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   Proginoskes said, 6 months ago

   … Fiscal cliff.

   (The latest empty GOP scare tactic.)
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   treesareus said, 6 months ago

   The US has over $16.28 trillion in debt (over 8 of it added in the last 6 years). The US has over $121 trillion in under funded liabilities SS, Medicare, Medicare drug. That adds up to over $1,000,000 per US taxpayer. The US has already gone over the fiscal cliff and is falling toward the sudden stop. They failed to deploy their parachute on 11/6/12.
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   jintsfan said, 6 months ago

   Well said treesareus.
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   Loy Wells said, 6 months ago

   @treesareus

   AMEN!
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   GymShoe said, 6 months ago

   At least FRANK hasn’t given up…. ! ! !
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   Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

   It’s so funny the the right seems to think by electing a person that subscribes to the same things that started the financial crises would somehow stop it…. Its just so dang silly…..
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   hippogriff said, 6 months ago

   A tax of .0001% on the one quadrillion dollars annual securities sales (now tax exempt) would pay off the debt the first year, Further years could provide for our neglected infrastructure, educational system, keep taxpaying citizens alive rather than dying from poor health, etc. After the initial purchase offer, companies get nothing from stock sales, it is just a gambling device.
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   bmonk said, 6 months ago

   @Proginoskes

   Actually, this one is bipartisan—both sides in Congress agreed to it, as well as the President. And there is a problem when we spend 150% of our income year after year.
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   bmonk said, 6 months ago

   @hippogriff

   “A tax of .0001% on the one quadrillion dollars annual securities sales (now tax exempt) would pay off the debt the first year. . . .”

   +++++

   Perhaps. Or else, the day traders who love to shuffle money around, as well as the computerized traders would stop making so many sales.
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    oldman2013 said, 6 months ago

    I saw the movie
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    K M said, 6 months ago

    @Redkaycei Repoc

    And re-electing the guy who more than doubled the debt in less than four years is going to get us out of debt. Yeah, makes a whole lot of sense…
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    hippogriff said, 6 months ago

    bmonk: Either would help, but I doubt the money-grubbers would change their habits for a measly one-mill tax.
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

    @K M

    You have a false statement there so I’m not even going to say more…. but go look at the facts before you spout some Fox sludge….
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

    Doubling would mean we have over 20 trillion by now which we do not.
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