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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
9. The chained CPI takes money from seniors who paid the high tax rates of earlier eras
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 06:20 PM
Dec 2012

and hands that money to the working people in the middle class and the wealthy. That is so wrong.

Why can't people see what they are doing?

It's called arithmetic reasoning. Were you good at working word problems in school, President Obama? Cause I don't think you understand what you are saying.

You are taking money from middle class people who paid high tax rates in their working years and handing it to people now working so that the people now working will not have to pay the tax rates that seniors formerly paid.

That stinks. Short and simple. That stinks.

It is a dirty trick clothed in language that makes it sound so reasonable.

But it is not reasonable at all.

It's bad math, bad reasoning. It's seriously unfair.

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