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Old 02-09-2016, 09:57 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Why not add a tax credit for middle class folks if you are so worried?
I don't see Bernie suggesting that. In fact, he has stated that he would raise everyone's taxes.
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Old 02-09-2016, 09:58 AM
 
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How? Explain the actual mechanics of this theft.
By crashing the economy and then their puppet politicians advocating that we balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the disabled, the mentally ill and the vets who had nothing to do with the crash that caused the debt to skyrocket. Its what they did in the 80s as well with the savings and loans crisis.
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Old 02-09-2016, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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How? Explain the actual mechanics of this theft.
It's actually quite simple. The Fed prints $trillions and funnels it all to the Billionaire Class via the banks and corporations that they own.

It's a game of Monopoly where everyone starts with $500 (the working family) and one player gets unlimited access to free money. The results are obvious. All made possible with the repeal of Glass-Steagall which was a plan hatched by the Republican Party with a big assist from Clinton.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:00 AM
 
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I don't see Bernie suggesting that.
Nope, it is in the proposal. A tax credit for households making 75k a year. If you dont even know what it is about, why do you even discuss it.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Secure Bunker
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Funny how countries with a proper social safety net have MORE people working than America, not less. This idea that it is so great to live like starvin' Marvin in a double wide on social security that no one will work is insane silliness.

We have a proper safety net. Over half of government spending is on social programs.

And if you're referring to European countries and their employment rates you really have no argument. Some have less than the US but many have much more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mployment_rate

And most of those states don't have a non-stop flood of illegal labor pouring across their borders each day. We do... we've had it for 40 years and yet we STILL beat most of them on employment numbers.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:03 AM
 
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We have a proper safety net. Over half of government spending is on social programs.

And if you're referring to European countries and their employment rates you really have no argument. Some have less than the US but many have much more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mployment_rate

And most of those states don't have a non-stop flood of illegal labor pouring across their borders each day. We do... we've had it for 40 years and yet we STILL beat most of them on employment numbers.
Wait, arent you a right winger who for a long time have questioned the Obama unemployment figures and said that employment numbers/labor force participation rates are what matters?

Look at the employment numbers in countries with a proper social safety net (northern Europe, Australia, NZ). They all have much higher employment figures than the US.

Why do you think countries with a proper social safety net have higher employment figures than the US?

Try going without a job in the US. You will be living on the streets or you'll have to beg starvin' Marvin for a room in the double wide. You dont live when you're a low income person in the US. You just exist.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:04 AM
 
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Nope, it is in the proposal. A tax credit for households making 75k a year.
A tax credit of what? How much? How is the amount determined? Let's see the specifics.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:05 AM
 
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It's actually quite simple. The Fed prints $trillions and funnels it all to the Billionaire Class via the banks and corporations that they own.

It's a game of Monopoly where everyone starts with $500 (the working family) and one player gets unlimited access to free money. The results are obvious. All made possible with the repeal of Glass-Steagall which was a plan hatched by the Republican Party with a big assist from Clinton.
And who makes that necessary and possible? Private companies? No. The federal government does.

You're aiming your weapon at the wrong people. I know it's populist to hate big corporations (often for no rational reason whatsoever) but the cold reality is that all of this is enabled by politicians in Washington DC.

You hate crony capiltalism? Good! Ask yourself who makes that possible.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:08 AM
 
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And who makes that necessary and possible? Private companies? No. The federal government does.

You're aiming your weapon at the wrong people. I know it's populist to hate big corporations (often for no rational reason whatsoever) but the cold reality is that all of this is enabled by politicians in Washington DC.

You hate crony capiltalism? Good! Ask yourself who makes that possible.
Bernie's been a co-conspirator in that for 25 years.
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Old 02-09-2016, 10:08 AM
 
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A tax credit of what? How much? How is the amount determined? Let's see the specifics.
Hah! You claim to be so hard-working and not lazy, yet you keep repeating yourself endlessly about something you havent even looked at and read. Oh, the irony.
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