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Scootaloo

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7. You know, that gives me an idea.

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 04:58 AM

Dec 2012

You know those "scare talks" they have in schools sometime, where a convict is brought in to give the kids a "don't be like me, I'm on death row 'cause I beat a man to death with his own grandma for his shoes and now I gotta eat applesauce 'cause my cellmate made me eat the lunch tray" sort of speech?

We could do that to solve the Israel / Palestine conflict. we take two carefully-selected teams of four people from congress; two republicans, two democrats in each. Tea Party fuckweasels, and hte bluest Democrats you can get. Send one team to Tel Aviv, the other to Ramallah.

"Look guys... You're starting to look like us," they begin... and then roll 16 hours of footage from the chamber. The whole time all four congresspersons are yelling at the screen, and at each other.

Then we bring the Israelis and the Palestinians together, put the congresspeople in a separate room with a two-way mirror and a copy of the 2013 budget plan.

I'll bet the Israel / Palestine conflict will be resolved in 20 minutes.

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Raising tax rate on the rich a mere 2% (to 37%) is a total victory for Republicans! [View all] grahamhgreen Dec 2012 OP

I just used your 'Fiscal Bluff' in another thread and couldn't remember your name sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #1

You know, that gives me an idea. Scootaloo Dec 2012 #7

And capital gains goes back to 20%, a 5% increase. And most importantly, Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #2

+100 HiPointDem Dec 2012 #4

I'm all for going back to the Clinton era tax rates, but from 15% to 20% is more like a 33% tax No DUplicitous DUpe Dec 2012 #5

You're right, I wrote that badly. Five total percentage points would be a 33.3% increase. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #14

K&R ReRe Dec 2012 #3

Damn straight. Jamaal510 Dec 2012 #6

we don't know that is the deal BainsBane Dec 2012 #8

elimination of deductions does not raise near enough in the long term hfojvt Dec 2012 #11

Thanks for the excellent breakdown. grahamhgreen Dec 2012 #12

not to mention the tax cuts they still get on their first $250,000 in income hfojvt Dec 2012 #9

The tax rate Scam is that Capital Gains will not be effectively raised billy_j Dec 2012 #10

Hegelian dialectic grahamhgreen Dec 2012 #13

I agree. Don't compromise, allow ALL the Bush tax cuts to expire. nt Pryderi Dec 2012 #15

Ironically, it may be the radical teabaggers that will get us to go "over the cliff". nt Pryderi Dec 2012 #16