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In reply to the discussion: We're not oddballs or unrealistic nutjobs. [View all]NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)24. Most of it is attributable to our factories closing up
Last edited Mon Dec 19, 2011, 12:18 PM - Edit history (1)
Just one Ford plant I retired from used to have 4800 hourly workers and another 1000 salaried employees paying huge amounts of withholding taxes into the state and federal coffers every week. They were all paying the maximum into FICA to keep Medicare and SS well funded too. Most those jobs have been moved overseas.
And that is just one factory out of hundreds just like it. We used to have streets lined with them. Both sides. Gone.
That is the problem.
Don
Edit: I ruled out the housing bubble theory when my homes value increased and my taxes went up, and then later my homes value decreased my taxes still went up.
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I know, but I don't think he's mentioning the million specifics? Merely a GENERAL CONCEPT that
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#5
Nope. You and I are the people we DO NOT mention regarding having to pay more taxes
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#12
I know, Don. People are living on the edge. Right wingers have destroyed this country.
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#25
I AGREE!!! And you're right. Opposers don't argue their position straight up. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#4
apparently, it's alright here to call someone defending the President 'morally bankrupt'
bigtree
Dec 2011
#7
If I as a gay man decided I could speak to all people based on the words of a few
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2011
#15