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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:10 PM Sep 2013

To solve budget problems, raise taxes on the rich and the corporations. [View all]

From serially reduced income taxes and capital gains taxes, they've enjoyed a historic windfall of SuperMidas proportions from Reaganomic Trickle Down for 32 years now. It's way past time for them to start paying their fair share, let alone carrying the load of rebuilding the economy and solving America's problems.



What amazes me is how alien this concept of taxing the well-off for the good of the country has become in Washington -- on both sides of the aisle.

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