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21. There WAS "plenty of financial mobility" ...

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 02:52 PM

Jan 2015

... once upon a time. Today? Not so much.

And their arguments are composed of such logical fallacies. On "Face the Nation" yesterday, Marco Rubio said that "one group of people does not have to do worse for another group to do better," and, in a way, he was right - but NOT in the way he meant. He meant "you don't have to take money from the rich to make the poor better off", but we DO! (Where else is it going to come from??)

Where he's absolutely right is that NOBODY is REALLY going to do any "worse" - except on paper. The standard of living of Chuck & Dave Koch will not change one iota due to the tax increase. Maybe they'll rake in fewer millions next year than they did last year, but as long as you're raking in millions, what's the freakin' difference??

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