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The Mad Moderate wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:

The Mad Moderate wrote:

Almost half of people living in this country pay no taxes. These individuals are not the rich elite.

Anygunanywhere

That is not true.

May not be, but it is darn close. The bottom 50% of income earners paid an average tax rate of 1.85% in 2009, and the bottom 50% of earners pay less (as a percentage) today then they have in the past 20 years.

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old farmer wrote:

EXXON profits is over 30.5 billion dollars....................................................................................................

No offense old farmer, I am not happy with the State of The Union as well, but the quote above is one of my pet peeves. Exxon made 30.5 billion on Revenues of 383 Billion. This means as a business the made less than 8% net profit at the end of the day.

How many of you own a business, and how many of you would think you were "killing it" if you made 8% net profit at the end of a year?

8% is about what I have made per year on investments over the past 10 years, and all that money had to do was sit there.

ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement
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"Another source, who said she was hired from a homeless shelter, said she was first sent to the protests before being deployed to Central Islip, Long Island, to canvass for a campaign against home foreclosures.

“I went to the protests every day for two weeks and made $10 an hour. They made me carry NYCC signs and big orange banners that say NYCC in white letters. About 50 others were hired around my time to go to the protests. We went to protests in and around Zuccotti Park, then to the big Times Square protest,” she said. "


SHOCKER!! No wonder everyone out there has zero idea why they are there...