Earlier this week, President Obama called for even higher taxes on wealthy Americans in the future to tackle our massive debt and deficit problems even after hiking taxes on 77 percent of Americans in the fiscal cliff deal. Now, ethics challenged Rep. Maxine Waters, who is now the second most powerful member on the House Banking Committee, is following in Obama's footsteps by calling for further soaking of the rich through taxes on Ed Schultz's radio show. Laughably, Waters also suggests the massive cost of Social Security and Medicare can be offset by taxing the rich, even though confiscating...
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restoreliberty Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 12:51 PM
You think they don't pay taxes on their assets???? Please enlighten us all and provide a list of non-taxed assets so that we can all make more informed investment decisions.
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DEMShavenoSHAME Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 1:47 PM
Clearly BG is saying that Oblamo didn't tax assets additionally. Grow a f*cking brain, restoreliberty.
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