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Old 12-14-2010, 04:40 PM
 
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Where are you? We need you, Tea Party people! You are against more deficits! Where are you? Has someone gagged you? Where are yooooooou?

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Old 12-14-2010, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Wouldn't $1.1 Trillion in new spending do worse ?
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Old 12-14-2010, 05:41 PM
 
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You are against more deficits!

....and the ridiculous amount of taxes. Of course being a flaming liberal would preclude you from realizing reduction of spending will reduce the debt without the need to raise taxes.
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Old 12-14-2010, 05:46 PM
 
Location: NW MT
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Wouldn't $1.1 Trillion in new spending do worse ?
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....and the ridiculous amount of taxes. Of course being a flaming liberal would preclude you from realizing reduction of spending will reduce the debt without the need to raise taxes.
It's like talking to the wall ain't it ?!
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:03 PM
 
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....and the ridiculous amount of taxes. Of course being a flaming liberal would preclude you from realizing reduction of spending will reduce the debt without the need to raise taxes.
Without the need to raise taxes on whom?...be specific...."flaming" deflector.
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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It's like talking to the wall ain't it ?!

I disagree. Talking to a wall would make more sense than trying to reason with a moonbat.
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Reality
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Without the need to raise taxes on whom?...be specific...."flaming" deflector.
Without raising taxes on anyone. How many times will people have to drill facts into your head before you realize that you really don't understand the Tea Party because you don't want to. You despise the Tea Party because the Tea Party stands for things that would personally cause you pain.

The Tea Party is for SMALLER GOVERNMENT, that means lower taxes accompanied by cuts in spending across the board so that we aren't spending more than we take in.

I'm a well educated guy and I assume you have some sort of formal education, why is it that I can understand that a cut in taxes isn't "spending" unless you fail to cut your spending to match the loss of income but you can't seem to grasp that concept?

As a Tea Party supporter what should I be protesting? Taxes will remain low for everyone instead of just certain people as Democrats have proposed. Obama has been throttled back and basically turned into a lap dog and the Tea Party supported candidates haven't even taken office yet. Tell me again what I should be protesting?
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Without raising taxes on anyone. How many times will people have to drill facts into your head before you realize that you really don't understand the Tea Party because you don't want to. You despise the Tea Party because the Tea Party stands for things that would personally cause you pain.

The Tea Party is for SMALLER GOVERNMENT, that means lower taxes accompanied by cuts in spending across the board so that we aren't spending more than we take in.

I'm a well educated guy and I assume you have some sort of formal education, why is it that I can understand that a cut in taxes isn't "spending" unless you fail to cut your spending to match the loss of income but you can't seem to grasp that concept?

As a Tea Party supporter what should I be protesting? Taxes will remain low for everyone instead of just certain people as Democrats have proposed. Obama has been throttled back and basically turned into a lap dog and the Tea Party supported candidates haven't even taken office yet. Tell me again what I should be protesting?
Stop making so much sense. Liberals can't stand it.
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:19 PM
 
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Without raising taxes on anyone. How many times will people have to drill facts into your head before you realize that you really don't understand the Tea Party because you don't want to. You despise the Tea Party because the Tea Party stands for things that would personally cause you pain.

The Tea Party is for SMALLER GOVERNMENT, that means lower taxes accompanied by cuts in spending across the board so that we aren't spending more than we take in.

I'm a well educated guy and I assume you have some sort of formal education, why is it that I can understand that a cut in taxes isn't "spending" unless you fail to cut your spending to match the loss of income but you can't seem to grasp that concept?

As a Tea Party supporter what should I be protesting? Taxes will remain low for everyone instead of just certain people as Democrats have proposed. Obama has been throttled back and basically turned into a lap dog and the Tea Party supported candidates haven't even taken office yet. Tell me again what I should be protesting?
You should be protesting the fact that the GOP would hold your tax cuts hostage unless their bosses on Wall Street and Corporate thieves got theirs. You should protest EXTORTION. It seems as if yours is the head that needs drilling into if you don't get that fact.

But, not everybody is hurting. While the middle class disappears and poverty increases the wealthiest people in our country are not only doing extremely well, they are using their wealth and political power to protect and expand their very privileged status at the expense of everyone else. This upper-crust of extremely wealthy families are hell-bent on destroying the democratic vision of a strong middle-class which has made the United States the envy of the world. In its place they are determined to create an oligarchy in which a small number of families control the economic and political life of our country.

But it's not just wealthy individuals who grotesquely manipulate the system for their benefit. It's the multinational corporations they own and control. In 2009, Exxon Mobil, the most profitable corporation in history made $19 billion in profits and not only paid no federal income tax—they actually received a $156 million refund from the government. In 2005, one out of every four large corporations in the United States paid no federal income taxes while earning $1.1 trillion in revenue.

http://www.thenation.com/article/37889/no-oligarchy
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:19 PM
 
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Without the need to raise taxes on whom?
Anyone. It's quite a simple concept to understand. When you don't spend money, especially money you don't have, you won't have debt.

For example, if you walk into BK with your buddy and only have enough to buy one burger bu opt to have your buddy buy you a second you're now in debt to him. See how that works? You can avoid this by only getting one burger.


Was that dumbed down enough?
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