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To: OB1kNOb
Question #1 How old are you?

31

Question #2 Are you currently dependent on someone or some government agency for your financial support or do you totally support yourself/family?

I get a Pell grant to go to college, and I use my state's public health care program, but other than that, I am living off of a part time job and savings.

Question #3 What specific political positions is Obama too conservative for your tastes.

Health care (should be single payer)
Environment (we should ban fuel ethanol and enforce mileage standards)

You know what, I've answered this like 3 times now, just look up the rest.

Question #4 Do you agree with Obama's socialistic precept that your wealth needs to be spread around to make everyone more equal, regardless of your personal risk or effort expended to acquire said "wealth"?

Let me ask you this: Was Eisenhower a socialist for supporting a 92% tax rate for the highest earners? I think we need the tax revenue, and we can't tax the poor, the middle class no longer exists, so that only leaves one option.
168 posted on 11/05/2008 2:06:10 PM PST by codejack
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To: codejack
Let me ask you this: Was Eisenhower a socialist for supporting a 92% tax rate for the highest earners?

That's been asnwered- Eisenhower inherited that tax rate from Truman. The President does not pass tax laws, and Congress had no interest at the time in lowering rates. Eisenhower not being able to change the top tax rate is completely different from Hussein's support for increasing it.

I think we need the tax revenue, and we can't tax the poor, the middle class no longer exists, so that only leaves one option.

There are nearly 50% of Americans who pay no Federal tax at all. Before you increase my tax load (my wife and I paid over $55,000 in Federal taxes alone last year), let's start talking about spending cuts for socialist programs like welfare, medicare and medicaid, as well as eliminating corporate welfare and subsidies.

People like me won't just sit here and take being fleeced forever. Moreso than Hussein's shiftless, unemployed supporters, we have the ability to pick up and go work elsewhere (Iraq, Panama, Dubai, Ireland, just to name a few). Then you all are going to have to figure out how to keep voting yourself goodies without the rest of us to pay for it.

174 posted on 11/05/2008 2:14:49 PM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: codejack
Question #3 What specific political positions is Obama too conservative for your tastes.

Health care (should be single payer) Environment (we should ban fuel ethanol and enforce mileage standards)

Well, you don't want to answer math questions, how about a legal question? How do you "enforce mileage standards"?

Oh, and what's the root word from which "liberal" is derived?

177 posted on 11/05/2008 2:21:22 PM PST by Stegall Tx (How's that tax cut working for ya?)
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To: codejack
Question #4 Do you agree with Obama's socialistic precept that your wealth needs to be spread around to make everyone more equal, regardless of your personal risk or effort expended to acquire said "wealth"?

Let me ask you this: Was Eisenhower a socialist for supporting a 92% tax rate for the highest earners? I think we need the tax revenue, and we can't tax the poor, the middle class no longer exists, so that only leaves one option.

Thanks for your response, but you avoided answering the 4th question by asking a question. Do you agree with Obama's socialistic precept of "spreading the wealth"?

And BTW, do you believe that you are entitled to the free college grant and state public health care program? If so, for what specific reasons are you entitled to services you did not pay for?

so that only leaves one option.

No there is another option. Cut government spending. Cut entitlements. Either afford it out of your own pocket from your own earnings, or do without. Quit sucking off of someone else's financial tit and fend for onesself.

I appreciate your willingness to discuss this. We usually don't see such bravery in liberals.

181 posted on 11/05/2008 2:39:11 PM PST by OB1kNOb (Obama may be President, but Jesus Christ is still the King, and even Obama's knee will bow to him.)
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To: codejack

Pell grant = welfare


184 posted on 11/05/2008 3:20:08 PM PST by dynachrome (Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: codejack

Actually there is another answer. Government could get back to funding only what is stated in the Constitution and quit all these entitlement programs that are not in the Constitution and they wouldn’t need to tax us into oblivion.


205 posted on 11/06/2008 8:31:31 AM PST by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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