So let me get this straight: Under Reagan, they started taxing unemployment "benefits"

[villager]

(Which the "gutsy" Dems have gone along with, and never repealed)

And yet windfall oil profits *can't* be taxed, according to this same (utterly toxic) world view?

[theoldman]

1. Clinton signed a bill to tax Social Security.

Of course he had a Republican congress. Both taxes hit low income people.

[Fredda Weinberg]

6. Low income social security recipients are not taxed. Why drag the Big Dog into this? n/t

[Hydra]

2. You got it

Taxes for monopoly corporations = bad
Taxes on workers making 1/1,000,000,000 that amount = good

[villager]

5. That does seem to be their "new math..."

Bastards.

[Selatius]

3. Democrats will have to be poked and prodded into repealing those regressive taxes.

The Democrats who were in power in the 1980s right until they were booted out of power in 1994 are not the same kind of Democrats that were elected in the Roosevelt-Truman era.

[Indenturedebtor]

9. Yes the DLC is not your friend

They are in fact your enemy.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Actually they started taxing 50% of benefits under Carter.

Reagan increased it to 100% of benefits.

I was collecting when Carter did it, and boy was I pissed. I was also unemployed again when Reagan did it.

[Catherina]

7. Which is precisely why Chomsky said Nixon was "in many respects the last liberal president."

How far we've gone :(

[brentspeak]

10. Nixon was actually toying with idea of a national health care system

One of the reasons why the GOP didn't mind that the Democrats forced Nixon out.

[guitar man]

8. I remember when Reagan did it

Unemployed and Reagan...those two words just go together now don't they? :(

[VP505]

11. I doubt that I will EVER get over

Raygun firing those air traffic controllers, that pissed me off then and still pisses me off now when I think about it.

[guitar man]

12. I remember my Dad

Dad was a private pilot as well as an over the road trucker for a Teamsters outfit. He got so mad I thought he was going to throw the TV through the window :scared:

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