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We don't tax "wealth" anymore, now that the estate tax is out of fashion. What the rich object to is that with higher income taxes, they'd be getting even richer more slowly.

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Angry young men are being taken out of the system, all right ... but that might not be what you're referring to.

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That's so well done, you could post it on any wingnut board, and earn enough upfists to reach low earth orbit.

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Wookies is my hero too.

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And yet Kennedy, as US ambassador to GB, was angry at the RAF for winning the Battle of Britain, thereby postponing Hitler's inevitable conquest of England.

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They're still doing <a href="http:\/\/jmaced.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stocks_12397_lg.gif" target="_blank">this</a>? Well, maybe in Alabama, and as long as it's just an option...

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There's an unintentionally hilarious <a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/23\/business\/a-starting-point-for-tax-reform-what-reagan-did.html\?ref=business" target="_blank">article</a> on tax reform in today's <i>NYT,</i> in which someone named Floyd Norris asserts that "(t)he proper way to approach that proposal is to accept that the government needs to raise a certain amount of money," at which point you can stop reading, because Republicans do not and will not accept that idea.

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All the ads used the same script. I couldn't tell who was running for what position.

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That it's socialist?

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and that the brother is a doctor.

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Extremely wealthy people will pay the lawyers and the pacs to avoid taxes, but they don't want to pay taxes? You don't say. I had thought that the argument that the wealthy deliberately keep the poors uneducated and uninformed might be a little over the top, but I believe this election has convinced me.

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To be fair, Romney/Ryan didn't directly say they were going to increase the Medicare eligibility age to 70. It's just a logical consequence of what they said. But Romney/Ryan don't believe in logical consequences, so it doesn't count.

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When confronted with "facts" Fox viewers are known to shoot at their teevees.

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