dumb twat.

How much do you pull down, Mika, you cheeky little person?

Whatever it is, you’re overpaid.

How much did Mika make? How much did she pay in taxes? Right she’s not answering those questions. What a joke of a person.

2 of 0lbammie’s 1-percenters (Meeka and Joke) daily telling the rest of us to be happy with our declining country.

I want to know how much this chick makes and how much she pays in taxes. 

Note the insanity of her acting like paying over $600 million in taxes isn’t enough in and of itself. Liberals are mad.

Mika is too busy to divulge what she makes or pays in taxes. In response to Bill O’Reilly, Mika  is  busy writing her 1st. book about her favorite founding father Abraham Lincoln.

T. Boone Pickens has a wing at MD Anderson Cancer Center named after him.  Ask any cancer patient if that is a good or bad thing.  

Libs will not be content until all of your money is taxed away and given to the govt. for a panel of  bureaucrats to decide what the  ”fair” amount should be that is allocated to everyone.

I usually like Mika very much, but this was really bad — borderline blond question.

Mika…after you tell us how much you pay in taxes…please tell us if you are paying enough in taxes.

If you don’t want to tell people how much you make, don’t brag about how much you pay in taxes.

 “More than half (54 percent) of American households have an income of
less than $50K per year. The median household income for a family of
four in 2009 was $49,777 gross ($40,700 net).”

http://www.lifesmarts.org/index.php?page=live-from-the-lifesmarts-summit
 
Are those tens of millions of people supposed to cry because T. Boone Pickens’ taxes go up 3% percent?

–Cobra

This IDIOT fell down the stairs with an infant because she stated she was at the pinnacle of her career & sooo tired from working & motherhood. Then she’s on tv in the morning telling the audience she likes ambien & vodka.  Yikes! Maybe she should have been tested after the incident. I don’t really see her as a left wing elitist..She’s self absorbed & shallow. I did try watching, she says a lot of um um um & makes facial expressions like a mime. It’s very unattractive especially with the sleep away camp haircut.

No, but the 47% who pay no federal  taxes should STFU about the taxes others pay.

Mika, if your last name were Jones you would not be at MSNBC.

And Mika will soon have a cancer named after her- liberalscartoma- it renders one stupid and demanding that the govt support them for their entire life.

 The 47% wouldn’t even know if the rich weren’t whining about how much they pay in the first place.

–Cobra

Son, the rich aren’t whining about what they pay, it’s liberals whining about what the rich pay.

The reason I am a conservative and not a liberal is very simple. Libs always want to tell you how to live, how much you can earn, what you should eat. They tell you what is “fair” as if they have some mandate to decide what is fair.

Conservatives do not wish to tell others how to live. Just let us live.

Just look at the comments on Mediaite. You can always tell who the libs are, because they are always telling others what they should be doing. Get your own life libs. Live it however you want, but just because you own a Prius, doesn’t mean I should have to drive a shitbox. Just because you think I should pay more in taxes, doesn’t mean I can afford to, and just because you are a hippie vegan, doesn’t mean I should stop eating steak.

That was a perfectly fair question, considering he was the one to bring up how much he paid in taxes.  Pretty awkward, though…

You say that as if conservatives don’t tell everyone else what to do about other issues.  Both like to boss everyone else around and look down on people who disagree with them.  Pretending otherwise is just the height of hypocrisy.

I think Mika should be taxed to make her income exactly even with what I make, so we are all equal…since I pay exactly enough in taxes…

I saw a bunch of people stricken with that strain of cancer down at Wall Street over the past few months…

I won’t be satisfied until my kid’s college fund is taxed out of my budget to allow Michelle Obama to take “business trips” on Airforce One to exotic destinations with her two school-aged “senior advisors”

Mik4 would be overpaid if she were working for FREE.

Here answer to the question of “do you pay enough in taxes” will of course be “no”.  But then the follow on question “to take advantage of the option to pay more taxes than required at the end of the year” will of course be “no” as well….

I agree to a point. There are social conservatives that are that way, and I do not agree with them. However, the majority of people telling others how they should live come from the left.

