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codjh9

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1. I hated those ads too! Kept seeing them on YouTube. Every time I saw them, I thought
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:52 PM
Nov 2012

oh c'mon man, that was under the USSR-controlled Hungary, not remotely like the socialist countries of Western Europe.

RosedaleGuy

(89 posts)
5. Why Don't Republicans Know the Definition of Socialism?
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 05:11 PM
Nov 2012

We have had a progressive tax rate for a long time. The rates on the various brackets have varied wildly. At one point the top rate was over 70%. Yet Obama proposes increasing the highest rate by 3% to what it was under Clinton 39% and they scream socialism. The rich will be poorer by a piddly 3% tax rate increase???

That's the problem in this country. These guys are fighting socialism but we're not socialists. They refuse to listen to reason.

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