Quotes

That doesn’t make any sense. James is not being taxed twice. The person getting the money is being taxed on their accretion to wealth, once. It’s no diffrent then when you earn money at your job (taxed) and then you give it to someone as a gift (person receiving gift pays taxes on gifts, you do not.)

That money was subject to tax twice, yes. money is taxed all the fucking time. it was not “double taxed” as to that tax payer.

The" Double tax mugerglegurgle!!! “argument makes no fucking sense, and was invented by the republicans (I.E those who actually have money above the 5 million dollar exception to this rule) to drum up support to end "the death tax” among the 99% of the people in this country it doesn’t effect, because there is a 5 million dollar federal exception. Is your estate worth less than 5 million dollars? good news! your friends and realitives take your shit tax free.

But presented with the need to make the base of the republican party care (spoiler alert: most are going to die to poor to ever be effected) the powers that be correctly assumed that wording it as a “death tax” and “THEY WANNA TAKE YER MONEY TWICE!” arguments would be more effective then saying “5 million dollars tax free? fuck that, I have 500 million to hand down to young paris, how will she make a living on just 325 million of that??!?

Hamnight in response to people complaining that people getting taxed on the free money that they had no part in earning that James Gandolfini left to them somehow amounts to a double tax on James Gandolfini; who for the record is dead and left 70 million for 6 people to share; they will get 30 million to share and they didn’t have to work a day to “earn” it

A paedophile priest told a distraught seven-year-old boy that he could get his dead grandfather into heaven if he performed a sex act on him, a court has heard.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/paedophile-priest-told-boy-7-he-could-get-dead-grandfather-into-heaven-if-he-performed-sex-act-29389769.html

Included in the documents are requests from Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the Vatican to transfer $57 million to a trust fund to protect it from, in his words, “any legal claim and liability.” The transfer was approved a month later. On Monday, Dolan insisted that his request has been misinterpreted, saying the transfer was a “perpetual care fund.” The documents also show that Dolan did take action to notify the Vatican of abuses by Reverend John O’Brien – and that it took six years for the man to be stripped of his priesthood. The AP reports that to date the diocese has already spent “$30.5m on litigation, therapy and assistance for victims and other costs related to clergy sex abuse.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/02/huge_document_dump_shows_how_church_covered_abuse/

How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber? Ask them to pronounce unionized.

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Proponents argue the bill would bring much-needed transparency to union finances, laying out for the public how much officers receive and how much is spent on political activity. Opponents say the bill treads on privacy rights, casts too broad a net in terms of who would have to disclose personal information, and pushes the federal government into an area of provincial jurisdiction.

Amend it to include all corporations and political groups (and religious groups) then we can start talking

No, no, no. One complaint per table is all, unless you want them to spit in the food. Let me tell you a story about George Jean Nathan, America’s great drama critic. Nathan was the tightest man who ever lived, even tighter than Charles Chaplin. And he lived for 40 years in the Hotel Royalton, which is across from the Algonquin. He never tipped anybody in the Royalton, not even when they brought the breakfast, and not at Christmastime. After about ten years of never getting tipped, the room-service waiter peed slightly in his tea. Everybody in New York knew it but him. The waiters hurried across the street and told the waiters at Algonquin, who were waiting to see when it would finally dawn on him what he was drinking! And as the years went by, there got to be more and more urine and less and less tea. And it was a great pleasure for us in the theater to look at a leading critic and know that he was full of piss. And I, with my own ears, heard him at the ‘21’ complaining, saying, “Why can’t I get tea here as good as it is at the Royalton?” That’s when I fell on the floor, you know.

Orson Welles on Complaining about service