"Obama is going to tax our water." - Democratic Underground

elshiva

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Mon Aug-18-08 08:23 PM
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"Obama is going to tax our water."

"SMEAR: An email claims that Barack Obama wants to tax your home, IRA, & even your water."

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

:rofl:

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concreteblue

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Mon Aug-18-08 09:21 PM
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1. nutjobs

they will stop at nothing. The sad part is how many accept the
disinformation without question.

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elshiva

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Mon Aug-18-08 09:23 PM
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2. Yes. It's sad.

Also "he won't say the pledge of allegiance" when there is a video of him leading the pledge in the senate. MORANS!

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Skittles

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Mon Aug-18-08 10:37 PM
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5. you know it, concreteblue

where I work, I've had people with Masters and PHDs forward absolute crap to me they could have easily disproved with 10 seconds research on the web. Fact is, they believe it because they WANT to believe it

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BlueJazz

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Mon Aug-18-08 10:35 PM
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3. I heard he was going to raise Gasoline to over 3 dollars per gallon.

Geez...Wouldn't That be terrible ??

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elshiva

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Mon Aug-18-08 10:36 PM
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4. BWAHAAHAHAHAAAAA!

:rofl: What assholes they can't even see what is really going on through that thick smog of lies.

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Kat45

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Mon Aug-18-08 10:55 PM
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6. The Republicans want to sell us our water.

I'm glad the Obama folks are catching and pointing out all the lies being spread about him.

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elshiva

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Mon Aug-18-08 11:02 PM
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7. hmmm. When I read that smear,

I thought it meant a tax on tap water, not bottled water. I think there's sales tax on that...

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Kat45

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Mon Aug-18-08 11:08 PM
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8. Probably. But private entities have been trying to buy up water supplies.

They do think of water as the new oil and look forward to owning all of the water so we will all have to pay for our water. I read about that a while back (but don't remember where), and I find that extremely scary since water is an absolute necessity for life.

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elshiva

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Mon Aug-18-08 11:13 PM
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9. Jeez. Isn't that big government?

I thought repukes were against big government.

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Kat45

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Tue Aug-19-08 08:44 PM
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12. No, if they have their way it won't be the government at all.

It would be the private sector, ie big corporations. THEY want to be the ones who own the water. As an example, Dasani water. It's owned by Coca Cola. who bought water from a town in Massachusetts, then filters it and sells it as Dasani bottled water. So the town has less water than it used to because they sold a lot of it to the Coca Cola corporation. (I'm not exactly sure how the process of 'buying' water from a town works, but apparently it can be done and that's what elements of the private sector would like to do--eventually have a monopoly on water.)

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Lil Missy

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Mon Aug-18-08 11:30 PM
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10. Bottled water? WHEW! And I was afraid he was going to tax my dog's poop in the yard.

Edited on Mon Aug-18-08 11:31 PM by Lil Missy

I am soooo relieved now!

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PVnRT

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Tue Aug-19-08 06:26 AM
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11. All of which are already taxed....

The stupidity of some people is just crushing.

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