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Lady Freedom Returns

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8. Thank you Selatius
Wed Dec 5, 2012, 09:09 PM
Dec 2012

That is exactly what I mean.

The worst part is that they are on the news acting as if it is a disaster!

Their taxes won't go up at all! The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #1
That does not stop the ignorant from peddling the propaganda liberal N proud Dec 2012 #4
I was going to say the same thing. They are just yapping because they can. Dumb people southernyankeebelle Dec 2012 #15
Well they will for a little bit Springslips Dec 2012 #26
Were they worried about the alt minimum tax? Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #28
And I'd bet money CBS didn't correct this falsehood. Matariki Dec 2012 #66
payroll taxes are due to go back up 0rganism Dec 2012 #70
So you want this family to live on $600 a month? leftstreet Dec 2012 #2
I believe the original intent of the poster was to cite excess and the complaint of losing it. Selatius Dec 2012 #7
Thank you Selatius Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #8
Yet there are people who make their living as piano teachers AlexSatan Dec 2012 #18
Really? SammyWinstonJack Dec 2012 #25
Yes, really AlexSatan Dec 2012 #55
Don't worry abelenkpe Dec 2012 #56
I realize that AlexSatan Dec 2012 #58
what are you doing to help ensure that piano teachers are employed? frylock Dec 2012 #62
I'd rather not make my daughter give up her piano lessons gollygee Dec 2012 #24
On The Courteous Assumption, Ma'am, You Are Not Just Being deliberately Obtuse Here The Magistrate Dec 2012 #31
See my post #29 gollygee Dec 2012 #32
We Are In Agreement Wages Should Be Higher, Ma'am The Magistrate Dec 2012 #37
Is your assumption is that they are whining and not just explaining what the tax cut means to them? gollygee Dec 2012 #38
Short Of A Certain Threshold Of Real Suffering, Ma'am, All Complaint is Just Whining.... The Magistrate Dec 2012 #41
Were they complaining or just answering a question? gollygee Dec 2012 #43
Perhaps That is The Case, Ma'am The Magistrate Dec 2012 #48
Is that an Al Bundy joke? AlexSatan Dec 2012 #60
And discounting things like piano lessons AlexSatan Dec 2012 #35
You A Funny Fella, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #39
Thank you sir, may I have another? AlexSatan Dec 2012 #44
Not If You Do Not Hold Up Your End Better, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #46
Unless those dead-line AlexSatan Dec 2012 #47
But Why Should Any Of It Be Focused On You, Sir? The Magistrate Dec 2012 #51
Mainly because of my awesomeness AlexSatan Dec 2012 #59
There are people who make gold plated toilets as well tkmorris Dec 2012 #67
I prefer to be concerned about all jobs AlexSatan Dec 2012 #72
What then of the working class piano teacher? leftstreet Dec 2012 #50
and what of the BMW salesperson? frylock Dec 2012 #64
Yes, that person is also working class leftstreet Dec 2012 #65
So what is your point? bluestateguy Dec 2012 #3
See post #7 Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #9
I suspect that the point... Lightbulb_on Dec 2012 #22
What rise in taxes? It won't happen unless we go over "the cliff," pnwmom Dec 2012 #5
That is another thing about the report that drove me nuts. Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #12
I like to call it propaganda by omission. You report one fact and leave out several others. Selatius Dec 2012 #14
May or may not apply, but I was listening to Democracy Now! and heard... Poll_Blind Dec 2012 #6
Boohoo. Most my family lives on less than half of that. Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #10
I know people who make live on a quarter of that AlexSatan Dec 2012 #19
Are you their spokesperson? Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #21
Wow! Nice distraction! AlexSatan Dec 2012 #23
I believe that there exists a family that is so poor they are dying of starvation. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #33
Thank you! gollygee Dec 2012 #34
+1 for the first part AlexSatan Dec 2012 #36
You do understand that it is not actually going to happen, right? Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #49
Perhaps AlexSatan Dec 2012 #54
+1 leftstreet Dec 2012 #45
You are so awesome. Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #63
They haven't had their taxes increase, at least not those originating at the Federal level. nt Codeine Dec 2012 #11
Oh, holy crap! FredStembottom Dec 2012 #13
Why would the child's piano lessons be the first thing they would cut? surrealAmerican Dec 2012 #16
It's a bullshit temper tantrum. Mariana Dec 2012 #68
Wrongful firring is hard to fix jberryhill Dec 2012 #17
No sympathy for them. closeupready Dec 2012 #20
The OP strikes me as peddling a red-herring to spread a false meme that middle-class taxes will rise leveymg Dec 2012 #27
The execs at Hostess follow that same kind of logic gollygee Dec 2012 #29
think I found the article, was the only recent google with CBS and piano words in it. Sunlei Dec 2012 #30
But the parents couldn't watch Fox News if they turned the cable off. Mariana Dec 2012 #69
fox lies is on 'free TV' too, those who do not have cable are a huge propaganda target. Sunlei Dec 2012 #71
Is it? Wow, I'm fortunate, then. Mariana Dec 2012 #73
Its the media trying to scare the middle class into allowing the cuts for the top 2% JoePhilly Dec 2012 #40
Exactly, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #42
I used to have a breakdown libodem Dec 2012 #52
Only people who already have much think they are entitled OldHippieChick Dec 2012 #53
Piano lessons are greedy? gollygee Dec 2012 #61
Sounds like someone is overpaid.... Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #57
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