It sounds scary when it’s written like this: “Gov. Pat Quinn today called for a 33 percent increase in the state income tax rate to raise money for education and ease deep cuts he’s proposed in his new budget plan.” Less scary when it’s written like this: “Quinn wants to increase the personal income tax rate from 3 percent to 4 percent — a 33 percent increase — with the corporate tax rate rising from 4.8 percent to 5.8 percent. The tax hike would bring in $2.8 billion a year.” Oh well that sounds fair in these tough times but GAHHH THIRTY-THREE PERCENT HOLY SHIT FIRE HIM. [Chicago Tribune]
TODAY IN WORDING
March 10, 2010
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Fire his thug ass straight to the White House.
There are lies, damned lies, and the Chicago Tribune.
Did he used to work for an insurance company?
This is what happens when Pete Puma is your chief budget advisor.
Wait, how does that even make sense? An increase of one percent in the tax rate equals a 33 percent tax hike. Aren’t there some words or math missing there or something?
Patty may talk about it, but the chickenshit legislators won’t act on it. Spineless poo bags.
Still Jim, you gotta admit, 33 percent plus 3 and 4 percent, plus 5.8 and 4.8 percent, is like 50.6%. That is A LOT. And then, when you add the 2.8 billion to it, damn. Maybe they should fire him.
But if we used the metric system it would be just above zero.
numbers are scary. they should find a way to explain the increase using hand puppets of farm animals.
[re=528145]Tommmcatt[/re]: It’s the difference between “percent” and “percentage points.” Math is liberal!
Where is that white rap band when you need them?
Fully 100% of Chicago Tribune articles published March 10 by Ray Long, Monique Garcia and Rick Pearson use misleading statistics to further their conservative, tax-hating agenda. And the Trib’s always been right wing; but I’m sure the wignuts consider it to be part of the “liberal Media”.
Of course, the comments are filled with the teabaggers, with their “Illinois needs to stop stealing our money for those welfare criminal breeders and illegal aliens” racist shit.
[re=528158]GoinGreen[/re]: Preparing their latest “I am the tea party leader” run-down, I’m guessing.
[re=528153]el donaldo[/re]: Or fruit, maybe. “You see these three apples? Now, if I add an apple, there are four apples! And that is the tax rate. Justin! No eating the tax rate, please!”
The corporate rate increase is 20.83%, so corporations are having their taxes raised 37 percent less than individuals. ANOTHER CORPORATE GIVEAWAY.
[re=528154]Jim Newell[/re]:
I knew I was too dumb to understand it.
Doesn’t this numbskull realize that you can entirely avoid having to raise taxes if you simply exterminate non-millionaires?
[re=528153]el donaldo[/re]:
That I would have a chance of understanding.
[re=528160]JMP[/re]: It really does seem intentionally misleading, right? That’s not just “liberal” perception, right? I mean to describe the tax increase using that 33% figure is, just from an editor’s point of view, labored and obtuse, isn’t it.
[re=528158]GoinGreen[/re]: [re=528158]GoinGreen[/re]: To whom are you referring?
3rd Bass? 311? 3? Three? Three Dog Night? Dirty Three? Third Eye Blind? The Thompson Twins?
[re=528160]JMP[/re]: No, only the comments ALLOWED to be posted are filled with teabaggers, etc… The Trib is notorious for not posting comments that interupt their agenda. Go on the link and post something negative about the article and then something positive about the article using a different name – see which one gets posted!
[re=528188]GoinGreen[/re]: It doesn’t matter. They track IP’s in their comment section.
[re=528181]Extemporanus[/re]: No, man – THE WOLVERINES!!
http://wonkette.com/413985/world-net-daily-folks-release-crappy-white-people-rap-thing
I must warn you, though, do not view until AT LEAST 30 minutes after eating.
We should privatize everything first, then deregulate. Oh wait, we’ve already done that. Never mind.
[re=528188]GoinGreen[/re]: The best thing I can say about the Trib comments is that most of the people there can successfully breathe in and out. I read it occasionally, and the whole mess is populated by grumpy old bats and Beck wannabes. 3/4ths of the people who leave comments should be beat about the head and neck with Obama’s penis. And it gets worse – the Trib just opened a bloggy-type thing called “trib Nation” which is a complimentary butt plug for their FB puke-fest.
Wouldn’t it be better if the governor of Illinois gave a tax break to everyone earning more than — oh — $10,000,000.00 and raised taxes on everyone earning $30,000.00 or less? That would get things moving again!!! Think of the nice summer condos those folks could buy up in Door County!
