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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#1: Sep 26th 2010 at 4:56:56 PM

Apparently, KKR is a "small buisness", despite having $60 billion in assets. We sure wouldn't want to raise taxes on those poor mom and pop entrepreneurs who caused the credit crunch are major drivers of job creation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/17/AR2010091702116_pf.html

edited 26th Sep '10 4:57:06 PM by storyyeller

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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#2: Sep 27th 2010 at 10:44:10 AM

Fucking hell, I hate corporations that do things like this.

LullTheConqueror Love Freak from eternal loli Hell Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Sep 27th 2010 at 10:47:03 AM

Hey, Jerry Kohlberg paid my way through college (true story).

So I guess even if he's retired, that still means I'm willing to forgive KKR a few sins.

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BonSequitur Has emotional range Since: Jan, 2001
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#4: Sep 27th 2010 at 10:38:48 PM

Actually, Ivy, it's not KKR claiming to be a small business, but rather Republicans using statistical fudge to claim they are small business. Also a 'small business owners' inside the estimates they have presented: Le Bron James; Paul Krugman; George Soros.

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jewelleddragon Also known as Katz from Pasadena, CA Since: Apr, 2009
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#5: Sep 28th 2010 at 12:01:42 AM

Like how people making more than $250,000 a year were "hit hardest" by the recession. Bull.

FeoTakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
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#6: Sep 28th 2010 at 7:30:30 PM

What exactly are the Republicans advocating? Are they arguing against more taxes on pass-through businesses? In that case, there should be some way to tax KKR without taxing the really small businesses. If they're actually saying "We shouldn't tax KKR," though, calling it a small business is misleading.

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Brutal Be humane. from Be humane. Since: Jan, 2010
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#7: Sep 28th 2010 at 10:52:54 PM

This is why laws shouldn't be set in concrete. Concrete is not very smart.

I mean, seriously, if someone is clearly abusing the law for fun and profit, why do people let them get away with it? Is it so difficult to make the legal system a bit less robotic?

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#8: Sep 28th 2010 at 11:04:57 PM

Because then the people in charge of enforcing the law start abusing it for fun and profit.

Fight smart, not fair.
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