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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)To say nothing of your false characterization of her stance on taxes (hint--you can find that on the internet, ya know). The only people she wanted to raise taxes on WERE the rich. Clean out your ears. Nice diversion. No sale. The only people who would "whine" about HRC raising taxes were those in the Quarter Million Dollar Club. So why are you griping?
You're just so anxious to "nail" Clinton with imagined "crimes" that it's pathological--what a curious agenda you have. Then you slap fake "conservative" labels on her, like that's supposed to make folks jump back and say "Oooooooh."
Don't, whatever you do, look too hard at EW touring the MA General Dynamics plant--it might harsh your mellow. You might be using that "conservative" label on her one day, too! That's fine with me--I think she's grand no matter what you call her, we here in MA like her, and labels are for jars, anyway...or whatever. Might as well throw in a commercial for a worthy cause, since this conversation is a nonstarter!
You may claim it's not about picking winners, but you've already decided who is a loser, using phony, invented 'conservative' labels and information from a partisan video that is seven years old. Oh, and 'all-capping' words like LABOR.
And we're to believe you, is that it? Because you say so? Your stellar judgment of candidates isn't too confidence-inspiring.
Have you scraped the Edwards sticker off the car yet?
Absolutely no tax increase on people earning under $250K
Q: Can you make an absolute, read-my-lips pledge that there will be no tax increases of any kind for anyone earning under $200,000 a year?
CLINTON: I will let the taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year go back to the rates that they were paying in the 1990s.
Q: Even if the economy is weak?
CLINTON: Yes. And heres why: #1, I do not believe that it will detrimentally affect the economy by doing that. We used that tool during the 1990s to very good effect and I think we can do so again I am absolutely committed to not raising a single tax on middle class Americans, people making less than $250,000 a year. In fact, I have a very specific plan of $100 billion in tax cuts.
Q: An absolute commitment, no middle-class tax increases of any kind.
CLINTON: No, thats right. That is my commitment.
Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?
OBAMA: Well, it depends on how you calculate it. But it would be between $200,000 and $250,000.
Source: 2008 Philadelphia primary debate, on eve of PA primary Apr 16, 2008