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snappyturtle

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49. K&R< K&R<K&R! Wouldn't you like to know Stinky, in dollars, how much

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 09:40 AM

Jun 2012

the .01% has cost our country? I would. All we hear is
how the poor and middle class (if it even exists anymore)
have spent us into all this debt.

I like your statement of taxing the rich until their eyeballs
bleed....yes! About time we do just that. Unfortunately,
I don't believe that will happen.

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