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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-10 10:32 PM
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42. I triple-dog dare you!
So the downside is that rich realtors will cut back on their hours? The horrors!
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  -We can cut the deficit without touching Social Security. jtown1123  Dec-29-10 08:33 AM   #0 
  - Just Way Too much Common Sense  FreakinDJ   Dec-29-10 08:38 AM   #1 
  - kick and Rec! n/t  Donnachaidh   Dec-29-10 08:39 AM   #2 
  - Yes in a word its a setup they are trying to put one over on us...  Historic NY   Dec-29-10 08:45 AM   #3 
  - We've been cutting taxes since JFK reduced the top rate from  flamin lib   Dec-29-10 08:47 AM   #4 
  - Recommend  xchrom   Dec-29-10 08:50 AM   #5 
  - Tax increases politically possible?  PoliticAverse   Dec-29-10 08:57 AM   #6 
  - people have to take the bite, and get the damn taxes increased  Hawkeye-X   Dec-29-10 09:19 AM   #8 
  - We could just raise the tax cap entirely. People who make more than  jtown1123   Dec-29-10 09:22 AM   #10 
  - "excluding interest on the federal debt"??  Zebedeo   Dec-29-10 09:18 AM   #7 
  - Fuck your DLC bullshit  Hawkeye-X   Dec-29-10 09:20 AM   #9 
  - David Walker is a played out corporatist hack who work for billionaire Pete Peterson.  jtown1123   Dec-29-10 09:23 AM   #11 
  - Top tax rates between 37% and 90% grow the economy.  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 10:10 AM   #20 
     - Federal spending is now at an all time high  Zebedeo   Dec-29-10 10:18 AM   #21 
        - Interest on the debt is not "direct hiring"  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 10:34 AM   #24 
           - Why not 99.9%?  Zebedeo   Dec-29-10 01:02 PM   #35 
              - No, I don't recognize it because it's demonstrably not true.  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 02:04 PM   #36 
              - Then why not a 200% tax on high earners?  Zebedeo   Dec-29-10 09:42 PM   #40 
                 - I triple-dog dare you!  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 10:32 PM   #42 
              - you think those CEOs at the top and bond traders are 'generating' income  hfojvt   Dec-29-10 02:32 PM   #37 
              - Into the1950s it was 90% and one of the most prosperous times in the USA  neverforget   Dec-29-10 10:05 PM   #41 
                 - and virtually no one paid such rates  Zebedeo   Dec-30-10 08:26 AM   #44 
                    - Kinda like today except with much lower rates  neverforget   Dec-30-10 12:32 PM   #45 
  - There are relativelyl simple fixes for most of our problems. It would  theophilus   Dec-29-10 09:25 AM   #12 
  - Cut the Pentagon budget by 50%...  blindpig   Dec-29-10 09:27 AM   #13 
  - No  Starckers   Dec-29-10 09:50 AM   #16 
     - Horseshit  blindpig   Dec-29-10 10:09 AM   #19 
        - BS  Starckers   Dec-29-10 10:48 AM   #26 
           - A little local history...  blindpig   Dec-29-10 11:41 AM   #29 
           - Cut the BS  Starckers   Dec-29-10 11:52 AM   #30 
              - This is what they had to fear...  blindpig   Dec-29-10 12:51 PM   #32 
                 - Precisely  Sherman A1   Dec-29-10 03:14 PM   #39 
           - We currently spend as much as the rest of the world combined  Sherman A1   Dec-29-10 12:46 PM   #31 
  - K&R  Sherman A1   Dec-29-10 09:39 AM   #14 
  - 3 ways to balance budget, without raising taxes, and still increasing spending  Starckers   Dec-29-10 09:47 AM   #15 
  - Oh noes! The rich will move! Whatever will we do without those patriotic  neverforget   Dec-29-10 12:57 PM   #33 
     - How will we get by without those jobs they off shore????  Little Star   Dec-29-10 03:02 PM   #38 
  - Please limit citations from outside articles to four paragraphs, or less  TommyO   Dec-29-10 10:02 AM   #17 
  - Sorry about that. Thanks.  jtown1123   Dec-29-10 10:21 AM   #23 
  - They are unrelated.  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 10:06 AM   #18 
  - But you can't destroy social security without touching it.  Edweird   Dec-29-10 10:20 AM   #22 
  - Raising the retirement age to 120 wouldn't change the deficit.  lumberjack_jeff   Dec-29-10 10:36 AM   #25 
  - I thought they were borrowing from the SS fund to decrease the deficit??  kentuck   Dec-29-10 10:50 AM   #27 
  - Holy Cow, Batman ...  GeorgeGist   Dec-29-10 10:52 AM   #28 
  - Christian Science Monitor? What a loony bunch of professional leftists!  bullwinkle428   Dec-29-10 01:01 PM   #34 
  - It has to be punitive simply because the Upper One Percent control the House,  truedelphi   Dec-29-10 10:34 PM   #43 
 

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