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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	I love it
	Date:	1/2/2013 10:38:10 PM (updated 1/2/2013 10:40:44 PM)

when you take it on your broad shoulders to define what I believe for me. I guess it doesn't matter if I have expressed a different belief on many occasions. You explain for my benefit that I want to raise taxes on upper income earners to punish success rather than to improve our fiscal situation. In a posting string several days ago I asked a reasonable question about what' as of last night, is now reality. You spouted all the T party and Grover talking points but steadfastly refused to answer in a way that made any sense. Well, I did answer it (as did WW)...I would have preferred, and still do, that all taxes should revert to the rates in 2000* (I suspect you did pretty well in the Clinton years even with those onerous taxes). Yep...raise'em for all of us. That would increase revenues by 5 trillion over the next 10 years. That combined with sensible spending cuts in all areas including the military and reform of all entitlements including gradually raising the medicare age to 67 (Reagan and the democratic congress did it with Social Security in 1983). We had a chance to end the deficit in 3 years but were too stupid to take it.

* You, oh lover of facts, try google or the BLS to compare for yourself the FACTS of economic growth, employment growth, and stock market growth between 1993 and 2000 with all those onerous taxes which were forecast by Gingrich, Gramm et al to send us into depression vs 2001 and 2008 after the tax cuts which we were told would bring us economic nirvana. And BTW, it is a FACT that
if we completely ended all discretionary spending in all areas other than the military and kept taxes at the pre Jan 1 rates we would still have a yearly deficit of over 500 billion dollars.

Now in closing...basing some opinions on emotion is called being a human being. MM you are an adding machine!!