Forbes Headline - "Tax Planning For The Risk Of A Bernie Sanders Win"

[Ed Suspicious]

"The Risk" - There is something about this that is both infuriating while at the same time invigorating. They really are getting seriously nervous. I relish that.

"The prospect of President Bernie Sanders still seems like a heck of a long shot. For whatever it is worth there is polling that indicates that Bernie Sanders would win against Donald Trump. The best summary I’ve seen as to why a Sanders win is impossible is that this is a center-right country. When you travel in certain circles that is difficult to grasp. (Remember the joke about the college professor who could not figure out how Nixon won by a landslide, since everybody he knew voted for McGovern?) Still. Do we really think that the country was as far as left as it would ever be forty years ago and that there is no possibility of a crazy pendulum swing?

Anyway, I think there is enough to the contingency of the coming Sanders administration to think about what kind of a tax plan you might want to have in place in the event that that on January 20, 2017 the Catholic chief justice of a Supreme Court without a single Protestant swears in our first Jewish President."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2015/08/30/tax-planning-for-the-risk-of-a-bernie-sanders-win/

[SheilaT]

1. If a Republican, including Donald Trump

is elected President, we need to prepare for a downturn in the Dow and the economy. As well as increased deficits. And probably another serious downturn in the economy.

[ruffburr]

2. The 1%-

Are afraid of Bernie, The free ride on the back of the taxpayers will come to an end as will the payoffs to politicians, Gawd we need Bernie Sanders in the Whitehouse!!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. He includes references to Roberts and Sanders faith?

WTF is up with that?

[artislife]

4. Clarence Thomas isn't a protestant?

I know we have a few catholics, and Ginsberg is Jewish...but no protestants? Not one?

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Nope, they are all Catholic or Jewish

But I don't know why it matters anyway.

[artislife]

11. Because

I think there are way more protestants than any other religion.

(I am an atheist, but was raised a catholic, btw.)

How many SCOTUS were completely protestant....?

It is very interesting, why does it matter...who is to say. Perhaps, you are right.


But it seems odd.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. I agree. I thought it was odd when I found out

Thomas even studied to be a priest for a while. There have certainly been Protestants in the past. There just don't happen to be any right now.

[RoccoR5955]

5. Their free ride shall end

When the first president born and raised in Brooklyn, NY (same as me) comes to the White House.

Seriously, I don't think that any other president has come from Brooklyn, and Brooklyn would be the 4th largest city in the US if it wasn't a borough of NYC.

I see the 1%ers are getting a little panicy. Good, they need to be.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. Beware the cantankerous jew, they wail.

[Rod Beauvex]

9. Which is funny....

As they act more like what people consider 'Jew' than the actual Jewish guy.

[drm604]

7. They always assume that if they plan properly they can negate the effects of changes in tax laws.

They do everything they can to avoid paying their fair share.

Then they wonder why people are angry at them. They whine that the public has the wrong impression of them; that they're actually good guys who create jobs and make it possible for people to barely scrape by.

[leftcoastmountains]

8. Actually

I read that article and was encouraged by it.

1. It means Bernie Sanders is being taken seriously.
2. The article itself is not that alarmist but rather a pragmatic look
at his proposals and what they would mean to taxpayers.
3. He actually asked for them from Bernie's campaign.
4. He said the proposals looked like the second half of Reagan administration.
In other words they weren't all that bad and shouldn't scare people off. A lot of people
vote their pocketbook. (my words)

[SoapBox]

12. Correct with...

the usual SNARK.

An image that is burned in my brain was seeing Forbes private aircraft (it was a B-727 but if I remember it was a -100) land at LAX.

Across the fuselage is said, Capitalist Tool.