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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:23 AM Original message |
Ezra Klein: Can we close the budget deficit by taxing the rich? |
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Tripod (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm taxed high, at a very low income. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:46 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. If they paid 91%, it would help a whole lot more. |
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Tripod (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. My child has just received her 4 year Degree. |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. Why doesn't someone say we should raise the minimum wage to lower the deficit? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:45 AM Original message |
I do think we need to allow people to make a better living so they can actually afford to pay taxes. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
6. Keeping Medicare as we know it is emminently possible. What needs to change are private sector |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 03:13 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Well Medicare as we know it piggy backs on an impossible health care system |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 03:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I think in many cases, the value of "explaining" complicated things like our healthcare system to |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:08 AM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Look at it this way. Medicare represents something. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. But isn't it a pure lie to tell the public that the health care system and Medicare can |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Oops |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
3. The 2009 deficit was not 53 percent of GDP, and the 2050 deficit could not possibly be 350 percent |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:50 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. That was actually debt as a % of GDP |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 02:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Ah, accumulated debt as a percentage of GDP makes more sense. |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
27. I assume this is also taking into account... |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. The solution to health care costs is single payer n/t |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. A+. Good job. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 03:58 AM Response to Original message |
13. the cost of the bush tax cuts over 10 years was $2.5 trillion. about 40% went to the top 1% |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:06 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The CBO says that allowing Bush's tax cuts to expire on families making above 250k would save 700b, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. i don't care what cbo says; we already *know* how much they cost the last 10 years. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. "i don't care what cbo says" |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. projections can be made to say anything one wants depending on the assumptions used. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Again, you are using data from a model that also includes the AMT fix. If you are going to use a |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:40 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. amt relief is still in effect so far as i can see. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:53 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Yes, it is, but AMT relief in general is usually considered separately, since the non-indexing of |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:09 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. amt relief is voted on every year. it was in place all during the bush tax cuts. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:30 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I can't find the original ITEP source, but your interpretation sounds reasonable, so I'll assume its |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:41 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. i would guess it has something to do with the 2009 arra, which included some modifications |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 04:49 AM Response to Original message |
21. Hey Ezra, how about adding in taxes corporations should pay, but are not! |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:14 AM Response to Original message |
25. Tax the rich, tax corporations, oh, and cut the military budget in half, |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-12-11 05:45 AM Response to Original message |
29. They should exempt everyone under $250,000. |
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