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mvscal wrote:The Peace Corps and Americorps are welfare programs. ..

Originally, the peace corps was intended to be a haven for draft dodging pussies like Chris Matthews. It isn't even that worthwhile anymore.

"Community Service"? WTF? Isn't that something a judge sentences you to for shoplifting? Oh, but the progressives (you know, the ones who brought us the Volstad Act) want to make community service universal- and mandatory.

Good holy fuck, at least the military draft had the advantage of conscripting people into one of the few constitutional governmental functions there are.

mvscal wrote:True enough. JFK would be the far right candidate in this election.

I laughed. The changes Obama is proposing are baby steps compared to what JFK called for.

And McCain supports making permanent tax cuts that give 42% of their benefits to the wealthiest 1%. Kennedy's tax cuts gave only 6% of the benefits to the wealthiest 1%.

The larger point is that not knowing what the fuck he was talking about and not even knowing what he was saying didn't stop Obigot from flapping his over-inflated lips.

mvscal wrote:

Terry in Crapchester wrote:And McCain supports making permanent tax cuts that give 42% of their benefits to the wealthiest 1%.

McCain voted against Bush's tax cuts, you fucking tard.

Doesn't matter. At this point he wants to make them permanent. In fact, at this point you might as well say that McCain = Bush. It's at least as honest as Obama = Wright.

Btw, on the topic of Kennedy being to the right of McCain = Bush, I'm pretty sure that Kennedy didn't consider the New Deal to be "socialism."

In any event, the wealthiest 1% are the ones who are paying the largest share of income taxes so of course they're going to receive the biggest breaks.

So only the wealthiest 1% are paying income taxes?

Remember, the comparison was to Kennedy's tax cuts. At the time of Kennedy's tax cuts, the highest marginal tax rate was 90% (compared to 39.6% immediately before the Bush tax cuts). And it goes without saying that the wealthiest 1% were doing better viz. the rest of us in 2001 than they were in 1962.

mvscal wrote: The top 5% pays 50% of all income tax...

What a ridiculous fucking argument.

If I swindled you, or stole all your money and bought a luxury car and you couldn't buy anything, I'm the one who'd be
carrying the greater tax burden and investing more in the domestic economy, right?

Oh, the poor robber-barons! How their hands must callous from carrying off all your money bags!

Martyred wrote:
Oh, the poor robber-barons! How their hands must callous from carrying off all your money bags!

The Kennedys and the Rockefellers are the only robber barons we have left- and they're DemocRats, imo

Cuda wrote:

Martyred wrote:
Oh, the poor robber-barons! How their hands must callous from carrying off all your money bags!

The Kennedys and the Rockefellers are the only robber barons we have left- and they're DemocRats, imo

What the fuck do I care if they're Democrats? The distance they drop on the gallows shouldn't be any shorter because
they promised poor people a scrap of bread.

Stand a Democrat in front of a Republican on the firing squad. Save a bullet.