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    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
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    Crunching the numbers at the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, analyst Michael Linden found that if one compares the cost of tax cuts in just the first four years of Bush’s term (2001–04) to the first four years of Obama's (2009–12), Obama’s tax cuts are bigger. The value of the Bush tax cuts were about $475 billion in those first four years, or about 1.1 percent of GDP. Obama’s total about $1 trillion, or 1.6 percent of GDP.



    Obama has cut taxes to lower levels than Bush did, says Linden. This is because, of course, Obama thus far has extended all of the Bush tax cuts and then cut taxes on top of that. His original stimulus bill in 2009 had $290 billion in Making Work Pay tax cuts. His speech Thursday night before Congress advocated for another $175 billion in payroll tax cuts, which come on top of $110 billion from last December’s budget deal. Speeded-up expensing for business adds another $10 billion or so.
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    but but but but ... Barry's a socialist communist Muslim anti-American foreigner!

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    he's trying to turn this country into the UK though...

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    Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Viva Las Espuelas's Avatar
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    Isn't it obvious that a person with emphysema should cut back on smoking compared to when he/she didn't have emphysema?????? Too hard a concept?

    Oh and would the same responses happen here if The Heritage Foundation "crunched" the numbers to find the opposite then reported on Drudge?

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    dangerous floater Winehole23's Avatar
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    Are you capable of making a direct point? I see none there, VLE.

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    I am that guy RandomGuy's Avatar
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    Are you capable of making a direct point? I see none there, VLE.
    His point was to play the victim card.

    Liberals have the race card, conservatives have the victim card.

    Both get overused.

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    I am that guy RandomGuy's Avatar
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    Isn't it obvious that a person with emphysema should cut back on smoking compared to when he/she didn't have emphysema?????? Too hard a concept?

    Oh and would the same responses happen here if The Heritage Foundation "crunched" the numbers to find the opposite then reported on Drudge?
    Yer just butthurt 'cause its true.








    HA!

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    Yer just butthurt 'cause its true.








    HA!
    I never said it wasn't true, Professor. Please show me where I did.
    To break it down, the smoking would be "taxes" and the "emphysema" is the economy.

    And how in the am I the victim when he's cutting taxes? Do people prefer buying items with or without taxes on it???????

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    Are you capable of making a direct point? I see none there, VLE.
    Oh well.

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