What about the issues

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
What about the issues
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Thu, 09-11-2008 - 5:33pm

I read pages, and pages, of he said she said BUT every little about issues. Why is this?? Are the issues not important or have we become puppets in this presidential election?? I would like to think that we, as adults, are mature enough to focus on this issues for a change. So, with that said, what is the biggest ISSUE that concerns you in this election??



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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 12:10pm


1) If you look at your own article, you'll note that Obama is raising income taxes for some.


2) If you go to Obama's website, you'll notice that he's raising Social Security taxes without any increase in benefits.


So, this very same thing was done to the lower and middle class tax payers under the Reagan Administration.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-09-2007
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 12:59pm

War - no new ones, do what we can to end the current ones, including the war on drugs (by the way - convince more Afghanis to grow wheat instead of poppies.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 1:20pm

mom, there is one fundemental difference between Obama's plan and what happened under Reagan.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 1:31pm

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:17am

A worker's retirement income benefit is based on his Primary Insurance Amount, or PIA. The PIA is the average of the highest 35 years of the worker's covered earnings (before deduction for FICA). Covered earnings in any year are limited by that year's Social Security Wage Base, the maximum earnings that could be subject to the OASDI portion of FICA payroll tax ($102,000 in 2008 ).


Therefore, you are only being taxed on the portion of your compensation on which you earn benefits.


Obama will change this, subjecting all income to social security, but not increasing the amount on which you earn benefits.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:59am

A few of the places where I agree with your goal but not with your ideas about achieving them:


1. National Security:

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 10:00am

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 6:27pm

You're right, amd, we do disagree on some things... ;-)


National Security - I agree that we should never have gotten into Iraq, and I agree that we need to get out, but I think we need to leave a stable government behind.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-14-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:18pm
Brilliant! Honored to have you defending me!
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-14-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:24pm
Well it's not fair. It's an expansion of the welfare system. That's not what we need.

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