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In reply to the discussion: SOURCE: Hillary Clinton will announce her 2016 campaign this weekend [View all]Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)69. She should also announce her opposition to the Fast Track bill that will be introduced within the
... week.
And her opposition to the total elimination of the estate tax on multi-billionaires which will be introduced Wednesday. (which will, coincidentally, allow trust fund babies to inherit billions tax free and proceed to structure their finances so that their income is in the form of capital gains, resulting in a maximum total federal tax rate of 15%, a rate which is not only a fraction of the taxes paid by the vanishing middle class (income tax + self-employment or payroll tax), but less than the taxes paid by the majority of the 47% of Americans who were falsely maligned by Mitt Romney as "paying no taxes", all of whose earned income is bears a 15.3% tax rate, with 7.65% paid directly by them, and 7.65% paid "by the employer" but born ultimately by the employee in the form of lower wages.)
I will work my rear off for the Democratic candidate in 2016, whoever she or he is.
But if we are to turn back the forces of evil, our candidate needs to be willing to work his or her rear off for the vanishing middle class.
Starting by using one's influence to defeat the current attacks by the corporatists and the agents of the 1%.
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SOURCE: Hillary Clinton will announce her 2016 campaign this weekend [View all]
riversedge
Apr 2015
OP
The rightwing nutsosphere will explode. Also, I'll skip DU to avoid the predictable media spin. n/t
freshwest
Apr 2015
#10
She should also announce her opposition to the Fast Track bill that will be introduced within the
Faryn Balyncd
Apr 2015
#69