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yurbud

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9. that could lower the rate to nothing. On financial transaction tax...

Reply to Vincardog (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 03:27 PM

Mar 2012

I think some poetic justice is in order: the initial rate should be set to bring in $700b, the same amount Wall Street and Hank Paulsen extorted from us for the bailouts.

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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