Biden: Paying higher taxes patriotic for

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Biden: Paying higher taxes patriotic for
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Thu, 09-18-2008 - 9:50am

Wow, it's now patriotic for those who make more to pay more.  I'm sorry but there's a difference in volunteering to be "patriotic" and pay more and being forced to pay more.  Being forced to pay more isn't being patriotic.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes


Biden: Paying higher taxes patriotic for wealthy



By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 24 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. In a new TV ad that repeats widely debunked claims about the Democratic tax plan, the Republican campaign calls Obama's tax increases "painful."




Under the economic plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.


Although Republican John McCain claims that Obama would raise taxes, the independent Tax Policy Center and other groups conclude that four out of five U.S. households would receive tax cuts under Obama's proposals.


"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."


Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: "It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."


McCain released a television ad Thursday charging that Obama would increase the size of the federal government amid an economic crisis. Contending that "a big government casts a big shadow on us all," the ad features the image of a shadow slowly covering a sleeping baby as a narrator misstates the reach of the Obama tax proposal.


"Obama and his liberal congressional allies want a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork," the ad says. "And we would pay — painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil. Can your family afford that?"


The McCain campaign said the ad is set to run nationally.

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Registered: 06-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:36pm
Yes, those hippies from Bear Stearns, AIG and Lehman Brothers should be ashamed of themselves!!!



I woiuld not have a problem with letting those insitutions collapse if the economic damage to the rest of financial markets could be contained


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Registered: 06-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:37pm

His response: "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" – "Kill them all! Surely the Lord discerns which ones are his".


Thanks for the history behind the remark

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:42pm

Take a break then, you obviously need it since I didn't say squat about anyone firing on anything.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:45pm

I'm all for winning - guess not at the cost of our values and morals.

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:45pm

Hate to break it to you, but you can support your country and military without agreeing with the course

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:51pm
Not according to some on here - I'm waiting to be reported to Michael Chertoff
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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 5:57pm

*** Hate to break it to you, but you can support your country and military without agreeing with the course the government is taking

I know...telling the troops "we support you...just not your mission
...goes down really well with the troops...and according to Biden, you're a patriot if Barry takes more of your hard-earned money and hands it to underachieving waitresses.

*** or the open-ended, wholly unnecessary mission the government has given the military.

Say, that wouldn't be the mission supported by the President, the Congress, the UN and our allies, now would it?

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 8:06pm

I was one of those troops, and I was (and still am) aware enough to recognize worthwhile, necessary missions and those which were folly.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 8:09pm

Yep.

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 8:14pm

This isn't WWII, nor are our enemies of the same nature.