Senator Schumer plans to introduce legislation to raise taxes on private equity executives, hedge fund managers and a slew of other rich people. “My intent is to raise the most revenue and do it in a fair way,” Chuck said. “My bill will certainly raise the taxes on people who not get 15 percent for carried interest, for sure.” Though he did not share whether or not the individuals currently privy to paying only 15 percent on carried interest would have to pay 35 like normal people, he did suggest that the political wisdom that says you can’t raise taxes on the wealthy—which Schumer referred to as “old bugaboo”—is no longer valid.
In the past, Schumer’s been against any proposals that he felt unfairly singled out minorities (women, blacks, private-equity firms, hedge funds), by stripping them of their right to keep more of their money than other people. Now he claims to want to “treat everyone across the board,” and says he isn’t afraid to raise taxes on the rich in order to level the playing field. The only thing he may be afraid of is not getting an invite to Jim Chanos’s next 4th of July clambake, the last one at which he was heard saying “I’m still thinking about it,” re: taxation on HF managers and “I’ve never gotten why people would want to eat mussels. There’s too much work involved, too labor intensive. I don’t want to be breaking a sweat while I’m eating.”
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Chanos’s = Kindergarten.
what does that mean, 3:59?
the punctuation of a 5 yr old.
nope. b/c chanos is singular, in which case an ‘s’ goes after the apostrophe, you dumb fuck. take an english class.
Ahh, now I get it. Because the actual party was not much like kindergarten and a lot more like drinking, plastic trophy wives, and Bess sneaking off to the dunes with Chuck Schumer. True story.
Please revist the rules of puncuation, ‘dumb fuck’.
i would definitely sneak off to the dunes with any chick who writes the line “I’ve never gotten why people would want to eat mussels. There’s too much work involved, too labor intensive. I don’t want to be breaking a sweat while I’m eating” and attributes it to Chuck Schumer.
the rule is that if it’s a singular, you do apostrophe and then and ‘s.’ if it’s plural apostrophe and no ‘s.’ revist those rules before you try to correct someone’s correct punctuation and embarass yourself. oh and how sad are you, posting your gpa as your name? seems like maybe that number is actually more of a reflection on how many brain cells you have.
Not for Proper Nouns, dumbass.
Embarassing myself?
you remain wrong. that’s why we write Bess’s and not Bess’
yes, you’re still embarassing yourself.
To make a singular noun (or proper noun) possessive, add an apostrophe s (or just an apostrophe if the word ends in an “s.” )
* (possessive singular) pro’s
* (possessive singular) James’s
To make a plural noun (or proper noun) possessive, add an apostrophe.
* (possessive plural) pros’
* (possessive plural) Jameses’
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“If the word ends in an s but is singular, practice varies as to whether to add ‘s or only an apostrophe.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
Respected sources require that almost all singular nouns, including those ending in s, z, or x, have possessive forms with an extra s after the apostrophe. Examples include the Modern Language Association, The Elements of Style, and The Economist[5]. Such sources would demand possessive singulars like these: Senator Jones’s umbrella; Mephistopheles’s cat.
You guys are seriously outa hand with this stuff. Its a finance tabloid (blog), but I guess their mission of outsourcing copy editing is far more of a success than they could have ever hoped.
Mike, aren’t you the guy who wears a Casio calculator watch and drives a 1955 Jaguar?
Wow, this got way out of hand…you idiots spent half an hour going back and forth about sssssssssssss. (Yes I know it should be “has gotten”) See now you have me doing it, damn!
The only exception to the rule mentioned by 4:24 is biblical names. seriously. yes, I’m a lawyer, i have nothing better to do.
Classical, biblical, and similar names ending in an s sound, especially if they are polysyllabic, do not take an added s in the possessive; among sources giving exceptions of this kind are The Times[9] and The Elements of Style, which make general stipulations, and Vanderbilt University,[10] which mentions only Moses and Jesus. As a particular case, Jesus’ is very commonly written instead of Jesus’s, even by people who would otherwise add ‘s in, for example, James’s or Chris’s; Jesus’ is referred to as “an accepted liturgical archaism” in Hart’s Rules.
booooooring
Bess, you are quite a fox, but why do you attract these anal worshippers?
If anything good came out of today’s grammar lesson it’s that 3.59 has more than likely given up his hobby of attempting to be the class know it all.
Moral of the story: If you’re going to publicly correct somebody, you better damn well be right!
Jason, you are boring too.
silly me to think that 20 comments on a post about raising taxes on the rich was more than a grammar flamewar
Heh, heh. He said, “anal.” Heh, heh…
@ 4:53
Heh…I’m crushed. Really.
Schumer will never follow through on this. Never.
Longines watch and a 1987 Toyota Corolla. Runs great for 273k miles
motherfucker….my bad.