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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:48 PM Original message |
Obama plan will raise taxes on 150,000,000 Americans |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. 50-50. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. Cue "but it'll be WORSE if we let the tax cuts expire" from the usual suspects. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. and the unreccer swarms are on high alert too. n/t |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I recced it up to 5. eom |
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jbnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 12:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
56. We should all be the usual suspects then. The rise in taxes |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Well shit, as long as the people with kids are okay... |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Might as well make the number 1,000,000,000 Americans.. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. According to Johnson it's 45 million households |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The number counts the members of households, not just tax payer. Think of the children who eat food |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Deleted sub-thread |
Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. It's a lot of frigging money going out of the economy. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yep. And the response from the WH has been unbelievably tone deaf |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Rep. Peter DeFazio and others are not as tone deaf, but The Pukes have done it again |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
38. Doesn't matter |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Nice one. Only 130 million tax returns but Obama will make 150 million persons tax go up. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Households have more than one member, and children are counted in this piece. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Right, precisely to inflate the number to make it lose all meaning. |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Again, you attempt to bully and intimidate |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Households are taxed, not just individual taxpayers. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. You might consider actually watching the video before commenting. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. You don't trust the IRS's numbers on the IRS website? |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. For Pete's Sake! |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. The word is "affect", and it will not affect 150 million taxpayers. |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. In fairness, OP never said "150 million taxpayers." |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. The word is "won't" |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:24 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. I willn't fall for that.. Wont is as proper as won't.. Neither form follows contraction rules. |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #36 |
49. Wont = a habit (i.e. As he is wont to do.) Won't = will not. n/t |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. The word is "won't" and I'll write it this way: |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. And that money raked into the republican base will return to us... |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. fail |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
20. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, author of Free Lunch: How the We |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. ... |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
26. ***** Official LIVE BLOG Senate = Tax Cuts Debate III ***** |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. Bernie Sanders now speaking |
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Scruffy1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
29. Like I thpught |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
30. *****MORE BULLSHIT HYPERBOLE, THERE ARE ONLY 130MILLION TAX RETURNS***** |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. HOW MANY DEPENDENTS ON THE TAX RETURNS OF POOR FAMILIES? |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Notice they want to nitpick over numbers of taxpayers but not address the substance of your OP |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:21 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Too busy with that to even listen to the video, no doubt. |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Just wait! |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. But, but, they will really be alarmed |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:40 PM Response to Reply #33 |
45. Ah...so calling out someone for pulling numbers out of their ass is "nitpicking" now |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. The OP didn't do that |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 05:48 PM Response to Reply #33 |
50. The OP is all about numbers... |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY TO WAL-MART FAMILY |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
35. This sub-thread is for substantive discussion only |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
39. Not accurate |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. As if there were only two possible options in the first place is a false start |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. No they don't. Dems proposed extending all cuts |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #46 |
51. They control the rules |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 06:17 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Rules can't be amended during a session. You were aware of that right? n/t |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Need Republican talking points, read DU! |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 07:14 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. When have Republicans claimed that. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:58 PM Response to Reply #39 |
48. The chart is meaningless because it doesn't explain what's in it. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
42. Bernie Sanders on the Senate floor right now |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
55. you should have repealed this thread.. |
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