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CTyankee

(68,087 posts) Fri May 29, 2015, 08:23 AM May 2015

OK, Rick, drop that "blue collar, working class" shtick... [View all]

Santorum was on Morning Joe today and has rolled out a big proposal that really helps the little guy/gal tax wise:

A FLAT TAX!!!

Yep, the old wheezing and farting notion that a flat tax really, really, helps people at the lower levels of income.

It never fails to AMAZE me at how stupid these repukes think we are.

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OK, Rick, drop that "blue collar, working class" shtick... [View all] CTyankee May 2015 OP

Wouldn't YOU like to pay as much in taxes as major US corporations? DetlefK May 2015 #1

well, this myth has been destroyed so many times in the past, it is really Rick's stupidity CTyankee May 2015 #3

Flat tax regressiveness again? 9-9-9....again?? How many times do liberal folks need to be educated on this? Fred Sanders May 2015 #10

Yes, I'd love to get enormous refunds, year after year! hatrack May 2015 #9

All one has to do is see who is for it and who benefits. HughBeaumont May 2015 #2

But we've had this discussion ad nauseam. But it pops up like a zombie ever so often. CTyankee May 2015 #4

Everyone I've ever heard push a flat tax gollygee May 2015 #5

He might be appealing to younger voters who don't have a memory of past efforts on CTyankee May 2015 #6

I dug up this interview several years ago thatRachel had with Krugman on the flat tax CTyankee May 2015 #7

Did he toss that one out the window of his $60,000 Audi? bullwinkle428 May 2015 #8