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King_Klonopin

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6. "broaden the tax base"
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 06:56 AM
Aug 2012

That's code for "making poor people pay income tax".

This is the ideology in a nutshell:

1) Wealthy People (i.e. the blessed job creators) who live off of their
inherited, accumulated, stolen gazillions should not have to pay
any capital gains taxes. Nothing. Zero.

2) Poor People who "don't have any skin in the game (also code for
free-ridin' freeloaders)" need to be paying taxes.

This is the most disgusting talking point I have ever heard.
It makes me cringe in insane rage whenever I hear someone
parrot it. Pure evil. The poor have "more skin" involved
than anybody. They are hurting the most, but a little salt
rubbed in the wounds is a great solution. The rich have no
skin in the game when it comes to sacrifice.

3) If we destroy the social safety net that the socialist bastard
FDR created, we will have tons of money left in the Treasury.

4) Borrow and Spend policy works great! Just ask W.

5) Austerity works great! Just ask Greece.

6) Everybody knows that the middle class gets stuck with
the bill in the end

(Can you believe Romney had the balls to accuse Obama of
having fiscal policies that would make the U.S. look like Greece !!!!)

Their values and morality are so bass-ackwards it's jaw-dropping.

Oh Yah, I almost forgot: 7) JOBS BILL ??!! We don't need no stinkin' jobs bill!!!

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