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yurbud

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6. you could keep or even lower the cap AND rate AND still collect more revenue IF....

Reply to Vincardog (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 03:43 PM

Mar 2012

You applied the tax to the first $100K of EVERY kind of income.

Warren Buffett would hardly feel 13% of his first $100K, and while it might pinch some aspiring day traders, they are just as likely to need the SS safety net if they aren't high enough up the food chain to get the wink and nod when bubbles are scheduled to burst.

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The $6.6 Trillion Retirement Problem: Unions Push Boost to Social Security Benefits [View all] xchrom Mar 2012 OP

it's time to push back and stop doing the GOP's work for them.... mike_c Mar 2012 #1

Eliminate the CAP. Raise the benefit. Lower the age. fuck the conservatives Vincardog Mar 2012 #2

talk of raising the retirement age when there's high unemployment is insane. yurbud Mar 2012 #5

you could keep or even lower the cap AND rate AND still collect more revenue IF.... yurbud Mar 2012 #6

Why not apply the tax to ALL of EVERY kind of income? Then add a Financial Transaction tax Vincardog Mar 2012 #7

that could lower the rate to nothing. On financial transaction tax... yurbud Mar 2012 #9

Amen to that! scarletlib Mar 2012 #8

and some have the balls to already talk up Cuomo for president in 2016. yurbud Mar 2012 #3

when private employers and even states can't be depended on to keep pension promises... yurbud Mar 2012 #4