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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 01:02 PM Dec 2012

Priceless

Comparing the Republican proposal to cut spending by inflicting pain upon seniors to President Obama's proposal to tax the rich at 1990s' rates:

Republican plan to raise the Medicare age to 67: $113 billion (1/14th of the President's proposal to tax the rich) over the next decade
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/what-defines-a-serious-deficit-proposal/

Republican plan to change Social Security indexing from CPI to “chained” CPI: $186 billion (1/8th of the President's proposal to tax the rich) over the next decade
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/the-full-mcconnell/

President Obama's plan to tax the rich at 1990s' rates: $1.6 trillion (more than five times the combined Republican proposals that punish seniors by reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits) over the next decade
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/30/15568521-obama-offers-gop-an-ambitious-progressive-debt-reduction-plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021905787

Watching Republicans implode: priceless
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021935777

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Priceless (Original Post) ProSense Dec 2012 OP
Kick for ProSense Dec 2012 #1
In other words, the wealthy can well afford the taxes ... Scuba Dec 2012 #2
Kick! n/t ProSense Dec 2012 #3
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. In other words, the wealthy can well afford the taxes ...
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 01:19 PM
Dec 2012

... and that's putting aside the fact that it's the wealthy who receive most of the benefit of government.

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