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  • 181 people lost in 2008

  • Joe's not a plumber...he's a professional troll hired by democrats.

  • @Krogoth04 I think you meant to say Joe was hired by the GOP

  • Real story and the young turks do not mix

  • @Bwahaha9000 Thank you for explaining the differences between a marginal and effective tax rate.

    If one is truly knowledgeable in investments, they'd realize how important this tax hike is. Economics says if something you tax something more, you generally get less of it. Why would you hike taxes on investing in the middle of a recession? Does this country need more or less investing in our economy at this time? You decide.

  • OH! So he didn't pay his taxes??!! Maybe he could be the Sec. of Treasury! And this clown knows which tax plan is best for "Joe" how?

  • sorry dude, I'm not defending McCain, but a 3% tax hike on the return of an investment is a SERIOUS business decision that could blow the whole deal. Not saying I'm rich or anything cuz I'm not that far out of college, but get real. Understand economics. Nobody wants to invest when they won't make a good return.

  • @carolinacasper you understand how taxes work, right? that 3% increase isnt across the whole $250,000 its only on the top layer of their income. if someone had earned $250,000 and the tax got hiked by that 3%, he would only have to pay an extra 2500 annually not 7500

  • The point should be simple. the media got a guy they could easily target. The man asked a question and Obama couldnt answer it. that is the noteworthy thing. not that the man isnt actually a plumber.

  • Where is Joe? Is he going to sit out the 2012 election?

  • Joe the Plumber is a total joke. Love how after it turned out he lied he continued to spread his bs. What a joke.

  • I THINK THAT WAS A WAY FOR THE MEDIA CONFRONT OBAMA, JUST BECAUSE OBAMA WAS, DEMOCRAT, BLACK, AND GOOD CITIZEN

    I REMEMBER FOX NEWS GOT THAT GUY UNDER HIS WINGS , FOX NEWS PUPPET PUBLICITY STUN

  • wow who would have thunk it, i republican is so stupid he votes against his best interest, because of the fact taht he is ill informed, and buys into the republican bull, wow , if half the fake republicans knew how much they were hurthing themselves voting for republicans, there would never be another republican politiciian

  • I want to see Joe the Plumber's birth certificate!!!

  • Joe was either a liar or a moron from the start. He could've spent and invested all the money he had in his business and not pay a dime of income tax on it. You only pay income tax on NET BUSINESS PROFITS!

  • Is it just me or does this announcer sound like he swallowed a few pints of sperm?

  • @hangfire0352 if anyone would know about it, it would be you.

  • @DawnOfTheDead991 And your father. The filthy faggot that he is.

  • @hangfire0352 You are a moron to post a comment like that. I'm weathy by your standards and have paid less in taxes under Obama then under the Bush baby! Your point?

  • @RImusclebear My point is you blow dudes for spare change.

  • @hangfire0352 You spend all your money on diseased hookers and then beat your wife. Sad you don't support your children like a real man would!

  • @RImusclebear If you don't approve of me paying for diseased hookers, get your 13 year old daughter an anti-biotic for gods sake.

  • @hangfire0352 I don't have any kids, I'm gay you moron! I'm recruiting your son at this very minute!

  • @RImusclebear How unnatural of you.

  • @hangfire0352 bend over bitch!

  • ZFACTS.COM A and measure the national debt clock & graph when Bush started and forcefully handed Obama a plate full of p.n.a.c. good-buddies & chicanery underhanded debt from wall street hucksters . Let's hear the wall street hucksters cry here in a bit for more bailout Money so they can laugh in our face and party hardy .

  • ZFACTS.COM A and measure the national debt clock .

  • its funny they can dig into joe's life but we don't know shit about our own president, liberals are so screwed up. let's not look and find out who our president is, but let dig into so guy who's not running for anything.

  • @nickatnite85 this is 2 years ago... and we do know moar about the president..... epic faiiillll

  • @nickatnite85 Yeah no one knows a thing about Obama. What is funny is that cons latch on to morons and crackpots who are patent dummies or liars then complain when their newest idol is exposed for being a stupid sack of garbage. For example if Skinhead had a business, he could invest all sorts of money in it and not pay income tax on it, since you only pay INCOME TAX ON NET PROFITS. But when the same bunch of morons hail an idiot like Palin, one shouldn't expect them to notice that one.

