GMontag's Journal: More things I have learned

More things I have learned. Look up the last one. One day I might make links to the inspiration to these trite passages. Sorry, I wrote this at work and I have not re-edited, like it or not.

I am reminded again that Al Gore is the smartest man in America, just because he is, apparently.

I am also reminded that Al Gore was cheated out of an election by George W. Bush.

I like to remind my Leftist friends that the smartest man in America counted the votes that made George W. Bush President the first time.

Only an intellectual can believe that a firm paying $100,000 in taxes while making a $36,000 profit needs to be taxed more. Add some more zeroes and you can convince people who think that they are Conservatives that the intellectuals are correct.

Intellectuals identify themselves by declaring as an intellectual any person supporting some crackpot idea that they believe.

I hear that Jimmy Carter is supposed to be a great person to consult on dealing with Iran.

Learning from one's mistakes does not have an infinite upper limit.

Environmentalists keep telling me to conserve oil but they never tell me what they want to use it for if I don't use the oil. I suspect a hidden agenda.

Somehow, being the only person on the bus to and from work, a 3 mile trip, is more "environmentally friendly" than driving my hydrogen powered Jeep on the same trip.

When one describes fuel efficiency as turning gasoline into horsepower as quickly as possible tree huggers have seizures.

Every issue on the Left is defined by imposing arbitrary style rules on others. When Conservatives join in this method, they have become Leftists and but have usually chosen a different topic.

Communism is the opiate of dumbasses.

The real difference between National Socialists and International Socialists is the acceptance of borders. Well, there is that existence of corporations issue too.

"I forgot my mute button at the gun store" and "I got my mute button at the gun store" will make great bumper stickers that someone else will make a lot of money from.

If Bush was like Lincoln, Murtha would be in jail.

I may have missed my calling as an SAT question writer.

Hippie chicks will believe anything on a t-shirt or bumper sticker.

The meanest people at a demonstration are the ones who say they want to stop the hate.

Elitists are so smart that they have no idea who the "peers" are supposed to be in a jury of their peers. I suspect this comes from their secret intellectual dictionary that changes any definition to suit their argument.

In the super secret intellectual dictionary, the word illegal applies only to the financial activities of the people who they disagree with. Thus, it can never apply to a person who is crossing a border. Check above for their stance on borders.

William F. Buckley, Jr. notices almost everything before the rest of us do.

Dr. Thomas Sowell notices everything else before the rest of us do, along with reminding us that whatever we are experiencing is nothing new.

Dr. Walter Williams explains everything written by Buckley and Sowell in a manner that even a Colonel can understand, if they ever bother to read him.

I learned the three things immediately above a long time ago but just wanted to say them without making another journal entry.

Certain artists define free speech as saying anything that will kill their record sales for their target market. The same artists also believe that any decline in sales is a result of a conspiracy against them.

Glass ceilings are imagined. Codified restrictions create real ceilings.

Writers in colleges describe glass ceilings in endless papers that are printed by their peers and financed by everybody else. The Congress creates real restrictions that are printed in the federal register, enforced at gunpoint and financed by everybody else.

Blaming any president for the size of the federal budget since 1974 is either ignorant, disingenuous or both.

Taking a certification class is easy. Scheduling the test series is difficult.

I both like and dislike the time when CDFM appears my business cards, as hardly anybody knows what it is but they keep trying to tell us how we should do things, no matter what public law that doing it their way would violate.

If Admiral Poindexter had a CDFM in his shop, then Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North could have avoided a lot of attorney's fees.

The values of a Leftist and the wants of a four-year-old are indistinguishable from each other.

Leftists and Liberals can be distinguished from each other by their stances on free speech. Conservatives and Liberals can not be distinguished on that basis.

Conservatives and Liberals can be distinguished by who they expect to pay for their speech to be heard.

Common reporters come up with silly names for rising property values, like a bubble or inflation. They never applied these terms to rising stock prices of internet companies that had almost no value, assets or tangible products until after those companies collapsed.

Price appreciation is almost never used in a newspaper. Inflation is almost always used as an improper replacement.

Edit:
I had no idea that the Communism comment would be supported so well in the comments you can read below.

Sorry for the dead s on my kb, my comments are victims of my failure to proof read.

Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Only an intellectual can believe that a firm paying $100,000 in taxes while making a $36,000 profit needs to be taxed more. Add some more zeroes and you can convince people who think that they are Conservatives that the intellectuals are correct.