But what your describing is not socialism, and socialist principles are what this country was founded on and also what made it great…right?

““You feel like i’m not paying my fair share after $665 million and I’m over 70 years old?” Pickens pressed Brzezinski.

Rich man whining. Case closed.

  And this is the same swift-boating billionaire jackass who wants the American Tax Payer to subsidize his natural gas business endeavors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2bJJrzE_8c

 You’ll happily agree to pay that, won’t you stonepark, because Pickens is a rich conservative who supports Republican candidates, right?

–Cobra

Yeah, and they are now squatters in foreclosed homes. I guess they want to experience what it feels like to live like a real liberal.

““”“You feel like i’m not paying my fair share after $665 million and I’m over 70 years old?” Pickens pressed Brzezinski”

That was not a whine , it was  a statement of fact.

And the only thing, closed, son, is your mind.

Now you do the patriotic thing and pay some taxes, son.

I think self absorbed & shallow could describe the whole crew on Morning Joe. Its a group that really lives in a complete bubble.

 Mika, you may look like one of the boys, but the boys still ignore you.
Time to file it, sweet cheeks!
 
 
 

It’s simply insane to claim that’s not a valid question. If he paid 665 million in taxes, the only way to gain context is to know the amount of income on which he paid those taxes.
Her salary or tax rate is immaterial as she isn’t the one complaining about her tax burden..
More of these people like Forbes or Trump need to be called out on their claims. Further, the personal attacks on her only illustrate the ignorance of those making the attacks.

That’s a damn whine, just as much as if he said the “This studio’s 65 degrees” “The Green room only serves coffee”

Second, you want people who make under 40K a year to pay  federal taxes so that T. Boone Pickens can collect it as corporate welfare–subsidies for his natural gas businesses?

Really?

–Cobra

The author of this article is way too sensitive if he thinks what Joe did was chastizing Mika.  In the past you must have walked out of you boss’s office in tears after a stern talking too.  The argument is about percentages and not real dollars.  Her question was relevant and if you don’t see that then you don’t understand the discussion.

1) Pro-Life
2)Patriot Act
3) Anti-Gay Marriage
4) Medicare prescription-drug plan
5) Non-defense/emergency response spending increased 23% during Bush’s presidency.
6) No Child Left Behind
7) Tort Reform

Conservative views which require government intervention.  This is selective big government.  If you don’t see this then you are too ideological. 

Go Mika! It’s about percentages.  According to T Boones salary, he has been paying 3% a year in taxes. OH THE SHAME. T Boone has been worth 1.4 billion a year and he has paid 665 million over 13 years. Also, his income was higher 5 years ago not lower.

OH THE SHAME. T Boone has been worth 1.4 billion a year and he has paid 665 million over 13 years.  T Boone pays only 3% in taxes!!!

3% is what T Boone has been paying in taxes. That is SHAMEFUL!!

Tboone pays only 3% in taxes (1.4 billion in income annually, 665 million paid in taxes over 13 years = 3%)

T BOONE takes in 1.4 billion each year – his 665 million is over 13 yrs, he still pays less taxes then everyone on this comment board!  3%

Jump off a bridge loser and get your facts straight! or just jump off a bridge! TBOONE pays only 3% in taxes, which was Mika’s point.  He makes over 1.4 billion every year and 665 million is over 13 years: so get it right, drop your Republican robot card off at the front desk and become a Democrat or forever be known as a clueless robotic loser wannabe conservative***

PICKENS has his name plastered all over the place – he even required they put his name ( T.BOONE PICKENS) on each Styrofoam meal container that Meals On Wheels delivered to the poor !
If you’re gonna play, you gotta pay, and this is his game
This guy takes it to a whole new level
So self-centered it’s nauseating !

You are making my point for me. You are trying to say how t boone can have. This is the issue I have brought up. Worry about your own life.

Extrapolate your line of thinking. It completely disincentivizes anyone to be productive. 

I think you’ve mistaken Joe for someone else. Do you ever watch the show?

Yeah, she gets carried away sometimes. Very tacky questioning.

“drop your Republican robot card off at the front desk and become a Democrat or forever be known as a clueless robotic loser wannabe conservative”
A very robotic thing to say.

