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In reply to the discussion: Why I really hate this deal [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)16. What is positive about making 85% of the Bush tax cuts permanent?
What is positive about arguing between big tax cuts for the rich and huge tax cuts for the rich
and excluding all other alternatives?
And what is snarky about pointing this out?
Seriously, is this why we got fired up in 2008 for "hope and change" and said "yes, we can" in order to keep 85% of the Bush tax cuts?
It is not positive. It is absolutely sickening from where I sit. It's an 85% betrayal and we are supposed to be positive because it was not 100%.
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"I don't considere members of the top 20% to be part of the middle class either."
ProSense
Jan 2013
#4
it's an awful deal, totally unnecessary except to set up the next manufactured crisis....
mike_c
Jan 2013
#8
Thank You, and Welcome! It's ridiculous, but like John Boehner, the left can't take "yes".....
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#36
Hey! Write a long letter to Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich about it! Oh wait...........
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#46
It's awful ain't it? Why, oh why didn't we elect Jill, or Roseanne, or Rocky? WHY?
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#37