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  • November 29, 2009 at 10:48 AM #16728
    partypup
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    You’ve got to love the name of this legislation: “Share the Sacrifice”.

    As if 17.5% real unemployment, 1 out of every 4 homes underwater and 23% of all homeowners falling behind on their payments is not evidence enough that Americans have already sacrificed up the ying yang.

    How about proposing a”Share the Responsibility Act?” This simple legislation would actually shift financial responsibility for these ridiculous war gambits onto the clowns who were actually responsible for the decision-making: the President and Congress. We can start by slashing their salaries by 30%. And if they still won’t stop spending, then add a 15% tax. If they can only raise enough funds to only send 5,000 more troops, well damnit, that’s how many we should be sending.

    One way or another, these jokers would finally be made to realize that (a) war is not free and (b) people who didn’t want war should not be stuck with responsibility for paying for it.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29851.html

    http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=11&year=2009&base_name=share_the_sacrifice_act_make_t

    November 29, 2009 at 11:03 AM #487868
    meadandale
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    That’s great. I think we should do the same thing in Sacramento.

    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison. That means that I’m being disenfranchised as a tax paying resident; the bulk of state taxes pay for the above things which I derive no direct benefit from.

    November 29, 2009 at 11:03 AM #488414
    meadandale
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    That’s great. I think we should do the same thing in Sacramento.

    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison. That means that I’m being disenfranchised as a tax paying resident; the bulk of state taxes pay for the above things which I derive no direct benefit from.

    November 29, 2009 at 11:03 AM #488502
    meadandale
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    That’s great. I think we should do the same thing in Sacramento.

    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison. That means that I’m being disenfranchised as a tax paying resident; the bulk of state taxes pay for the above things which I derive no direct benefit from.

    November 29, 2009 at 11:03 AM #488734
    meadandale
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    That’s great. I think we should do the same thing in Sacramento.

    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison. That means that I’m being disenfranchised as a tax paying resident; the bulk of state taxes pay for the above things which I derive no direct benefit from.

    November 29, 2009 at 11:03 AM #488034
    meadandale
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    That’s great. I think we should do the same thing in Sacramento.

    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison. That means that I’m being disenfranchised as a tax paying resident; the bulk of state taxes pay for the above things which I derive no direct benefit from.

    November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM #488512
    Adebisi
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    [quote=meadandale]
    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison.[/quote]

    So you only consider prison to be a benefit if people you know are in there? What kind of people do you hang out with?

    November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM #488044
    Adebisi
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    [quote=meadandale]
    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison.[/quote]

    So you only consider prison to be a benefit if people you know are in there? What kind of people do you hang out with?

    November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM #487878
    Adebisi
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    [quote=meadandale]
    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison.[/quote]

    So you only consider prison to be a benefit if people you know are in there? What kind of people do you hang out with?

    November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM #488424
    Adebisi
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    [quote=meadandale]
    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison.[/quote]

    So you only consider prison to be a benefit if people you know are in there? What kind of people do you hang out with?

    November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM #488744
    Adebisi
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    [quote=meadandale]
    I don’t have kids in school or college, don’t get public assistance (healthcare or welfare), don’t work for the state and don’t know anyone in prison.[/quote]

    So you only consider prison to be a benefit if people you know are in there? What kind of people do you hang out with?

    November 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM #488764
    NeetaT
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    I’m a “Hawk,” I’m all for war, but you are correct in the fact that we should not have to dig into our hard earned money to pay for wars. They should be paid for via the current inflated-unwarranted tax rate or salary cuts for those in congress.

    November 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM #487898
    NeetaT
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    I’m a “Hawk,” I’m all for war, but you are correct in the fact that we should not have to dig into our hard earned money to pay for wars. They should be paid for via the current inflated-unwarranted tax rate or salary cuts for those in congress.

    November 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM #488532
    NeetaT
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    I’m a “Hawk,” I’m all for war, but you are correct in the fact that we should not have to dig into our hard earned money to pay for wars. They should be paid for via the current inflated-unwarranted tax rate or salary cuts for those in congress.

    November 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM #488444
    NeetaT
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    I’m a “Hawk,” I’m all for war, but you are correct in the fact that we should not have to dig into our hard earned money to pay for wars. They should be paid for via the current inflated-unwarranted tax rate or salary cuts for those in congress.

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