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2012 This Is Rick
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM
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Rick thinks that if his tax burden goes up from 35 percent to 39 percent, "I can absorb that. I can probably absorb that better than most Americans." He's not affiliated with any party, he's just here to show his disdain for the Republicans and listen to music on his headphone. What's he listening to? "Rage Against the Machine," he says, "In honor of Paul Ryan." Is he going to be here tomorrow? "I'm not sure," Rick begins. He has "conference calls in the afternoon and golf in the morning," so his schedule is kind of tight.
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The audocity of trying to call Paul Ryan an intellectual and Mitt Romney a job creator just boggles the mind. How can these guys run a campaign where they won't release tax records, won't give any specifics of what they would do in office and just run on empty slogans that misquotes and out and out lies. Paul Ryan claimed last night that Obama ignored an urgent report from the debt commission when in fact Paul Ryan voted against the recommendations of the debt commission. How much bigger of a whopper can you tell than blaming someone else for what you did yourself?
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@3 I'm top 3% of earners and I'm socialist /shrug I'd love to pay more taxes so everyone gets good quality health care.
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@3 - I'm in at least the top 3% or so, and I'm willing to pay more in tax, so long as it's used for true public benefit. I consider it investing in a functioning society. We're hardly all I-got-mine-fuck-you right-wing types.
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@3 - Like 4 and 6, I make a decent amount of funds (my household is in the top 15%) but even I would pay more in taxes to invest in our nation. I grew up extremely poor and the USA gave me opportunity to rise out of that. I feel rich in comparison to those times and could absorb a tax increase if it went to something good (like universal healthcare for instance).
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Wife and I are in the top 7% or so, and we'd gladly pay more taxes. 6 said it best, we're investing in our country.
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I'm not really sure why the Stranger sent a reporter to the convention. This is the shittiest amount of reports I've ever read. You're just copping stuff from other MSM, with a couple of shitty-ass-local-loon reports. What a fucking huge fail, Paul Constant. Seriously awful and a major fucking embarrassment. I know NOTHING about the convention from your reports - a goddamn thing. You should be fired, drawn and quartered. Not necessarily in that order. At the very least, a qualified reporter should have covered this. What you have offered is BULLSHIT.
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i read the other day that 16% of murkins think they're in the top 1%.
you have to have over $380K in income per year to be in the top 1%. i'm in the top 25%. barely.
50% of americans make LESS than 33K/year.
you have to have over $380K in income per year to be in the top 1%. i'm in the top 25%. barely.
50% of americans make LESS than 33K/year.
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