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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 10:59 AM Original message |
What 52 Years Of Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Looks Like |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not just the middle class, the country. |
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Hotler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. kicking n/t |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, but you have to admit that tax cuts for the rich have benefitted us all. |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It sounds as if you don't believe in the Laffer curve. |
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toddwv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Actually, I believe that the "Laffer Curve" has been proven as correct. |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Straight lines in economics are always false. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. I always say that the Laffer Curve is a function where if you take the first derivative |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Star Wars! IT came out as a cartoon earth, with the USA being attacked by |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I remember those TV ads selling "Star Wars". |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Reagan gets way too much credit. The Soviet Union killed itself by idiotic |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 09:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Too much credit? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 02:31 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. How that sheepfucker ever got to be "beloved" is a tribute to his bullshit ability. |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Reagan was genial and extroverted, |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Oh yeah - I actually had that asshole tell me to my face "a rising tide raises all boats." |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 04:27 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. The only kind of boats the "rising tide" has raised . . .. are the yachts. |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. I think the laffer curve is correct |
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Lionel Mandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 06:32 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I mostly agree with you. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 08:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. The Laffer Curve isn't actually published anywhere in a scholarly journal |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Nature tends towards curves like this |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 07:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. The Laffer curve is the chart the rich show you |
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desertrat777 (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. the benefits of cutting taxes for the wealthy |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. The only thing that trickles down on the middle/lower incomes is.... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. It used to be called the horse and sparrow theory. |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. "Trickle" was the perfect word for this abomination |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. we must make sure that none of Paris Hilton's descendants have to work for the next three hundred |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. If one adds in soc. sec. & medicare taxes, then the median family pays much MORE |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I think that graph includes social security |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 01:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. Good point. nt |
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20. kr |
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