Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 27, 2011

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 13 years ago

    Billionaire’s have problems, too!

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    rayannina  over 13 years ago

    Another rerun? Booooooooo-riiiiiiiiing!

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    Alabama Al  over 13 years ago

    But the wealthy need the extra income provided by the tax cuts to create jobs, you understand. Just think of the labor required to build that helicopter.

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    Potrzebie  over 13 years ago

    so what’s the next trend? I think golf with Boner should be in order. Or perhaps the RNC debates. Perhaps the serious candidates with the wingnuts locked outside the gates. You betcha!

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    cheesehead  over 13 years ago

    Oh … not Jimmy?

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    odeliasimone  over 13 years ago

    Because our beloved country has too high of corporate taxes!!!!!

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    odeliasimone  over 13 years ago

    Why do you think corporations move out of states? Because the states have raised the taxes so high that it is better to move over the border. to Texas or Nevada or wherever.

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    rotts  over 13 years ago

    No apostrophe on plural of billionaire, Vista Bill!

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    WaitingMan  over 13 years ago

    Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.

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    Michael McKown Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I see Garry is on vacation.

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    cdhaley  over 13 years ago

    @Lingeewhiz (assuming you care about the facts)

    The top corporate tax rate is 35% but, owing to exemptions and loopholes, our corporations actually pay less than the international average of 22%. The biggest, such as IBM, Microsoft, Exxon, and GE get exemptions that bring their taxes down to about 11% of their earnings.

    A small business, unable to qualify for the big Federal exemptions, might well find additional state taxation intolerable. What really breaks its back, though, is having to pay top Federal rates so its megasize competitors (who usually pay NO state or local taxes to a foreign govt.) can be relieved of paying their fair share.

    These tax exemptions, by the way, are known in budget jargon as “tax expenditures.” When a Teapublican demands that we cut expenditures, s/he always overlooks these unfair tax expenditures (Obama calls them “loopholes”) because, s/he confusingly argues, plugging loopholes would result in higher taxes!

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    TexTech  over 13 years ago

    You are right Alabama Al. Now I just wonder how many people it takes to build the ten or fifteen of those private helicopters they sell every year (or maybe just in good years). Probably not too many people.

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    FriscoLou  over 13 years ago

    If you back off on the logic pd it doesn’t sound so frustrating.

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    walde  3 months ago

    This week is a rerun of the week of September 20, 2010

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