If we need $90 Billion a year for Health Care and don't want to raise taxes, how about we ...

Motown_Johnny

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:18 PM
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If we need $90 Billion a year for Health Care and don't want to raise taxes, how about we ...

divert the $92 billion a year we spend on corporate welfare ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare

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According to the Cato Institute, the U.S. federal government spent $92 billion on corporate welfare during fiscal year 2006. Recipients included Boeing, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Dow Chemical, and General Electric.<6>

Wouldn't that force the 'thgs to defend corporate profits over human life in a way even "Joe Sixpack" can understand?

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laughingliberal

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:21 PM
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1. I have always liked the sound of windfall profit taxes

The wonderful irony of this is the health insurance industries could wind up footing the bill for reforming the corrupt system they built.

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phantom power

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:26 PM
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2. Or we could pull the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan...

save $92 billion in about a month.

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Kaleva

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:27 PM
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3. Bring back the tax rates of WWII and the 50's

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Motown_Johnny

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:34 PM
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4. I would be happy with the pre trickle down rates.. Reagan fucked us all bad

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Maru Kitteh

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:47 PM
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7. Yeah, the captains of industry could barely afford their 6th and 7th homes back then.

Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 09:47 PM by Maru Kitteh

Imagine the shame.

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global1

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:48 PM
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8. If We Did All The Things Suggested In This Thread - We Might Even Be Able To Get......

back to a budget surplus.

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liberal N proud

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:37 PM
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5. Or we could just stop bombing other nations.

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Dark

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Tue Aug-25-09 09:44 PM
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6. That isn't welfare. It's tax cuts. Don't you know, tax cuts solve every problem?

Sure, they're gettting back more than they paid, but that's only because of all the years they'd paid those horrible burdening taxes.

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Maru Kitteh

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Tue Aug-25-09 10:04 PM
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9. Here's another one.that would help more than a little. End corn subsidies.

I think we have enough.

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