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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: When you can't even afford a dinner with a candidate, it's unlikely your interests take top priority [View all]green917
(442 posts)103. so, one has to hold
$33,000 a plate fund raisers to help other democrats? And people wonder why the electorate is apathetic!
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When you can't even afford a dinner with a candidate, it's unlikely your interests take top priority [View all]
reformist2
Nov 2015
OP
When you can't continue to have your taxes raised, then the candidate proposing the increase
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#1
If you are referring to the payroll tax increase to fund universal healthcare, I am for it
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#6
He has said he was going to tax the rich, he missed on this one, the rich has capital gains,
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#8
You didn't address any of the substance of my post w.r.t total cost vs tax cost
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#11
Income tax is on income, as a worker who is compensated for the work they do.
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#12
I am well aware of the US Tax code. You don't need to inform me of that every post
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#16
Then you know the 1% is not going to be paying the tax Sanders is proposing.
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#24
Not that specific tax, no. They'll be paying their taxes for other programs
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#25
An unwillingness to engage on the high cost of healthcare and how Sanders plan fixes that?
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#28
But you won't have to pay for health care or insurance so the tax will be cheaper.
Live and Learn
Nov 2015
#30
I have thought in complete terms, I still know how to think in complete terms.
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#35
In this case the corporations will not be paying more and it will not affect the 1% since they
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#53
Who the heck are you talking to? You're addressing the person who ASKED the question.
MADem
Nov 2015
#67
Of course he's going to do it--he didn't sign a pact with Debbie Wasserman Shultz to frontline
MADem
Nov 2015
#66
Based on the information I currently possess, I trust Bernie's judgment. nt
SusanCalvin
Nov 2015
#83
I, along with my spouse once paid $100 each to meet and greet with Howard Dean,
pennylane100
Nov 2015
#7
hey, corporate alliances, poll-massagers ("poll-masseurs"?), journalist-ropers, bused-in crowds,
MisterP
Nov 2015
#18
These dinners--that Sanders will be doing, too--are not "mixing with the commoners" events.
MADem
Nov 2015
#69
It's kind of weird that we have to USE CU to get rid of CU, but that's what we have to do.
MADem
Nov 2015
#93
DUH--he signed the agreement LAST WEEK. LAST WEEK. And he has a debate (that he's flailing at)
MADem
Nov 2015
#86
Bubububububut she just said "most" of her donors were small. Or was it individuals?
glinda
Nov 2015
#101