  • @DawnOfTheDead991 since you seem to know so much about our president do you care to share, how come nobody knows what hospital he was born in he says one his sister says another? how come all of his records are sealed, and nobody knows what kind of grades in collage? they must not have been to good because if he was a A student he would show he got. how come all of his ideas seem to be socialist ideas?

  • All that is public record. Newborns & people not yet born usually don't remember hospitals. As well he is a hell of a lot smarter & better educated than a skinhead like Joe the Toilet Unplugger. How come you don't even acknowledge my point that Joe's question about taxes & business investments is garbage? And if Obama is so socialist, why didn't he do away with Bush's stupid tax cut, which BTW, came right before the War In Iraq? (You know that short one that was supposed to pay for itself)

  • @DawnOfTheDead991 None of the hospitals have record of him or his mom being admitted either so i will give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was born in the back of an ally somewhere. as far as the tax cut congress wouldn't approve of his tax cut so if he didn't extend the bush tax cut it would have raised taxes on many lower income families as well and would have made him look really bad so he did extended it for political reasons.

  • @DawnOfTheDead991 and the thing about Joe the plumber is well he is not running for any political office so who cares about Joe the plumber you should be more worried about your socialist president.

  • @nickatnite85 spoken like a true neo-con

  • freakin realistic dude.i see why your succesful..

  • I remember when Joe the Idiot got broke off for weak faggot he is.I love clown bitch faggots like that.He should fucking die that piece of shit acting like he's American and doesn't pay his taxes.I hope he gets hate mail on a daily basis.Also to many faggot ass loser comments underneath about crying faggot bullshit.Go fuck yourselves dumb ass comment people

  • @ihateidiotcomments Are you a nigger?

  • @gamefreak1000000 You are the definiton of stupid and is exactly what's wrong with this country.A child with limited education good luck digging ditches.

  • @ihateidiotcomments Ur a mad nigger.

  • @gamefreak1000000 No but I bet your daddy is which would explain why your so racist.I can't beleive you actually got dumber since your last comment,lol.

  • @ihateidiotcomments Shut up nigger lol

  • @gamefreak1000000 Your so weak and brittle Youtube is all you got cause I see what a coward you are.One of those fags who needs a keyboard thrown in with some sexual frustration and you have GAMEFREAK1000000 even your name is weak like a sickly child.Now go have your parent beat the fuckin piss out of you faggot.

  • @ihateidiotcomments LOL u really are a nigger!

  • Cenk's arrogant ignorance is quite amusing.

  • @oTANSTAAFLo

    ignorance???

    Are you kidding me???

    Joe the Plumber is the definition of ignorance

  • @EganForNevada Yea sure, i am a communist, you are a fucking moron !!! You just need to call everyone who kicks your ass with arguments a commi so you still can feel good about your right wing looser ass.

    Michael moore never said cuba would be a good system, he just showed that there at least you gettreatment and are not left alone like in the fucking us. I knew it you have nothing

  • @EganForNevada Oh boy, reading and understanding is not your strong suit is it ?

    2. No, by my post 70% of the canadians who come into the US for medical treatment do so for beauty surgery ^^

    3. Well mostly its the insurance company that decides. Now guess how much they like to give money away ;)

    1. even if your numbers where true, canada and britain is still way faster

  • @EganForNevada So whats worse, getting slightly less high qulity treatment, or getting no treatment ? In those countries also EVERYBODY can get treatment, not only the richer part of the society, and they only if the insurance company gives the OK. How is a system in which thousand of patients get denied treatment better ? Your arguments are a joke, easyto see through for everybody with an IQ over 80, not sicko.

  • @EganForNevada Propaganda implies giving wrongfull information. Where is sicko wrong ?Just claiming x woud be propagnada without giving examples of wrongfull info is just an empty claim.

    Back to the american healthcare system. The biggest problem in the US in not so much the quality, its more the fact that too many americans dont get treatment, even if they have insurance, and would need a treatment, the insurance comapny to often denies treatment, that NEVER happens in britain or canada

  • @EganForNevada Where did you get that shitty pieve of information from ? FOX news ? And you want to lecture me on propaganda ? BWAHAHAHAHA !!! Here a few facts :

    1. average waiting time in american ER 3hours (at certain times way longer) , canada 30 minutes, britain 40 minutes ^^

    2. britishor canadians seeking healthcare in the us are 70% beauty surgery, thats hardly the health care system

    3. Cunting onlynecessary treatments far more americans go abroad for treatment then the other way around

  • Joe Plumber has no plumber license.... LOL!!!!

