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Rose Siding (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:05 PM Original message |
GOP eyes abolishing income tax |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. More fog creation |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. A blowjob for their base... |
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snippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 07:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Well put. Bush's real goal is to exempt wealth and its accumulation |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's (again) official: The US is run by Banana Republicans |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. this is a proposal to CREATE and MASSIVE tax on the middle class |
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Mike Niendorff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Another Republican Tax Shift Plan |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. I'll second that. |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 07:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Exactly right |
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Catfight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. How about Kerry abolishing the payroll tax that REALLY hurts people |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. How about an English style |
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guajira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. Kerry Should Jump on that Bandwagon |
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neverborn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-14-04 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. Please do. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-15-04 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. kick |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 03:22 AM Response to Original message |
13. kick |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
14. Is this necessarily so regressive? |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 05:40 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. poor and middle-class people spend nearly all of their income and so would |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 05:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Gotcha. |
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RivetJoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:08 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. What if housing and food were |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:54 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Even if you did that, you still can't avoid the problem that poor people |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:59 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. See my post 26 -- even the consumer spending by the rich tends to be |
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kori (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:42 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. No a sales tax can be made into a very progressive tax |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:47 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. That's not progressive. That's a flat income tax with 30K exclusion. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. This is all bad. Here's how. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 05:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. Real headline: ..."GOP Eyes abolishing Income"... |
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colonel odis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
18. aside from the fact that this is election-year horsesh*t, |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:17 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. has anyone ever seen the percentage that would be necessary if we did have |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 08:30 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. See my post 23. And note that the UK has an income tax AND has 17.5% |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
25. anything and everything the rethugs want is suspect. |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-16-04 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
29. didn't *ush backpedal on this one |
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