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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:33 AM Original message |
We can cut the deficit without touching Social Security. |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Just Way Too much Common Sense |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. kick and Rec! n/t |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes in a word its a setup they are trying to put one over on us... |
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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. We've been cutting taxes since JFK reduced the top rate from |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
5. Recommend |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
6. Tax increases politically possible? |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. people have to take the bite, and get the damn taxes increased |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. We could just raise the tax cap entirely. People who make more than |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
7. "excluding interest on the federal debt"?? |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Fuck your DLC bullshit |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. David Walker is a played out corporatist hack who work for billionaire Pete Peterson. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Top tax rates between 37% and 90% grow the economy. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Federal spending is now at an all time high |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Interest on the debt is not "direct hiring" |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #24 |
35. Why not 99.9%? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. No, I don't recognize it because it's demonstrably not true. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Then why not a 200% tax on high earners? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I triple-dog dare you! |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. you think those CEOs at the top and bond traders are 'generating' income |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:05 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Into the1950s it was 90% and one of the most prosperous times in the USA |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. and virtually no one paid such rates |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 01:32 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Kinda like today except with much lower rates |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
12. There are relativelyl simple fixes for most of our problems. It would |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
13. Cut the Pentagon budget by 50%... |
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Starckers (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. No |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Horseshit |
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Starckers (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. BS |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. A little local history... |
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Starckers (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Cut the BS |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. This is what they had to fear... |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
39. Precisely |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. We currently spend as much as the rest of the world combined |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
14. K&R |
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Starckers (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
15. 3 ways to balance budget, without raising taxes, and still increasing spending |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. Oh noes! The rich will move! Whatever will we do without those patriotic |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. How will we get by without those jobs they off shore???? |
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TommyO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. Please limit citations from outside articles to four paragraphs, or less |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Sorry about that. Thanks. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
18. They are unrelated. |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
22. But you can't destroy social security without touching it. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
25. Raising the retirement age to 120 wouldn't change the deficit. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
27. I thought they were borrowing from the SS fund to decrease the deficit?? |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
28. Holy Cow, Batman ... |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
34. Christian Science Monitor? What a loony bunch of professional leftists! |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
43. It has to be punitive simply because the Upper One Percent control the House, |
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