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4-7-2009 2:30 PM
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masbury says:
Divided evenly on increasing debt to stimulate economy
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4-7-2009 2:42 PM
clip-on-tie
The editors of the NYT should be required to pay higher taxes, no question about it.
4-7-2009 2:51 PM
kmcolo
The pendulum will swing too far.
4-7-2009 11:30 PM
masbury
Think so? Obama's only after 39% top marginal rate, still the 3rd lowest in post-WW2 history, and only a handful of points above where it is now. It's a pretty moderate change.
4-8-2009 8:05 PM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
74% ????!
Wow - 26% of the US citizens are rich!
4-8-2009 9:22 PM
masbury
Probably not - there's a huge number of middle-class folks who've bought the industrial propaganda and have honestly come to believe that taxing the rich results in long-term economic decline. There's no research that supports the idea, though; if anything, the opposite.
4-9-2009 11:00 AM
kmcolo
Think so? Obama's only after 39% top marginal rate...
Not so much the Obama plan, but the large percentage of people generally pissed off suggest momentum in that direction.
4-9-2009 12:36 PM
masbury
Could be.
4-9-2009 6:26 PM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
Thanks for comment masbury!

But the contrary is supported in some industries!
If the real rich gets enough money to upgrade his factory, he will install a full-electronic-aggregate, that makes the work of 100 workers and need only 3 for watching it. One for each 8 hours period a day. 97 are unemployed and despaired and the finance office the same: 97 pers. won't pay taxes anymore and the owner of all don't for the next 3 years not pay a pence too for upgrading the factory. In the case, he don't produce weapons or any other military sensible goods, he will take the next step 5 till 8 years later and begin the "outsourcing" of the production.
So the last 3 people lost their jobs too and ne...
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