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To: Alighieri who wrote (674002)9/17/2012 3:43:24 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1583856
 
Right. We got ~$200B in revenue increase between '93 and '96, when growth should coming out of the recession should have been exceptionally strong. Yet, growth stumbled (which was the reason Clinton had to engage political help).

From '97-'2000 we got close to a half trillion -- as a result of Republican spending cuts and capital gain rate cuts.

I don't know how you can make an argument that you've debunked anything other than your own principles.




To: Alighieri who wrote (674002)9/17/2012 6:51:53 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1583856
 
Look at what happens to tax revenues after 1993 (Clinton tax hike) and then again after 2000 (Bush tax cut)...and consider what happens to the economy after each event...if that doesn't debunk their principal argument nothing will.

usgovernmentrevenue.com


Their mythical theories have been debunked every which way.



To: Alighieri who wrote (674002)9/18/2012 12:44:50 AM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1583856
 
Hey Mitt Romney, Even Marie Antoinette Thought the Peasants Deserved Cake

The long debate over what Mitt Romney really believes might have come to an end this afternoon, thanks to David Corn at Mother Jones, who managed to get a hold of a recording of comments made by the Republican candidate for president at a fundraiser earlier this year. The takeaway: just under half — 47 percent — of the American population is a group of whining “victims” who believe they are “entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”

In case his audience of millionaires missed the point, Romney assured them, “my job is not to worry about those people.”

Never mind a pounding recession that has officially left more than eight percent of the working population unemployed, with millions of others so discouraged with their prospects no one even counts them as potential employees any longer. Never mind the massive destruction of wealth over the past several years, that caused middle class Americans to see their net worth plunge by almost forty percent between 2007 and 2010. Never mind the earnings stagnation facing the average American family, whose household earnings, according to the Census Bureau, are no different when adjusted for inflation than they were in 1996.

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More People Identify as Lower Class

This is where more than thirty years of confusing wealth with virtue and deriding Americans who aren’t impossibly rich as indolent and entitled slackers will leave you: with a multi-millionaire candidate for president who made his fortune by depriving other people of their livelihood, who doesn’t even bother to hide his contempt for the ever-increasing number of economic 'losers' engendered by our one percent economy, a world his own policies and actions helped create.

Even Marie Antoinette thought the peasants deserved cake.

forbes.com



To: Alighieri who wrote (674002)9/18/2012 2:36:23 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1583856