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In reply to the discussion: Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than The Deal Being Negotiated [View all]Skittles
(153,156 posts)58. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
IS SOMEONE ACTUALLY SPEAKING FOR WE THE PEOPLE???
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Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than The Deal Being Negotiated [View all]
Report1212
Dec 2012
OP
I am not seeing the reason to be outrage. No cuts to SS or Medicare and some tax increases on rich
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#2
What the OP says is contradictory on that point. It says taxes on the rich are being raised to 39.6%
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#5
No, chain CPI would have been an abject surrender. No tax increases on the wealthy would have been
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#18
OK, so I barely earned a (on edit, small) fraction of it (in my best years), but . . . .
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#55
Sources are saying that an extension of unemployment benefits will be a part of this deal.
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#51
Does anyone know if the president has even met with the progressive caucus about this?
Doctor_J
Dec 2012
#40
we need to start over and have the American people start calling the shots
No Compromise
Dec 2012
#43
I think it more likely that a Republican such as Rand Paul or Mike Lee might stop it.
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#52
That's why politicians invented back rooms and "closed door" meetings.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#57