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Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945
http://online.wsj.com/public/resourc...42729_0917.pdf Do Tax Cuts Lead to Economic Growth? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/op...ic-growth.html The kind of ''fact'' than Romney campain will never recognise...
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2012-09-17, 13:23 | Link #502 | |
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2012-09-17, 14:50 | Link #504 | |
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2012-09-17, 16:19 | Link #508 | |
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Writing stories and playing music.... <cranks bass guitar up to "11">
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2012-09-17, 16:46 | Link #510 | |
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It is most interesting that Romney believe 47% of the country would never vote for him. And that he considered them worthless human-beings. I look forward to people on the street asking him if they are part of the 47%. I also wonder if Romney was impressed with Chinese working conditions, the way he talked about them. EDIT: I noticed that comments in news sites have GOP supporters claiming that's what they believe as well. I guess the idea is to make everyone think they are part of the 53%.
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2012-09-17, 16:54 | Link #512 | |
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Now, I'm not a fan of the current GOP by any means, but I'd also add that it's a little discussed fact that it was Clinton that repealed Glass-Steagall. The Dems have "blood on their hands" too, folks. |
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2012-09-17, 16:59 | Link #513 |
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After all, no Republican has ever used the infrastructure safety net... o... wait.
And every Democrat is dependent on .... oh.... wait. Or that the social services are when people have taken a tumble and need a helping hand, or they have obstacles that if the community supports them, the community gets a win-win out of it, or.... Or I could just decide the people who support Romney are either total tools, idiots, or sociopaths and manipulative of the first two groups. What Willx says is certainly true because the bankerism and corporatists cut through both parties. It does not make both parties "the same" but it does mean that, on certain topics, you'd have a hard time telling them apart based on their actual actions in regard to "mega-corp vs community". I recognize the Dems are up to their neck in corporatist string pulling but I also recognize they aren't nearly out of control with the "batshit insane clowns proclaiming god/flag" trying to take the steering wheel. I mean, Boehner on his own is a rather pragmatic cynic who might want to get things done -- but the zealots and tea party extremists have hamstrung him because he wants the shiny office more than he wants to get things done.
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2012-09-17, 16:59 | Link #514 | |
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Whatever the case, his words strike at the heart of the cultural divide that current bridges this country. There are those that believe it is a countries moral imperative to help all its citizens to have a specific standard of living, whereas the other half believe that besides some simple basic liberties/rights (religion, guns, state rights, guns, speech, etc) everything is up to the individual. |
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2012-09-17, 17:03 | Link #515 | |
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2012-09-17, 17:09 | Link #516 | |
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Of course, this is complicated by the fact that the rich elites get government welfare as well and that will increase under GOP policies. The poor get welfare because they need it; the rich get welfare because they can demand it.
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Looks like he thinks the 47% who don't pay federal taxes will vote democrat, but almost all of those that do will vote for him. ... He doesn't even know who his own demographics are? Isn't that, like, basic homework for someone running for office at that level? Quote:
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