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Old 11-21-2011, 07:36 AM  
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
Actually if you GOP fan boys really wanna cry read this article about how even many with-in the Republican party say the current GOP is irresponsible. Many of these guys inclue Regan & Bush era party members.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz1eIPT2Bwr

The best quote ever.. btw..(this will make 12 clicks cry for sure)


The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for the rich. "We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," he thunders to a crowd in Georgia. Such tax loopholes, he adds, "sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary ? and that's crazy."

Preacherlike, the president draws the crowd into a call-and-response. "Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver," he demands, "or less?"

The crowd, sounding every bit like the protesters from Occupy Wall Street, roars back: "MORE!"

The year was 1985. The president was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz1eLiWxmDd
and the loopholes for millionaires paying NOTHING were closed.
not sure what your point is.
today's millionaires pay on average 33% according to the CBO
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