outsource your job to China, lowering your salary while increasing their profits.

Basically, everything you pay, every day, goes to support your ultra-rich masters, who live from your work and laugh themselves silly at how you defend them.

So why do you look down at the pennies you spend on the poor, but never look up at the dollars the rich are taking from you without working?

http://www.999ideas.com/redistribution-of-wealth.html

Your list is really not about the "rich", but rather "bankers", whether Greenspan, Bernake, Rubin, Weill or others of their ilk.
Rich who are self-made have nothing to do with those points above.
The rich are not preventing oil and gas production in the USA, that is our government.
There is oil and gas off Santa Cruz/San Mateo, off Florida, in Alaska north slope. We can't get it.
You all need to come down here and see how almost all of the residents here are getting something from uncle sam.
The newest trick is if you have unemployment run out, claim a disability and get a lifetime annuity payment from social security.
One gal I know got it after being a druggie and playgirl of the gangsters. After being caught and thrown in jail she later found out she is "bi polar". This of course makes the disability requirement! She now is living for life on free money having never worked a day in her life, unless you count nude modeling in Barely Legal once.
Another gal I know is older and also claimed to be "depressed" but really she is just a pain in the ass and a bigmouth who gets fired a lot. She got the disability.
Her older brother is running out of unemployment so he is going to say his back hurts too much. I guess he hurt it sitting in the office chair before he was laid off?
My friend has a tenant whose father just died and left her a chunk of change. She is just now getting sec. 8 housing to pay her rent while she goes back to UC to get an english lit. degree.
All the illegals I know use a TIN to file their taxes and claim the earned income credit, thereby paying zero in income taxes. Of course, the ones who can't claim this credit use foreign relatives as convenient dependents.
ETC.
The question is whether productive activity and risking your capital should be rewarded or the fruits thereof confiscated by a government to give away to the takers.

clambo says

One gal I know got it after being a druggie and playgirl of the gangsters. After being caught and thrown in jail she later found out she is "bi polar". This of course makes the disability requirement! She now is living for life on free money having never worked a day in her life, unless you count nude modeling in Barely Legal once.

That's pure bullshit. You can't get ssdi unless you worked at a job and paid into ss. Usually the requirement is 5 years out of the last 10, but there are some very hard to qualify for exceptions. Look on SSA website.

clambo says

All the illegals I know use a TIN to file their taxes and claim the earned income credit, thereby paying zero in income taxes. Of course, the ones who can't claim this credit use foreign relatives as convenient dependents.

Also pure bullshit. You can't claim eitc without a valid ss#. The only exception to that is if you get a valid ss# after working illegally you may file amended tax returns for the years you worked illegally to claim eitc for those years. This ruling dates to June 2000 so it has been around for a while.

Here is the IRS page about tin's.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=96696,00.html
go down about half way and read the note that says you cannot file for eitc with a tin number.
The page also explains how those foreign relatives have to have a valid ss# or itin to be claimed as dependents.

You sure know a lot of interesting people allegedly doing impossible things.

I collect food stamps to buy lobster and prime cuts of steak,
I use all drugs with wild abandon,
given my advanced age my legal status is highly questionable,
and when I find myself in DC and needing to take a dump (frequent urge when buying politicians) I stride into the White House and take a shit.

I pay no taxes. I'm filthy fucking rich.

Taxes are for underclass suckers.

Patrick, most of your 12 excellent points are authorized, endorsed and approved by Congress.

I think you and the 99%'rs should focus more attention towards the root of the problem...government policies which allow these things to happen.

Why is there no outburst from liberals when an athlete signs a $100,000,000.00 (One Hundered Million $$$) contract??? (Liberal double standard)

And so what if they make a ton of money. If they make more does that mean everyone else earns less??? (Liberal envy and faulty logic)

Why the hatred of success???

Why destroy opportunity for all, in the search for equality and utopia???

People aren't equal. Some are taller, some smarter, some stronger, some are more beautiful. The same thing occurs in the animal world. Why not accept reality??? Does logic and common sense act like kryptonite in the presence of liberals?

The only thing I hate more than success? White people who are successful.

Kevin says

The only thing I hate more than success? White people who are successful.

Then you must love that loser Daniel Carver?

Kevin, you hate white people who are successful? Is that what you said? That makes you one big, fat racist, doesn't it?

That's our political system. Middle class pays disproportionate amount of taxes.