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Originally Posted by ilovetv
This 1% stuff is getting really old.
"The 1 Percent" is the Alinsky ridicule and demonize tactic of the Occupiers, and it is the very tactic Obama is going to use to make EITHER Romney or Gingrich the piņata to hang up for the blindfolded SHEEPLE to poke and bust open to disembowel it.
Instead of focusing on how the TAX CODE is a convoluted abyss, or on how it produces a tax return that consists of 550 PAGES (Romney's) that NOBODY can understand nor analyze as a voter, or how throwing out the current tax code and replacing it with a flat tax with the poor and working poor paying a much smaller percentage like 1%....everyone is running toward the straw man argument of Obama's and Pelosi's "One Percent" like this is going to put out the fire you're running into. All it does is FEED the fire.
This is nuts, when conservatives take that bait.
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I think this "1% stuff" is exciting and refreshing. It is a large and important aspect of the overall state of our economy and a key concept in the decision making affecting our nation's future. It's not pretty to dwell on, for those who are members, or those in the 99% who were victimized in the recession. But it is REAL (and) IMPORTANT.
Nothing is more important than the economy right now, and that underscores the necessity to finally radically revise our horrendous tax code and all of the other revenue streams necessary to reduce the deficit. Our generally prosperous recent history, as well as super talented lobbying, has kept us in denial or just too unmotivated to solve these injustices.
No matter how conservative you are, no one can pretend that we will ever get close to solvency again solely by cutting spending. As long as realities like "the 1%" remain on our collective minds, the easier it is to see the absurdity of some of the economic principles stubbornly adhered to by "job creators" tea partiers and other fiscal arch-conservatives.