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"Taxing them to death" Historically speaking Obama's tax rates are the second lowest in the last century. From 1900-1970 the top tax bracket was around 70% with the highest being 92.5% under Eisenhower. Your beloved man god Reagan had a 50% top tax rate from 1980-1986 and a 39.6% top tax rate from 1987 on. Both of those are higher then Obama's top tax rate of 39% which is just three points higher, for those earning $250,000 or more, then Bush Jr's 36% top tax rate.
You really are clueless aren't you? 95% of people in this country have never, I repeat NEVER, paid lower taxes, while the top 5% are still paying almost their lowest tax rate ever. The reality is these are historic low tax rates and Obama literally passed the largest tax cut in US history. Why do you have so much trouble with these basic facts?
Ok smart guy, So who in the hell is going to foot the bill for this bailout? We are $3 trillion in debt, and according to you, Obama's "tax cut" means we are well off. So who is going to pay this?
I said virtually the same thing to my other half tonight. Only I asked: "How is it that it's so easy for these people to be cajoled into protesting against their own interests, on behalf of the rich?" His response: "You need to reread your Gramsci."
Ever wonder why your "other half", guess that is left speak for a guy that won't marry you, stopped boffing you?
I won't even get into the reasoning behind why you think the fedgov. taking 35% of your money is right.....
How long as that been going on and why protest now? We've always had taxes..
Explain how we could pay for the military without taxes...One conservative "claimed" that Obama is cutting the military budget (which he isn't) but doesn't want to pay taxes..
i liked most of your post and it was well-written but aren't you even a little concerned that obama was unaware of any protest?
No, I'm never concerned when a president doesn't waste his time paying attention to protest marches. I wasn't concerned when past presidents didn't know about the "Save The Whales" march they held when I was in college or people picketing the local Safeway because they sold dented cans. People who hold protests always think they are "important" and "changing the world." But the reality of protests is, they don't add up to a hill of beans, and by the next day they're forgotten. As I said before, they're an opportunity for people to vent, but that's about all.
Frankly, I'm happy to have a president who's busy paying attention to doing his job. A lot of important things need attention right now, a bunch of unhappy republicans is not one of them.
Obama is also unaware that my neighborhood book club is meeting tonight. (At least, I would assume so.) He's probably unaware that you just wrote an anti-Obama post in city-data. Does he know that someone in an office building in Peoria just griped about taxes? I doubt it. And guess what, I'm not the slightest bit concerned that Obama doesn't know about these things because they don't affect his ability to do his job.
An out of control government spending money we do not have and doing it with little or no chance of success....
Of course success in this case would be going back to the same way we were,living on credit.But that is for another thread.
People are POed....and it isn't likely to get better.
Again, was Bush not spending out of control with NO eye to the future?.No protest..Nobody was POed then..
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