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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:37 PM Original message |
How do you break a capital strike? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. I suggest a "hoarding tax." A very punitive one. |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. You mean let's just seize their assets |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Government jobs programs |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. The same exact way it was broken by FDR... |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Almost forgot about that |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Capital gains only counts for returns on investments |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. It is not a capital strike that threatens Obama's presidency, it is |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. I would go even further than this. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. The words capital strike got my hopes up. |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Yeas, but the way the system is configured now, they'd take our paychecks with them. |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. Inflation, Ma'am, Makes Hoarding Money A Losing Proposition |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Inflation hurts the poor faster than the rich. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Alas Buffett wants TO BE TAXED |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. It Depends On How It is Handled, Ma'am |
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Blue Meany (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
13. More inflation should do the trick... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. Jobs programs, create an alternate banking system, form co-ops to |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 06:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. +1000 on the Co-Ops |
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