Fuck its silent in here.......

[Wheezer]

A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King's dream? Or something else?
...
What then is Obama's dream? We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. According to Obama, his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. Obama isn't writing about his father's dreams; he is writing about the dreams he received from his father.

What's a public policy debate without peculiar epistemological speculation? There's every reason to suspect that D'Souza is actually psychically grounded as a Hindu, as an direct implication of turning Roman Catholicism inside-out. Hell, he may be an immediate intellectual descendant of Kwabena Damuah. How much ghee can a lingam cruise missle carry?

[R-V]

Has this portion of the healthcare bill been discussed?

While it may seem like an insignificant part of the bill or tax code in general, this is quite the overhaul. Now, the estimates say this will increase tax revenues around $345 billion due to unreported incomes. That's good. I may advocate lower taxes, but I'm not a fan of tax cheats (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE CREEKOLDFUCK). So, this will be good in that respect. However, this is going to be an utter nightmare for small businesses. The way it used to work is that you only issued a 1099 to any non-corporation for services rendered. Now, it's anyone you pay over $600 to over the course of the year, regardless of what was purchased, goods or services. So, this is going to mean that small businesses are going to have to collect FEINs and all appropriate tax information (mainly addresses, because if you purchase something from Best Buy, you're sending the 1099 to the corporate office in Minnesota, not the store in Chicago). Once all this is done, it will go smoothly, but the transition is going to blow ass. I'm absolutely dreading 2012 and January 2013 as one of the largest tasks of my job is to prepare the 1099s for my clients. FML. Thanks Obamadong. Bleh

Question...

If you're buying more than $600 from someone or some entity, don't you already have their address so you could, you know, pay them?  I mean, just how much of an effect can this possibly have, especially if you're a small business and you're writing off those expenses anyway?

Well, kind of. But often you don't actually mail the check to the company's actual address. For instance, if you buy something from Apple you may send it to a local store or a certain billing address. That's not likely the address the IRS has for them, which needs to be correct for 1099 reporting, or you'll get a nice notice from them. Enough of those and your company will be subject to some hefty fines

As far as writing off the expenses, this isn't really something that's going to affect the expense portion of small businesses. You and I both know small businesses are taking all the expenses they can. The IRS is just trying to make sure small businesses that are incorporated (since individuals and partnerships are subject to 1099s already, along with law firms) are reporting all their income. My point is that this is a pretty big overhaul in the way things are done tax-wise and it just doesn't seem like it's been noticed. There is going to be an inordinate amount of increased paperwork. I estimate that for my normal clients (non-realty holding companies), I issue around 15-20 1099s per client each year. That number is sure to go up to at least 50-60. Now, when you factor in how many companies there are out there issuing 1099s, it's going to be a shitload of paperwork.

I don't want you to think I think this is going to ruin small businesses (although there will be some who may flop or struggle because they were cheating taxes anyway). It is just going to have a decent impact on them in regards to the additional paperwork they have to deal with. Seems to me that it will be quite the pain in the ass and maybe it should have gotten more attention. If businesses were smart, they'd start working on collecting all the information now, since trying to collect it in December 2012 and January 2013 will be sure to suck. Unfortunately, there are a lot of dumbass and procrastinating business owners out there.

The anti-colonialist is trying to help you out, tubby.

The Obama administration Monday urged senators to scale back a tax reporting requirement in the health care law.

The law requires businesses to track all cumulative purchases from vendors that total $600 or more in one year. The provision was designed to raise revenue for the health care law but has been universally panned by the business community, which anticipates a mountain of new paperwork to comply.

The amendment, from Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), would scale back the reporting requirements to cumulative purchases of more than $5,000 per year and exclude companies with fewer than 25 employees. So far, no Republicans have voiced support for the amendment.

[morpheus]

Allow me to start by saying D'Souza is a moron.  With that, however, I saw something in one of Tank's posts that made me laugh out loudly.

...part of the broad consensus in America's centre or centre-left: greenhouse-gas emissions reductions, universal health insurance, financial-reform legislation, repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and so forth...

The author uses this word "centre."  It must be different from "center" somehow because those views sure don't sound like the center.  At least not in the United States... but maybe it is the center in places that use the word "centre."  For example, let's take "universal health insurance."  http://www.gallup.com/poll/123332/Many-U.S.-See-Health-Insurance-Personal-Responsibility.aspx

An important principle behind the current push for healthcare reform is that healthcare is a basic right that the government ought to guarantee for all Americans. Not only are the details of achieving universal coverage proving to be highly controversial, but it is unclear how strongly Americans support the premise.

Americans tend to agree with the government's taking responsibility for guaranteeing healthcare coverage when asked in "yes or no" terms. However, they are more libertarian on the issue when asked whether the government or individual citizens should be primarily responsible for ensuring that coverage.

That doesn't sound like the "center."  The center sounds rather undecided.  While I think that folks who call Obama a socialist are exaggerating, I think the term "boilerplate liberal" is probably about right.  He's in the center of the left, not the center of the whole spectrum.

[Slaky]

Allow me to start by saying D'Souza is a moron.  With that, however, I saw something in one of Tank's posts that made me laugh out loudly.

...part of the broad consensus in America's centre or centre-left: greenhouse-gas emissions reductions, universal health insurance, financial-reform legislation, repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and so forth...

