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blogslut

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1. We broke their "no taxes EVAR!" fever

Reply to TXDem72 (Original post)

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 01:30 AM

Jan 2013

THIS Texan is damned happy about it.

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Please explain something to me [View all] TXDem72 Jan 2013 OP

We broke their "no taxes EVAR!" fever blogslut Jan 2013 #1

ass-teRt rule: gone. gRover pledge eradicated. Amonester Jan 2013 #2

For the same reason you would have been excited over a $900 tax increase on a HH making $260K BeyondGeography Jan 2013 #3

I believe restoring Clinton's rates in entirety would have been reasonable. TXDem72 Jan 2013 #4

We're losing the payroll tax holiday (which I agree with) BeyondGeography Jan 2013 #7

$23,000, not $2,300 TexasBushwhacker Jan 2013 #5

The first 450,000 of income are not taxed at higher rates TXDem72 Jan 2013 #6

Depends on how you define "rich" Fumesucker Jan 2013 #8

The largest employers in America pay as close to min wage as they can Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #13

I get by on considerably less than the Walmart employee you mentioned Fumesucker Jan 2013 #18

their cap gains and dividends taxes should be going up significantly because of the PPACA though bubbayugga Jan 2013 #9

Because we didn't fuck the poor. jeff47 Jan 2013 #10

It doesn't though, not even close. TheKentuckian Jan 2013 #11

The credits add up to a significant amount of money jeff47 Jan 2013 #12

Progressives want to save the poor Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #14

Forget it Chris, they're in the orgasmic thrall of "The Big Win" and when reality slaps them in the Egalitarian Thug Jan 2013 #15

Pretty much. Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #16

Progressives demanding that we go over the cliff so that there's a tax hike on $250k jeff47 Jan 2013 #17

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