I didn't know that the health care law (Reply #49)

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Sat Dec 22, 2012, 06:05 PM

hfojvt (37,573 posts)

49. I didn't know that the health care law

was part of the Bush tax cuts.

Here I thought they were two separate pieces of legislation.

But by all means, let's let that piece of crap be our excuse to give the top 20% $1.6 trillion in tax cuts. A health insurance mandate must be worth at least that much to the working classes.

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56 replies	Author	Time	Post
Report: White House Considers Smaller Fiscal Cliff Deal [View all]	ProSense	Dec 2012	OP
That might actually be the best proposal yet.	Skinner	Dec 2012	#1
Yup, everyone should push for this	ProSense	Dec 2012	#4
So...put something out there that was designed to expose Boehner for the teabagging douchenozzle	Fridays Child	Dec 2012	#2
that's what I was hoping for	lasttrip	Dec 2012	#3
This is what should have been done all along	frazzled	Dec 2012	#5
If he lets it pass on mostly democrat votes, then it is passing against GOP votes.	julian09	Dec 2012	#12
I'm just sitting her enjoying the implosion of the conservative movement.	jrobbi	Dec 2012	#6
Thats what I expected to happen.	DCBob	Dec 2012	#7
then it will just move the fight to debt extension.... gov't shutdown will be the new hostage.. n/t	Mr Peabody	Dec 2012	#8
No, it will not.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#9
he/she is talking about the debt ceiling	Enrique	Dec 2012	#23
Right, and Republicans will have no leverage	ProSense	Dec 2012	#24
ha, they'll have no leverage	Enrique	Dec 2012	#27
Huh?	ProSense	Dec 2012	#29
Sounds good to me	Proud Liberal Dem	Dec 2012	#10
kick	bigtree	Dec 2012	#11
It's a 'band aid" approach, but it's not bad.	Lone_Star_Dem	Dec 2012	#13
this I can live with	magical thyme	Dec 2012	#14
This I could go for	Liberalynn	Dec 2012	#15
Sounds like a damn good idea to me.	Autumn	Dec 2012	#16
Repubs are rushing to the Greyhound station...	kentuck	Dec 2012	#17
well that plan favors the rich	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#18
The plan allows the tax cuts for the rich to expire.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#19
I suppose the plan woud be to pass with mostly Democratic votes?	kentuck	Dec 2012	#20
Possibly, but	ProSense	Dec 2012	#21
I don't see it passing the Republican House.	kentuck	Dec 2012	#22
Tea Party will own the ultimate destruction of the Republican Party as we know it.	Panasonic	Dec 2012	#36
no, actually it keeps many of those tax cuts for the rich	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#26
Please cut the nonsense.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#30
I'd like to have Obama cut the nonsense	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#39
You can	ProSense	Dec 2012	#41
the tax brackets do NOT apply to everyone	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#45
Don't be absurd! n/t	ProSense	Dec 2012	#52
Those numbers are OUTRAGEOUS.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#34
I've been posting those numbers like a broken record now	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#40
Everything we get now favors the rich. It's a given now.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#25
"We won the election by a landslide"	ProSense	Dec 2012	#31
No.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#32
Your graph doesn't make your point.	ProSense	Dec 2012	#35
Bullshit, Prosense.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#37
Bullshit, woo me with science	ProSense	Dec 2012	#38
aha, so you admit "nothing" is an alternative	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#42
Admit?	ProSense	Dec 2012	#44
but going in the wrong direction is bad	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#47
Progress isn't the "wrong direction"	ProSense	Dec 2012	#50
It's like arguing in a funhouse, isn't it. nt	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#53
P is for propaganda. n/t	ProSense	Dec 2012	#54
I wish that graph would include the baseline of "going over the clifff"	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#43
Actually, it's a	ProSense	Dec 2012	#46
I didn't know that the health care law	hfojvt	Dec 2012	#49
Regardless!	ProSense	Dec 2012	#51
It's stunning that they get away with this, and claim to represent us.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#55
Yeah, This One	AndyTiedye	Dec 2012	#28
K & R	Scurrilous	Dec 2012	#33
Sounds tentatively encouraging.	Faryn Balyncd	Dec 2012	#48
never seen government so dysfunctional in the good ol usa	spanone	Dec 2012	#56

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