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cal04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:17 PM Original message |
Warner: Eliminate Tax Cuts For The Wealthy, Give Them To Businesses |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Businesses require demand, not tax cuts. They say so themselves! |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. +1000 I don't get why anyone believes businesses need tax cuts. |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Some payroll tax cut options boost CONSUMER DEMAND as well as net new hires-- |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. How does a tax cut for a construction contractor induce him to hire? |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. If he already has work lined up and is hiring, a 15% temporary payroll tax cut may |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 04:09 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Kick! |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
35. In general, an employer is not going to employ someone demand doesn't call for just because they |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 08:41 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. 'If demand doesn't already call for a 7th worker...' At what price? Demand can call for |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. "When something's on sale, and you're buying some anyway, you tend to buy more." |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 05:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
26. really pushing those payroll tax cuts to defund social security & medicare, aren't you? |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
36. To be fair to ProgressiveEconomist, a temporary payroll tax cut could be designed not to affect SS |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Than you. A payroll tax cut could get Treasury to buy back some of the $2.5 trillion |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. +1. n/t |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. nope |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Stamp |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. Did Warner's staff read Nouriel Roubini's recent op-ed? See the GD thread at |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Give the wealthy tax breaks ONLY for expenditures that create American jobs |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. How about we save the money, for once, instead of always trying to |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. U mean those same businesses that are sitting on mountains o' cash? |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. No--only those businesses that are expanding their payrolls with new hires and/or raises |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Was that in Warner's proposals? |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 09:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Not to my knowledge. But he said the same thing as Roubini. Maybe his staff |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
11. Here's the thing.. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
13. The GOP won't like that, either. Sorry, the GOP only cares about giving money to the already rich.nt |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. I like it. |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. +1 Too bad America's addicted to sticking it to small business. |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 05:02 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Small business is 500 employees or less. My employer has over |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I'm talking about genuine small business not players. |
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BlueCheese (897 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. Better than the GOP plan. |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
20. "...aimed at boosting the economic activity of businesses." |
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hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. Enough of tax cuts already |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-12-10 11:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. 'Paying down the deficit'? IMO getting back the millions of jobs we're down from Dubya's |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
25. Lower the social security retirement age and open jobs up |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
28. This is not ideal but it is intelligent |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
29. Eliminate 50% of the "defense" budget and give it to the people to buy stuff. |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. There you go! nt |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:16 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. The wildly successful Cash for Clunkers program should have open their eyes |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-13-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. Hate his idea! Make Exxon pay more than Zero taxes and give that to other businesses. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
33. Any money gained via the tax cut dispute won't be seen anywhere |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-14-10 07:45 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. How does that generate employment, resolve our 2 trillion dollar infrastructure deficit, transform |
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