Saturday, October 26, 2013

The GOP wants to change the dialogue about 'real' legislation.

The GOP wants to change the legislation process into "Easy to Read." Rather than a novel the GOP wants an abstract describing the purpose and conclusion of legislating.

Ever since "W" introduced the three page treaty, life is suppose to be easy. Look, if a party doesn't believe in education of their own constituents, that same party has to dummy down legislation so their constituents can actually relate to what they vote for.

The American Jobs Act was HACKED. It was hacked apart to decide what the GOP could live with and what they can't. It was hacked apart and destroyed the bipartisan emphasis President Obama wrote into the legislation. The GOP is screaming about bipartisanship and the President wants to be inclusive. Inclusiveness has been his focus since he first announced his candidacy for President. So, the GOP takes the inclusive bipartisan legislation the President and US Senate writes and hacks it into pieces to pass their partisan interests while discarding the bipartisan spirit of the law and trounces inclusiveness.

When the GOP complains The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act should be written by legislating smaller bills, it is nothing politics and their agenda of hate and exclusivity. When the GOP hacks apart the bills and budgets that are inclusive and bipartisan it is their agenda to exclude citizens they have no use for. Oh, the disabled, who needs them? The elderly, who needs them? The poor, who needs them? The uninsured, who needs them? But, the multi-trillion military is more than important even though widows can do without payments to maintain their families and homes when their spouses are killed. 

The exclusivity of the GOP and their demand for 3 page bills is out of the questions. It is discriminatory and reinforces the Exclusively Few Wealth Class.

Published time: October 26, 2013 01:51

Verizon and News Corp. (click here) are among the dozens of companies listed on the Standard & Poor’s 500 that paid a zero percent tax rate in the last year. The so-called effective tax rate is how investors explain the tax a company pays compared to its profit.

While it is not illegal in any way for major companies to pay a zero percent tax rate - or in some cases even less - Friday’s analysis by USA Today does highlight some of the creative methods those corporations use to avoid dipping into their profit margins, and how that may ultimately impact national policy on corporate taxation.

The top federal income tax rate currently sits at 35 percent, a number that has been the source of public frustration for many company executives. Yet Seagate (a data storage manufacturer with a market value of $15.9 billion), Public Storage (the largest self-storage firm in the world with a $29.5 billion market value), and others pay a lower tax rate than most individual middle-class American families.... 

I really don't want to hear how corporations aren't interested in the USA because of the tax rate. I really don't.