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Stargazer said:
Tax rates were not responsible for the success during the Clinton years. We had an entire new, booming industry and employment was high.

To raise taxes during such a poverty-ridden time in our history will be the death knell.
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I understand that. My point is that the economy didn't exactly crash and crumble cause tax rates were too high during the Clinton era and that we managed to balance our budget and maintain a surplus at that level.

Congressional Repelicans are making a mountain out of a mole hill because they are shills for very wealthy and they would rather take the whole economy down than make a very modest compromise and spare me the hyperbole. We are hardly "poverty ridden" and the modest increase in tax rates would improve our long term economic out look by eliminating deficits and paying down our deficit which increase prosperity across the board. Would reducing spending risk the chance of recession short term? Yes it would but the long term benefits far outgain the short term problems we'd face.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I understand that. My point is that the economy didn't exactly crash and crumble cause tax rates were too high during the Clinton era and that we managed to balance our budget and maintain a surplus at that level.

Congressional Repelicans are making a mountain out of a mole hill because they are shills for very wealthy and they would rather take the whole economy down than make a very modest compromise.
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No, because we had an influx of revenue from high employment levels. Now, that isn't the case.

Revenue comes from high employment, not squeezing the few makers that are left. That will punish everyone in the form of more unemployment, more businesses closing, the value of the dollar dropping along with the markets.
 
Stargazer said:
No, because we had an influx of revenue from high employment levels. Now, that isn't the case.

Revenue comes from high employment, not squeezing the few makers that are left. That will punish everyone in the form of more unemployment, more businesses closing, the value of the dollar dropping along with the markets.
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Makers? Fucking crony capitalist who created this man made crises are the biggest fucking takers in the nation....no....the fucking world. Spare me this fucking bullshit that by raising marginal tax rates on the very wealthiest from 35% to 39% (which is still historically a very low tax rate on the wealthy) we'd crash our economy. So spare me the "Sky is falling" bullshit.

Our fucking schools, roads, hospitals, public utilities and the R&D the private sector refuses to do go a long long way towards contributing to the wealth of this nation and they don't just magically appear from the ground like a lot of Republicans seem to think. We need to balance our budget, reduce military spending and reinvest in our public infrastructure that have been grossly neglected by over 20 years of Republican bungling and shilling for the very rich.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Makers? Fucking crony capitalist who created this man made crises are the biggest fucking takers in the nation....no....the fucking world.
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Without govt intervention, the housing crisis couldn't have happened.

Our fucking schools, roads, hospitals, public utilities and the R&D the private sector refuses to do go a long long way towards contributing to the wealth of this nation and they don't just magically appear from the ground like a lot of Republicans seem to think. We need to balance our budget, reduce military spending and reinvest in our public infrastructure that have been grossly neglected by over 20 years of Republican bungling and shilling for the very rich.
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Roads and public utilities are state issues, not federal ones.

Balance our budget? On the course we are on, more insane spending? LOL. You've got to be kidding me.
 
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