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"I got mine, fuck everyone else" is that really what you believe? moondog Send a noteboard - 15/10/2013 09:03:37 PM

can you honestly tell me you do not benefit from paying taxes into a society where we have things like clean water, minimum building codes and the national highway system among other things? you're sounding like that scene from "The Life of Brian": "apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

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Holy Crap. I fixed the budget deficit. Dannymac - 08/10/2013 09:41:41 PM 1108 Views
Funny, I ended up with the exact same numbers. Legolas - 08/10/2013 10:53:10 PM 594 Views
Mine was 26% new taxes and 74% cuts. Capping Medicare goes a LOOOONG way. Tom - 09/10/2013 02:15:32 AM 622 Views
78% taxes, 22 % cuts Lews_TherinThelamon - 09/10/2013 10:03:32 AM 644 Views
We could raise the tarrifs on Swedish fish... Dannymac - 09/10/2013 05:10:33 PM 589 Views
and chefs for that matter.... moondog - 10/10/2013 12:30:13 AM 647 Views
They are from a Swedish company originally Lews_TherinThelamon - 10/10/2013 01:02:46 PM 624 Views
In this country, we shoot people like you. Tom - 10/10/2013 08:41:41 PM 626 Views
Well, that's not very nice, is it? *NM* Lews_TherinThelamon - 10/10/2013 09:44:43 PM 281 Views
Neither is taking away the money that people have earned at confiscatory rates. *NM* Tom - 11/10/2013 12:04:54 AM 272 Views
there are other things in life besides love of money.... *NM* moondog - 11/10/2013 09:54:47 PM 232 Views
things which can only be bought with other peoples' money? *NM* Praziquantel - 11/10/2013 10:31:57 PM 289 Views
So your personal view on the value of money entitles you to steal it from others? *NM* Tom - 12/10/2013 05:18:47 AM 269 Views
"I got mine, fuck everyone else" is that really what you believe? moondog - 15/10/2013 09:03:37 PM 552 Views
How about "I earn mine, you earn yours"? *NM* Tom - 15/10/2013 09:08:32 PM 255 Views
i guess i wonder where you would go if you think the US rates are "confiscatory", that's all *NM* moondog - 17/10/2013 05:52:14 PM 239 Views
If onlt it were that simple random thoughts - 10/10/2013 06:01:35 PM 615 Views
But it is. We can just execute boomers en masse. *NM* Tom - 10/10/2013 08:42:13 PM 241 Views
I was rather hoping when they put "raise retirement to 68 or 70", they mean in the near future. Legolas - 10/10/2013 09:36:22 PM 588 Views
they typically mean people who not near retirement random thoughts - 11/10/2013 03:46:15 AM 528 Views
boomers didn't create the problem Praziquantel - 10/10/2013 11:24:05 PM 658 Views
The boomers did more than their fairshare random thoughts - 11/10/2013 03:49:47 AM 604 Views
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