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Old 02-24-2017, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Proxima Centauri
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Starving the Beast was a book written by Grover Norquist. It preaches that if you cut taxes as opportunities arise you can eventually compromise Social Security, Medicare, Education, and other programs that make America livable.

Here is a video that reveals the long history of Republican efforts to this end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrOGpFAZoM
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:03 PM
 
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I would love to see SSI, Medicare and the Department of Education removed. It is not under the authority of the Federal government to institute such.

But lets be honest, the above post is a lie, it is propaganda designed to influence stupid people.

Are you people stupid? Progressives think you are.
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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I would love to see SSI, Medicare and the Department of Education removed. It is not under the authority of the Federal government to institute such.

But lets be honest, the above post is a lie, it is propaganda designed to influence stupid people.

Are you people stupid? Progressives think you are.
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ x10
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Planet Telex
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Starving the Beast was a book written by Grover Norquist. It preaches that if you cut taxes as opportunities arise you can eventually compromise Social Security, Medicare, Education, and other programs that make America livable.
Amazing how after all these years the corporate elite can still convince their voters via their Republican puppets that lowering the corporate tax rate across the board is the solution to the problem of economic growth, when there is nothing over the past four decades of reducing taxes on the 1 percent that demonstrates a positive trickle down effect.

Giving more money to the richest members of society does however give them more money to buy elections, buy judges, buy politicians, buy think tanks, media institutions, and change not only the narrative of economic reality, but shift massively the relative power of organized capital vs. backpeddling defensive and largely deciminated/disorganized labor.

So while corporations continue merging and acquiring and lobbying for their additional sources of crony capitalist funding, the average worker bee in the global and domestic economy is left wondering, can I ever get a break from the monotony of working more and more for less and less in the new Golden Age of Rule by the Predatory Capitalism of the 1 percent?
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:13 PM
 
Location: USA
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Amazing how after all these years the corporate elite can still convince their voters via their Republican puppets that lowering the corporate tax rate across the board is the solution to the problem of economic growth, when there is nothing over the past four decades of reducing taxes on the 1 percent that demonstrates a positive trickle down effect.

Giving more money to the richest members of society does however give them more money to buy elections, buy judges, buy politicians, buy think tanks, universities, media institutions, and change not only the narrative of economic reality but also shift massively the relative power of organized capital vs. backpeddling defensive and largely deciminated and disorganized labor.

So while corporations continue merging and acquiring and lobbying for their additional sources of crony capitalist funding, the average worker bee in the global and domestic economy is left wondering, can I ever get a break from the monotony of working more and more for less and less in the new Golden Age of Rule by the Predatory Capitalism of the 1 percent?
Best post I've seen in months. Bravo!
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Proxima Centauri
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I would love to see SSI, Medicare and the Department of Education removed. It is not under the authority of the Federal government to institute such.

But lets be honest, the above post is a lie, it is propaganda designed to influence stupid people.

Are you people stupid? Progressives think you are.
Some corporate stooge got in there with a pretty quick response.

I agree with the video and I'm no liar. Follow the money. Remember that for every dollar that you pay into Social Security, some corporation must match it. They want out at your expense.

Follow the money. As long as it doesn't cost them anything, the billionaire class will see you destitute. And you busted your butt a life time to make them richer.
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:30 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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Starving the Beast was a book written by Grover Norquist. It preaches that if you cut taxes as opportunities arise you can eventually compromise Social Security, Medicare, Education, and other programs that make America livable........
Starving The Beast does no such thing.
You should write about a book you have actually read.
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:35 PM
 
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Some corporate stooge got in there with a pretty quick response.

I agree with the video and I'm no liar. Follow the money. Remember that for every dollar that you pay into Social Security, some corporation must match it. They want out at your expense.

Follow the money. As long as it doesn't cost them anything, the billionaire class will see you destitute. And you busted your butt a life time to make them richer.
LOL

LOL

Oh for the love of intelligence, LOL!

You have no idea how SSI works do you?
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Let's kill the monster in one swift motion by eliminating the State.
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Old 02-24-2017, 04:47 PM
 
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Amazing how after all these years the corporate elite can still convince their voters via their Republican puppets that lowering the corporate tax rate across the board is the solution to the problem of economic growth, when there is nothing over the past four decades of reducing taxes on the 1 percent that demonstrates a positive trickle down effect.

Giving more money to the richest members of society does however give them more money to buy elections, buy judges, buy politicians, buy think tanks, media institutions, and change not only the narrative of economic reality, but shift massively the relative power of organized capital vs. backpeddling defensive and largely deciminated/disorganized labor.

So while corporations continue merging and acquiring and lobbying for their additional sources of crony capitalist funding, the average worker bee in the global and domestic economy is left wondering, can I ever get a break from the monotony of working more and more for less and less in the new Golden Age of Rule by the Predatory Capitalism of the 1 percent?
This has to be the most ignorant post.

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Best post I've seen in months. Bravo!
I stand corrected. This is more ignorant.
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