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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:41 AM
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Why wouldn't another big tax cut for the wealthy...fix things?
Why didn't the last Three Big Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Fix Everything, like the Republicans SWORE, that they would? All the typical America has gotten from the GOP is a pack of lies!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:44 AM
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1. The first tax cut is working! You can't deny that!
It, um, just, uh... ... ...takes a while... ... ...yeah... ..., uh, but, tax cuts are good... ...they work... ... ...hey! Look! A war!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:49 AM
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5. Yes it's working like a charm..."Jobs Is On The Way"...
In India!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:53 AM
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10. Everything is going as planned
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:05 AM
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15. Yes I'm afraid you're right...
Edited on Sat Aug-20-05 08:06 AM by Hubert Flottz
It's worked too well. They shipped all the good jobs overseas, so that so many Americans wouldn't get gouged at the gas pumps, when gasoline hits $3.00 a gallon. If you don't have a job you won't need to buy all that gas to get to work! They are always watching out for you...................to bend over!

EDIT...$3.00 a gallon works just like a tax cut for the rich!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:30 AM
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17. You may think you're being clever or overly cynical
But, just wait. It won't be long before you hear right wing pundits start saying this.

"There are lots of Americans, hard working Americans, who got laid off from high paying jobs in the city. But imagine what these gas prices would be doing to them now! They are lucky they don't have to deal with it."

Then the usual:

"It would only be worse with Gore or Kerry in office"
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:23 AM
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23. Or they would all still have a job, if they weren't too lazy to...
work for $3.00 an hour.

They never make mistakes just like their hero, the idiot, in Crawford.

I can hear Bush now...Well what are they bitchin' about, they get more time off than me and I'm the damned king?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:24 AM
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24. LOL
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:29 AM
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25. The 'Cowardly Lyin'
Being Chicken Is Hard Work!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:34 AM
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26. Cowardly Lyin? LOL
Stop, it hurts....

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 11:38 AM
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27. Agreed
The Kansas contingent is especially fond of this one.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:46 AM
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2. Dude, way to piss me off when looking at thread titles.
I was all prepared to identify yet ANOTHER obnoxious troll and alert all over the place.

Sorry. Some of us are sarcasm challenged.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:53 AM
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11. Sorry ...Go fill up and go for a long drive in the country to get your
mind off of "Just Politics!" RELAX! At least you have lots of "MORALITY" to replace the money you don't have now! I'm waiting for a recipe for MORALITY stew, so I can feed the kids!
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:47 AM
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3. Do you mean to say it hasn't 'trickled' down to you yet...
I know I still haven't had my trickle.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:50 AM
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6. No 'trickle down' from a sponge
The thing that 'trickle down' apologists omit/forget/cover-up is that the top is a sponge. It won't trickle down unless it gets squeezed.
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:52 AM
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9. I guess it is time for us to start squeezing!!
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durablend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:51 AM
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8. PSST--that trickle is YELLOW
You SURE you haven't felt it?
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:00 AM
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14. Yes, at the end of the month when my checkbook...
balance is at zero!!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:56 AM
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12. I wish Bush was a Bush and I was a dog...
I'd trickle to beat hell!
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:33 AM
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19. "Trickle down"= pissing on the working class.
And they're pissin' all over us.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:39 AM
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21. Plumbing 101...
Hot on the right;
Cold on the left;
And sh*t don't run uphill...

Nixon starting the plumbing classes and the Bush Klan has attended every one since! At least Reagan handed out some cheese. All we get now, is the cheese eaters.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:48 AM
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4. Well, it would, except Congress and the Senate have a Jones for
campaign contributions and gifts from lobbyists. They're hooked on money (not just enough to steal an election), but the supplemental income that gives them a real nice lifestyle (of which you expect them to pay higher taxes?!).

This is a cynical vicious circle of corruption. The system is broken.
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evilqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 07:51 AM
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7. I'd be in favor of instituting a War Tax for the Wealthy
and ONLY for the wealthy. Without loopholes. And not a flat tax either.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:00 AM
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13. That's a HELL of a great idea!
Chip in your fair share, or your first born, like everybody else does, Kenny Boy!
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evilqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:19 AM
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16. And not a one time payment either.
The longer the wars go on, the longer the wealthy keep paying the War Tax.

You'd soon see the world in peace, I think, especially if every country did this.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:33 AM
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18. The GOPers think our government should be hard on everyone
but them...Because they have those "Beautiful Minds"
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La Coliniere Donating Member (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:36 AM
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20. Trickle down theory is another way of saying
"Let them drink piss!"
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 08:42 AM
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22. That is exactly what they're saying.
The GOP's "Morality" and "Family Values" = A dog and pony show!
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