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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Will my next Sapartacus Guide be covering faygeleh favelas? #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Is favela chic sort of like heroin chic, but with more rhythm? If so, I'm in. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    We are all favelas now. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    What's this future crap? MySpace has been a shantytown for the unemployed (& aesthetically impaired) for ages. #myspace
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    11/03/09

    In reply to MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
    Depends. How's the MySpace feijoada? #myspace
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    11/03/09

    @BadUncle: It's impossible to find farofa on Facebook. #myspace
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/16/09

    In reply to Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
    I'm curious whether Finn's tax obligation is actually $100 million in tax, or $100 million total after the completely effed way in which the IRS tallies their penalties, interest and compounded f*ck-you-in-the-bum accounting of taxpayer wrongdoing.

    Suicide? These Repugs really take it seriously when they say they don't want the gub'ment spending their money, don't they?
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    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: What does it matter (it does include fines, by the way)? So he dodged $50 mil or $25 mil or $70 mil? It's still him sucking money out of the country that he profited from, while the rest of us on ADP's automatic take-out-your-taxes payroll somehow pay 100% of our obligation.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: My interest was actually operating in the opposite direction than what you suggest: If he owed $100 million in unpaid tax ONLY, I grow pale and slightly nauseous to think what sort of penalties and interest this would accrue. If he were assessed those amounts in the same fashion that Joe Working Class is, his actually "amount owed" the IRS could be as high as a billion. Yeah, bullet in the head would seem like the appropriate answer in this case.
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    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Apparently, he was dying of cancer (renal).
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: oops, sorry Paisley!

    Even better, the IRS put liens on his four (grown) sons' trust funds, because they suspect the trusts haven't been playing fair ball either. Selling your name out for a few extra mil... damn, really - can it possibly be worth it? Hard to imagine ANY of the people deciding what to do this week even having to debate this. UBS is giving up the names of its clients to US authorities in a few months, according to the settlement. Seems like a big losing bet.

    And all 4 sons went to Harvard Law - where Daddy donated tens of millions. Of money that was owed so, say, we could have a couple more childcare programs or a healthcare plan or God forbid, a lower deficit. How I hate tax cheats.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: No worries!

    These are the SAME mofos who claim working class people dodge their taxes, or don't work at all and are a drain on the government? It boggles the mind the pathological level of a sense of entitlement these f*ckers have enjoyed.
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    09/16/09

    @son of spam: Karmic return in the form of a ticking time bomb of a tumor.
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    09/16/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: I finally got the link to allow me access to the story--high traffic!
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
    Cry me a river. Not only are they crooks (hiding money offshore is just as illegal as money laundering or stealing), but they've had months to come clean. The UBS story (their advisors actively helping clients stash money offshore - which is where this all stemmed from) has been playing out the entire year.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: & yet Insurance companies and Tyco Intl set up offshore addresses to evade taxes and are not aclled out on it?
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    09/16/09

    @gabrielsong: Sir John Templeton moved to Bermuda to avoid taxes as well. It's wrong. You earn money in a country, you owe taxes in that country. I believe the TYC loophole has been closed. The Bermuda/insurance company one has not though I believe (will have to look up) they do have to report (though not pay) the earnings to the IRS.
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    09/16/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: don't forget that in light of your rationale americans who work overseas pay double--both local payrol taxes in their host country, and fed tax here. that's a whole lot of wrong.
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    09/16/09

    @thatgirlinnewyork: oh that is not what I am saying. Templeton, Tyco, and the re-insurers like XL Limited are in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes, period. They are to whom I am referring (hence my posting under the Tax Cheat Hell Week). This has nothign to do with payroll tax issues with Americans working overseas. I do not even pretend to know enough about tax law to untangle that one.
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    Image of BalknChain BalknChain
    08/22/09

    In reply to The Decline Of New York (Again)
    hmm, lucrative business ideas:
    1. cement shoe cobbler-mason
    2. money launderer-launderer
    3. pinstripe suit, pinstripe painter (nobody can afford the real thing now-think pantyhose seam crayon)
    4. Folgers sales associates-bye Starbucks
    5. organ grinder monkey trainer, I see them coming back-bye naked guitar guy or whatever
    I could go on
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    08/22/09

    In reply to The Decline Of New York (Again)
    Isn't the decline of New York how we ended up with "north" Jersey?
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    08/13/09

    In reply to Bailout Architect Bailed Out By Lies
    I really don't have much use for Paulson anymore, but the financial bailout is one of the major reasons why a lot of the economists are talking about economic recovery. It certainly wasn't the President's Day stimulus package.
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    04/17/09

    In reply to CNBC: We're Self-Chastening, Like Any Respectable GE Product
    Totally off-topic and superficial but does anyone else think Maria B is pregnant?


