Comments on: You gotta be shitting me. http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/ Loving this country enough to leave it / Loving this country enough to save it Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: calvin http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-417 calvin Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:43:39 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-417 We can't edit so... I think the reason so many of those "Going Galt" are unaware of marginal tax rates is because they've outsourced doing their taxes, or even knowing about taxes, to someone else. Do those of you Going Galters realize that you won't have the time for innovation and entrepreneurship when you're cleaning out your own latrine, cooking your own food, filing your own taxes, taking your own trash to your own dump, and cycling to work? Your free time and ability to work in an office is the benefit of paying someone else to do your dirty work, these things don't just happen. We can’t edit so…

I think the reason so many of those “Going Galt” are unaware of marginal tax rates is because they’ve outsourced doing their taxes, or even knowing about taxes, to someone else.

Do those of you Going Galters realize that you won’t have the time for innovation and entrepreneurship when you’re cleaning out your own latrine, cooking your own food, filing your own taxes, taking your own trash to your own dump, and cycling to work? Your free time and ability to work in an office is the benefit of paying someone else to do your dirty work, these things don’t just happen.

]]> By: Calvin http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Calvin Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:39:24 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-416 and what's with this assumption that monetary wealth is the ultimate measure of societal values? Mother Theresa, what a fucking deadbeat. Only reason she spent all that time in slums is because she couldn't afford to buy her own impoverished Indian. Thank God we have rich innovators like Paris Hilton and Nicole Ricci offsetting the utter worthlessness of Moochers like Steve Reich and Pablo Picasso. More like National Endowment for the Looters! and what’s with this assumption that monetary wealth is the ultimate measure of societal values?

Mother Theresa, what a fucking deadbeat. Only reason she spent all that time in slums is because she couldn’t afford to buy her own impoverished Indian.

Thank God we have rich innovators like Paris Hilton and Nicole Ricci offsetting the utter worthlessness of Moochers like Steve Reich and Pablo Picasso. More like National Endowment for the Looters!

]]> By: Calvin http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Calvin Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:31:53 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-414 Government and income taxes aren't stopping anyone from achieving; just look how massive and "revered" our corporate culture is. If you think anything the government's doing is stopping you from being successful, maybe you're just incompetent. Outsourcing labor isn't enough, you have to outsource your excuses, too? Government and income taxes aren’t stopping anyone from achieving; just look how massive and “revered” our corporate culture is. If you think anything the government’s doing is stopping you from being successful, maybe you’re just incompetent. Outsourcing labor isn’t enough, you have to outsource your excuses, too?

]]> By: mike hunt http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-378 mike hunt Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:14:05 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-378 You sir, are the hero of the day. It’s not enough to just be a greedy sub-intellectual Rand zombie, you should be lazy too! A brilliant satire of modern conservatism. Thanks for the laughs You sir, are the hero of the day. It’s not enough to just be a greedy sub-intellectual Rand zombie, you should be lazy too! A brilliant satire of modern conservatism. Thanks for the laughs

]]> By: Mark http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Mark Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:48:41 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-361 Original thinking does not have an income tax bracket. Original thinking does not have an income tax bracket.

]]> By: Michele R. Strub http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Michele R. Strub Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:38:57 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-335 When I read Atlas Shrugged about twenty or so years ago I thought the question being asked was: What would happen to the world if all of the people with original thoughts were no longer participating in the world? What would happen if the original thinkers set up their own digs without non-free thinkers mucking up the works. Like I said, I read it many years ago and cannot remember how things worked out for the orig. thinkers. Guess I'll have to read it again. btw, Ellen, I cruised over from Colbert Report as well. When I read Atlas Shrugged about twenty or so years ago I thought the question being asked was: What would happen to the world if all of the people with original thoughts were no longer participating in the world? What would happen if the original thinkers set up their own digs without non-free thinkers mucking up the works. Like I said, I read it many years ago and cannot remember how things worked out for the orig. thinkers. Guess I’ll have to read it again.
btw, Ellen, I cruised over from Colbert Report as well.

]]> By: Ellen http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Ellen Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:24:00 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-330 Another visitor brought here from The Colbert Report. If sales of "Atlas Shrugged" really are going up and it's not just part of the comedy routine, there should be some interesting dialogues opening up with new readers. Another visitor brought here from The Colbert Report. If sales of “Atlas Shrugged” really are going up and it’s not just part of the comedy routine, there should be some interesting dialogues opening up with new readers.

]]> By: matt http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-325 matt Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:03:04 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-325 Taxes done right can lead to prosperity for all. Done incorrectly you get this bastard economy of ours. breif history of income taxes. http://www.essortment.com/all/unitedstatesin_rmhj.htm http://www.tax.org/museum/1901-1932.htm Taxes done right can lead to prosperity for all. Done incorrectly you get this bastard economy of ours.

breif history of income taxes.

http://www.essortment.com/all/unitedstatesin_rmhj.htm
http://www.tax.org/museum/1901-1932.htm

]]> By: Howie Feltersnatch http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Howie Feltersnatch Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:55:58 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-324 I'm always amazed at people's inability to understand marginal tax rates. "Derrr...I need to earn less money, because if I earn more money I'll have to pay more taxes on it!!!" We call this "cutting off your nose to spite your face." Or "votin' for Nader." I’m always amazed at people’s inability to understand marginal tax rates. “Derrr…I need to earn less money, because if I earn more money I’ll have to pay more taxes on it!!!”

We call this “cutting off your nose to spite your face.” Or “votin’ for Nader.”

]]> By: Taylor http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/2009/03/12/you-gotta-be-shitting-me/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Taylor Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:41:07 +0000 http://www.goingjohngalt.org/blog/?p=183#comment-320 yeah, I'm watching the Colbert Report right now, he just did an entire section and mentioned this website, that's why I'm here. yeah, I’m watching the Colbert Report right now, he just did an entire section and mentioned this website, that’s why I’m here.

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