I'm sure I'm wrong here, but it's his 2010 income tax closer to 11%? If he had $12.6m in capital gains and $3.3m in qualified dividends, he paid $3m in capital gains taxes. So he paid $631k on INCOME of $5.7m. And what does he pay to Social Security and Medicare and Unemployment insurace? Where's that on the tax form? Any tax specialists out there?
Totally agree. I've never figured out why the super committee didn't outlaw the penny and the dollar bill right off the bat. Sure, it's not much of a savings, but geez, these are the obvious ones!
If by great, you mean being head of the House Financial Services Committee during the worst banking crisis since the Depression, then I guess he's great.
I would like for Occupy Wall Street to end the NBA lockout. All they have to do is occupy about 5 billionaires' homes. It's be a success for them and a success for the peanut vendors who are the ones getting screwed by the lockout. Win. Win.
But see, no one actually fired a shot. There's a difference between saying to my husband, "I'm going to kill you," and saying "I'm going to kill you" and then actually killing him.
And if you think that this could have happened anywhere else, that it was just random, you couldn't be more wrong.