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Old 01-22-2015, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Actually I believe in the US consenting adults regardless of their financial status is free to have sex and have children.
Everyone is free to have kids. But having kids you cannot support is immoral and child abuse.
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Old 01-22-2015, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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So how much does it cost to support one child? Right wingers seem to love to dodge the real questions.
I don't know and I don't care. If you cannot support the child, don't have one. It really is that simple.
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Old 01-22-2015, 08:55 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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People should rely on their family for support instead of the government.
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Old 01-22-2015, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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Everyone should be responsible 100% for those they breed. No one is a parent when they create kids they cannot afford-at the time of conception. They are simply breeding. Their actions are 100% selfish-the opposite of what a parent should be.
Actually, it's even worse. They are selfish, irresponsible, immoral and child abusers.
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Old 01-22-2015, 09:07 PM
 
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Oh stop.

The top 1% pay like 30% of all collected income taxes.
The highest marginal tax rate for individuals for U.S. federal income tax purposes for tax years 1952 and 1953 was 92%

Under a REPUBLICAN president I might add. Republicans USED TO be sane and cared for citizens instead of just a tiny portion of them.It needs to go back to that.
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Old 01-22-2015, 09:16 PM
 
Location: mainland but born oahu
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The middle class is shrinking because of oppressive government regulations. Raising the minimum wage does not help the middle class.
The middle class is shrinking because our country is so top heavy in wealth and thats because the real wealthy are not paying there tax rates. Man i would love to say lets get rid of regulations and government oversight on labor if you believe it will help, but the truth is i can only go by the example of corporate american lately of sending our jobs overseas to countries that have little to no government oversight or regulations on labor and i have to say it scares me to see how they treat labor in some of these countries. Really honest you see the conditions they treat labor and it reminds you of sweatshops of yesteryear. Then i can't help but think if we didn't have these government oversight or regulations on labor in this country? And im not nieve to think that just because we are americans that it wouldn't happen to us too.
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Old 01-22-2015, 09:17 PM
 
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In his SOTU speech last night, BO mentioned something about 'ever try raising a family on minimum wage?' (or something to that effect)
To which I responded: "If you're only qualified to earn minimum wage, you shouldn't be having a family you're trying to feed"

Is that too harsh?
Obama is a MORON, it would be a miracle if he stated something based on reality.

Example: You would have to be an idiot to have kids while earning minimum wage.

You can't expect much from a person raised by a mother who married an already married deadbeat ( yes polygymy) Barack Sr. and had Illegal alien relatives on social aid( his LOSER aunt and drunken uncle from Africa).

Less than 2 more years of this CLOWN before things start to really improve.
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Old 01-22-2015, 09:32 PM
 
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The middle class is shrinking because our country is so top heavy in wealth and thats because the real wealthy are not paying there tax rates. Man i would love to say lets get rid of regulations and government oversight on labor if you believe it will help, but the truth is i can only go by the example of corporate american lately of sending our jobs overseas to countries that have little to no government oversight or regulations on labor and i have to say it scares me to see how they treat labor in some of these countries. Really honest you see the conditions they treat labor and it reminds you of sweatshops of yesteryear. Then i can't help but think if we didn't have these government oversight or regulations on labor in this country? And im not nieve to think that just because we are americans that it wouldn't happen to us too.
In other words how dare those uppity foreigners want what you've already had for over a century.
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Old 01-22-2015, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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The highest marginal tax rate for individuals for U.S. federal income tax purposes for tax years 1952 and 1953 was 92%

Under a REPUBLICAN president I might add. Republicans USED TO be sane and cared for citizens instead of just a tiny portion of them.It needs to go back to that.
Do you realize that the tax code of the 1950s allowed crazy exemptions and deductions that do not exist anymore? And that no one, NO ONE paid a tax rate of 92%.

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Old 01-22-2015, 09:47 PM
 
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The highest marginal tax rate for individuals for U.S. federal income tax purposes for tax years 1952 and 1953 was 92%

Under a REPUBLICAN president I might add. Republicans USED TO be sane and cared for citizens instead of just a tiny portion of them.It needs to go back to that.
It was 91% and no one actually paid that. They paid between 40% and 70% at most and those making over $100K only shouldered 5% of the total tax burden. There was no such thing as tax "credits" and the U.S. faced no real competition world wide.

You can go back to that time if you're willing to kill billions of people in World War III. Well, assuming you're the winner or is it weener?
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