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gollygee

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5. Everyone I've ever heard push a flat tax

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri May 29, 2015, 08:50 AM

May 2015

has claimed it would be good for working people. It's just such bullshit. You only have to look at who recommends it to know that's not so, but when you do the sums it's even more clearly evident.

They appear to think we're stupid.

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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