Actually, I believe that profit is rather socially irresponsible to begin with- And thus a firm paying $100,000 in taxes and making $36,000 profit deserves to write off 100% of their payroll expenses- and needs to hire four more people. Too bad we got a tax break

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Payroll is paid pre-tax

Except for FICA, matching federal taxes, matching State income taxes and withholding. If you really want to give the American people a tax break, end those taxes, not capital gains which only a small percentage ever pay anyway.

Basically what I'm saying is that I'd like to see profit used for more payroll, not for sending out as dividends.

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

All of the TAXES that you mention are paid before any income tax is paid, i.e., AFTER all of those items are subtracted then the income taxe are calculated.

How can they then know how much matching Federal & State income taxes to pay, if they haven't calculated the income tax yet?

I think you're failing to understand- I want payroll to be the cheapest thing to invest in. That would mean you'd have to ELIMINATE payroll taxes of all forms- calculated before or after doesn't matter.

Re:Fewer taxes

[bofkentucky]

Except anyone with a 401(k), 403(b), IRA (Roth or Traditional), 529 college savings plan or a pension plan with a stock component does benefit from capital gains tax elimination/reduction. Only the idiots who aren't saving for their own retirement or their kid's education should be crying about cap gains reduction.

Re:Fewer taxes

[SiliconJesus]

Plus, thus inherently gives people an incentive to save money instead of buying that new car.

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

You mean it inherantly encourages people to give money away to the financial services con artists instead of actually getting an asset for their hard earned money, right?

Re:Fewer taxes

[SiliconJesus]

Don't confuse the two. Giving money to financial institutions is one way to save money, others include making sound decisions in things like houses, or collectibles (as long as the market can sustain them).

Instant gratification is not the only way to live.

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Don't confuse the two. Giving money to financial institutions is one way to save money

After the last 5 years, I have a hard time believing that anymore. I watched a $2500 401k turn into nothing in 6 months. I watched a $40,000 portfolio turn into $10,000 in two years. Giving money to the stock market is not saving, it's not wise, and it's an industry the United States would be better off if it had never existed.

others include making sound decisions in things like houses, or collectibles (as long as t

Re:Fewer taxes

[SiliconJesus]

I've been burned with the best of them when it comes to the market, but I've also managed to salvage some of it by having money spread thin in many different markets. I didn't rely entirely on dot com and now, six years later, my portfolio is about where it was in 2000, when the markets took a nosedive.

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Good for you- but the fact is markets are not predictable, and to throw your money into anything that is not predictable is a very foolish action to take. You can hedge your bets all you want- but if say, oil stops flowing because of nuclear war in the middle east, you'd better be able to first provide for you and your family, and that means liquidity, not investments that may or may not be there in the future. I no longer trust ANYTHING anybody tells me about the market being there- because it can't be c

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Except anyone with a 401(k), 403(b), IRA (Roth or Traditional), 529 college savings plan or a pension plan with a stock component does benefit from capital gains tax elimination/reduction.

The only people who win with any of those are the stock brokers- they're all scams designed to give more buisness to an industry that doesn't actually DO anything other than live high on the hog off of other people's money. They're as big of a con game as charging usury.

Only the idiots who aren't saving for their own

Re:Fewer taxes

[bofkentucky]

Knock yourself out, but even under pure wonderful marxism, there is ursury. Capital redistribution for gain has been present from the first time man needed to store grain more than a year on his own farm, get used to it.

Re:Fewer taxes

[eglamkowski]

Payroll is a deductible expense, and thus no taxes are paid by the business on compensation paid to workers.

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Does that include the FICA match, the Federal income tax withholding match, and the state tax withholding match? No taxes, when it seems to me payrolls have tons of taxes? My point is that if you really want to cut taxes for a majority of Americans- cut taxes on EARNED income, not UNEARNED income....

Re:Fewer taxes

[TopShelf]

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along? Payroll already is a completely deductible expense...

Re:Fewer taxes

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along? Payroll already is a completely deductible expense...

Then why are so many taxes taken out of it? If it was completely deductible, it would be tax free- as tax free as dividend income.

new word!

[eglamkowski]

Haven't you heard? They're no longer leftists, they're leftoids!

I wish I could remember from which columnist I first heard that, but I don't.
It was only a few days ago, though.