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   kat827618 said, about 1 year ago

   McClatchy Washington Bureau:
   “McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had ‘gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.’ The companies, however, aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.

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   DHLEAKY said, about 1 year ago

   The one thing that the idiots that are destroying the middle class, are so stupid not to realize, is that when you destroy your tax base, called the middle class, you get these obvious results. DUH. You also get a 9 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT IN 7.5 YRS. Owned by the Arabs and the Chinese.
   Vote McCain, and flush this nation down the porcelain fixture.

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   gbrucewilson said, about 1 year ago

   One more time and please pay attention: “The Tax base” in not the middle class. On Federal Income Tax, almost half of all wage earners pay no federal income tax (zero) and many get money back on taxes they did not pay. So, half the people are getting a free-ride on the backs of the ones who pay. Now, what share of the total tax do the rest of us pay? Here are the “official” facts. The people with the top 1% of income pay 34% of the total tax. The top 10% pay 65% of all taxes. The real “tax base” is the “rich” and businesses. The Obama plan will kill the goose that laid the golden egg. “Rich” people and businesses are the ones who create jobs.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   gbrucewilson-
   “Trickle-down economics” they call it. It doesn’t work. Pretty much every economist says so. The gap between rich and poor increased during Reagan’s, Bush’s, and W.’s terms, and decreased during Clinton’s.
   
   The middle class is disappearing, and that’s a bad thing.

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   SacPopz said, about 1 year ago

   I don’t know the exact numbers gbrucewilson, but the top 1% pay as much as they do because they have 90% of the money

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   FarWestGirl said, about 1 year ago

   Corporations and the rich today don’t pay nearly as much as they did in the ‘glorious’ 50’s, the decade many conservatives idealize. There was a 90% tax bracket then, but the top ones got eliminated and the majority of the load has been shifted to middle and lower brackets. And partly because of that most families then could be comfortable on one income, own their house, have a car, take two week vacations every year as if that was their right. Oh, and they had evenings and weekends off so they could actually spend time raising their kids instead of throwing them at the TV and Game Boy because they’re both working a couple of jobs to keep the rent paid. It was called quality of life and a standard of living the world envied. Not saying there weren’t a lot of other problems, but the corporations and the rich were a lot more heavily taxed, the economy was great, the infrastucture was built and maintained and there was a resonable expectation that kids would work hard and do better than their parents. Not anymore, thank you neo-cons.