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In reply to the discussion: Ben Stein Stuns Fox & Friends: ‘All Due Respect To Fox’ But ‘Taxes Are Too Low' [View all]OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)14. I wonder when
I wonder when something like this would come to a relaity. In another post, I said that taxes should go back to the Clinton tax rates. When, not if, but when raising taxes works in paying back all that we owe, I wonder when the Faux kids will take credit as it being their idea.
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Ben Stein Stuns Fox & Friends: ‘All Due Respect To Fox’ But ‘Taxes Are Too Low' [View all]
trailmonkee
Oct 2012
OP
Actually, your basic premise is completely off. republi-CONs don't have brains.
calimary
Oct 2012
#39
Duh duh duh but we no need taxes duh duh duh da country can run off of sunshine and rainbows
LovePeacock
Oct 2012
#4
The problem is that too much wealth ($50 trillion) is just sitting around doing nothing.
reformist2
Oct 2012
#12
B-b-b-b-but revenues were highest evah under George Dubya Bush!!!!111!!!!1111
BeyondGeography
Oct 2012
#17
Grover has his goons working Ben over right now. He'll walk this one back big time.
BlueStreak
Oct 2012
#19
Too little, too late you stupid cathartic voice fucker. Where've you been the last 10 years?!?!
cbdo2007
Oct 2012
#21
A quarter-million a year "is not a rich person"?! See, that's how REALLY rich people think.
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#23
Yes, 1941 to 1973. Just what else was going on then? Oh yes, I remember now
Motown_Johnny
Oct 2012
#32
This from the guy who's famous for discussing Voodoo Economics in Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
Not Sure
Oct 2012
#56
Thank you, Ben, for telling the truth, in spite of the GOP, FAUX, Murdock, Koch brothers, etc.
judesedit
Oct 2012
#58
They have pushed this lie that "we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem"....
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2012
#60
This has been Ben Stein's position on taxes for a long time. Why do you call him an a-hole?
Honeycombe8
Oct 2012
#87