  • @EganForNevada Watch "Sicko" by michael moore, you will be shocked how you here filled with propaganda lies on the health care issue. Goebbels (the nazi propaganda minister) would have been so proud how much the republicans have learned from him (here the comparison fits, because the republicans used EXACTLY the same tricks then him)

  • @EganForNevada Just look into canada or england and you see that universal healthcare is a wonderful thing. Contrary to what the republicans claimed the system is much better there, both for the patients and the doctors, nurses etc. The american health care system is pathetic, may second world countries have a better system then you have. But the republicans claimed that would be socialistic and you rell believed it.

  • @EganForNevada Are you kidding ? BUSH has detsroyed the economy, not Obama, he is just picking up the pieces and tries to make it work again. I mean come on, you even believe that obamas politic would be socialistic ? Are you really that easy to fool ? The american public has just leaned tio hate everything having to do with communism, so calling someone a commy is allways a good strategy if the publis believs it. Obamas healthcare has nothing to do with socialism whatsoever.

  • 1,123 people have half a brain.

    170 have a full brain.

  • @iwantwatermellon Its just the other way around smartass. Joe the Plumber was just a big fat propaganda lie, and i cant beuieve so many people bought this story. Its really embarassing how easy the public can be fooled (like you for example)

  • @MrRichardQED Want to know a story of the public being fooled? Look who's in office.

  • @iwantwatermellon You really think you would have been better of with Palin ? I mean lets face it, the chances where good to see her as POTUS when the stress became to great for McCain. Even if not, you think McCain and the republicans could have solved the crisis ? After they caused much of it in the first place by starting 2 wars ? I am not a great obama fan, and despise many things he did, but if you think you would have been better f with a republican you are greatly mistaken

  • @MrRichardQED I'm not really sure how Sarah Palin would have been as a president, but I do know that I would rather have anyone but Obama.

  • @iwantwatermellon Are you completely nuts ? She would have been even a lot worse then bush for crying out loud.

  • @MrRichardQED I disagree, we'd get her husband for free~

  • Well it's 2 years later, did Joe by the business?

  • If Joe won't buy a profitable buisness because his tax may go up 3% shows us all this man is not capable of runing a buisness. It's best he sticks to his toilets and leaves the running of the buisness to someone that is capable. Will he also give up his pickup truck because gas might go up? Or the cost of the licence?

  • Is this the best the left can do? So sad. 

  • TheYoungTurks is bullshit. Obama is unprofessional. This guy on TheYoungTurks is an immature, corrupt, condescending asshole.

  • @iwantwatermellon u dont know ur shit so stfu dumbass

  • @larios2585 Okay. Please inform me on this "shit". If by shit you mean the young turks, then yes, I am glad not to know them. If you are referring to politics, then you have pretty much summed up the depth of yourl insight in regard to political matters. I know that sounds condescending because I used a lot of big words, but take some time to dissect it. You'll get there soon enough, buddy. Respond any time. Ta ta!

  • howabout....no taxes?

  • @nottinmatterz2day Wow you're retarded, you got any idea how much things would cost if there were no taxes?

    Walking 100 feet would cost you 1000 dollars cause everything's gonna be fee-based.

    You right-wing americans are getting more and more extreme, maybe you'll be the first country to hit rock-bottom so the right-wingers here in Europe start thinking maybe it wasn't such a good idea to have America as a role model.

  • @atosafi1 yeah, cheaper.

  • lol @ 3:45 " ur alright joe....now go pay ur taxes!!"

  • What the fuck does it matter if he lied about buying the company, he made Obama look like and idiot also Obama doesn't even know what "revenue" is, show how much he knows about business.

  • @teapot816 Yeah...made him look like a total idiot. So much so that he utterly destroyed McCain in the election. You're smart. You're right, I'm sure Obama doesn't know what revenue is, because he's not smart like you. Run along, Glenn Beck's about to start. They're talking about Nazi's today.

