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Americans Ask For The Rich To Pay A Greater Fair Share
YouTube | 11-19-2012 | White House

Posted on 11/19/2012 9:59:19 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs

But let’s call it a middle-class tax cut…

Tiffany’s husband is out of work, so she needs help to pay for her child’s summer camp, better tasting dinners and ice cream truck treats. YouTube Link

Ron feels that privileged Americans need to contribute back a greater fair share then the rest of us because we have given them so much. YouTube Link

Dalia feels we should not fight about those things we disagree on. But we all agree on extending tax cuts only for the middle class. YouTube Link


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fair; share; vanity

1 posted on 11/19/2012 9:59:25 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

The rich pay 10 times too much now, tax the poor, they are the ones leaching off the government!


2 posted on 11/19/2012 10:03:32 PM PST by dalereed
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Starve the Beast!!!

It’s RABID!

Starve it before it has to be shot dead!


3 posted on 11/19/2012 10:05:37 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

We are sooo in trouble.


4 posted on 11/19/2012 10:07:56 PM PST by berdie
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
How about that freedom, capitalism , and limited government made America the greatest country ever (people were always basically living as poor slaves before America). So now Obama and democrats think Marxism/socialism (big government ideas) that have never worked and always caused tyranny and extreme poverty and suffering are the solution. I think it's time for the states to secede from this communist dictatorship in Washington DC and this evil socialist tyrant Obama who stole the election as stalinists always do
5 posted on 11/19/2012 10:13:56 PM PST by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Yeah, because the top 10% already paying more than 50% of the taxes collected is soooo fair.

How about if we make it so that the number of votes a person gets is based on the amount of taxes that person pays. Why then the producers might even get enough votes to offset the votes cast by dead people, who strangely seem to always vote for liberals/socialists.

6 posted on 11/19/2012 10:25:56 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Ask, my a$$. Cough up, or Men With Guns will come and get it.
7 posted on 11/20/2012 12:06:34 AM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Tiffany’s husband is out of work, so she needs help to pay for her child’s summer camp, better tasting dinners and ice cream truck treats.

Poor (stupid) Tiffany. Does she really think that the Government's going to take money away from the rich and give it to her? Really?

These dumb f**ks really are this stupid if they think that taxing the rich is going to make their lives better. The only thing the Government's going to do is piss-away the money they taxed away from the rich like the rest of the $16 TRILLION dollars they've already wasted!

8 posted on 11/20/2012 12:09:51 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

“Fairness” however reasonably defined, will include everyone to some degree as a taxpayer. Since 47% of the leaches pay nothing right now and many of those get a check as a negative tax, we need to begin by having everyone pay something. Even if you only earned $1.00 last year, pay a dime. That’s the beginning of fairness.


9 posted on 11/20/2012 1:28:15 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

We got a notice in the mail today that our garbage bill is going up. It had a few items explaining why. (No mention of the strike by the drivers this past spring where they wanted better pay and benefits. Average compensation at $98,000 wasn’t enough I guess.)

Anyway, it said part of the increase in my bill was a County Disposal Fee (tax) increase of 10.25%, and a Business tax increase of 0.3%.

I went on a fake rant to my wife on how that wasn’t what I meant when I voted to tax the rich people and the big corporations - THEY are supposed to pay the tax - not ME!!

Too bad EVERYTHING doesn’t come with a label as to what accounts for the price of the item.


10 posted on 11/20/2012 1:37:12 AM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Personally I’m a poor bastard, never had the silver spoon in all my life and on the rare occasions when I could have been better off I felt the consequences were not quite right, like I was selling my soul to the devil.

But I am not holding grudges against the wealthy, no not at all. I see them already losing it all and leaving, the estate auctions are everywhere, the rich are moving out, the rich are to a point smart and intelligent enough to NOT stick around for the looters to arrive, nor to leave anything behind for free. All I can do is yell at the top of my lungs, Run faster! They are coming after you.


11 posted on 11/20/2012 1:38:05 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Cicil War in America is here, its already been declared.)
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To: dalereed

47% are not paying their fair share. The so called Rich pay to much.


12 posted on 11/20/2012 1:39:53 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: muir_redwoods

Here is an excerpt from an old thread about a booklet from 1939 about FDR and the New Deal. The same tactics are being used today. The last two paragraphs are the most important, but the first has part of an FDR speech that sounds just like Obama.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts

In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1933, the President [FDR] said: “Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay. has fallen;... the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side....... Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance....Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,... Practices of the unscrupulous money-changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.... They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.... Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.” [end of speech excerpt]

....It is not unnatural for people to think envious thoughts about large profits, and envious thoughts are very easy to exploit, as every demagogue knows. But no government before the New Deal had ever deliberately done it....

Large profit as such becomes therefore a symbol of social injury, merely because it is large; moreover, it is asserted that large profit had long been so regarded by the government and penalized for that reason.

Of all the counter symbols this was the one most damaging to the capitalistic system. Indeed, if it were accepted, it would be fatal, because capitalism is a profit and loss system and if profits, even very large profits, are socially wrong, there is nothing more to be said for it.


13 posted on 11/20/2012 1:43:01 AM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

So... further taxing the rich out of “fairness” won`t improve the nation`s fiscal situation or improve the economy... in fact NO ONE benefits... but it`d somehow make these people feel better.

The socialists succeeded in dividing us. America is dead.


14 posted on 11/20/2012 2:31:39 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
"Ron feels that privileged Americans need to contribute back a greater fair share then the rest of us because we have given them so much."

Scum that should be sent to Greece.

Impeach the kenyan or secession.


15 posted on 11/20/2012 3:36:51 AM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Start with the entertainment industry. Hit them with a 70% “evil rich” tax.


16 posted on 11/20/2012 3:40:59 AM PST by jersey117
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

“greater fair share”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? If something is fair, then “greater” doesn’t enter the picture.


17 posted on 11/20/2012 3:50:46 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Obama commands thou shall covet other people’s wealth.


18 posted on 11/20/2012 5:14:56 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: dalereed

i agree. everytime someone mentions the rich paying their fair share i tell them everyone should pay their fare share, the rich already do, tax the poor who, in many BUT NOT ALL, cases are parasites.


19 posted on 11/20/2012 11:01:18 AM PST by bravo whiskey
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To: dalereed
The rich pay 10 times too much now

Correct.

tax the poor

Absurd.

they are the ones leaching off the government!

Well ... looks like you've identified the problem right there ... How's that working out for California? It sucks here in America ...

And it's "leech", not "leach". Those are two very different words. Mr. Dictionary is your friend.

20 posted on 11/20/2012 11:06:04 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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