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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126992)	4/13/2011 7:33:33 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

And Rubio seems willing to sell out his heritage. --- Obama? Bush IVth? Bear market in presidents continues....

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126992)	4/13/2011 9:46:38 PM
From: longnshort	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

"Since 70% of the deficit is Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations" are you nuts ? you are insane. My son's best friend goes to Wharton and he says you are crazy

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126992)	4/13/2011 11:44:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Since 70% of the deficit is Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations Are you nuts? From Wikipedia: "The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation calculated a score, or revenue change, for each of the seven major tax cut bills passed during the Bush administration: their combined cost sums to over $2.0 trillion from 2001-17. Extending these tax cuts into the future would carry a similar cost: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated the cost of extending them through 2017 at $1.9 trillion, not counting the costs of debt service, and not counting the cost of indexing the alternative minimum tax (AMT) to inflation to prevent it from undoing much of the cuts..." So the TOTAL cost of the tax cuts over 16 years is $1.9 Trillion dollars (and that assumes they cuts failed to stimulate the economy, which is doubtful). Those are ALL the tax cuts, which were NOT for the rich only, but were across the board. The Federal deficit for THIS YEAR ALONE is $1.6 TRILLION. You couldn't close that deficit if you raised taxes on the wealthy to 100% of income and assumed they would all sit still to be fleeced. You couldn't close that deficit if you confiscated the entire estates of the top 1% of earners. You should know better.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126992)	4/14/2011 9:35:32 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

>>Since 70% of the deficit is Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, Obama has said he is going to try to get them to pay their fair share this time<< by slashing social security taxes? bush didn't even do that - and there wasn't a deficit then. "obama has said..." stop with the condescending attitude. nobody believes the big capital puppets anymore. is gitmo closed? did $1 go to wall street? are we out of iraq yet? are we out of afghanistan yet? are we spending less on the military than under bush yet? are we paying as we go yet? do we have 5 days to read legislation yet? are the lobbyists gone yet? these clowns lie for a living - and those who play along lie by enabling their lies.