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If Riot would have been around in the 1700's I believe she would have sided with the Brits.
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But our income has gone down because some people pay less than others. And I am not worried about poverty-line people paying taxes. They should not. I am worried if you are in the 28% bracket, and Warren Buffet only pays 16% (as he has said he does) due to loopholes. Quote:
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Half the AAA rated countries by S & P have greater debt to GDP ratios than us. That is not the problem. The current problem resulting in the credit rating downgrade is due to the obstructive politicians in Washington - which is the Tea Party and the GOP who refuses to raise revenue (specifically outlined by S & P in their press release). Bush cut our income markedly. We need that back. If you want your taxes lowered, then I suggest you support removing loopholes from the wealthy, so everyone pays a relatively equal percentage, and the tax base is expanded. Quote:
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It sounds crazy I know but that is the basic theory of being an adult.
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I wonder if such a document exists...
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Don't forget - those programs came out of need.
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Call me callous but there are privately run charities, church run charities and families who take care of their own. My mother in law runs one for the elderly, private donations pay for it. People donate ("wealthy" people like my wife and I) to pay for the services that are provided. Nobody needs the fed telling us what to do with our money. Grow up.
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[quote=joeydb;798537]This is what liberals consider to be fairness. You work your ass off, and instead of getting principal plus interest, you get a modest payment per month until you croak, assuming it's solvent.[/QUOTE
If only you bothered with facts. The truth is, that most people get more out of Social Security and Medicare than they put in. You know, that's why you have been told to scream it's broke? You can't have it both ways
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Really? Why? What have I ever said about taxing for no reason? What a made-up, nonsensical ad hominem attack. Stick to debating the opinions.
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Try creating Galt's Gulch, and see how long you last.
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[quote=Clip-Clop;798579]And that just started next year. And all it needs is a little tweek, as we've done all the other times it was needed. Solvent for decades.
This attack on Social Security is nothing but ginned-up Republican attempts to destroy it and give Wall Street the funds. They've been trying to do it since Reagan created the fiction of the "welfare queen driving a Cadillac". How did Wall Street do in 2008 with your retirement fund? did they do Friday with your retirement fund? Thank goodness all our citizens have the safety net of Social Security. It was a good idea started for widows and orphans, and it's good for all of us. Anybody that doesn't like that should move to another country. The trouble is, all first-world countries, with better lifestyles than us - more vacation time, earlier retirement, better health care, better quality of living, less expensive housing and food, and better perceived happiness - tax more than us. You can be taxed less - move to a second or third world country. A good society, a good country, isn't created in a vacuum of selfishness and independence from society.
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This is pointless, the discussion began about losing money in the markets and has become a soapbox for forced donations into programs we might get to see last until we are 10 years away from being able to access them at 30-40% of our investment. Tap out.
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I handle my own investments. Doing fine.
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Not the total debt. Doesn't that mean that it is always a drain and cannot carry it's own burden as a program? If most people get out more than they put in, that seems to be the case.
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So we make a little tweek to fix it for decades. Hardly the disasterous failure you falsely portray it as. Very successful program. Has made 100% of it's payments for decades, and will readily do that until 2037 doing nothing else. Then 78% after that. Doing nothing else. So it will be tweeked in the near future, so that after 1937, 100% gets paid out then, too. Now, if you don't want to be a participatory American patriot in this society, and you don't want to contribute to our common good as a society - MOVE ELSEWHERE If you think preventing old people from starving on the street in ill health is a bad thing - MOVE ELSEWHERE
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So you really thing ALL the SH*IT we are in now is because of Welfare?
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It doesn't account for ALL of our debt...just $9,000,000,000,000 up until 2004. More than that now. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2807 |