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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:28 AM Original message |
Geithner presses case for renewing middle-class tax breaks |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. We'd rather have real jobs. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Increasing taxes on the rich and not on people who earn less than |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. Tax Breaks don't do much good for those who don't have to pay tax. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Last I heard that was from Glenn Beck |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:49 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. i think you misunderstand |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:55 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. No, people "who don't pay taxes" |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. no, he's ridiculing the CUTS |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yeah. He's ridiculing repealing the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. no, you have it backwards |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Look, any time you use right wing smears |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Many of the people I know don't make enough to have to file. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Which has absolutely zilch to do with the topic |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Wait till you join the ranks of unemployed, then you will understand. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The unemployed got extensions and $1300 year |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:16 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. My...my...my |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 01:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. I thought the topic was the middle class tax cuts. |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. Don't "extend" anything of Bush's (ewww!) |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. +1 |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Obama gave the middle class a $400 tax cut |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I'm not sure what's going on here, sandnsea... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. It should be a "woohoo" thread |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Weird, isn't it? |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. that's because instead of a $400 check americans saw a slight increase in their check every week. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. And then got $400 too |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Please explain. If you don't make enough to file, how do you get the $400.00. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I didn't say that |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I've already put that one on ignore... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. i know my sister works for the IRS and was pissed when they had the $500 check before. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Just wait until we have the TeaBaggery bunch extolling the virtue... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. i just don't get how these people think. it's like they are cutting off the branch |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Perfect analogy, ejpoeta! |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. that's exactly what i thought. it looked like a cartoon you would see in |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. The Obama administration is already. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Got link? eom |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:09 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Yeah.. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #46 |
51. This sort of bullshit shouldn't be allowed on DU, imho... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #46 |
52. This shows how much you know... |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. They are only in the.. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #44 |
53. So full of bullshit... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
4. The Bush Tax Cuts |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. 250,000 is too high |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Agree. A household making $250K is not 'struggling.' |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Obama said he wouldn't raise taxes |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. Obama said he would renegotiate NAFTA and get those Bankster bonuses returned, too. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 01:38 AM Response to Reply #41 |
49. Actually, yes there has been progress |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 09:14 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. "Feinberg Will Not Ask Executives to Return Bonuses" |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 01:09 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Because that money has come back other ways |
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boomerbust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
10. If Obama caves on this |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
34. Bullshit... |
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boomerbust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
11. dupe |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
37. Is this a 100 day run up to the elections about face . . . ? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. Frantic about the elections would be my guess... nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Liberals and progressives seem to be annoying them a lot -- and yet I don't think |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
47. Geithner is a Republican mole |
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Jack_DeLeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
48. Yes this would be good... |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
54. FATP |
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