Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Talk about sadsacks...

[Eli]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

Someone from the internet fixed it...

[Bort]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

Someone from the internet fixed it...

Heh.

[Quality Start Machine]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

Hey, you try squeezing by with four kids on more than $30K/month after taxes.

More importantly, how can I sign up for the $180,000/year retirement plan?

[CBStew]

Talk about sadsacks...

What's the matter with you people?  This is heartwrenching!

[Brownie]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

Hey, you try squeezing by with four kids on more than $30K/month after taxes.

More importantly, how can I sign up for the $180,000/year retirement plan?

Well, Fork, you can live more modestly than your income allows and invest wisely, or you can just work for the state of Illinois.

I think the couple with 4 children will pay less in taxes in 2013. Their taxable income will be less (and the guess here is that they'll do everything to get that investment income down as close to -0- as they can), but they'll find the most tax efficient investment vehicles to weather this.

[Quality Start Machine]

you can just work for the state of Illinois.

Be a state trooper, to be more precise.

[Yeti]

Talk about sadsacks...

Holy shit. How insanely out of touch can someone be?

Hey, you try squeezing by with four kids on more than $30K/month after taxes.

More importantly, how can I sign up for the $180,000/year retirement plan?

Well, Fork, you can live more modestly than your income allows and invest wisely, or you can just work for the state of Illinois.

I think the couple with 4 children will pay less in taxes in 2013. Their taxable income will be less (and the guess here is that they'll do everything to get that investment income down as close to -0- as they can), but they'll find the most tax efficient investment vehicles to weather this.

Yea, that's such a great place to work for. I'm excited when I'm eligible to retire from the state in 27 years and that pension isn't there.

[Internet Apex]

That Asian chick would get it.

[flannj]

Why do all these people have 5 o'clock shadows?

[PenFoe]

Why do all these people have 5 o'clock shadows?

Because of the stress from taxes, obviously.

You should see the women in my office.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

This is a joke, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLA3BODXr0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/18/no-sidwell-friends-school-has-no-armed-guards/

[Gilgamesh]

The conspiracy continues...



EVEN WHEN THEY SAID HE WAS A MUSLIN COMMUNIST NAZI SOCIALIST, I KNEW THEY WERE ROMULANS!!!!

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130125/NEWS010504/301250044/States-rights-pushed-bill-would-assert-sovereignty-state-

More than a half century ago, Mississippi created a state Sovereignty Commission to block enforcement of federal laws.

Now two key state lawmakers are introducing legislation to attempt to do much the same thing. House Bill 490 would create a committee to help neutralize federal laws and regulations "outside the scope of the powers delegated by the people to the federal government in the United States Constitution."

...

House Insurance Committee Chairman Gary Chism, R-Columbus, principal author of the bill with Ways and Means Chairman Jeff Smith, R-Columbus, said the legislation is meant to enforce the 10th Amendment, which says powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people.

Talk of opposing federal law started with federal health care reform and has since been fueled by the push to change federal gun laws, he said. "It's too much intrusion. You're bleeding into our constitutional rights."

He rejected comparisons to the Sovereignty Commission, which became a segregationist spy agency. "We abide by all the Constitution," he said. "The 13th and 14th Amendments (abolishing slavery and giving freed slaves citizenship) — we honor those, too. It has nothing to do with black and white."

The bill accuses the federal government of seizing power: "We reject and deny this unauthorized and excessive abuse of power, which has primarily acted as a detriment to states' rights and individual rights."

The proposed Joint Legislative Committee on the Neutralization of Federal Law would review existing federal laws and executive orders and recommend those to be "neutralized." If the majority of lawmakers back the recommendation, Mississippi "and its citizens shall not recognize or be obligated to live under the statute, mandate or executive order."

...

The bill...

http://legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB490/2013

An Act To Clarify The Compact Entered Into Between The State Of Mississippi And The United States When Mississippi Was Admitted To Statehood In 1817; To Assert The Sovereignty Of The State Under The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890; To Prohibit The Infringement Of The Constitutionally Protected Rights Of The State Of Mississippi, Or Its People By Means Of Any Federal Statute, Mandate, Executive Order, Judicial Decision Or Other Action Deemed By The State To Be Unconstitutional; To Create The Joint Legislative Committee On The Neutralization Of Federal Law; To Provide For The Membership And Duties Of The Committee; And For Related Purposes.