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Debt ceiling debate turns to yacht class
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| 6 Jul 2011
| SCOTT WONG
Posted on 07/07/2011 11:30:51 AM PDT by mandaladon
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Voters dont have a favorable view of millionaires. This is something the president and other Democrats are using to project a populist tone, said Tom Jensen......Let's see how many Democrat Senators and Congressmen are millionaires???
To: mandaladon
Just trying to help out John Kerry.
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:34:41 AM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
To: mandaladon
I wonder where "Vietnam John" will stash his yacht now?
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:35:18 AM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Can you afford to board the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?)
To: mandaladon
“Voters dont have a favorable view of millionaires”
Voters are driven by jealousy, envy, covetousness, bitterness. And politicians pander to that.
To: mandaladon
The Jet industry has already taken a hit from these stupid pronouncements. Now I guess the boating industry can suffer too.
We've got a $1.6T deficit -- and we think that taxing yachts will fix that little problem?
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:35:45 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: mandaladon
Voters dont have a favorable view of millionaires. This is something the president and other Democrats are using to project a populist tone, said Tom Jensen, director for the Democratic Public Policy Polling. Its something that cuts across the party lines, especially in an economic climate like this.
....of course voters have a favorable view for the generational welfare recipient, don't they Tom??? the people that would rather sit around and collect freebies from the gov't rather then get out there and work, as so many illegals are...you know Tom- the 63.5million that don't pay $.01 of federal income tax...better known as the base of the party you poll for....
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:36:07 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: mandaladon
Harry Reid has gotten very rich just being a senator. At least in the private sector, you become a millionaire by producing something other people want to buy. Reid and company produce nothing except hot air, red tape, and red ink.
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:36:15 AM PDT
by
Argus
To: mandaladon
are you kidding?
The bonehead class warriors define anyone making over $200,000 as a millionaire ..... I guess they assume you can save it all for 5 years and live off credit cards
Now, trust funds, and those who live off of trust funds- lets see the loopholes on those dissolved ...
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:37:21 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: mandaladon
Using government force to spread the wealth around is Marxism or worse. Government robbing We the People people is tyranny!
I thought the democrats were all in favor of EQUAL treatment under the law?
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:37:24 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: Argus
didn’t Pelosi watch here wealth increase sum 60% in the past year?? something like a jump from $20mill to $44mill??
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:38:10 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: all the best
Obama has been the driving force, repeatedly laying out the case that corporations and wealthy Americans should contribute.
Yep like GE,Wall Street,GM.............
If the race card fails use the wealth card dems have played that card for 70 years.
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:44:28 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Emperor Palpatine
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:45:01 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: Vaduz
Problem = American Voter = Stupid is as Stupid does.
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:47:01 AM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
( Ft. Lauderdale Florida (D-20))
To: mandaladon
Interestingly, in my experience, liberals quiet down very quickly when I tell them John Kerry paid a very low percentage of his annual income in taxes the year he ran for prez (and most likely every year since or before).
It is like crickets, and there is nothing else like it. They just shut their mouths and open their eyes and start looking around.
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posted on
07/07/2011 11:48:49 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:09:33 PM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:11:01 PM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: mandaladon
Maybe they should look at what happened the last time they tried a luxury boat tax, and maybe they should look at what people like me are already doing. I used to employ quite a few people, but I now have no employees at all. Some I set up in business on their own, competing against me. Others lost their jobs. None work for me. My income is down more than 90% since Pelosi started coming after people like me, and it doesn’t hurt me a bit. Sadly, it does hurt my state and my country - but not as much as it would hurt if I gave the far left even more tax dollars for their anti-American policies.
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:18:11 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: mandaladon
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:20:53 PM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: silverleaf
Now, trust funds, and those who live off of trust funds- lets see the loopholes on those dissolved ...
Yet it is the trust funders that seem to push this class warfare rot with the most vigor. Case in point the current governor of Minnesota. Perfect example of limousine liberals, they got theirs, so they are compelled to kick away the ladder so no one else gets remotely near them. Even Georgy Schwartz (George Soros) freely admitted it.
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:25:33 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
To: bicyclerepair
Agree hope the learned what not to do.
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posted on
07/07/2011 12:29:32 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
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