Ted Rall for June 20, 2011

Good one Ted

I forgot that the President determines how much the Corporate Thugs pay people. Shoot! This recession could be over in no time. All Obama has to do is say “Hey, big corporations: Pay people more, and oh—hire more people too!” What a lazy jerk that guy is for not saying those words to Big Business.

Yesterday I saw a re-usable grocery bag sold by the USO to support the USO. The bag had printed: ‘70 yr anniversary- until they ALL come home’.70 yrs later and we still have soldiers in the field? 70 yrs later they ain’t NEVER comin’ home. Democrat or Republican, they are clearly never coming home.

Wondering if your parent is going to come home… or if you’re going to get that call. Oh the days.

Clark Kent, my own platform is to close all the overseas bases (well, MOST of them) and REOPEN a lot of the in-country ones. It’d be good for the economy. (One small town near where I grew up pretty much died when the local Air Force base was closed.)

Demobilizing too many career soldiers would cause a labor glut (more than we already have), and maintaining the standing army at home (even a LARGE one) is a lot cheaper than maintaining one spread throughout the world, and less of a hardship on the families.

Ultimately, I’d like to see our domestic military bases staffed primarily by rotating members of the Reserves and National Guard (with a small number of full-time personnel for training and maintenance). If, instead of (or maybe in addition to) reporting for one weekend a month, Reservists and Guards served one full month every year, we could cut down on military costs without a substantial loss of “readiness.”

phuh!ppbpbbbtt!

@Tigger, please provide a reference for your claim that Reagan called Bin Laden a freedom fighter. Even the more liberal sites I read make no claim to the rise of Bin Laden and Al Qaida on the intelligence front until the early 90s (although many want to say Reagan directly contributed to Bin Laden’s rise because of the funding of the Afghani rebels, Bin Laden made his reputation by developing a relationship with Hamid Gul, a general in the Afghani resistance).

Tigger must have hit his head on the ceiling with all that bouncy-fun-fun-fun.

Most of the people who don’t pay income taxes have nothing left after FICA, Sales Taxes & non-essentials like putting a roof over their families heads & having food on the table.

I’m all in favor of paying those people better so they can “pay their fair share”. In the meantime, a slight raise in taxes on the wealthiest seems like a good way to balance the budget. Then maybe we can do something about the erosion of workers’ position in the eternal struggle for a decent wage.

The average effective tax rate for the wealthy is 18%. Just how much of a tax cut do they need in order to create jobs? Over half the big corps pay no federal taxes. Just where are the jobs?

Do they outsource con-jobs to India?!

I’m glad to know that 47% of yanks & most big corps are refusing to support the wars efforts

Actually, in a way, I agree with Tigger regarding taxation at lower levels. In the 1970s, I supported a family on wages that were below the poverty level, and I still paid taxes. I felt pride in contributing to my country even while I was working my way up the income ladder and out of poverty. Today, there seems to be less incentive to do the latter part, because people know they’re going to be moved into a taxable bracket.

Woah woah woah. Minimum wage? That sh*t’s wrong. We should abolish that. *