Had you worked for it would you not want to protect what is yours?

Do you even know that Joe is a former GOP congressman?  

Why can’t you ask a billionaire that is crying about paying his fair share how much he makes?  If he is going to complain that he pays too much in taxes, we need to know what percentage he is paying.  Why do right wingers always defend billionaires that don’t pay their fair share in taxes?  If Pickens was paying 30%, don’t you think he would have mentioned that?

How dumbed down can we get when it comes to greedy Democrats.  3%?  Looks like you need to learn a little bit more about income and taxes.  Your math is off.  Way off.  Besides, there is no way possible to figure out how much income that amount is based.  You definitely don’t take the man’s current net worth and base it on that!  Lord have mercy on the ignorance in this world!!!

WHY do so many question this man, Pickens [Texan], who paid over $665M in state where there is no state income tax?
Pick/ pick pick about politicians instead.

When Obama or his “best Donor” of GE says how much GE didn’t pay…. [GE paid "$0.00].When Romney [Bain Capital - where he laid-off thousands employees nationwide] and sold those companies under nose of SEC/& no IRS taxes and invested in Off-shore investments [no taxes].
When Gingrich pays back the millions from companies [recently on news].
When Pelosi explains HOW she got those multi-millions in stock.
Did John Kerry EVER pay his taxes on his sailboat [among other things].
Too many — you figure… we just have huge huge huge corruption in government — and here a man over 70 pays >$665M in taxes [and he's in Texas w/GOOD tax laws] and built a wing of hospital among other things — and so many are questioning him???? 

The issue Mika brought up, is that TBoone asked a question, “What is my fair share?” The answer is 15-35% of your income is your fair share, paying a higher percentage in taxes that your doorman is your fair share, paying more percentage in taxes because the government works better for you then for the cashier at starbucks is your fair share. 3%, if that number is even close, is not your fair share!

T-Boone is not paying his fair share, which should be 15 to 35% of his income in taxes. It doesn’t matter how much you pay in taxes, it matter what the percentage is that you pay in taxes.

to Andrew Sappington: “Why do right wingers always defend billionaires that don’t pay their fair share in taxes?”
Pickens was NOT crying, Pickens was NOT complaining he pays too much. You’re being the complainer. You are an instigator – rabble rouser – YOU obfuscate the facts. Tell me HOW fair Obama is with taxes – and all the other politicians……… everyone of them Republicans/Democrats.You are just a waste of time. 

How dumbed down can we get (oh wait, Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry were all Republican nominees) when it comes to ignorant hypocrite Republicans? 665 million is over 13 years.

“People like Apple CEO Steve
Jobs, Texas investor T. Boone Pickens, and hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, all
with annual incomes in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. Their big toes, proportional to their towering incomes, are the size of office buildings.”

The Billionaire Boones has spent the same amount promoting his books over the same period.

Republicans! Pay your fair share!!

you are as confused as pickens – your math does not work because your brain does not work

chick ?

where do you get this income number ?

(CAR), you need help

i bet your the one to give it to me huh? Why don’t you go fetch a 999 plan.

google

pickens is probably too old to remember that just because he sends the government a check, it doesn’t mean he’s paying his fair share – cheap bstrd. Warren Buffet has it right.

For all you geniuses just do the math backwards: T Boone paid 665 mill over 13 yrs. If he paid his fair share, that would mean he made, what – 170 million (35%) a year and has had net worths between 2.65 and 1.4 billion on forbes for the last 10 years. He won’t give his income, but something tells me he makes much more then that each year. Need we go over how T Boone got his paper? Gulf Exxon Chevron BP, Citgo – And he is the one complaining about paying too much in taxes. WHO ARE YOU DEFENDING PEOPLE???? WHat the F is the world coming to when you spend all your energy defending someone who makes more money then there is to even print for one person!!! This guy has more money then Donald friggin Trump and you’re defending his request to pay less taxes, over Social Security to seniors or Unemployment Insurance. You are a truly backwards group of terrorist if I ever saw any. OSAMA BIN LADENS got nothing on you!