  • So what ever happened to this guy, has he payed his taxes? Has he bothered to get a plumbing licence? Is he still working under the table to avoid paying his tax?

  • he wants to own the business he never said he owned it

  • Attack him personally eh? Because thats all that you can do because you don't agree with him? How about I attack you personally u overweight fat piece of greasy shit. How about u go get a real job u fat ass fuckin kike. How not bein able to see ur dick for the past 10 years of ur life? Ur what makes america look like shit, so haul ur lard ass outta here and go live in some fucked up socialist society just like u dream of when u touch ur 2 inch chode at night. FUCKING STAIN.

  • what's up with these people stop coming on you tube loser's

  • Is that the same Joe the plumber who isn't actually named Joe & doesn't actually have a plumbing license? Just another gop stooge.

  • you are so dumb he never stated that he makes 200,050 he put what if WHAT IF I MAKES but know you see obama is racing taxes

  • 0:49 ahh yeah kinda important lol

  • I am pretty sure that joe the plumber was payed for by the republicans ! They allways try so dirty tricks.

  • @MrRichardQED f u ya are the ones who belev in killing a baby ,dumb reed

    plus we had the usa in safe hands and obama sead the american army is killing inecent people what are ya cold pink if dont know what that is look it upit is a bunch of demercerats that hate us / all ya are stuped and ya need to get you facts strat reply if your a man

  • @sabiker101 learn english before you talk to real people, and dont assume you know my position on anything just because i dont like republicans and their dirty tricks in politics. Who has started the wars that crushed the economy and forced the us into debt ? Who has dismantled the constitution ? Obama sure as hell not. He is picking up the pieces the idiot bush has left him and tries to bebuild the country. So you should get your facts straight moron, not me !

  • @MrRichardQED

    Started wars? The economy was "crushed" by the housing bubble and a combination of government meddling and good old fashioned greed. Also the US has been in debt for over 40 years. Sorry Dude increasing the debt by adding trillions is not "picking up the pieces"

  • @0spiker come on, the debt now is immensly higher than it was when bush started, he started 2 wars etc. He left the nation in chaos, So what did you expect from obama ? He cant perform miracles, but he is doing a much better job than bush ever did (allthough i admit, being better than bush isnt really hard ^^?

  • @MrRichardQED Obama can't perform miracles?!? Now that will be a shocker for quite large number of Obama's voters...

  • @MrRichardQED Listen to the mocking tone of this flat slob.  I dislike him very much.

  • @Protege385 I get that feeling too ... only when I hear something that I know is the truth and I happen to be on the wrong side of the truth.

  • @ETericET TYT doesn't really speak in truths or lies. Just mocks right wing people.

  • @MrRichardQED so its logical to consciously make the debt LARGER in order to get out of it right? youre defending barack?

  • @omghai2u In this case right now ? Sadly yes, but thats due to a crisis you cant blame obama for. If you havent heared, there is a worldwide crisis of the economy. In a case like that the government has to spend money or risk another 1929.

    I do blame obama for a lot of shit, and i m not a great friend of him, but there he acted right.

  • @MrRichardQED liberalism makes you look like a compassionate, intelligent person right???/??????

  • @omghai2u 1. I dont care about how my actions look to others, i care how they look to me 2 You shouldnt try to put me in a box, i dont fit in any, especially not liberalism sice i dont give a fuck about political correctness

  • @MrRichardQED is obama a good president?

  • @omghai2u Interesting question, that cant be answered i a few words. Many things about him and his politics I really despise, others are really good. To really asnwer that would need more time then i currently have

  • @MrRichardQED Your on crack....Bush made a mess and it took 8 years....Obama fucked us into severe debt in 18 months.......Thanks for the change folks......

  • @avionicswirenut You are an idiot, the mess was bushs fault, not obamas. The reason for the crisis lies in bushs administration, not obamas. A crisis like this builds up for years till it comes to the breaking point, and who ruled in the years before ? BUSH !

    I once really believed in democracy, but people like you show me why it doesnt work. Idiots like you decide about who governs us, its no wonder we go from one crisis into the next.

  • @MrRichardQED I said Bush made a mess of everything , but it took 8 years.....Obama in his 18 months has put us trillions and trillions more in the hole.....Go back further and Clinton started the housing bubble....Democracy, I did not vote for change, people like you did, now look at it...Things are not better...When the health care kicks in, enjoy all of the new taxes..Between all of the new taxes and hikes in oil, see you in the soup line little boy.....

