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Old 01-25-2009, 11:28 PM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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ha jobs will be created, rich republican pigs think people are here to serve them, once they leave better jobs with better pay will be created, only this time nice businessmen will be running the show, not greedy republican pigs

so long pigs, go to africa or sweden
LOL...won't the 'nice businessmen' be making money off the backs of people?
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:29 PM
 
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ha jobs will be created, rich republican pigs think people are here to serve them, once they leave better jobs with better pay will be created, only this time nice businessmen will be running the show, not greedy republican pigs

so long pigs, go to africa or sweden
Ok, you really have to be joking or something. Are you making fun of lefties?

Nice businessmen? What nice businessmen? Poor people will suddenly become rich and offer jobs to other people, only they'll be nice about it?

Really, I'm trying to work with you here, but you're not giving me much to go on...
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:30 PM
 
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Well, retiring early was only one option. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say, though...higher taxes on people that make $250,000/yr don't hurt small business owners who make $250,000/yr??
Basically, this: "The threats expressed above about people with raised taxes cutting and flying and taking all their 'tax' money that they're not paying here to begin with, along with them, are silly."

HTH. Gotta put my son in bed. Hope you can figure out your questions for the next little while without my help, but if not, you can always stow away on Oz's luggage. He's as good as gone, so rumor tells us. He and an ex-marine. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.)

Later.
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:31 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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The bottom 50% of earners pay 2.9% of taxes.
And how much of the wealth do the bottom 50% own?

"The wealthy should pay the tax because they owe a special debt. Their riches, would not be possible without a strong society supporting capitalism"
- Bill Gates, Sr, 2003

It is one thing to talk about capitalism, another to actually understand it. Very few, like Buffet and Bill Gates, Sr, seem to have the clues that a genius like Adam Smith presented to the world.
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:32 PM
 
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LOL...won't the 'nice businessmen' be making money off the backs of people?

perhaps but then they might agree paying for things like a universal health care might be better in the long run
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:33 PM
 
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perhaps but then they might agree paying for things like a universal health care might be better in the long run
Because universal health care has worked out so well for other countries that have it?
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:35 PM
 
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And how much of the wealth do the bottom 50% own?

"The wealthy should pay the tax because they owe a special debt. Their riches, would not be possible without a strong society supporting capitalism"
- Bill Gates, Sr, 2003

It is one thing to talk about capitalism, another to understand it.
republicans have no concept of capitalism or any morals, they just understand their greed, most of them are just trust fund babies and never worked a day in their life

they think it is a bigger tragedy when they earn their $800,000 a year salary and getting a 2% tax raise, then someone who makes $30,000 a year making that person rich not being able to afford health care or the basic things in life
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:36 PM
 
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Because universal health care has worked out so well for other countries that have it?

it sure has, I dont think you would find any person in a 1st or 2nd world nation who has universal health care who trade their system with the diseased thing we have going in the states, this greedy corrupt system that is the most immoral thing humanity has ever seen
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:39 PM
 
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it sure has, I dont think you would find any person in a 1st or 2nd world nation who has universal health care who trade their system with the diseased thing we have going in the states, this greedy corrupt system that is the most immoral thing humanity has ever seen
lol, really? It happens all the the time, actually...Brits and Canadians come to the US to get procedures that they can't get over there.
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Old 01-25-2009, 11:40 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Speculation that the Obama administration would keep Bush tax cuts intact was nixed today as a high-ranking Obama advisor said on Meet The Press that they would soon be eliminated.

Link to rest.
Sorry, Larry Summers waffled on MTP when Gregory pressed him on whether the bush tax cuts would be repealed or left to expire. He did the same on Face on the Nation. Here's the complete interview.
Link to MTP interview:
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During his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama suggested that he would repeal the tax cuts soon after coming into office. Recently, however, his administration has signaled that it will simply let the cuts expire as scheduled at the end of 2010, citing the need not to increase taxes during a difficult economic time. The cuts benefit Americans making more than $250,000.
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Summers declined to clarify how the administration will proceed.
Summers Won't Say If Bush Tax Cuts Will Be Repealed - Political Hotsheet
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