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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 11:51 PM Original message |
Forget harping on Bush's tax cuts for the rich. |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. America needs to take the people's money back from the banksters. nt |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. Republican policies are responsible for almost 100% of the national debt |
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mindwalker_i (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. How about taxing capital gains as income? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Except if you pay cap gains and then you lose it all the next year. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. you pay capital gains tax when you *sell* an asset, so talking about "losing" it |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Back in they trading heyday a friend of a friend took $20,000 and made $177,000 in cap gains |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:40 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. the guy made a profit on stock he sold and didn't pay the lousy 15% tax on it. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 05:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. It was back in the Clinton days and those were all short term gains. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 02:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. uh, no, capital gains tax wasn't 39% under clinton. that was the tax for regular income. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. rates of 0-5-15 for cap gains & dividend income were part of the bush deal. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. And we'll put these through how? Wishing on a star? |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 12:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. +1 |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:14 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I'm just saying there is no reason to obsess on those particular cuts as the only thing out there. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:33 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. they're the only thing out there for the next two years. that's the deal they made. |
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unlawflcombatnt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 06:01 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Amen |
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highprincipleswork (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. Fine, but, all we had to do... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
9. The Bush tax cuts reduced the top marginal rate from 39.6 to 34. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm just throwing out numbers. Of course they could be adjusted for any tier at any rate. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 03:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. what you're saying makes no sense to me. the admin just made a deal to extend the bush tax cuts. |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
19. They are not Bush's tax cuts for the rich anymore. They are Obama's. n/t |
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