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In reply to the discussion: Why I really hate this deal [View all]CentristLiberal
(36 posts)50. I wanted the cutoff to be much lower
but that wasn't possible.
Also, it's not about causing pain to certain income levels -- it's about running a country. No one said that if you make 200,000 that you're scraping by. The point is that the extra taxes that you'd like to impose would take a portion of this mythical family's discretionary spending in taxes, instead of this example family spending it back into the economy. Multiply that by a couple million people and the loss of that spending would really hurt our recovery.
I understand being mad at the top income earners, but again, it's about running a country and an economy.
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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