The babyjesuschristsuperstar on Board: filling the moral void of Clinton’s legacy

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
there's no such thing as bad press IMHO

But it really wasn't true. You're more of a scattershit, politically unsure drunk. Penske was laser-like in pounding his singular message.

I assume this "you'd be something, but you're a goddammed boozebag" speech is old hat to you. I am shaking my head as I write this.

[ltl/fb]

So, they were talking on the radio about the $1 million/day powerball thingy and said "uncle sam will take more than half" -- why is this? Is it an AMT thing and AMT rates are really that high?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
So, they were talking on the radio about the $1 million/day powerball thingy and said "uncle sam will take more than half" -- why is this? Is it an AMT thing and AMT rates are really that high?

no, but i think they withhold at the top rate, which is 36% or something. Add in state taxes. and you come up close enough to say "more than half".

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
no, but i think they withhold at the top rate, which is 36% or something. Add in state taxes. and you come up close enough to say "more than half".

Ah. then it's what I thought, they were sloppy -- state taxes aren't "uncle sam." Sam's a fed.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Oh, don't be a scold here. There's no place where we should observe free market rules/free speech more expansively than the media. Any and every crank should be allowed to speak whatever he likes. People should be smart or dumb enough to select what information/disinformation they like and run with it to their heart's content. I know you didn't suggest curtailing free speech, but that's the inveitable solution offered to cure the problem of people like Coulter. I say, let an idiot have his podium. More comedy for the rest of us.

Well, you got one thing right -- I didn't suggest curtailing free speech.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Ah. then it's what I thought, they were sloppy -- state taxes aren't "uncle sam." Sam's a fed.

I thought that lottery winnings are taxed at a higher rate than most other income. Isn't lottery a separate question on the tax form?

ETA: Never mind, I found the form, and it looks like withholding should be at 25%. I don't know what the tax rate is on that income though.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
So, they were talking on the radio about the $1 million/day powerball thingy and said "uncle sam will take more than half" -- why is this? Is it an AMT thing and AMT rates are really that high?

It was because people are stupid and math is hard.

The top bracket is still 35%. With the phaseout of exemptions and deductions, some people in the bulge have a higher effective rate, but by the time you're in the tens of millions (assuming the winner takes a lump sum) you're back at the 35% rate.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I thought that lottery winnings are taxed at a higher rate than most other income. Isn't lottery a separate question on the tax form?

Lottery winnings are taxed at the same rate as other ordinary income.

[Raggedy Ann Coulter]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Well, you got one thing right -- I didn't suggest curtailing free speech.

The ragheads have now put a Million Dollar bounty on the heads of the Danish Cartoonists.

"Bombing them back to the stone age" is actually laughable idea. These cretins never left the stone age to begin with.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Raggedy Ann Coulter
The ragheads have now put a Million Dollar bounty on the heads of the Danish Cartoonists.

"Bombing them back to the stone age" is actually laughable idea. These cretins never left the stone age to begin with.

What is that after taxes?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I do. Not so much because it bothers me that some right-wing publicity-hound twat accuses me of "Treason". But because people who should be intelligent enough to ignore her don't, but instead parrot what she says and profess their admiration for her -- or even consider her diatribes amusing.

Club, for example, talks about "my girl, Ann."

Slave has been known to quote her affectionately, often in the heat of passion.

And Bilmore? Ann Coulter with breasts.

If you take her for what she is, she is pretty amusing. Lighten up.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sgtclub
If you take her for what she is . . .

Hate mongerer? Inciter of violence? Race baiter? What is she, exactly?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Lottery winnings are taxed at the same rate as other ordinary income.

What if you trade it for a timeshare?

[original Hank@judged.com]

Originally posted by sgtclub
If you take her for what she is, she is pretty amusing. Lighten up.

sidd is not so dense as some to not to realize what her play is. You can't have once come on to a Greedy associates board, even solo ambulance chasing, and not respect someone who can make big bucks doing what you do on an internet board where the most sidd gets is stroking affirmation from Wonk or Ty trhee days later.

does Ann get residuals from our posts?

[original Hank@judged.com]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What if you trade it for a timeshare?

depends, what week you have an interest? Wonk might place a higher value on spring break week-he takes kids and also gets to ogle more udnerage girls in bikini. the dirty old man routine is easier without the overcoat. built in premium.