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View Poll Results: Are you happy your taxes are going up?
Yes 22 29.73%
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:03 PM
 
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Born & Raised DC > Carolinas > Seattle > Denver
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Even though the gap between the 1% and the 99% is greater than it's ever been in the history of this country.....

Uninformed Trump supporters actually believe that a tax break for the rich will trickle down to Middle America....
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:04 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Same old B.S.!

Funny they didn't have a problem with the fiscal irresponsibility of Barrack Hussein Obama, who doubled our national debt and never achieved even 3% GDP in eight years, raised taxes, and penalized people for not buying something they don't want.
What laws did Obama pass or sign that doubled our national debt?
(But you and every republican in this country could not answer that question.)

And if you can't explain how Obama doubled our national debt, why do you say it?
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:04 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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yes i am, pointing out stupid liberals is easy.
You must be a pleasant person to hang around with at social gatherings. I bet anybody that doesn't agree with your point of view is a "stupid liberal" even if they aren't liberal at all.
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:07 PM
 
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Republicans are a party of dupes led by the duplicitous.

I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.
62% of the benefit goes to the richest 1% of the public. not something i just made up but an easy to check fact.
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:07 PM
 
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That's what is so crazy about Trump's base. Half of what he wants to do will only hurt them...yet they worship him.

Donald Trump dominated with the uneducated in 2016, and boy does it explain a lot.
Too bad dems didn't run a winnable candidate. Talk about uneducated, what were they thinking? If they are sooo smart why did they let this happen?
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:09 PM
 
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Republicans are a party of dupes led by the duplicitous.

I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.

My stock portfolio got duped into a 54% increase so far this year....Now, I'm gonna get duped into another round of golf this afternoon and when I'm done I'm gonna get duped into dinner at Morton's with my duped Trump voter friends and then get duped and leave a $200 tip to the unduped libtoid waiter...
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:11 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Same old B.S.!

Funny they didn't have a problem with the fiscal irresponsibility of Barrack Hussein Obama, who doubled our national debt and never achieved even 3% GDP in eight years, raised taxes, and penalized people for not buying something they don't want.
The only things Obama did to significantly raise our debt was extending 82% of the Bush tax cuts, and Obama extending the Bush tax cuts added about $2.7 trillion dollars to our national debt from 2013-2022.
Budget Deal Makes Permanent 82 Percent of President Bush

And Obama added $831 billion dollars to our debt with his stimulus (most of which was tax cuts for middle class Americans and increased benefits for retired workers.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...nt_Act_of_2009

But republicans attack Obama for anything, including giving the middle class tax cuts.
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:12 PM
 
Location: USA
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The stock market is right out of 1929 too.

In fact, relative to trailing-ten-year earnings, the S&P 500 is above where it was at the 1929 peak.

http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
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Old 11-30-2017, 01:13 PM
 
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As I recall, the Recession was brought about by the wheeling and dealing of the wealthy.

Stock market was going great guns on borrowed money and financial film flams.

Fortunately, that will never happen again.

Well, except for the recession brought about by wealthy Wall Street types "bundling" bad mortgages and passing them around like hot commodities until the sell-off started.
That was shameful. I used to help qualify people for mortgages when things were sane, and I cannot believe how those loans were just handed out to anyone with a pulse. Yeh then bundled and then boom...the tragic result hurt a LOT of people who have never recovered.
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