  • @avionicswirenut If you see me there it will be handing things out, i do that from time to time ^^ So you are one of the customers there ? You are an idiot who fell victim to the stupid propaganda of tea party loosers, get a sense of reality and troll somewhere else looser^^

  • @MrRichardQED Thanks for the wonderful comment...I am just a troll with no where to go....I will say, it is nice of you to help out at the soup lines.....There are too many people that need help in this country....And that leads me back to, Obama has not done shit to help us out...As a small biz owner I am not sure if I will make it with the high gas prices and new health care crap coming on line...I want to hire people, but with this current government, they are making it impossible...

  • @avionicswirenut MrRichard qed your all fuck up about your facts mr and i don't think your a small bizzness owner at all because under Bush you got shit for tax brake you didn't make enough dick head i hate you fuckers keep putting out the same old Republicans and now same people tea party that shit on us stoled from america with this war its all lies and we here the same old talking pts same old shit Obama has done more than Bush and his Daddy did in 12 yrs Bushes in office WTF did they do NA

  • @icebergen78 I own a small RV biz dumbfuck.....At this point both sides are fucking everyone over so it does not matter anymore.....Obama is a total fucking loser....Bush gave to his rich buddies....As soon as I can get out of the biz the bettor off I will be.......Right now I am in a bad mood anyway, so go fuck yourself while the neighbor fucks your old lady.....Obama has put us deeper in debt in 18 months, it took Bush 8 years, so fuck off....

  • @MrRichardQED Obama has a chance to change, but he's idle. That isn't Bush's fault.

  • @Megajanitor Hey idle is sitting on his ranch the whole time as bush did. Obama has achieved quite a bit since he is in office. I dont like everything he has done, but calling him idle after how bush did things is just silly.

  • @MrRichardQED I don't like what he has "not" done. And I'm talking about the reasonable things too. Who cares if he's not reelected? He won't be either way, but he's STILL pressed on pleasing the Republicans. He's not doing the progressive things he had said he would do. There is no change. Well, a little change. But not a change we can count on.

  • yea real AMERICAN like a guy named. Cenk Uygur. The guy never said he owned the business. Even the real AMERICAN guy, Cenk Uygur mentioned that at the top of the show. Once again. the real AMERICAN guy, Cenk Uygur can't keep the facts straight. Joe never said he made $250k. He stated he was buying a business that made that much. Yet even Obama said his taxes would go up..oooopsy doopsy Wow the the real AMERICAN guy named Cenk Uygur says you get ta be Republican in his real American country!

  • Once again the young turks prove they are nothing but ass hats! They missed the whole point and focused on Joe the plumber's plumbing license and what not. The point of the matter is people strive to do better in life and when they reach that goal they get penalized by higher taxes. Of course the turks along with main stream liberal media smoke screen this by getting America's minds off the real point. Unfortunately the liberal sheep fall for it every time.

  • @alloutwar66 You are totally full of shit! Even when Obama raises the taxes, they will still be some of the lowest! He's only raising them by 3% so if you can't afford 3 cent on the dollar then you most likely wouldn't be in that tax bracket! Furthermore, the tax rate under Ike was 91%, under Reagan 50% Obama want's it at 35%. I'm sure they'll be ok!

  • @FURepublicans

    Reagan cut taxes from 70 to 50 % then to 28%; while the corporate tax rate went to 35% (You know the number you pretend Obama wanted and which was in reality, 39% ) Affordability has nothing to do with your tax bracket. Now at that rate Joe is paying over $97000 off the top. We wont even mention state taxes, insurance, supplies, salaries, mortgage etc. 3% on the dollar may not sound like a lot, but it may make a huge difference in what he ACTUALLY takes home.

  • @0spiker " Now at that rate Joe is paying over $97000 off the top"

    Your an idiot on taxes too.

    Being in the highest tax bracket of 39 percent does not mean a taxpayer will pay 39 percent of his/her income to the government. Instead, he or she will pay an amount based on the portion of his/her income in each tax bracket up to total income.