Thank God Mika is on that show to state what is obviously the Elephant in the room.  T Boone makes more than not just everyone on that show, but everyone in in the nearest 50 states. Yet it is HIM that is complaining about paying too much in taxes! Not the camera men behind the camera, not the temps holding the clipboards who live in a showbox apartment, not the cleaning service crew who are working poor check to check, not the kids of these people who work at mcDonalds and see a huge cut of their already weak paycheck go straight to taxes while their tuition costs jump up 300 to 1000 dollars each semester, not the admins and assistants who have no savings or health benefits. No they can’t complain about their taxes, the one voice you hear in the room is the Richest most expensive voice that is using his financial influence to even be on the show with a voice to millions in the first place.

Did anyone realize that simple fact that the richest person in the room is complaining about money, and daring anyone else to say anything about it!!

GET A FRIGGIN CLUE YOU CLUELESS TERRORIST TROLLS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY@!@@GSNP:disqus 
AND GOD BLESS MIKA!!

Self loathing 1%er.

Call me old fashioned if you want, but long ago I learned that is was impolite and rude to ask someone how much they earned. It is not Mika’s responsibility to determine how much T Boone Pickens pays in taxes. That is between him and the I.R.S. She should be disciplined for her intrusive inquiry and Joe S. was right to have stepped in. Change the tax code, don’t harass the taxpayers. I would not mind a bit if that happens and do support raising the percentages that those earning over $1 billion pay. The reason I support it is because we need the revenues, not because people like Pickens have done anything wrong. Furthermore, they owe neither me nor the American public any disclosures above those required by law.

what?

Exactly, he was clearly obfuscating, and trying to play on the sympathies of the audience, by implying that the mean old government won’t leave a helpless 70 year old man alone. If he paid 30% no one would really care, but he probably paid in the Warren Buffet range of 17% which would mean that he made nearly 4 billion dollars, and he wants us to feel sorry for him, give me a break.

“Conservatives do not wish to tell others how to live. Just let us live.”

Are you SERIOUS?!? Conservatives do nothing but tell us how to live. You must say ‘Merry Christmas’, you cannot use birth control, if you are gay you cannot get married or serve in the armed forces, you must show proof of citizenship, you cannot protest, you must go to church, you cannot build a mosque, etc.

the issue is…who are you to say what T Boone can and cannot have. What gives you any right to take what is his. We understand that you think he should give up more, but that is not your decision.

In fact, it seems T Boone has done quite well when the money is in his hands. Probably has created more jobs and opportunity in the last 20 years than any politician could hope to.

The issue is a principle. I keep hearing the left with paying the fair share. What is the fair share? Who is defined by? If you can say what the fair share is why cant I?

And fair is another term you guys love, but the progressive tax system is the antithesis of fair. Fair means to treat everyone the same. That would mean a flat tax. Everyone pays the same percentage. That is fairness I can get behind. Fair has nothing to do with outcomes. If it did, all fair sporting events would end in ties. Fair has to do with the treatment not the outcome.

Lastly, life isnt fair. I know it sucks. But you may grow up and understand that. Some people will be rich, some will be poor. That is just the facts. But it is up to you and no one else which group you wind up in. 

Hello Monty: okay, let’s try to have a real conversation. “the issue is…who are you to say what T Boone can and cannot have. What gives you any right to take what is his.”

I have a right to say what T. Boone can and can’t have because I am an American citizen. I have a right to say how and whom can represent my voice in the halls of congress and in government. I have a right to say wht laws I want to be passed and which laws I am against.

We are talking about one of those laws, which is tax law.

The tax law currently stipulates that all Americans, progressively how they benefit from our system of government, are required to pay a tax to purchase that benefit. The benefit of having government attribute funds to building roads and bridges, to building schools and hiring teachers, to establishing treaties with other nations so we can trade our goods and services, to cleaning the air we breathe and the water we drink, to all of the things we can do better together as opposed to divided with the believe that together we stand and divided we fall.

We in America understand the FACT that people benefit from the system differently, some more then others. And those are the ones that should pay more in taxes.

Now, what problem do you have with that arguement?

(apologies for any misspellings-what evs*)

Self loathing 1%er.