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allgood33

(1,584 posts)
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 12:22 PM Jan 2019

It's pretty clear to me that when the Dems take over the Senate and WH, ignorer to clean up

the mess left from 4 years of a Trump administration, taxes will have to raised on the very wealthy...like Bill Clinton did to help get us back into financial shape. No quibbles about it. No taxes on the earned income, working families but much higher taxes on the ultra wealthy who have benefited from the suffering of the masses over the past 3 years. AOC is right on target with her message on taxes.

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It's pretty clear to me that when the Dems take over the Senate and WH, ignorer to clean up (Original Post) allgood33 Jan 2019 OP
3 years? wryter2000 Jan 2019 #1
+1 2naSalit Jan 2019 #2
Reagan for sure, but even Nixon imo. nt KPN Jan 2019 #3
And if we don't have 60 votes in the Senate wryter2000 Jan 2019 #4
Reagan for sure. He is the one who really changed things. Caliman73 Jan 2019 #5

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
4. And if we don't have 60 votes in the Senate
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 02:10 PM
Jan 2019

And a Democratic president, nothing is going to change.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
5. Reagan for sure. He is the one who really changed things.
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 02:14 PM
Jan 2019

He dropped the highest marginal tax rate down to 25% if I am not mistaken, and when his policies blew a hole in the budget, to the tune of 3 trillion dollars, he raised taxes 11 times. Except he didn't raise the top tax rates, he added new taxes to the middle class and to retirees. He started taxing Social Security to pay for his mess. Flipped the whole progressive tax structure on its head.

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