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Asked if student debt relief is ‘fair,’ Biden takes jab at GOP tax cuts
The hill ^ | 08/24/2022 | Julia Mueller

Posted on 08/24/2022 6:26:19 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: BenLurkin

They shouldn’t have let him get away with changing the subject, a classic liberal diversion.


21 posted on 08/24/2022 7:05:43 PM PDT by CaliGirlGodHelpMe (God bless President Trump and his Family)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Although everyone got a tax cut, the overall tax burden shifted even further to rich after the GOP tax cuts than it was before. Moreover, the Democrats have repeatedly attempted to reinstate the tax subsidies for the rich in their high tax states.


22 posted on 08/24/2022 7:09:06 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: frank ballenger

In Accounting-—either/both terms are used.


23 posted on 08/24/2022 8:17:38 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: econjack

I NEVER in my life had a paycheck signed by a POOR PERSON.


24 posted on 08/24/2022 8:18:30 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27
""Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multibillion-dollar businesses, if they see one of these guys getting all the tax cuts."

Oh... like Sinema's 'carried interest' provision you signed last week ?

25 posted on 08/24/2022 8:58:01 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: BenLurkin

The billionaires did not get “all the tax cuts”. The very wealthy got almost nothing from Trump’s tax cut. I assume he was referring to Trump’s tax cut.


26 posted on 08/24/2022 9:11:25 PM PDT by lasereye ( )
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To: BradyLS

I agree I doubt they’ll feel grateful at all. Why would they really? This is a generation who always wants more of more.


27 posted on 08/24/2022 10:07:49 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: chiller
Oh... like Sinema's 'carried interest' provision you signed last week ?

Excellent point.

28 posted on 08/25/2022 12:05:44 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is that fair?

Is it fair that 50% don’t pay ANY taxes?

Dumb argument...Why is it fair that I am paying the tab for idiots with college degrees that are useless to the real world?


29 posted on 08/25/2022 2:46:28 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Adder

I had a professor in college (years ago) who taught a class in Philosophy of Taxation.

He discussed a flat tax — everyone pay the same rate.
He asked: “Is that fair?”
He said: “No. You can’t treat everyone the same because poor people lose out.”

He discussed progressive taxation.
He asked: “Is that fair?”
He said: “Yes. You need a million special rules, benefiting these people, punishing those people. Some smart bureaucrats need to make lots of decisions on tax laws so that we can build a complex (but fair) system.”

He was sure that socialism worked. Just need the right people in charge.


30 posted on 08/25/2022 3:01:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does he mean the Trump tax cuts where everyone got a break?

This guy should be on Twitter with all the fake news he regurgitates:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/business/economy/income-tax-cut.html


31 posted on 08/25/2022 3:27:04 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Dave Wright

“Paying off student debt benefits the economy if the students use the money to buy real goods and services with the money providing income to businesses and jobs for more people.”

Of course the reality is that most are not paying off their student loan(s). That money is already budgeted for something else like their Porsche payment. So the much ballyhooed boost in economic activity is already factored in.

In fact forcing the rest of the country to pay additional taxes to cover that Fed revenue shortfall will more likely result in lowering the overall economic activity.


32 posted on 08/25/2022 5:00:08 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Absolutely HORRIBLE analogy.”
Biden proves it’s unfair to forgive student loans by comparing the act to something that he also believes is unfair. Is it fair that 10,000 blacks were murdered last year, and only 6,000 in 2019? is it fair that CPI is up 15 pct since Biden took office? No none of it is fair, and neither is his stupid bribe to idiots who would have voted for him anyway.


33 posted on 08/25/2022 5:52:38 AM PDT by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Absolutely HORRIBLE analogy.

Yep, apples and oranges, I guess the dementia disallows critical thinking.

34 posted on 08/25/2022 5:54:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Dave Wright

printing money causes inflation, which is a regressive tax that affects the poor most.


35 posted on 08/25/2022 5:55:13 AM PDT by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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