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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Printed in Des Moines Register: Our caucus: Debaters agree on one thing -- Sanders [View all]questionseverything
(9,645 posts)38. theoretically WE THE PEOPLE
have the ability to set our own tax structure
and there is no reason it needs to be regressive if we start by taxing the 1%ers and the corps that do business here but pay no taxes
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Printed in Des Moines Register: Our caucus: Debaters agree on one thing -- Sanders [View all]
Omaha Steve
Dec 2015
OP
Didn't you also say "no US politician has ever been as far left as Sanders"?
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#15
He and the rest of us can't read your mind about what you mean by "far left"...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#58
Love the perks that other Delaware corporations also like that Biden gave them with Bankruptcy bill?
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#60
Tech boom, bubble economy, and the growth was not great for many under Clinton
dreamnightwind
Dec 2015
#98
By increasing taxes on the rich, many of whom today are paying no taxes at all. In
Cal33
Dec 2015
#25
lots of trust fund babies great grandfathers might of "labored"or not
questionseverything
Dec 2015
#35
Yea because Walton family owns as much wealth as FORTY PERCENT of Americans!
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#64
You haven't read my post carefully. I used the words "many of whom" in the 1st paragraph, and
Cal33
Dec 2015
#34
If you want to dot every i and cross every t, Who owns the corporations? The few rich
Cal33
Dec 2015
#42
I said for the rich, not for everyone! What I said is NOT ignorant!
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#101
Leftists don't fit in with DFR and JFK? FDR raised taxes to 91% during WW II -- for those
Cal33
Dec 2015
#48
the subsides in the exchange are a good example of deficit spending that enriches corporations
questionseverything
Dec 2015
#46
my guess this also includes a real comfy retirement. I know at least one country in Europe
Karma13612
Dec 2015
#71