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   Harleyquinn said, 6 months ago

   oh yawn, got to keep this class warfare going till we fall off the cliff. If we do not tax these guys we all are going to die..right?
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   apfelzra said, 6 months ago

   Taxing the rich isn’t class warfare, neither is it socialism. It’s only one part of a necessary restructuring of how the federal government takes in revenue, and needs to be matched with plans to reduce spending, including entitlements. It’s important to note Warren Buffett’s recent editorial that, at no point in his long career of recommending investments, has anyone (including many wealthy investors) ever expressed concern about how much tax they would have to pay on their resulting incomes. They just wanted good investment strategies that would produce more wealth, even back in the 50’s and 60’s when income tax rates were much higher than today.
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   Of course, one cannot forget Leona Helmsley, and her oft quoted battle cry of the 1%ers… “Taxes?? Only the LITTLE people pay taxes!!”
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   Let Shell said, 6 months ago

   Fine, if you guys are against the rich paying their fair share of taxes, then cut taxes for the rest of us so that we’re paying what the rich currently pay…
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   flake-67121 said, 6 months ago

   “Fair” is the opposite of "Progressive’.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago

   @flake-67121

   Life isn’t fair princess, anybody who tells you it is is selling you something!
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   Dycel said, 6 months ago

   @flake-67121

   Fair to the conservative is everyone else but them is left with the check!
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   Wabbit said, 6 months ago

   when did it become sin to help the poor?
   I’m not jealous of what they have, it’s that they should be taxed at the same rate as the rest of us.

   the post just above this said something that makes no sense.
   It sounds backward,
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   T.E. Lawrence said, 6 months ago

   Wealth is concentrated in the top 5% at the highest it’s been since the 1870’s, and still Congress wants to extend their tax cuts. Why? Supply-side economics don’t work. Reagan proved that. So why go with a losing strategy?
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    ARodney said, 6 months ago

    Because it benefits the rich, silly. And they’re the ones who pay for McConnell and Boehner’s campaigns.
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    Jeddidyah said, 6 months ago

    @Harleyquinn

    Yeah you are so superior to Pat Oliphant.
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    braindead08 said, 6 months ago

    @Harleyquinn

    ‘oh yawn, got to keep this class warfare going till we fall off the cliff. If we do not tax these guys we all are going to die..right?’
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    …if we do not tax these guys we all are going to die..
    So, if we don’t tax them we all won’t die!
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    Gosh, I never thought of it that way before. It all makes so much sense now. Don’t tax the rich and we will _all _ survive.
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    Thank you, thank you for that eloquent, informative commentary.
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    I look forward to your next treatise on the definition of class warfare, both in theory and practice.
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    Kirk Sinclair said, 6 months ago

    @Harleyquinn oh yawn, got to keep this class warfare going till we fall off the cliff…

    This country didn’t fall off the cliff in the 1960s, when the top tax rate was 90%.
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    Rickapolis said, 6 months ago

    I see that they won’t stand for it.
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    Godfreydaniel said, 6 months ago

    “We were all poor…..the maid was poor, the butler was poor…..” (I think Benny Hill originated this but it might actually have been Plato……..)
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