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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:17 PM Original message |
If I were president, one of the first things I would do is work to raise taxes. A lot. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. you've got my vote |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. TAX BACK TO EISENHOWER LEVELS |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't think a model like that would work for long |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Really? Where do you think they would move to? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Somewhere similar to the US but with lower taxes nt |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. horsehockey. other countries would follow suit and raise taxes as well. |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. So invoke a 100% exit tax. |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 06:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. No they wouldn't - they'd reinvest excess into their businesses and expand |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. People have been saying that for years |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. I agree. n/t |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. How are you going to get Congress to vote for that? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I would name you secretary of getting 'er done. |
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C_Lawyer09 (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. I understand what you are saying from a moral standpoint |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. I would do that 90% top rate, but |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. No probelm with that at all |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
12. The 90% part that people do not get is... |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
14. The top marginal rates were 91% when Kennedy took office in 1960 |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
16. The problem with... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
17. Stinky for President. Tax the rich the same way Eisenhower did. |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 03:43 AM Response to Original message |
18. And a big miss! |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 04:08 AM Response to Original message |
19. If you were president you'd discover in short order that there's no |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 04:11 AM Response to Original message |
20. How would you get that through the senate? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
23. Which is yet another reason that you will never be President |
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