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Dustlawyer

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8. +1!!! There is sooo much out there they get away with.

Reply to Octafish (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:05 PM

Oct 2015

If we audited the Pentagon (they say it cannot be done, kinda like Wall Street banks are too big to jail), the waste and fraud alone would pay for every social program, education through college, environmental initiatives...

Taxing the very rich is the only place to increase taxes because that's where all of the money goes! I for get who the famous bank robber was who said this, but when asked why he robbed banks his reply was, "...because that's where the money is!"

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Can the 1% really pay for �free stuff� Democrats want? Laugh all you want; the numbers might work [View all] Human101948 Oct 2015 OP

This country used to balance runaway capitalism and it worked. Now, those with $$$$'s game the RKP5637 Oct 2015 #1

Well, my family intend to take our brains to the elementary school where we have our Dem caucus, PatrickforO Oct 2015 #2

K&R!!! RKP5637 Oct 2015 #3

the plan will adjust things across the board--there is a bit more than librechik Oct 2015 #4

I'm fine with that... Wounded Bear Oct 2015 #14

The $32 Trillion Hidden Offshore Needs IRS Attention. Octafish Oct 2015 #5

+1!!! There is sooo much out there they get away with. Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #8

The gains from the growth we have enjoyed over the past approximately 30 years have gone JDPriestly Oct 2015 #11

As long as we allow them to make campaign donations, have Super Paks, and use their corporate media Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #15

Yes. Well Said. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #18

I always thought that was John Dillinger... Wounded Bear Oct 2015 #16

I'd focus on the "free stuff" the corporations and ultra wealthy are getting - TBF Oct 2015 #6

Their tax cuts were supposed to go into PAYROLL..... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #7

My father used to explain the "miracle" of the loaves and fishes in the New Testament thus: JDPriestly Oct 2015 #9

Old swe story w0nderer Oct 2015 #13

I love that story. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #20

:-) w0nderer Oct 2015 #22

Depends. The global "1%" starts at about $34K Recursion Oct 2015 #10

We got those things here because we had a democracy, we taxed imports and with those taxes JDPriestly Oct 2015 #21

K & R N/T w0nderer Oct 2015 #12

Not free stuff. We worked, labored for it. The 1% and their lapdogs took it. Our money. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2015 #17

K & R for th OP and for the Octafish post below. dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #19