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how to save $8 trillion
On 7/22/2011 7:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:24:44 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 7:05 PM, wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:54:57 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 3:43 PM, wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:16:36 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 12:08 PM, wrote: The easy, painless way to save $2T: PEACE Each one of the following would save up to $1 trillion, or more, over the next ten years. Guess what? The teabaggers are opposed to all of them, including the $2T for not fighting any more wars for a while. $1T: We could let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire. (“No! No!” shout the Koch brothers.) $1T: We could let Medicare negotiate the price of drugs, the way that the VA and private insurance companies already do. $1T: We could require the rich to pay the same percentage of their income toward Social Security and Medicare as the poor and the middle class do. Not a higher percentage – my God, that would be progressive taxation! Just the same percentage. $1T: We could impose the same alternative minimum tax on giant corporations that we mere humans must pay. $1T: We could reduce U.S. military spending to a paltry 40% of the world’s total, from the current 48%, which would still leave us spending four times as much as any other nation. $1T: We could make Warren Buffett pay the same tax rate on his income as his secretary pays on hers, by eliminating the long-term capital gains tax break, the great majority of which goes to the hyper-rich. You going to get Islamic terrorists, China, Somolia pirates to cut their budget too. Huh? Terrorists are an overblown threat. China is a business rival, and Somalia pirates have nothing to do with our debt. You have blinders on. Stunning rejoinder. Obviously, you graduated from 6th grade! Yes I did. I bet you even got a certificate! Way to go. Let us know when you graduated from high school. keep up you school work and you can too someday. |
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how to save $8 trillion
On 7/22/2011 7:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:24:44 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 7:05 PM, wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:54:57 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 3:43 PM, wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:16:36 -0400, wrote: On 7/22/2011 12:08 PM, wrote: The easy, painless way to save $2T: PEACE Each one of the following would save up to $1 trillion, or more, over the next ten years. Guess what? The teabaggers are opposed to all of them, including the $2T for not fighting any more wars for a while. $1T: We could let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire. (“No! No!” shout the Koch brothers.) $1T: We could let Medicare negotiate the price of drugs, the way that the VA and private insurance companies already do. $1T: We could require the rich to pay the same percentage of their income toward Social Security and Medicare as the poor and the middle class do. Not a higher percentage – my God, that would be progressive taxation! Just the same percentage. $1T: We could impose the same alternative minimum tax on giant corporations that we mere humans must pay. $1T: We could reduce U.S. military spending to a paltry 40% of the world’s total, from the current 48%, which would still leave us spending four times as much as any other nation. $1T: We could make Warren Buffett pay the same tax rate on his income as his secretary pays on hers, by eliminating the long-term capital gains tax break, the great majority of which goes to the hyper-rich. You going to get Islamic terrorists, China, Somolia pirates to cut their budget too. Huh? Terrorists are an overblown threat. China is a business rival, and Somalia pirates have nothing to do with our debt. You have blinders on. Stunning rejoinder. Obviously, you graduated from 6th grade! Yes I did. I bet you even got a certificate! Way to go. Let us know when you graduated from high school. Did you dream up all of those numbers? If not please explain how you arrived at them. Or is this someone else's pie in the sky dream. You can't expect us to believe a dip**** like you knows the fixes for OhBama's financial crisis, |
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