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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed May 6, 2015, 02:24 PM May 2015

Bernie Sanders: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Bernie Sanders: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 (Original Post) Playinghardball May 2015 OP

Ronald Reagan response: NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #1

Reagan never said anything like that. John Poet May 2015 #2

Of course he didnt say it out loud, but he is why the rich pay HALF of what they NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #3

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

1. Ronald Reagan response:

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 02:35 PM

May 2015

Rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes at all, this is our goal

John Poet

(2,510 posts)

2. Reagan never said anything like that.

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #1)

Wed May 6, 2015, 03:24 PM

May 2015

In fact, he explicitly stated the opposite at times. Now of course his original tax cut program was a big giveaway to the rich, but he still spoke against cases where the rich were paying nothing at all, and raised taxes many times... completely different from the Republicans of today-- in fact, a pretty similar to Obama on taxing the wealthy.

I'm no Reagan fan whatsoever, but if he were here saying some of the things about taxes which he did back then, he'd be run out of the Republican Party.

See this video:
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NoJusticeNoPeace

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3. Of course he didnt say it out loud, but he is why the rich pay HALF of what they

Reply to John Poet (Reply #2)

Wed May 6, 2015, 04:06 PM

May 2015

once did.

And so while I admit what I said is an exaggeration, he is the reason we have all these problems

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