The author uses this word "centre."  It must be different from "center" somehow because those views sure don't sound like the center.  At least not in the United States... but maybe it is the center in places that use the word "centre."  For example, let's take "universal health insurance."  http://www.gallup.com/poll/123332/Many-U.S.-See-Health-Insurance-Personal-Responsibility.aspx

An important principle behind the current push for healthcare reform is that healthcare is a basic right that the government ought to guarantee for all Americans. Not only are the details of achieving universal coverage proving to be highly controversial, but it is unclear how strongly Americans support the premise.

Americans tend to agree with the government's taking responsibility for guaranteeing healthcare coverage when asked in "yes or no" terms. However, they are more libertarian on the issue when asked whether the government or individual citizens should be primarily responsible for ensuring that coverage.

That doesn't sound like the "center."  The center sounds rather undecided.  While I think that folks who call Obama a socialist are exaggerating, I think the term "boilerplate liberal" is probably about right.  He's in the center of the left, not the center of the whole spectrum.

I think Obama is too conservative to be a liberal. He's nowhere near as conservative as US conservatives are but he's a pretty crappy liberal if you ask me.

[Chuck to Chuck]

While I think that folks who call Obama a socialist are exaggerating

As far as you know.

Right?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Allow me to start by saying D'Souza is a moron.  With that, however, I saw something in one of Tank's posts that made me laugh out loudly.

...part of the broad consensus in America's centre or centre-left: greenhouse-gas emissions reductions, universal health insurance, financial-reform legislation, repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and so forth...

The author uses this word "centre."  It must be different from "center" somehow because those views sure don't sound like the center.

because most of his beliefs are part of the broad consensus in America's centre or centre-left

"Or."

The point being (nit picks aside) that Obama is pretty fucking solidly in the American mainstream on every issue D'Souza claims to have trouble understanding without appealing to this strained "Kenyan anti-colonialist" construct.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.salon.com/news/jan_brewer/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/02/jan_brewer_opening_statement

Jan Brewer debate performance. Brutal.

Can we get a moratorium on Arizona politics?

Sigh.

We can't stop until the headless bodies are found.

http://www.azcentral.com/video/601325652001

Between Jan Brewer and Ben Quayle, it's been a truly horrific election season, even for those of us who couldn't care less.

Don't forget JD Hayworth, or McCain going full teatard.

So then...that's a "no" on the moratorium?

Yes.

There will be a moratorium on Arizona politics when Arizona politics decides to cut it the fuck out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html

Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona's Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.

...

"Did I recruit candidates? Yes," said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. "Are they fake candidates? No way."

To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known.

"Are you fake, Benjamin?" he yelled out to Mr. Pearcy, who cried out "No," with an expletive attached.

"Are you fake, Thomas?" Mr. May shouted in the direction of Thomas Meadows, 27, a tarot card reader with less than a dollar to his name who is running for state treasurer. He similarly disagreed.

"Are you fake, Grandpa?" he said to Anthony Goshorn, 53, a candidate for the State Senate whose bushy white beard and paternal manner have earned him that nickname on the streets. "I'm real," he replied.

Gathered around was a motley crew of people who were down on their luck, including a one-armed pregnant woman named Roxie whom Mr. May befriended sometime back and who introduced him to the rest.

Well, if the moratorium isn't going to get passed, then we might as well go full retard and watch Sheriff Joe run for President.

At least you can remain thankful that you don't live in South Carolina...

http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/09/14/how-republicans-party/



I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

In Dixie Land whar I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land

Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land, I'll took my stand, To lib and die in Dixie.
Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie,
Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie.

[Slaky]

Have we covered this freak yet? Wow, I think I kind of like the tea party. They're like the political version of comic relief.

[Gilgamesh]

Have we covered this freak yet? Wow, I think I kind of like the tea party. They're like the political version of comic relief.

Leave it to the Teabaggers to throw away another winnable seat. This should put Chris Coons in the Senate.

I kind of like this nascent GOP civil war; it's entertaining.

[Quality Start Machine]

Who did Rick Lazio piss off? This is twce he's been hung out to dry by the NY state GOP.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Have we covered this freak yet? Wow, I think I kind of like the tea party. They're like the political version of comic relief.

Leave it to the Teabaggers to throw away another winnable seat. This should put Chris Coons in the Senate.

I kind of like this nascent GOP civil war; it's entertaining.

Intrepid Reader: Teabaggers
Hey!  Coons in the senate isn't the problem.  It's the White House.

[morpheus]

Who did Rick Lazio piss off? This is twce he's been hung out to dry by the NY state GOP.

I think he pissed off most of the greater NYC area when he mis-quoted Casey Stengel in his first debate with Hillary.

[Quality Start Machine]

Who did Rick Lazio piss off? This is twce he's been hung out to dry by the NY state GOP.

I think he pissed off most of the greater NYC area when he mis-quoted Casey Stengel in his first debate with Hillary.

He was a lamb led to the slaugter - once Rudy dropped out of the race, Lazio had to step in with no prep work and no name recognition.

This time, he got beat by a Teaborgan who doesn't have a ghost's chance in Hell of beating Andy Cuomo.

[Bort]

At least you can remain thankful that you don't live in South Carolina...

This mack motherfucker with the Bortburns takes offense:

[J. Walter Weatherman]

At least you can remain thankful that you don't live in South Carolina...

This mack motherfucker with the Bortburns takes offense:

And I have his back, suh.