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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo balance the budget and keep SS and Medicare safe from the thieves, institute a war tax to be
waged on the war profiteers. During WW II, the big one, it was against the law to profit from the war. We need to bring that back retroactively. Make GE, Halliburton, Dick Cheney, and all the others that profited while we in the masses went in debt trillions.
Call it a war profits tax.
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To balance the budget and keep SS and Medicare safe from the thieves, institute a war tax to be (Original Post)
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
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Damn good solution, rhett! When can we vote on it? Wouldn't that be great?! Sigh... nt
Mnemosyne
Mar 2013
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. Damn good solution, rhett! When can we vote on it? Wouldn't that be great?! Sigh... nt
KoKo
(84,711 posts)2. It's time will come...gotta be hopeful.
There's lots of folks wanting to put down these ideas and our Laws and Constitution/Bill of Rights...but, eventually.. We shall see.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)3. I'll keep having hope, 'cause what else do we have if not hope?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)4. "Proverb Hunter" has it......
Hope springs eternal in the human breast
It is in the nature of man to look forward to better times, despite set-back and disappointments.
The proverb is a quotation from Popes Essay on Man (1733).
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be, blest.
The soul, unesay and confind from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
http://proverbhunter.com/hope-springs-eternal-in-the-human-breast/
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)7. Thanks for sharing that, KoKo. Here's another - "A man begins to die when he ceases to expect
anything from tomorrow." Abraham Miller from Unmoral Maxims
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)5. A temporary war tax was put on telephones for the Spanish American War
That federal tax is STILL on your phone bill.
I'm all for revenue increases, but we shouldn't expect them to be temporary.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)6. I agree that there should be a permanent "war profit tax". nm
permanent