    And I have tried to watch Bloomberg (especially when Kudlow is on ranting about FREE MARKET CAPITALISM!!!!) but it is just so damn dry. I always return to CNBC because I guess I really do like reporters with personality, as ridiculous and slanted as they are.


    (I love when they try to shoehorn Donny Deutsch into the financial programming. I guess he has an expensive contract and they don't know what to do with him after his show was canceled.)

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    04/17/09

    In reply to CNBC: We're Self-Chastening, Like Any Respectable GE Product
    You're burying your lede here Ryan. The real store is that somebody actually hired Moe to write.
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    04/17/09

    @saythatscool: story


    uggg

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    04/17/09

    @saythatscool: yeah, why'd they take away that preview button?
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    04/17/09

    @bytememehard: Cutbacks. Plus Nick hates commenters and baby jesus. Pass it on.
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    Image of Debussy Fields Debussy Fields
    04/16/09

    In reply to CNBC's Uncomfortable Dinner with Its Overlords
    Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jeff Zucker tampered with his kids' little league draft to get Tiki Barber's kids on his team? The guy's networks deserve all the unfair criticism they can get.


    But just to 'splain something important too, if you get offended when Obama gets unfair criticism, you are a racist.

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    04/16/09

    @Debussy Fields: Srsly?
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    Image of noodleman noodleman
    04/16/09

    In reply to CNBC's Uncomfortable Dinner with Its Overlords
    @momo: No. Liberals believe Conservatives are fiscal hypocrites. I certainly didn't see decrease in government spending during the Bush43 years, nor did I see a decrease in the size of our government. Both conservative "ideals" have been espoused politically since Reagan.
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    04/16/09

    @noodleman: I agree with the assessment that GWB increased government to a ridiculous level. If you ask me, GWB wasn't much of a conservative.


    I miss the Gipper

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    04/16/09

    @momof3wildkids: The peasants his illegally-hired mercenaries massacred in the Honduras don't have that luxury, sadly.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    04/16/09

    In reply to CNBC's Uncomfortable Dinner with Its Overlords
    Let me just say that I so look forward to these sorts of posts, only because of all our new conservative commenters get to explain how the rest of us are such profound idiots.
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    04/16/09

    @Private Hangnail: I don't think you are an idiot. We merely have different opinions on the best way to proceed in this country.


    IMHO, it is usually the liberals who believe that conservatives are the idiots, when we happen to disagree about something. I just do not understand why people feel so threatened when we just simply disagree.

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    Image of Murph1908 Murph1908
    04/16/09

    @Private Hangnail:

    As opposed to the actual posts and comments that dominate this site, calling the conservatives profound idiots.


    Notice I said calling, not explaining. That's one major difference. Your comment is a perfect example. The original comment tried to explain something. You simply try to devalue it by mocking conservatives.

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    04/16/09

    @momof3wildkids: You're disagreeing on a notoriously liberal forum. People aren't threatened, they're annoyed that you're here. Just as people on Fox News or The National Review probably wouldn't be pleased with liberals commenting on their drivel. It's a two way street.
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    04/16/09

    @Murph1908: Well, you are pretty easy to mock, with your jizz-stained copies of Atlas Shrugged and your Milton Friedman Fan Club Decoder Rings.
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    04/16/09

    @Private Hangnail: Wow. Your group think mentality is truly frightening.


    I post here because I welcome people challenging and questioning my beliefs. It makes me a more thoughtful person. Any poster, on any forum (be it liberal or conservative) who cannot defend their positions without feeling threatened probably hasn't done their homework on their belief system. Intellectually lazy.

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    04/16/09

    @momof3wildkids: Why so serious? Again, I think you're overlooking the fundamental nature of this site. It's funny. They poke fun. Ultimately, it's your humorlessness that I find most troubling. I don't care that you disagree with me, I care that you're not amusing.


    @ChillbearLatrigue: You, however, have potential for humor. You've just got to stop explaining everything so tediously. Better to call us a pack of queers sucking at the tit of the Mother State. At least that resonates.

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