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Van Jones Tells Netroots: Stop Worrying About Deficit, We Can Tax Rich Companies!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 7-26-10 | James

Posted on 07/26/2010 3:23:03 AM PDT by iloveamerica1980

Video: Former Obama "Green Jobs" Czar tells the 2010 Netroots Convention that the U.S. has no lack of money to stop worrying about the deficit, because rich companies can be taxed. Who ya gonna to tax after the "elite" rich are driven to the poor house? (Note: Posted in "Bloggers & Personal" due to referenced external link)

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KEYWORDS: blogpimp; communism; dnc4communism; dnc4marxism; dnc4redistribution; dnc4reparations; marxism; politics; redistribution; reparations
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1 posted on 07/26/2010 3:23:09 AM PDT by iloveamerica1980
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To: iloveamerica1980

Van Jones is your typical Communist.
Tax the companies into bankruptcy, then take them over as government enterprises.

Karl and Vlad are smiling from their graves.


2 posted on 07/26/2010 3:29:21 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: iloveamerica1980

does’nt matter. ain’t enough money left in the WORLD to fund the federal appetite.....


3 posted on 07/26/2010 3:32:55 AM PDT by mo
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To: iloveamerica1980

And to think, Meg Whitman was a big fan of Van Jones.

Good luck to California in November.


4 posted on 07/26/2010 3:41:04 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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To: AlexW

Several years ago in Germany...there was talk of this raise in corporate taxes...to fund various projects and fill the revenue bucket. The companies who would have been affected...stood up and suggested that they’d move corporate headquarters out of Germany. Over night...there was this mass discussion which eventually lead to a halt on the tax idea. If you had fifty of the top two hundred companies in Germany pack up and move their headquarters...then things would turn into a mess.


5 posted on 07/26/2010 3:45:47 AM PDT by pepsionice
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” The companies who would have been affected...stood up and suggested that they’d move corporate headquarters out of Germany.”

The haughty John F... Kerry gives a good lesson on this.
He parks his WIFE’s yacht in RI to avoid MA tax which is very high for Mr and MS Kerry’s play toy.


6 posted on 07/26/2010 3:52:34 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: iloveamerica1980

shrug


7 posted on 07/26/2010 3:54:02 AM PDT by reaganator
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To: iloveamerica1980
Why should I care what Van jones tells Netroots?

Who are they anyway?

8 posted on 07/26/2010 3:59:09 AM PDT by wmileo
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To: iloveamerica1980

Yeah, not doubt about that. And rich companies won’t try to compensate by, say, laying off employees, right? What puzzles me is why would anyone listen to Van Jones (and his ilk) about anything? What have they ever run successfully?

The only thing they’ve run is their mouth. Same thing with Obama. The man had run nothing, had no real accomplishments, and (aside from one co-sponsored bill) NO history of reaching across the aisle. But, he’s articulate, black, and makes speeches about “hope and change”—so lets make him President!

Honestly, we Americans have been stuck on stupid so long that deserve what we get. Sadly, those of us who don’t (myself and probably most FReepers) will be taken along for the ride.


9 posted on 07/26/2010 4:09:05 AM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: iloveamerica1980

The problem is most of these nutroots morons do not understand that you could impose the highest taxes possible on corporations and they’d never pay a penny of it. They’d either move out of the country, or just raise prices on everything they sell.


10 posted on 07/26/2010 4:18:35 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: iloveamerica1980

Yesterday David Gregory told Rick Santelli........

We’re not Greece, we can print money.


11 posted on 07/26/2010 4:22:52 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: Carley
Yesterday David Gregory told Rick Santelli........

We’re not Greece, we can print money.

You don't have to be a complete financial illiterate to work in the LSM, I suppose, but quite clearly it gives you a leg up.

12 posted on 07/26/2010 4:32:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

David Gregory’s point may have been that the U.S. controls its own currency (unlike Euro-bound Greece) and can use inflation to quietly “refudiate” its debt. LBJ tried that in the 1970’s and it lead to the stagflation of the Carter era.

There is no magic bullet. Whatever we do will be painful. Inflation may be the most politically palatable alternative, but clearly the most dishonest and probably the most economically damaging. Outright repudiation might be healthier, because no one in his right mind would ever lend the U.S. Government a plug nickel for the next hundred years.


13 posted on 07/26/2010 4:41:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: AlexW
Karl and Vlad are smiling from their graves.

This Vlad is not in the grave, but smiles everyday when briefed about Obama's progress.

14 posted on 07/26/2010 4:46:07 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: iloveamerica1980

Not mine you commie racist... I’ll drive a stake through the heart of all I have built, before I let a wortheless black liberation theologist racist commie like you get a penny of my life’s earnings.

LLS


15 posted on 07/26/2010 4:46:34 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Dixie Yooper

I think that pootie and obama should sign up for a Celebrity Death Match... Vince McMahon will MC and broadcast the PPV. Side bets allowed.

LLS


16 posted on 07/26/2010 4:48:18 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You have to be a good little journOlist and lie the lies you lie with a straight face.


17 posted on 07/26/2010 4:52:45 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: iloveamerica1980

First will be the ‘small’ vat tax. Sold as a simple easy painless way to solve all our problems. It will be sold by media brainwashing of the masses til the polls make it politically possible for the pocketicians to vote it in. It will barely pass and a few party hacks will be sacrificed but well compensated in other ways. Once in place it will be a new gold mine for the government.


18 posted on 07/26/2010 5:10:57 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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A Vat tax should make the fair taxers happy since, unlike the Income tax, like the rain, it falls equally on the just and the unjust, No 50% non payers. Oh! You protest, it is an “invisible” tax. If the prices rise, it will obvious to the casual observer. Since corporations pay no taxes anyway, since only the ultimate consumer pays any taxes.
barbra ann
19 posted on 07/26/2010 5:38:53 AM PDT by barb-tex (Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: Let the weak say I am strong.)
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My bet is that they will get it through by trading it for keeping the Bush tax cuts going for another year. They MUST have the VAT. I think they get it.


20 posted on 07/26/2010 5:45:01 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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