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Read my lips (Original Post)
Fumesucker
Jan 2016
OP
yeah, and now we're hearing this crap from Democrats as well as Republicans. No one gives a shit
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2016
#5
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)1. You're about 28 years too late. nt
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. No, I'm right on time for the New Democratic party
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)7. No more third way bullshit.
Fire with fire. Even if (and note my use of the Spartan If) Bernie is a crook, no one can outplay Clinton at the suspect crookery game.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)8. In that case you're about 52 years too late:
The United States Revenue Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88272), also known as the Tax Reduction Act, was a bipartisan tax cut bill signed by President Lyndon Johnson on February 26, 1964. Individual income tax rates were cut across the board by approximately 20%. In addition to individual income tax cuts, the act slightly reduced corporate tax rates and introduced a minimum standard deduction.[1]
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President John F. Kennedy brought up the issue of tax reduction in his 1963 State of the Union address. His initial plan called for a $13.5 billion tax cut through a reduction of the top income tax rate from 91% to 65%, reduction of the bottom rate from 20% to 14%, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 52% to 47%. The first attempt at passing the tax cuts was rejected by Congress in 1963. Conservatives revolted at giving Kennedy a key legislative victory before the election of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1964
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President John F. Kennedy brought up the issue of tax reduction in his 1963 State of the Union address. His initial plan called for a $13.5 billion tax cut through a reduction of the top income tax rate from 91% to 65%, reduction of the bottom rate from 20% to 14%, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 52% to 47%. The first attempt at passing the tax cuts was rejected by Congress in 1963. Conservatives revolted at giving Kennedy a key legislative victory before the election of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1964
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)9. I could go for 65% top rate on all income
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)2. And we're the ones with Republicans in our midst...
...even if there was some kind of alternate bizarro universe where I would have considered supporting Hillary if Bernie lost, after seeing the fuckery I'm seeing here, forget that. After this primary, I'm washing my hands of this political party. Sounding like a bunch of Reagan-alikes every time they come out against him.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)6. Washing your hands of this party, huh?
madokie
(51,076 posts)4. Read my lips
I promise to support a tax increase in the quest to lower your over all cost of health care
I, madokie, Bernie Sanders supporter, approve of this message
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)5. yeah, and now we're hearing this crap from Democrats as well as Republicans. No one gives a shit
if we have social services anymore.