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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 04:18 PM Aug 2012

if the GOP wants the tax system to be fair to hard working people

make the tax rate on earned income lower and the tax rate on unearned income higher.

I don't care how hard someone thinks they worked to build wealth....
it doesn't excuse decades and generations of tax advantage compared to the work of those people who weren't lucky enough to have created wealth.

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if the GOP wants the tax system to be fair to hard working people (Original Post) Fresh_Start Aug 2012 OP
Amen fleur-de-lisa Aug 2012 #1
Ain't gonna happen till the working class stops voting for the moneyed class to rule them. RC Aug 2012 #2
The GOP will hop right on it to correct this egregious injustice. indepat Aug 2012 #3

indepat

(20,899 posts)
3. The GOP will hop right on it to correct this egregious injustice.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 05:50 PM
Aug 2012

Sure they will: it's as certain as the sun rising in the west.

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