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In reply to the discussion: Rachel Maddow: "Helping Our Rich People Was A Theory That We Tried.." [View all]Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)19. Is it too much to ask
for rank-and-file Republicans (and conservatives in general) to stop for a minute and ask themselves why anyone would want to be poor and without basic necessities? For real, even when someone like Limbaugh who makes roughly $50M a year gets taxed at an Eisenhower rate, he or she would still have a few millions to blow, compared to someone like me who has no job and has to rely on monthly government checks to pay for groceries and the rent that are less than a thousand dollars.
I don't get people who vote like that who aren't rich. I really don't.
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And This Distinction Is Important Why In The Context Of The Quote About Oligarchs
cantbeserious
Dec 2013
#13
When history writes the story of how this government of, by, and for the people shirked its mandate
indepat
Dec 2013
#31
When I am faced with theoretical theories and speculation, I like to extrapolate them out to the Nth
world wide wally
Dec 2013
#40
When I am faced with situational theories and speculation, I like to extrapolate them out to the Nth
world wide wally
Dec 2013
#41