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12. The rich are not favored. The vast majority of any benefits of this deal go to the middle class.

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 04:51 PM

Jan 2013

While the vast majority of any pain in the tax changes go to the wealthy. That is irrefutable.

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I really think President Obama did well, he did not cave but [View all] akbacchus_BC Jan 2013 OP

all he had to do was do nothing. bowens43 Jan 2013 #1

Sorry, did I miss read the news? akbacchus_BC Jan 2013 #2

He did cave. truebluegreen Jan 2013 #3

Thats not a cave. He ran on locking those rates in for the 98%. phleshdef Jan 2013 #4

As I recall the line in the sand he ran on was truebluegreen Jan 2013 #5

Thank you for saying that. Taxes are going up here too! akbacchus_BC Jan 2013 #7

capital gains went up automatically hfojvt Jan 2013 #9

+1 truebluegreen Jan 2013 #10

show me the analysis hfojvt Jan 2013 #13

yeah, he ran on Reaganomics hfojvt Jan 2013 #8

Tax rates on everyone needed to go up to address the debt, if they were serious. IWelcome TheirHatred Jan 2013 #11