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Gates: Tax consumption to fix unemployment caused by technology [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller ^ | March 17, 2014 | Neil Munro

Posted on 03/18/2014 8:28:21 AM PDT by upbeat5

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To: upbeat5
No Bill actually you should be taxed more... ask your clown cohort Warren Buffoon... You guys buy the law and then spout self serving vomit that only a LIBTARD could believe. tell us again how you “invented” the os that you made your $$$.... or did it belong to .... oh well at this point what difference does it make... stick to your phoney trusts and “charities” and while your at it go fuck yourself.
21 posted on 03/18/2014 9:08:37 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Grams A

Can i come work for you?

:)


22 posted on 03/18/2014 9:10:42 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Mr. K

“I would do anythign for 3 day weekends each week.”

How about 4 day weekends every week? I offered that to my employees. The catch was working 12 hrs on Fri Sat and Sun.


23 posted on 03/18/2014 9:13:05 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: upbeat5
Gates is playing the role of a complicit stooge.

He's supporting and agenda in search of a villain to blame.

This entire big government crowd needs to get their “population control via smothering gov’t regulations” agenda, the hell out of the way, and let the private sector provide the technical and market solutions to our energy and employment problems.

24 posted on 03/18/2014 9:19:21 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: upbeat5

Consumption taxes places the tax burden disproportionately on the lower incomes, because those who earn less money uses a greater percentage of their income for consumption purposes.


25 posted on 03/18/2014 9:20:17 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: anonsquared

And if you ever used Windows ME you get an additional hardship bonus of $5K


26 posted on 03/18/2014 9:26:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Jonty30

The Fair Tax took that into account by exempting the first X dollars spent.


27 posted on 03/18/2014 9:27:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Mr. K

Made me smile which I really needed today.

A lot of offices can operate this way or do some version other than 9-5 M-F, if they only would. But you do have to have the right kind of people working with you and the boss cannot be a control freak. Some people don’t do well with independent functioning. No office situation is roses all the time - one of my employees has always been unhappy because we aren’t shut down for MLK’s birthday so this year I gave her the option of taking the day off without pay which she opted not to do. I know a couple of them have looked elsewhere at employment possibilities but that was short lived after they looked at the inflexibility of their potential new employer.


28 posted on 03/18/2014 9:28:44 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Valpal1

So low skilled workers will be unemployed, but we got to embrace illegals who are only here, let us face it, to mow our lawns...

Is this guy stupid?


29 posted on 03/18/2014 10:26:47 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Jonty30
Consumption taxes places the tax burden disproportionately on the lower incomes, because those who earn less money uses a greater percentage of their income for consumption purposes.

You say that like it's a bad thing. According to another FR article I just read, we have the most progressive tax system in the world. This would help that. I think welfare recipients should pay taxes, like everyone else.

30 posted on 03/18/2014 10:27:11 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: lavaroise

Bill never should have quit his day job.


31 posted on 03/18/2014 10:27:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sportutegrl

I didn’t say anybody shouldn’t pay taxes. Did you read those actual words from me?

I just consider it of some importance that those who are poorer not be taxed to the point where they cannot provide for themselves.


32 posted on 03/18/2014 11:08:04 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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First you have to tax them before you get to the point where they cannot provide for themselves. Over half the people in this country pay nothing at all.


33 posted on 03/18/2014 11:20:17 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: upbeat5

How about we just reduce taxes on everyone?


34 posted on 03/18/2014 11:27:16 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: upbeat5

Hey Bill, we need a consumption tax on EVERYBODY at the SAME rate.

Abolish the IRS, eliminate the tax code, eliminate the income tax.

Sit back, watch the economy roar.


35 posted on 03/18/2014 11:43:20 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Mr. K
And if you ever used Windows ME you get an additional hardship bonus of $5K

Or Vista ...

36 posted on 03/18/2014 11:59:26 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: upbeat5

It’s a good thing they don’t tax stupid.

Maybe he would feel better about Hillary’s WEALTH tax.


37 posted on 03/18/2014 3:22:31 PM PDT by anoldafvet (If you think the government is capable of taking care of you, just look at the indian tribes)
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