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In reply to the discussion: How will you change your life if Mitt "wins?" [View all]GitRDun
(1,846 posts)I am going to take my oil and gas subsidies, use my carried interest tax rate, and wonder why if I can see how screwed up that is, so many others cannot.
Governing will always be about choosing. How we can be so lost as a country that we allow lobbyists to make it possible for my industry to pay so little tax is beyond me. We make that choice for guys like me while
Most of my kids friends get out of college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
We cut food and heating assistance to the poor.
We want to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, Big Bird, and a host of other programs that collectively stitch together a warm, caring society, versus a cruel and heartless Pottersville.
I refuse to believe that as a country we are that phenomenally stupid!