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   Steve Heller said on 8/13/2010 @ 9:57am PT: [Permalink]

   And that repub. plan will add $36 billion to the deficit. GOP plan to extend tax cuts for rich adds $36 billion to deficit, panel finds

   Yeah, the repubs are fiscal conservatives. Until they’re not.

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   Brad Friedman said on 8/13/2010 @ 4:48pm PT: [Permalink]

   Actually, I think you’re low-balling that number, Steve. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to go fetch the details 🙁

   Life on the road… sigh…

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   Nunyabiz said on 8/13/2010 @ 8:19pm PT: [Permalink]

   That is $36 Billion PER YEAR Brad and that is just the part for the top 2% only.
   The entire Bush tax cuts is around $250 Billion a year.

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   katie said on 8/16/2010 @ 6:10am PT: [Permalink]

   Hi Brad,

   I saw this eye popping chart and Ezra Klein’s intro on the Aug 12th Rachel Maddow’s show:

   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/263...show/#38685229

   the 7 minute segment is titled: ‘Republican tax plan smiles on millionaires’

   unfortunately less than something like .001% of the population probably watched the thursday night’s show.

   It seems the American public, the media and the elected Dem officials are in a coma in general. The rightwing religious and just crazy conservatives are laughing all the way to the bank and they could care less if their brand new spanking new shiny RangeRovers, Lexus SUV’s, BMW’s, and whatever SUV they’re hogging up the road with runs over the less fortunate in our economy. They could really care less in general and they want to keep it that way.

   sigh

   Brad so sorry I’m so broke and can’t afford to donate. I would never have guessed it would take me so long to find a full time job making less than half of what I was making in 2008.

   keep up the great work.

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   Seth said on 8/16/2010 @ 10:52pm PT: [Permalink]

   Katie, of course it’s easy to criticize Republicans giving tax cuts to the rich, because you’re poor and you don’t know what its like to have the government take half your money to get it to people who don’t want to work.

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   Liberal said on 8/17/2010 @ 4:13am PT: [Permalink]

   Seth, the fact that you assume anyone and everyone below middle class are people who “don’t want to work” not only shows that you have no idea how capitalism works, but it does absolutely nothing for your cause. You deserve to have all of your money taken away.

   And PS, I most likely make more money than you do.

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   anOPINIONATEDsob said on 8/17/2010 @ 4:19am PT: [Permalink]

   This and the current depression prove positive that the only thing that trickled down from Ronnie and the Bush gang was warm, wet, and slightly yellow in color ! H,mmm yellow just like that war hero W the morons selected to run U S in the ground.

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   mie said on 8/17/2010 @ 12:09pm PT: [Permalink]

   Good go, you can’t get much more disingenuous than this. Manipulating or showing only part of the data is no different than lying.

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   Brad Friedman said on 8/18/2010 @ 7:38am PT: [Permalink]

   Mie @ 8 said:

   Good go, you can’t get much more disingenuous than this. Manipulating or showing only part of the data is no different than lying.

   Um, okay. I’ll bite. What “part of the data” is being “manipulated” or shown only in “part” here?

   Thanks in advance for letting me know!