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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:46 PM
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Dear repubicans, there is absolutely no sane, valid, defensible reason to . . . . .
. . . . . to maintain any tax cut for people earning over $200K.

We cannot afford this. Even if we could, it has not benefited the greater society in any way, shape, or form.

Period.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:47 PM
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1. it should not even be up for discussion
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:50 PM
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3. No kidding. And have you noticed it's all the supposed deficit hawks that support it?
Dem and Repub. Disgusting. We can blow the budget to make the rich even more comfortable, but not the poor or the disabled or the children. WTF?
For shame.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 06:40 AM
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16. We know they are
deficit hawks in name only. And of course they are only deficit hawks when Democrats are in power.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:49 PM
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2. Maybe not to you--but ReBPublicans very careers depend upon it.
who will think of the trust fund babies?
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:51 PM
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4. I don't understand how they can even go there politically.
Hey, voters! We want to keep giving people way richer than you a big tax break. Oh, and we got nothing for you. You good with that?

WTF?
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:58 PM
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5. But there are insane, and indefensible reasons up the a@@
And you can damn well bet that the democratic pragmatists will stop and listen to them.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:59 PM
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6. You have to understand they plan on slashing SS so this remains revenue neutral
The old folks dont need the money as badly as Buffy needs a new Jaguar.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:00 PM
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7. The fact is
that most if not all of them are in that tax bracket, so they are going to want it if only purely in a selfish way.
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rve300 Donating Member (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:14 PM
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9. How many folks do you think make more than $200K?
I would love to see where you found that fact? I thought only about 5-10% of American taxpayers made more than $200K. I think the Republicans received more than 5-10% of the vote in the 2008 election.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:20 PM
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10. What I meant
was the Republican Senators and Represent ives are in that bracket.
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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 10:14 PM
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12. To be fair, so are the Dems nt
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 10:20 PM
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14. Yes
but they are not the ones fighting tooth and nail for tax cuts for people who neither need them nor deserve them.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:13 PM
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8.  there is absolutely no sane, valid, defensible reason to . . . . .
<insert any proposal by any conservative EVER in the last 30 years>
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 09:28 PM
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11. Pubs know, but will stay the course, lying, distorting, mis-informing,
and grand-standing to make sure faithful true-believers will think life in the western world as we have known it will cease should Warren B. be asked to send as high a percentage of his total income to Uncle Sam as his secretary does: Warren reportedly knows of this gross inequity and would like to bear a fairer share of the income tax burden, but such thinking is utter heresy to true-believing pubs. ;)
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 10:18 PM
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13. Those fat campaign donation checks aren't going to write themselves you know..
Think of the poor politicians for once, Stinky.
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mindwalker_i Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 11:49 PM
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15. You are making the error of applying logic
to Republicans, or more specifically, what they want to do. You know better.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 06:41 AM
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17. K&R
Once again, Stinky, ya done good.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 09:44 AM
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18. One needs to look no further than what they've DONE with their tax cuts...
during the last 8 years. Nothing that's helped us, and everything that's HURT us.

ENOUGH.
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