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Old Codger

(4,205 posts) Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:06 PM Dec 2012

They just don't get it

If they would look around and had the ability to add 2 and 2 and get something besides 3 or 5 or even 9 they would be able to see that the higher the employment rate and higher the wages the more taxes would be generated and the less we would have to focus on the 1% to pay their share.

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They just don't get it (Original Post) Old Codger Dec 2012 OP

100% amnesty 100% citizenship then tax would be so much more in the tax pool graham4anything Dec 2012 #1

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)

1. 100% amnesty 100% citizenship then tax would be so much more in the tax pool

Reply to Old Codger (Original post)

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 11:15 PM

Dec 2012

and French like health care, you pay when well a little more, then no bills when sick

you make it back 1000 times over

those two things would solve the debt after a few years

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