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Obama: No Deal Without Tax Hikes

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No, tax rates are too low, so stop the nonsense
You'd just love to see a 100% tax rate, wouldn't ya??

Everything you 've said is consistent with a rightwing ideology. Deny it if you choose, but everyone else can see the obvious
This is because Conservatism alone bears the immutable truth.

I have every right to petition the govt for a more progressive tax system. Your argument is just another way the rightwing tries to control the populace
No you do not! You do not have the right to kill off the private sector, Bolshevik!
 
No, tax rates are too low, so stop the nonsense

Everything you 've said is consistent with a rightwing ideology. Deny it if you choose, but everyone else can see the obvious

both parties such, but the repukes suck more

I have every right to petition the govt for a more progressive tax system. Your argument is just another way the rightwing tries to control the populace


they are too low on most of the citizens and too high on the rich

the top one percent pay almost 40% of the income tax and all the death tax

that is too high
 
You mean preserving life? Religious freedom anywhere and everywhere?? Second Amendment?? And how about making sure our immigrants are FOLLOWING THE LAW??

Tyrants always claim they're doing it for the good of the nation
 
they are too low on most of the citizens and too high on the rich

the top one percent pay almost 40% of the income tax and all the death tax

that is too high

And how much wealth does that 1% control?
 
You'd just love to see a 100% tax rate, wouldn't ya??

This is because Conservatism alone bears the immutable truth.

No you do not! You do not have the right to kill off the private sector, Bolshevik!

One minute, you don't walk in lockstop with the rightwing, and the next, it's the immutable truth

If you won't stick up for you principles, there must be something wrong with them
 
And how much wealth does that 1% control?

who cares-the tax is based on income

it should be based on what you use

you seem to think that those who make more than you do have done so unfairly

that is the mindset behind all these idiotic claims that the rich need to pay even more

you don't get any less benefits than the rich do

why should you pay less?
 
they are too low on most of the citizens and too high on the rich

the top one percent pay almost 40% of the income tax and all the death tax

that is too high

So you want to increase taxes?

If you won't stand up for you own principles, they must not be worth anything
 
NYC's economy is doing just fine, public & private sector.

june 17:

Tens of thousands of New York City public employees, teachers, private sector workers and students joined protests on Tuesday and Wednesday against impending budget cuts, mass layoffs and rising unemployment.

On June 14, city unions organized a mass rally outside City Hall, and on June 15 private sector unions joined with teachers and other public employees in a demonstration in Brooklyn, followed by a march across the Brooklyn Bridge into lower Manhattan. Among those marching were many out-of-work construction workers, including carpenters, ironworkers, laborers and others.

New York City’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed $600 million in cuts that would go into effect for the next fiscal year, which begins this July 1. Hardest hit by the cuts are public schools, with the proposed elimination of over 6,000 teaching positions, which includes 4,000 layoffs.

The cuts are being carried out across the board. City community colleges face a cut of $63 million. Rent subsidies are to be eliminated for 15,000 formerly homeless families. Libraries are slated for 530 layoffs, mostly librarians. Twenty fire companies are targeted for shutdown. Cutbacks are also planned in senior centers, youth programs, homeless services, elder-care programs, continuing education programs and cultural organizations.

This draconian austerity program is being proposed under conditions in which major banks on Wall Street are making huge profits, and the five richest New Yorkers, including the mayor, have seen their combined personal fortunes grow to $92 billion.

Noticeably absent from the remarks of the union officials was any mention of the name Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democratic governor, who together with Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature recently passed $10 billion in budget cuts that have translated into social cutbacks and layoffs in New York City and everywhere across the state.

The governor is threatening to begin laying off 9,800 state workers if they do not accept six-year contracts loaded with concessions, including increases in employee health care costs that, according to one estimate, would cost each worker a total of $10,000. The governor has also introduced to the state legislature an inferior pension plan for all new state employees that would, among other things, raise their retirement age and increase their pension contributions. The governor’s proposal, backed by Bloomberg, would also affect city workers.

With Bloomberg’s support, Cuomo pushed through the abolition of the so-called millionaires’ tax, which imposed a small surcharge on the state’s top 2 percent of income earners, transferring an estimated $5 billion from state revenues into the coffers of New York’s wealthiest.

Thousands protest in New York City against budget cuts, layoffs
 
this idiotic claim is supported by the majority of the American people.

telling most americans that a minority will pay all the tax hikes will get most americans to support it

claiming that makes it right is moronic
 
So you want to increase taxes?

If you won't stand up for you own principles, they must not be worth anything

I want to eliminate a lot of the federal government programs

but since you are so keen for tax hikes why don't you start with people who clearly are not paying near their fair share

and fair share is not based on your "ability" to pay but what you get in value
 
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