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Originally posted by Bill Koski:
You'd think by now the duped boob RETARDS would know better then to start blathering about some one on the right in trouble, but then again they are RETARDS!
For every one they can point to on the right there are at least a dozen on the left in deeper shyt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Bob H:
The biggest Christmas present that many people will get this year comes from the federal government. And most will probably fritter it away.

Thanks to the tax bill that President Obama signed a week ago, a large number of Americans will get a year-long discount on their payroll taxes in 2011. Normally, employees pay 6.2 percent of their salaries, up to a $106,800 limit, toward Social Security. In 2011, that number will fall to 4.2 percent.

As a result, individuals could end up with a payroll tax savings of up to $2,136 in 2011, according to CCH, a tax information provider. Households with two wage earners who both make more than $106,800 will get $4,272, double the amount for individuals.

The self-employed will share in the year-long tax holiday as well, though they will still be on the hook for the full 6.2 percent of the employer contribution to Social Security. As a result, they’ll pay 10.4 percent in payroll taxes instead of the usual 12.4 percent.

Some government workers and others who do not contribute to Social Security will not get this temporary break. And as Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center pointed out in a blog post earlier this month, the payroll tax holiday represents a net loss for many low-income individuals, who will lose access to the Making Work Pay tax credit, which expires at the end of the year.

Still, the payroll tax break is a handout worth about $120 billion, according to the White House. And the administration hopes that you will spend every cent to help get the economy going again. In fact, the tax break was designed with just that in mind. When money dribbles into a paycheck, as this tax break will for many millions of workers, they tend not to save it in the same way that they might if it came in the form of a lump-sum check

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Originally posted by Grandma:
Mark Twain, the N-word and why re-writing Huckleberry Finn matters to metro Detroit



Editor's note: We debated using the actual n-word in order to tell this story, but decided against it. There is a difference between Mark Twain writing the word in the context of his time and using it in a 2011 post on MLive.com. We ask that you respect MLive.com policy and not use the word in our comments area below

A small publishing house in Alabama, on the advice of an obscure academic, will publish a small run of a new edition of Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" with a small revision, the n-word will be replaced with “slave.”

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