    0 TO 50,000/15%

    50,001 TO 75,000/25%

    75,001 TO 100,000/34%

    100,001 TO 335,000/39%

  • @justintempler You're nothing if not amusing. First you begin a dialouge with me by digging through my other posts and insulting me,but when I respond in kind suddenly you believe people should be treated the way they treat others in which case your objection is curious given that I'm doing exactly as your philosophy dictates.

  • @0spiker "3% on the dollar"

    I thought the difference between 35 and 39 was 4%.

    You can't even add and substract.

  • @justintempler READING IS FUNDAMENTAL.

    The difference between 36 and 39 is 3. Let's see how long it takes you to realise where you fucked that one up, poopy. Was it after da second finger, ya got a widdle confuzed or was it you forgoted dere was odder presidents and uhm tax rates bedween Reagan and Obamaaaaaa!?

  • @0spiker .. reading IS fundamental... so is math... You fail at both.

  • @justintempler

    AWWWWWWWWWWWW da baby is MAYAAAAAAAAAAAD.

    Is da baby gonna CWY?

  • @0spiker No, I'm laughing.

    .

    You're a conservative Republican troll that makes conservative Reupblicans look stupid. Congratulations.

    .

    See I don't have to convince you, I only have to convince the people that are sitting on the fence. If you REALLY think you are helping your cause, think again.

  • @justintempler

    Where is the mathematical failure?

  • @0spiker It's been over a week poopy, if you haven't figured it out by now, You'll never have to worry about it. You aren't smart enough to make it into the top tax brackets.

  • @justintempler

    Well cockadoodledo, from the kid who thinks transcendent means omniscient. Figured...? No no. No figuring needed because there isn't one, justinpimpler.

    As to tax brackets, I'll always be in a higher one than thou. Yes, yes with all the gusto

    of a Sunday scholar you've advertised your idiocy for all to see.

  • @0spiker I'm an atheist you idiot. 30 seconds reading my profile would have told you that.

    Let me know when you figure out what someone in the 39% tax bracket pays.on $250,000 (hint it isn't $97,000)

    later poopy

  • @justintempler

    Atheist? Yes you've said that before and yet still have the intellectual habits of a Sunday scholar. Nope the question was about a mathematical failure;not about taxes.

    Later, Justindiapers

  • @justintempler Can't backup my arguments? Let's start with your favorite,

    whether I made a mathmatical error concerning Joe the plumbers taxes.

    My contention is I didn't. Here we can refer to the expert testimony of the estimable Mr.justintempler:

    "Being in the highest tax bracket of 39 percent does not mean a taxpayer will pay 39 percent of his/her income to the government.." Thus the numbers in question are derived from the rate of taxation. But that is not math. The math was flawless.

  • @justintempler Example #2 Our contention here is that the erstwhile philosopher, Mr. Justintempler has the intellectual habits of a Sunday scholar. Eager to confirm my

    diagnosis he jumps up and down shrieking "I'm an atheist you idiot. 30 seconds reading my profile would have told you that." Does he

    seriously think intellectual habits are confered by label? Perhaps it's certification of sorts. If the USDA can certify meat, why cant his particular slab have a special sticker as well!?

    cont

  • @justintempler habits 4 Omniscience (All knowing), is the attribute in question: An Omniscient God ...can NOT create souls without knowing that the soul he creates is going to hell. All this proves is either "God" is either not omniscient or -another big word comming- not omnibenevolent.

    In conclusion either he was rehersing an argument without comprehension or he comprehendeds the argument but choses to be unintelligible That is, QED, he has the intellectual habits of a Sunday scholar.

  • @justintempler part 2 habits

    Here we refer to the late professor, justintempler, who hasn't spent the requisite 30 seconds reading the aforementioned profile, but has assuredly spent almost as long constructing the following argument:

    "A transcendent God ...can NOT create souls without knowing that the soul he creates is going to hell....

    If he doesn't already know he is NOT transcendent and therefore not God."

    cont

  • @0spiker habits 3 Transcendence, as the good professor informs us means "outside of time and space" but does not require knowledge In fact, The deity in question could be transcendent and not know even know it. Now if a given thinker -say someone with the intellectual habits of a Sunday scholar- were reciting such an argument without comprehending it, confusing transcendence with omniscience is understandble. They are both big words.

  • @0spiker I thought we were done arguing 2 weeks ago? What's wrong are you bored? Go find someone else to play with, I'm not interested.

