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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:31 AM Original message |
McGovern (D-Mass.) suggests new tax to pay for war |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. I have a better idea. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. .......... |
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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. .. |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. But perhaps a large tax especially on those who can afford it would deliver |
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cascadiance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Classify it as the reversal of the tax cut they had earlier... |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. I categorize that sort of convoluted thinking as 'duplicitous'. |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:36 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. They already enabled a war placing the debt on the entire American people, while those |
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fed-up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
32. tax the F*CKING war profiteers-they shouldn's see a penny of that blood money nt |
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Tom Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
35. Every US congressperson who voted for the IWR has to give up at least half |
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IronLionZion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Good idea. Why didn't anyone else think of that? |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. If there were a away to tax only the "supporters" |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sure, why should the poor and middle class pay only with their children? - n/t |
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NYVet (822 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
5. I'm against new taxes in general |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. No, it isn't. |
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HootieMcBoob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. How do you propose we pay for this mess? |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. We could check the gop voter registrations for 2000 and 2004 and make the idiots... |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
31. When the Republicans ran the budget into deficit, |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well this should fall right in to the Republican talking points about Dems raising taxes. |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Yep, that's exactly the problem. They'll bitch and moan about "the Tax and Spend |
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IronLionZion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:52 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Oh, they are saying that anyway |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:05 AM Response to Reply #6 |
27. Yup |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. It should be a progressive tax, too |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. I'd suggest that we are already paying the "Iraq Tax" in various way, higher gas, higher cost of |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Not to mention |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I think that's McGovern's point |
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HootieMcBoob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
12. Very good idea |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:14 AM Original message |
Instead of a tax, go after the war PROFITEERS!! |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
15. "The war will end when enough bodys come home and the average citizen has to pay for the war." |
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Az_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
18. how about a war profiteer's tax? |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
23. An income tax to pay for this war? Aren't the middle class paying for it all as it is already? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:40 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. No. The Republicans put the WAR on the nation's credit card. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
25. hmm. May be the only way to get the "no tax" Republitarians behind the anti-war movement n/t |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
28. How about "flattening" taxes to raise dividend taxes to the level of EARNED income? |
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radfringe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
29. double sales tax |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
30. Rove is in charge. You know better than to suggest this. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
34. How about a confiscatory war profits tax? |
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Tom Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:56 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. make every congressperson who voted for it pay their share. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
37. Riiiiiiggghhhttt... Notice he doesn't exempt poor folk. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
38. Color me reactionary,but why don't we just END THE FUCKING THING? |
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Tom Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 01:09 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. McGovern has been one of the handful of congresspeople working to do just |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-31-07 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
39. what the hell is wrong with him? sorry, i live in new orleans |
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