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 Post subject: Re: anyone else going to watch the speec?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:04 pm  
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Weena wrote:
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One of the main problems with a flat tax is that essential goods and services (food, clothes, housing, etc) consume a much higher percentage of the income of poorer people than rich people. There's a huge difference in the relative impact of a 10% tax on a single parent with 2 kids, paying rent and earning $15k per year and on a couple with no kids, who own their home and earn $200k per year.


$4 a gallon gasoline will affect the $15k earner more than $200k earners too.

Should we charge someone who makes more, more for the gallon of gas, because they can afford to pay more for it?


You mean solutions like 'ending our dependence on foreign oil' by NOT drilling in our own reserves but "investing" 2 billion in Brazil drilling their reserves is hurting poor people? You must not have gotten the memo, only evil, hateful, stupid republicans pull bone-headed moves like that.

"Magical thinking" is continuing to suggest more shell game tax/regulation schemes (cap and trade...really?) in response to the assertion that we need more transparency in the system.

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 Post subject: Re: anyone else going to watch the speec?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:59 pm  
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Eturnalshift wrote:
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Maybe one day he'll realize he's totally irrelevant and will kill himself.

Hey Mayo, just pointing out non-hate filled rhetoric from someone on the left... because only Republicans are the ones who say people on the Left should die... right?


I was going to point out that there's nothing so definitive in my sentence and you're reading meaning that you want to see (and isn't there), but honestly I think the world would be better off without him.


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 Post subject: Re: anyone else going to watch the speec?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:54 pm  
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Jubbergun wrote:
"Magical thinking" is continuing to suggest more shell game tax/regulation schemes (cap and trade...really?) in response to the assertion that we need more transparency in the system.


What's wrong with cap and trade? You decide how much of a given pollutant can be sustainably emitted (cap), then issue credits up to that amount to industry and allow them to buy and sell the credits as needed (trade). It can be tax-like if you charge industry for the initial credits, but it doesn't have to be, if you give them away for free. It allows companies to profit (through sale of credits) if they come up with technologies that reduce emissions of the pollutant, and emissions can be reduced over time by buying and retiring credits. Nothing about it is inherently opposed to a goal of more transparency.


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