  • @justintempler Some people actually have lives outside of youtube. Why think it's over when you challenged me to back up my claims. Play? Is that what you think this is, a game? If so you could certainly play better than that. It's interesting that once we get down to it; to where you will actually have to do some "backing up" of your own, you declare it's over, you're not interested or any of your other dodges. typical for the likes of a Sunday scholar.

  • @0spiker Joe doesn't even have a job to pay taxes and owes back taxes! Secondly, Yes, Reagan lowered the tax rate to 28% however the taxable income went down to 30,950 which means that they paid more taxes under Reagan than they would under Obama if he does let the Bush tax cuts expire because the taxable income is 250,000.

  • @0spiker

    All that stuff you just mentioned (salaries, supplies etc) is a tax deduction, not a tax liability. Tax is paid on profits, so it is only what is left over after all the company expenses have been paid (including his own personal wage, depending on the business structure).

    RE Reagan, he was no economic prodigy. We increased national debt, and never delivered a budget surplus. In fact, the last Republican to deliver a surplus was Nixon, in the early years.

  • @bigredtaxi

    Don't think I characterized them as a tax liability. They are however,part of costs:

    He buys the supplies. Now he may get some sort of tax break,but unless it covers the entire cost of the supplies, he still pays.

    Is it a question of whether a politician is some kind of prodigy or should he just know what policies to implement? Presidents don't balance budgets or

    spend money. Congress does. A Republican Congress dragged Clinton kicking and screaming to the last surplus.

  • @bigredtaxi

    Also I never characterized Reagan as any kind of prodigy. I did mention the actual rates of taxation: What they were and what they were reduced to. A statement of pure fact. Now if the numbers were wrong, please provide accurate ones. Similarly, rate reductions is partly about increasing revenue. Before Reagan

    the "answer" was raise taxes. If increased taxes lead people to tax shelters etc,

    do you really collect more revenue? See the Laffer curve.

  • @0spiker

    I am not disagreeing with you about the Reagan era INCOME tax decreases, but as for corporate taxes, he implemented the biggest increase since WWII.

    For Income taxes, what I am saying is that it was irresponsible, as the country could not afford it, which is why he was never able to deliver a budget surplus. All the tax decreases were financed by borrowing money (ie, rob from the kids and hand it to the adults). Then there is the matter of the Recession he presided over.

  • @bigredtaxi It's absurd to say tax cuts prevented a surplus.There were other factors involved. 1.) Reagan rebuilt the military 2.) Congress, not the president spends money. As to afforability the question is what causes revenue to increase, higher tax rates or lower ones.  The " Recession he presided over" resulted from breaking the 70s stagflation. Amazing how folks live by the party line. Never daring to think on their own.

  • @0spiker What party line are you referring to? I am politically quite central, but am just saying Reagan was not a very good president.

    As for the tax cut point you make, to put my question another way, why would he give more and more tax cuts if the money had to be borrowed? What do you think that would do to inflationary pressures and interest rates etc?

  • @bigredtaxi Why is it money has to be borrowed for tax cuts but not for ever increasing spending? First you must show revenue was decreased as a result of tax rate reductions and show reduced rates didn't spur economic growth. As to party line. It means you ignore things like automatic spending increases, that congress does the spending not the president to make your argument as if tax rates were the only thing affecting the budget.

  • @0spiker

    Money is and was borrowed for both. As for tax cuts, it made no worthwhile impact on productivity.

    Also, in reality, congress is only there to approve spending, which is handed to them by government (often after the money has already been committed anyway).

    Congress could theoretically refuse to pass spending, but doing so on a large scale often has severe consequences.

  • @bigredtaxi

    So congress is not part of the government now? Are you also going to pretend

    the constitution does not put congress in charge of the "purse strings"? Can you show where money was "borrowed" for the purpose of tax cuts. Again you still haven't shown that revenue declines when tax rates are cut. "Well democrats sed it hadda be borrowed so it musta been!" As to productivity the economy certainly

    did an about face from the stagflation of the Carter years and started growing.

    magic?

  • @bigredtaxi

    So Reagan was responsible for "the biggest corporate tax increase since WWII?

