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Thanks for the Tax Cut! (Larry David feels guilty about his fortune)
NY Times ^ | 12/20/10 | LARRY DAVID

Posted on 12/21/2010 9:00:35 AM PST by Libloather

Thanks for the Tax Cut!
By LARRY DAVID
Published: December 20, 2010

THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the last person in the world I’d want to be beside, but I am beside myself! This is a life changer, I tell you. A life changer!

To begin with, I was planning a trip to Cabo with my kids for Christmas vacation. We were going to fly coach, but now with the money I’m saving in taxes, I’m going to splurge and bump myself up to first class. First class! Somebody told me they serve warm nuts up there, and call you “mister.” I might not get off the plane!

I’m also going to call the hotel and get another room so I don’t have to sleep on a cot in the kids’ room. Don’t get me wrong — I love a good cot. The problem is they tend to take up a lot of room, and it’s getting a little tougher in my advancing years to fold it up and drag it to the closet. I mean, I’d do it if I had to, but guess what? I don’t! Not with this windfall coming my way. Now I get to have my own room with a king-sized bed. And who knows, maybe I’ll even get some fancy bottled water from the minibar. This is shaping up to be the best vacation I’ve had in years.

**SNIP**

Life was good, and now it’s even better. Thank you, Republicans. And a special thank you to President Obama and the Democrats. I didn’t know you cared.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; bushtaxcuts; clintonlegacy; david; dnctalkingpoints; idiot; pravdamedia; taxes
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Larry should do the right thing and send at least half of his loot to the gubmint to pay down the debt his pals created. Otherwise, he'll remain a putz.
1 posted on 12/21/2010 9:00:45 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

yeah my MIL is like that. A dim always asking the government to raise her taxes like she has too much money. then she is also the biggest penny pincher around with her own.


2 posted on 12/21/2010 9:02:48 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Libloather

Mr. David has yet to plausibly explain why he fails to report his income at twice or three times its actual amount and pay his taxes on that basis. I can see no inherent barrier to that approach, and it would obviously make him far more happy than his current arrangement.


3 posted on 12/21/2010 9:05:52 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Libloather
To begin with, I was planning a trip to Cabo with my kids for Christmas vacation. We were going to fly coach, but now with the money I’m saving in taxes, I’m going to splurge and bump myself up to first class.

That money will help that airline's bottom line then, won't it? Good for the employees' bonus checks and the shareholders too.

Or we could just hand it over to Islamists in Palestine, Afghanistan, etc in the name of "world peace and development". Make you feel better, Larry?

Wonder if he has an accountant taking ANY deductions on his taxes. You could pay more, you know, Mr. David. It's up to YOU.

4 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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Here, Larry, I'll make it easy for you:

Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt

Share this link with all your guilty lib friends!

5 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:34 AM PST by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: Libloather

Not a tax cut, Larry. Just a reprieve from a tax increase.


6 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:34 AM PST by fhayek
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Or just compile list of the 10% poorest people in america and divide up whatever he feels the money he should be paying and mailing all of them a check.

Or just set up a charity to mimick the US government’s social programs so that rich liberals could pretend they’re paying the taxes they think they should be paying.


7 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:44 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: Libloather

Larry, you magnificent putz!


8 posted on 12/21/2010 9:06:48 AM PST by RexBeach
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Hey Larry! Instead of “bumping” your fat, warm nuts eating ass up to first class, why don’t you “give back” and write a generous check to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital? They can spend all that money you’re trying to get rid of a hell of a lot better than the damn feds can.


9 posted on 12/21/2010 9:07:09 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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Life was good, and now it’s even better. Thank you, Republicans. And a special thank you to President Obama and the Democrats. I didn’t know you cared.

Dear Mr. Democrapheadidiotpoopypants,

Your life has not gotten one iota "better". Tax rates stayed the SAME, that's all.

But spin like a good Stalinist dupe...

10 posted on 12/21/2010 9:07:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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Otherwise, he'll remain a putz.

Remain a putz? He tried to weasel in on the Seinfeld success, but nobody cares what he thinks or his crappy show on HBO.

11 posted on 12/21/2010 9:07:49 AM PST by muleskinner
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Well, he could donate to charity if he feels guilty.

But I suppose his idea of charity is aborting third world babies or chopping them up for their stem cells.

So, maybe it’s better if he just spends it.


12 posted on 12/21/2010 9:08:10 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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There is absolutely nothing from stopping him from donating virtually all of his money to any charity, or the government or in fact anyone or anything that he believes deserves it more than he does. I wonder how I can reach him to tell him this?


13 posted on 12/21/2010 9:09:13 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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I wonder if these Liberals fill out the standard 1040 tax form with Standard deductions instead of itemizing...


14 posted on 12/21/2010 9:09:42 AM PST by scbison
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Is Larry really so stupid that he doesn't know the government will accept as much extra money as he wishes to give them?

There is no need for guilt, Larry! Write that check, right now!

Or is your real objection about OTHER PEOPLE being allowed to keep what they earned?

15 posted on 12/21/2010 9:10:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

You are talking about the same crapmonkey who was the basis for George Costanza’s irrational outbursts on Seinfeld.

You want to debate a man who’s idea of humor now is to show a portrait of Jesus getting urinated on and crazy Christians thinking that it’s suddenly a miraculous “crying Jesus”?


16 posted on 12/21/2010 9:10:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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This smug b**tard can laugh about it,yeah?
Try living on $20,000 a year LARRY instead of $20,000 a month.


17 posted on 12/21/2010 9:11:12 AM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Libloather

Funny, I’ll benefit, and I think of it this way:

None of that money will now go to support welfare mamas with 10 kids.

None of that money will go to support those b*stard GM workers and management who sold me that g*dawful cr*p that I was stupid enough to purchase during my previous life.

And none of that money will go to pay for the Dung Beetle in Chief and his sleazy wife to jet off to somewhere that they can both avoid reality.

Hey Larry sleezeball...I earned my money. You can shove your tax savings up your smelly Obama.


18 posted on 12/21/2010 9:12:00 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Libloather

That’s weird, I went to the link once, no problem. I tried to go again and now it wants me to log in.


19 posted on 12/21/2010 9:12:25 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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If you feel that you have received more money than you've earned, Larry - feel free to make any donation you like to the federal government or any other charity of your choice.

But while we're on the subject, Larry, you should admit that the bulk of your fortune is squirreled away in tax-advantaged trusts that are completely unaffected by changes in income tax rates.

20 posted on 12/21/2010 9:12:54 AM PST by wideawake
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