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Amonester

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11. Raise a special tax to get that $83 Billion back and...

Reply to ProfessionalLeftist (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 04:15 AM

Feb 2013

take $3 Billion of it to set up and pay for a true Public Campaign-Funding program to share between each qualified candidate

render lobbying illegal

then take the remaining $80 Billion to avert the sequester

voilà.

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Elizabeth Warren's Q&A of Ben Bernanke at Senate Banking Committee [View all] ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 OP

This whole perverted system is corrupt to the core. limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #1

Bernanke, like all the rest of those miscreants, treating markets as if they're truth2power Feb 2013 #2

"I think we should get rid of it" Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #3

Thank you!!!! dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #4

Bernanke gives up trying to defend it--"we should get rid of it" SunSeeker Feb 2013 #5

Doing what we elected her to do MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #6

Why, Oh Why grandpamike1 Feb 2013 #7

Trying to get decent people to expose themselves to the expensive efhmc Feb 2013 #8

Here's the full exchange Iwillnevergiveup Feb 2013 #9

Elizabeth Warren... supercats Feb 2013 #10

Raise a special tax to get that $83 Billion back and... Amonester Feb 2013 #11

Go Lizzie, go! onwardsand upwards Feb 2013 #12