    Then how is it that we couldn't "afford" X or Y. Is that because higher tax rates lead to

    decreased revenue? It's laughable how congress suddenly ceases to exist in all your scenarios.Thus things like automatic annual increases in funding for various

    programs don't even enter your thoughts. No doubt because Reagan didn't implment them. Farm and corporate subsidies? etc etc?

  • @0spiker

    If it was so easy to afford, how come all of reagans budgets were deficits?

    And FYI, higher taxes do slow business growth and investment, which I think just about everyone else knows already.

    Also, before commenting on congress, maybe you should go and read up on what Congress actually does, and how it works in the real world. It is clear you know nothing about it, apart from what some neo-con political commentater has told you to say.

  • @alloutwar66 im pretty sure the young turks didnt miss the point....thats you. sorry :(

  • @ravenmcgrath

    Dude, the young Turks couldn't find the point if they reached their grubby little fingers to the top of their pointy little heads.

  • Once again the young turks prove they are nothing but ass hats! They missed the whole point and focused on Joe the plumber's plumbing license and what not. The point of the matter is people strive to do better in life and when they reach that goal they get penalized by higher taxes. Of course the turks along with main stream liberal media smoke screen this by getting America's minds off the real point. Unfortunately the liberal sheep fall for it every time.

  • yea but obama is the wrong color this guys a rasict

  • @WarlordMaster427 Get the point... Read.. Listen.. Think you fool

  • And joe is a aginst welfare even though he was on welfar LMAO XD

  • @Socoolscienceshow He acts just like your average republican supporter. 

  • @WarlordMaster427 listen to this from about 4:00 minutes in...

  • @warlordmaster427 An unlicensed plumber who doesn't make enough to buy the business is being railroaded? How dumb are you people? Even reason and logic can't reach your brain when you hear it.

  • read the comment below me. Do it and lol at the irony, you wont be dissapointed. I guess we know what palin does in her spare time now.

  • @CrzyLion that's what i was thinking.

  • tyt is simply a puppet with a hand up its arse for the Democratic party. Really? Joe the Plumber is evil? He's under the McCain camps thumb? That's gotta be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard from this uninformed, brainwashing organization.

  • @QueenBitchization hurr durr i took highschool civics and now i know about polotiks

  • hmm i wonder what this fuck tard (the person talking in the video) thinks now that the person that he backed up has fucked america over FOREVER

  • lmao i wonder when the young fags are gonna do a show about all the tax cheats in obamas admin.....lmao young turks are a joke....

  • @STARPHOX14returnsHA

    Say something relevant, make a valid point. You know, there are probably a lot of things that I can agree on with people of intelligence on the Right. People like Ron Paul. But, your obviously an idiot. No need to discuss things with you. You just need to be quite. Your lack of ability to make a point is embarrassing.

  • @STARPHOX14returnsHA = FAIL

    Its called digging for the truth and finding it. It happens on both sides of the aisle. Whats funny is how you right wing radicals and Christian fundamentalists don't know when you've been owned. Your ethics, beliefs and entire way of thinking is becoming obsolete. People are starting to think for themselves. Someday I hope to see people make there decisions based on their own thought process. Not what religion they have or what their party affiliation or religion

  • You don't know his bottom line. It doesn't matter if you make $1 million dollars if you're spending $999,999 to make it. You've obviously never owned a business, or had to worry about payroll for employees.

    $250k is not take home pay... and 3% for many businesses = firing one or more employees. Multiply that times the 20 million small businesses in this country that employ the vast majority of the working population and you have a major problem. But who care's right? It's not your money.

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  • @jeffcuts Really? Would you take a $7,500 pay cut to keep your job? Because for a $250k business, there are not enough employees to absorb that $7,500. Let me explain this to you, because you've obviously never had to make payroll for anyone. $250k buys a small resale business their inventory, their rent, and their health insurance for about 1 employee... maybe 2 (like a seasonal holiday employee), and just enough left over to pay your own bills. These taxes will have consequences.

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  • @2DumbKidsVideo I would. I would take a $7500 pay cut if I made $250,000 a year.

    You act like its a tax on the businesses which can write off all the payroll and expenses(known as deductions). The tax is on profit, the CEO or business owners profit. You can skew it to look like its a tax on doing business. If people can't see through that, they can't be helped.

    Besides, the first $250,000 would stay at the same tax rate. It goes up in tiers from there. Idea is to let Bush's CEO tax cut end.