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Old 01-07-2010, 01:59 PM
 
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"On Wednesday, Congressman Paul appeared on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the lack of difference between the two major parties, as well as the public's growing frustration with the political establishment."

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Old 01-07-2010, 02:09 PM
 
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I agree with a lot of what Ron Paul says. My big problem with him is he wants to entirely eliminate income tax and thinking we could exist without it.

The only realistic way to change things is to roll back the Reagan tax cuts, which would help the average taxpayer. If this happened the average middle-class taxpayer would not get taxed any heavier than they are now, actually less. The corporate tax should be raised back up to 50% wehre it belongs. Corporations pay an effective 9% corporate tax, the lowest in the world. Effective is what they actually pay, not the 35% they say they are being taxed. None of the big deficits came until Reagan when he cut taxes for those at the top so the middle class had to start paying higher taxes and going into deep debts.
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Old 01-07-2010, 02:57 PM
 
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I'm glad Rachel Maddow and Ron Paul are revealing how this us vs them/left against right is a just a sham to keep the general public at each others throat rather than come together & how the Democratic along with Republican establishment are essentially mirroring each other.

The partisan pot shots are not about helping the national interests but about swindling voters into supporting you so you can rake in the dough from campaign contributions and lobbyists.

Still neither the Democratic nor the GOP political parties are monolithic entities.

Perhaps we are approaching the era of the multiparty political system.

Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich might have enough support to splinter off to form a Progressive Party while leaving the existing Democratic Party to the neoliberal corporate centrists (Obama, Clintons)

Ron Paul (and perhaps the maverick McCain) could call it quits with the GOP and establish a powerful Libertarian Party while the neocons and the religious right maintain control over the Republican Party.

I think as a nation we might have reached the point where a two party system is just not sufficient to represent the interests of 300 + million people.
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Old 01-07-2010, 03:12 PM
 
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The only realistic way to change things is to roll back the Reagan tax cuts, which would help the average taxpayer. If this happened the average middle-class taxpayer would not get taxed any heavier than they are now, actually less.
All of Reagan's tax cuts have been rescinded. Those that were not overturned in 1982 or 1986 were flipped in 1993.
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