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Cryptoad

(8,254 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:46 AM Oct 2013

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I wonder what the GOP response would be

,,,,,, if we demanded a tax hike on the Super Rich before we would increase the Debt Limit??????

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I wonder what the GOP response would be (Original Post) Cryptoad Oct 2013 OP

Nice. I'd go for that. n/t DebJ Oct 2013 #1

I like the way you think. nt Bigmack Oct 2013 #2

They’d hate it … 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #3

I wasnt endorsing the idea Cryptoad Oct 2013 #4

While you weren't ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #6

maybe you should have directed your post toward them, heh? Cryptoad Oct 2013 #7

Or ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #8

what ever cranks your tractor,,,,,,, Cryptoad Oct 2013 #9

I don't have a tractor ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #10

Sorry you lost me Cryptoad Oct 2013 #11

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #12

I have already said Cryptoad Oct 2013 #13

Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #15

Sorry for the lack of clarity nt Cryptoad Oct 2013 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author oldhippie Oct 2013 #17

they would love it... lame54 Oct 2013 #5

Let me see: Laugh in your face, call the rich "JOB CREATORS" who are taxed way to heavily now rustydog Oct 2013 #14

the media would excoriate the left as unpatriotic and opposed to the free market...blah blah blah spanone Oct 2013 #16

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

1. Nice. I'd go for that. n/t

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:53 AM

Oct 2013

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)

2. I like the way you think. nt

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:57 AM

Oct 2013

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

3. They’d hate it …

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 08:07 AM

Oct 2013

And for those thinking that would be a good idea; that would make Democrats hostage takers, too … Not a good idea.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

4. I wasnt endorsing the idea

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 08:13 AM

Oct 2013

just expanding the idea

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

6. While you weren't ...

Reply to Cryptoad (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 09:23 AM

Oct 2013

the two immediate responders are.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

7. maybe you should have directed your post toward them, heh?

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 10:54 AM

Oct 2013

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

8. Or ...

Reply to Cryptoad (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 08:53 PM

Oct 2013

I could have posted as I have ...

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

9. what ever cranks your tractor,,,,,,,

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 09:46 PM

Oct 2013

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

10. I don't have a tractor ...

Reply to Cryptoad (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 10:06 PM

Oct 2013

but I do recognize when someone tosses out a B.S. strategy, i.e., "Hey they're doing it; let's do it, too!"

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

11. Sorry you lost me

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #10)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 08:26 AM

Oct 2013

I don't have a tractor either,,,,, I think they call it a metaphor......

and I have not idea what you mean by ""Hey they're doing it; let's do it, too!""

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

12. Okay ...

Reply to Cryptoad (Reply #11)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 08:54 AM

Oct 2013

if we demanded a tax hike on the Super Rich before we would increase the Debt Limit would make Democrats hostage takers, too.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

13. I have already said

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #12)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 12:32 PM

Oct 2013

I was not endorsing the idea of trying to extort the GOP,,,, I was only trying to point of the hypocrisy of the GOP Position.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

15. Okay ...

Reply to Cryptoad (Reply #13)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 12:38 PM

Oct 2013

My bad!

One of the many problems with internet communication ... I thought you were advocating for this nonsense ... and so did at least two others.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

18. Sorry for the lack of clarity nt

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #15)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 01:17 PM

Oct 2013

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oldhippie This message was self-deleted by its author.

lame54

(35,290 posts)

5. they would love it...

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 09:06 AM

Oct 2013

it would make them the victims

rustydog

(9,186 posts)

14. Let me see: Laugh in your face, call the rich "JOB CREATORS" who are taxed way to heavily now

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 12:37 PM

Oct 2013

which is why the economy sucks donkey d***s and that is why they need to kill Obama Care now!
And he'd do it without sensing the presence of a gargantuan drop of hypocrisy ddangling from his furrowed brow.

spanone

(135,832 posts)

16. the media would excoriate the left as unpatriotic and opposed to the free market...blah blah blah

Reply to Cryptoad (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 12:40 PM

Oct 2013

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