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dsc

(52,130 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 07:37 PM Apr 2013

The chained CPI idea is obscene and all the more so because

the most obscene tax loophole isn't touched by Obama's budget. The carried interest loophole lives on, and on an on, while our seniors will eat catfood. Romney will continue to pay less in taxes than his gardener does while his gardener's grandparents will be chowing down on meow mix.

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The chained CPI idea is obscene and all the more so because (Original Post) dsc Apr 2013 OP
The unwillingness of each succeeding Congress and Administration since 1981 to require indepat Apr 2013 #1

indepat

(20,899 posts)
1. The unwillingness of each succeeding Congress and Administration since 1981 to require
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:23 PM
Apr 2013

the uber-wealthy, including large corporations, to pay an equitable portion of an income tax burden reasonably sufficient to fund the government's operations, service its debt, and meet its other obligations will be regarded by historians, imo, as a most serious breach of duty, a breach of the sworn oath of office to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, a misfeasance and nonfeasance of office of such mammoth proportions as to have warranted a mass removal from office by the constitutional process. Of course, that's just my opinion and I might be wrong, but perhaps nothing has been more harmful to this nation, its government, and most of its people than this one breach of duty. On the bright side the uber-wealthy, large corporations, and oligarchs have amassed several extra trillion dollars of ill-gotten gains through this blatantly shameful and despicable misfeasance and nonfeasance.

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