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Upward Mobility Barriers

19Kilo Wrote: Sep 05, 2012 12:37 AM
Yet as a group, blacks vote Democrat and support the same unions that tried to keep them from getting ahead. Get off the government plantation already. If folks looked at history, they'd likely see that the Republican Party has been the party that has been trying to liberate them and help them to get ahead.
thinker7 Wrote: Sep 05, 2012 7:21 AM
Obama took 3/4 of a trillion dollars from Medicare - and Dems are laughing that nobody will believe in it -
decades of lib lies work. Goebbels to full extent.

Let's pretend that we have the political guts to expand economic opportunities for people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. What vested interests should be attacked, and what economic regulations should be targeted for elimination? It doesn't take a lot of money to become a taxi owner-operator and earn more than $40,000 a year. One needs a car, an insurance policy and ancillary interior equipment to make a car a taxi. In New York City, to be a taxi owner you'd have to purchase a license -- called a medallion -- that in June 2012 cost $704,000. New...

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