[re=528198]Mojopo[/re]: I moved to a burb of Chicago a few years ago from Texas – for work. I was all excited, being from one of the reddest of red states, I thought I would finally meet some like-minded liberals. Much to my surprise, EVERYONE in the town I lived in was a fucking teabagger and told me I needed to go to the ‘hood’ to find some liberals. I’m glad I moved back to Texas – where the rednecks, here at least, usually don’t benefit from the things they hate!
[re=528180]Ruhe[/re]: Yeah; there’s no way they could have failed to realized that people would think that meant a 33% tax rate. And the Tribune has always hated taxes. Fun fact – Obama was the first Democrat they endorsed for President ever; and probably only because he’s a local.
[re=528188]GoinGreen[/re]: Huh. I moved from Chicago back in the days before newspaper comments existed; and didn’t know the Trib did that; but it’s not surprising.
Maybe I am a moron, which is entirely possible because I am a Libtard, but I found myself taking an interest in a Trib editorial about my taxes in IL, taxes that forced me to get a Costco membership outide of Cook County in an effort to save some dough on bottles of gin now and then, and LORD KNOWS I love their hot dogs but I dislike the drive to Oak Brook because driving on our roads is like driving on square wheels over a Martian landscape, and I liked the Trib tax plan because it was (shut up!) making some sense. Thank you for indulging my run-on sentence experiment. I’m home sick today.
172% misleading.
[re=528214]GoinGreen[/re]: They HATE liberals here. HATE us. Hate hate and hate. The Democrats success here is more of a tribute to clout than voter appeal. I live in Forest Park, and next door is liberal Oak Park. Oak Park and downtown live in a fairy bubble of Liberal Lovin’, and I know this because I travel within and without daily. I am a Lib who likes Obama, and I am an exception to the rule in Chicagoland.
I lived in Lake Forest and worked in DT Chicago. The only liberals I ever met were on the train to Lake Forest, a couple of old men who could drink me under the table on the ride in. Some of the coolest old farts I ever met.
God I hate you surburban assholes. Move to the fucking city if you don’t like your shitty western suburbs. The suburbs are NOT Chicago – you’re probably the kind of assholes who tell everyone you live “in Chicago” but never actually go to the city except for work.
[re=528226]Mojopo[/re]: It’s a formula they go by, actually. Two.Five months of corrupt politicians and dead inner city kids, followed by three days of touting sports heroes of yesteryear, then they run an editorial at the precise right time to make you associate it with giddy sexual fanatasies about a young Ernie Banks being as you’re on the rebound after an endless onslaught of emotional, political and financial assault and, therefore, easily confused. Every four cycles they also have someone badger the fuck out of you until you renew your subscription, and it works because you’ve been on that same fucking roller coaster for a while and the human contact from someone who audibly hates their job as much as you do gives you a sense of kinship. Then, there’s a week and a half of nebulous implication of negative shit happening around the world while the board figures out the best line of horseshit top drag you down with for 10 solid weeks, assuming the previous line is not still live.
Get well soon!
[re=528251]Snarkalicious[/re]: Man, it’s like you’re right there. Only, the subscription people stopped calling me. I bought one of those lifetime rates several years ago, and the Trib is now losing money on me. They would rather I just went away.
[re=528288]Mojopo[/re]: Oh, if only! I got sucked in by some dude with Aspergers and his retarded dog and it’s been hell ever since.
[re=528314]Snarkalicious[/re]: HA! How do you say “no’ to that? I couldn’t. Good luck, and thank you for the visual of the dog. I have room in my heart for retarded dogs.
Why cant the gov cut taxes to balance the budget like Reagan didnt, like HW Bush didnt and like W didnt? As any teabagger can tell ya, budget deficits only get outrage from conservatives when theres a black guy in the oval office.
Which of you little stinkers wrote this in the comments??
1.) Stop funding schools and universities and refund the money we spend on those Liberal breeding grounds so that we can send our kids to private schools.
2.) Stop funding DCFS and let private companies do adoption.
3.) No more state inspectors or bridge building or roads except. Your town needs it? Your town pays for it.
4.) No more state funding for corrupt RTA/CTA/Metra. Pay for your commute like the rest of America.
5.) Close all state run old folks and mental “disabled” homes. They’re filthy and these people should NOT be our responsibility.
Tea partiers unite!
Posted by: tea partay | March 10, 2010 at 03:23 P
Well I guess we know he will be fired come November with his proposed tax increase…just where people think the money will come from to pay for all of Blago’s give-aways while he was in office without a tax increase baffles me. At least Quinn is telling it like it is even though he appears to be talking to a six-year-old when he explains stuff…oh wait, the average Illinoian may be on the level of a six-year-old because look who they keep voting into office…our best and brightest?
Tribune reporters are innumerate, its a job requirement!
[re=528380]lochnessmonster[/re]: He has a chance, his GOP opponent Brady is somewhere to the right of Alan Keyes.
Royko is just a spinning.
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