dkf
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Thu May-12-11 02:45 AM
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| I do think we need to allow people to make a better living so they can actually afford to pay taxes. |
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But I think most people miss the point...health care protected cost increases are beyond our ability to pay. Keeping Medicare as we know it is impossible.
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| -Ezra Klein: Can we close the budget deficit by taxing the rich? |
dkf |
May-12-11 02:23 AM |
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I'm taxed high, at a very low income. |
Tripod |
May-12-11 02:27 AM |
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If they paid 91%, it would help a whole lot more. |
aquart |
May-12-11 02:46 AM |
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My child has just received her 4 year Degree. |
Tripod |
May-12-11 02:54 AM |
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Why doesn't someone say we should raise the minimum wage to lower the deficit? |
Capitalocracy |
May-12-11 02:37 AM |
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I do think we need to allow people to make a better living so they can actually afford to pay taxes. |
dkf |
May-12-11 02:45 AM |
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Keeping Medicare as we know it is emminently possible. What needs to change are private sector |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 02:48 AM |
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Well Medicare as we know it piggy backs on an impossible health care system |
dkf |
May-12-11 03:13 AM |
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I think in many cases, the value of "explaining" complicated things like our healthcare system to |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 03:20 AM |
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Look at it this way. Medicare represents something. |
Capitalocracy |
May-12-11 05:08 AM |
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But isn't it a pure lie to tell the public that the health care system and Medicare can |
dkf |
May-12-11 04:22 PM |
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Oops |
dkf |
May-12-11 02:45 AM |
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The 2009 deficit was not 53 percent of GDP, and the 2050 deficit could not possibly be 350 percent |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 02:42 AM |
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That was actually debt as a % of GDP |
dkf |
May-12-11 02:50 AM |
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Ah, accumulated debt as a percentage of GDP makes more sense. |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 02:51 AM |
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I assume this is also taking into account... |
Capitalocracy |
May-12-11 05:32 AM |
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The solution to health care costs is single payer n/t |
eridani |
May-12-11 03:47 AM |
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A+. Good job. |
Capitalocracy |
May-12-11 04:47 AM |
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the cost of the bush tax cuts over 10 years was $2.5 trillion. about 40% went to the top 1% |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 03:58 AM |
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The CBO says that allowing Bush's tax cuts to expire on families making above 250k would save 700b, |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 04:06 AM |
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i don't care what cbo says; we already *know* how much they cost the last 10 years. |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 04:20 AM |
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"i don't care what cbo says" |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 04:26 AM |
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projections can be made to say anything one wants depending on the assumptions used. |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 04:28 AM |
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Again, you are using data from a model that also includes the AMT fix. If you are going to use a |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 04:34 AM |
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amt relief is still in effect so far as i can see. |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 04:40 AM |
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Yes, it is, but AMT relief in general is usually considered separately, since the non-indexing of |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 04:53 AM |
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amt relief is voted on every year. it was in place all during the bush tax cuts. |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 05:09 AM |
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I can't find the original ITEP source, but your interpretation sounds reasonable, so I'll assume its |
BzaDem |
May-12-11 05:30 AM |
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i would guess it has something to do with the 2009 arra, which included some modifications |
Hannah Bell |
May-12-11 05:41 AM |
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Hey Ezra, how about adding in taxes corporations should pay, but are not! |
boston bean |
May-12-11 04:49 AM |
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Tax the rich, tax corporations, oh, and cut the military budget in half, |
MadHound |
May-12-11 05:14 AM |
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They should exempt everyone under $250,000. |
kentuck |
May-12-11 05:45 AM |
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