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   walruscarver2000 said, 8 months ago

   “There’s no one left but thee and we and we’re not sure of thee.” – lyric John Birch Society. (or credo of today’s GOP)
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   Craig Linder said, 8 months ago

   It was pretty awful last night when Romney kept repeating that creating jobs isn’t possible when taxes are raised. Ol’ Hammer and Sickle Clinton did it (without a single Republican vote) and somehow managed to hold office during the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.
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   Trickle Down said, 8 months ago

   Yes, last night’s debate was pretty awful. Quite depressing. I’m just going to hang out in cartoon land today.
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   phritzg said, 8 months ago

   Contrary to most reports, I don’t think anyone really “won” last night, especially the voters.
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   ronald rini said, 8 months ago

   I am not rich. but Mitt paid 2 mill in taxes I have not checked my tax return for last year but that was almost 2 mill more than me
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   rpstrong said, 8 months ago

   As to Eisenhower: Ike serves as president from ‘53 – ’61, during which the congress was Republican for only the first two years. According to http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213, the 91% max tax rate extended from 1950 – 1963. Hard to blame Ike.
   Likewise, Nixon inherited a 70% rate which was set during Johnson’s watch. And there it stayed, essentially until the Reagan years. Once again, hard to claim that Nixon (“the Red”) approved of the status quo.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

   @ronald rini

   Look at the percentage not the amount. Romney under claims he has $250 million yet just what he gets in dividens we know of adds to that by a tremendous amount.

   
   

   He claimed less on his tax returns so that it would read 14% even though he could get far less, estimated to be a lowly 9%. Don’t you wish you could do that?
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   Trickle Down said, 8 months ago

   When I think about last night’s performance by those 3 men, the President, the challenger and especially the moderator, I am thinking that possibly Denver’s altitude got to them and they all needed some oxygen.
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   LLJKTechnogeek said, 8 months ago

   Everyone who watched the debate lost because we had to experience Jim Lehrer. I haven’t seen a moderator responsible for that big of a disaster since April of 1986.
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    runar said, 8 months ago

    @phritzg

    Jim Lehrer was the big loser (but he isn’t on the ballot).
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    Eryx said, 8 months ago

    @phritzg

    I agree.
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    Eryx said, 8 months ago

    @LLJKTechnogeek

    He should have stepped aside. Gwen Ifill was more than ready. I STILL don’t know how THAT was worked out. A sad blot on Lehrer’s distinguished record.
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    Odd is the fact that Kennedy reduced the Top Tax Rate from 91% to 75%
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @LLJKTechnogeek

    Lehrer lost control the first 2 minutes of the debate when he allowed Obama to exceed his allotted time limit, then he had to allow Romney to do same. Lehrer turned Chicken when he failed to enforce his own rules he set at the beginning of he debate
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    @Trickle Down

    The only one the Mile High Altitude did not affect was Romney
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