Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:15 PM
world wide wally (21,032 posts)
Freedom isn't free?
Why is that saying only applies when we're talking about the lives of men and women fighting in wars, but when we ask the wealthiest Americans to pay another nickel in taxes... suddenly freedom is supposed to be free?
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world wide wally | Oct 2012 | OP |
digonswine | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
SDjack | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
surrealAmerican | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
world wide wally | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
CheapShotArtist | Oct 2012 | #5 |
Response to world wide wally (Original post)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:20 PM
digonswine (1,483 posts)
1. Right. They don't mean a word of it.
Response to world wide wally (Original post)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:21 PM
SDjack (1,448 posts)
2. The 1%, with rare exceptions, don't want to pay enough taxes and will
not risk themselves in the wars that they need to maintain their businesses.
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Response to world wide wally (Original post)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:24 PM
surrealAmerican (11,088 posts)
3. Welcome to DU.
You might want to check your autocorrect. It took me a while to figure this post out because of the "apples".
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Response to surrealAmerican (Reply #3)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:25 PM
world wide wally (21,032 posts)
4. Thanks! Long time reader...first time poster
Response to world wide wally (Original post)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 08:03 PM
CheapShotArtist (333 posts)
5. This is kinda off-topic, but what I find funny is that
Republicans claim to be for everybody's "freedom", but when it comes to their economic policies, they take away the spending freedom of about 99% of Americans in the process of giving more to the top 1%. Also I want to know how they can advocate "liberty" and "freedom" when they enact laws that impose religious principles on everybody, restrict people's right to vote, restrict the right of gays to marry, and restrict women's right to choose. When you do the math, the numbers don't seem to add up IMO.
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