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Poiuyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:32 PM Original message |
Historically, has cutting taxes ever helped the economy? |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think that people believe that if they say it enough times, its just gotta be true! |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. Al Franken, I think, asked "Where are the jobs from the Bush tax cuts?" |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. EVERY Democrat needs to say that whenever a microphone is shoved in his face. nt |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Exactly, yet people still buy that lame-ass and false reasoning: that tax cuts create jobs. |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not that I can't think of. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. not when they are targeted for the wealthy who can already afford whatever crap they want |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. It's always been a myth with traction. People hear it enough times and many beleive it. nt |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. few jobs if any from tax cuts, and ABSOLUTELY NONE... |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
9. No. |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. I *vaguely* recollect hearing that |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. For short time during the Kenndy administration |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
12. One element of the Reagan tax cuts |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
13. Taxes are the price we pay |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
14. Lowering taxes does not now nor has it ever increased revenue. Its not a myth, its a lie. |
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Harry Callahan (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. In 1924, Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon wrote: |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:22 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. and they took the money and ran..... |
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Harry Callahan (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:48 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That must be why they were jumping to their deaths from the banks on Wall St. |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 08:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Let's weigh that urban legend |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
18. 1962 Kennedy tax cuts ended the recession. |
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Tennessee Gal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
20. Tax cuts should be targeted. |
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