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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 10:29 AM Original message |
Max Baucus: A bank tax is coming |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. Leave it to politico to say it was the Democrats that emptied 'the cupboard on health care reform'. |
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proudohioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yeah, that was my thought, too. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. To an extent, they did |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. The cupboard was emptied for healthare reform? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. One has to distinguish between |
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edwinmathews (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. The vault |
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crazylikafox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 11:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Really? Break up the banks & make them compete. Then they can't pass everything on to consumers. |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. I don't think that would necessarily happen: "competition" isn't some magic wand |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Depends on how you define "the public." |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. The vault was emptied by shrub and darth cheney to pay for their wars... |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. A "Bank Tax"? |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Taxing percentages of our money in the bank |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Not true at all. It's a plan to tax the liabilities of banks. The riskier the 'investment', the |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. I do not trust Baucus. He is the same one who blocked the public option because he gets huge... |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. He was very clear on why he did not include a public option - it could not get 60 votes |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. If he had supported it then maybe it could have got 60 votes. |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. No it wouldn't - three words Lincoln Lieberman Conrad |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. It isn't his job to worry about 60 votes. |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. It was his job to do that |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
11. From NYT |
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LaPera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. Fuck the whore Max Baucus! He's again stiring up shit, using the word "Tax" he's a right-wing bought |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. So, you think banks shouldn't be taxed on their 'gambling'? |
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LaPera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. "Tax" is a bait word used by republicans to attack Democrats - Baucus is well aware of this. |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. You are 100% correct. Baucus is in this only for himself and his corporate sponsors. n/t |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. +1, he is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lobbyists. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. ..They need to put a trading tax on Derivatives, Credit default swaps... |
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florida08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Senate just voted down |
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go west young man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
28. Tax em and cut the military in half. Problems solved. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
29. I'll support that any day over a bullshit VAT tax |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-10 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
30. I'd rather see a tax on bonuses similar to the UK's bonus tax. NT |
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