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To: dila813

Wouldn’t the government get almost 4 times the revenue if the the Cap Gains tax were raised to 99%? Then the income tax could be raised to 99%, too, and a 99% VAT could be instituted and all the government’s debt could be paid back in just a few years! Prosperity would be unprecedented!


20 posted on 01/18/2015 5:23:58 AM PST by arthurus
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To: arthurus
Wouldn’t the government get almost 4 times the revenue if the the Cap Gains tax were raised to 99%? Then the income tax could be raised to 99%, too, and a 99% VAT could be instituted and all the government’s debt could be paid back in just a few years! Prosperity would be unprecedented!

I'm back in the USSR......... You don't know how lucky you are, boy....... Back in the USSR :) /s

22 posted on 01/18/2015 5:27:27 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: arthurus
Wouldn’t the government get almost 4 times the revenue if the the Cap Gains tax were raised to 99%? Then the income tax could be raised to 99%, too, and a 99% VAT could be instituted and all the government’s debt could be paid back in just a few years! Prosperity would be unprecedented!

See, that's the problem in America today: GREED. Why the hell do you need 1%???!? Greedy fat pig chomping at the trough. Give to the needy, you cheapskate bast'd!

30 posted on 01/18/2015 6:06:47 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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