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01-07-2014 | 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Rock

Obamacare wasn't even supposed to kick in until this year (until Obama ignores the Constitution yet again to rewrite the law to hide the government's complete inability to even sign people up for health care, nevermind administer health care), so I didn't save any lives last year. But I did pay for their cellphones, lottery tickets, cigarettes, cable bill and beer, so I am probably actually responsible for killing a few people last year. Go ahead and ask me if that makes me upset....

Don't forget you also contributed to the largess of American business in the form of corporate welfare. The federal government continues to subsidize some of the biggest companies in America. Boeing, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Dow Chemical, General Electric, and others have received millions in taxpayer-funded benefits through programs like the Advanced Technology Program and the Export-Import Bank etc,

One of the single biggest is the $25 billion in federal handouts to the farm industry. Most of it goes to large agribusinesses.

Billions to the energy industry as well, Exxon did particularly well with federal subsidies, in 2009 it paid no federal tax, and its usual "effective" rate is in the mid-teens on around $7.5B in income!!

So let's all pat ourselves on the back that were helping those under-deserving citizens smoke a choke, while at the same time also sending Biffy & Muff to the country club in the Bentley! Our tax $$ at work!

The monkeys in the middle (28-39%ers) will get nothing & like it!