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Kaine: 'I Would Be Open to a Proposal to Have Some Minimum Tax Level for Everyone' (Video at Link)
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Posted on 09/20/2012 10:26:22 AM PDT by Perdogg

Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine, a Democrat, said that he's open to having a "minimum tax level for everyone":

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: allen2012; bullshirt; kaine; redistribution; taqquitaqqui; va2012; words
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To: GeronL
even the poorest pay sales taxes

and cigarette tax

41 posted on 09/20/2012 11:42:58 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Perdogg
Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine, a Democrat, said that he's open to having a "minimum tax level for everyone,"

until after I win the election by tricking enough of you red-state rubes to vote for me, he though with a wry smile on his face, noticing at the same time President's hand slowly moving down his back to rest at his butt crack.
42 posted on 09/20/2012 11:47:28 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Perdogg
Anybody who thinks that "the poor don't pay taxes," doesn't know what they are talking about. The poor pay taxes in the goods they buy (you know, the ones that corporations "pass on to consumers"). They pay property taxes in their rent. They pay sales taxes. They pay taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. They pay gas taxes.

The poor just don't know how much they are paying. That way, they get to think that what they are getting from the government is "free." It is politically very useful to the fat cat limousine liberals that run the Slave Party, while still keeping the poor on the plantation.

In fact, the poor may pay a higher fraction of their income in taxes than do extremely wealthy people who hide their income in corporate expenses, tax exempt foundations, and offshore.

The Stupid Party has TOTALLY failed to communicate these facts to the public, playing the chump while feeding the Slave Party game of class warfare. It is a huge political opportunity to do such an analysis and they are so stuck in this fantasy Hegelian dialectic they can't even recognize it.

43 posted on 09/20/2012 11:49:44 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: marron

Flat tax or NRST would do that.


44 posted on 09/20/2012 11:51:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: KansasGirl

A progressive tax is unbiblical, and therefore against the moral law.

Biblical taxation was basically a head tax and everyone paid the same.


45 posted on 09/20/2012 11:53:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Carry_Okie

The point is that anyone that doesn’t pay a specific category of tax will be in favor of raising the rate of that category to keep the rate lower in the category that he DOES pay.


46 posted on 09/20/2012 11:55:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Perdogg

Everyone should have some skin in the game — including the poor. Even if it is just a token amount, but enough to give them pause when they hear promises of more government spending.

We’d have a much smaller government now if *everyone* had to ask himself, How much will this great new government program increase my taxes?


47 posted on 09/20/2012 11:55:46 AM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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To: MrB
The point is that anyone that doesn’t pay a specific category of tax will be in favor of raising the rate of that category to keep the rate lower in the category that he DOES pay.

I understood the point perfectly. It's a misleading idea.

48 posted on 09/20/2012 12:00:46 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: marron

I would like to see such a tax on every dollar above poverty level. Easy-peasy, no other deductions, exemptions or credits.


49 posted on 09/20/2012 12:01:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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To: Perdogg
Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine, a Democrat, said that he's open to having a "minimum tax level for everyone."

Mr. Kaine, please say "hello" to the Alternative Minimum Tax, which is already a part of the Internal Revenue Code.

In short, we do not need your idea, and since you are the person who offered an idea we already have as a part of the status quo, we don't need you, either. You are the weakest link. Goodbye!
50 posted on 09/20/2012 12:01:37 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; marron

And it has to be a LOW flat tax, say 10 or 15 percent.


51 posted on 09/20/2012 12:04:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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To: MrB

Hope Romney prepars for the question of whether he supports taxing the 47% who pay no taxes. No doubt, this was a setup for that question to be asked. Obama will have his focused group answer ready. I expect Obama to have access to all the debate questions, and to have focused grouped answers ready for all of them. The moderator’s job will be to protect Obama and smear Romney.


52 posted on 09/20/2012 12:04:58 PM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Perdogg

Tax the Poor! Doesn’t sound like Timmy’s campaign is in the best of shape to me, how about you?


53 posted on 09/20/2012 12:10:35 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: GeronL

If working they also pay SS taxes or at least they used to.

If living in a home they, at least indirectly, pay property taxes as well.


54 posted on 09/20/2012 12:13:06 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Actually this is a great opportunity for the Republicans.

Increasing taxes on ANYONE in the middle of the Greater Depression is a disastrous idea.

It also is confirmation of the truth of Romney’s 47% remark.


55 posted on 09/20/2012 12:17:25 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Perdogg

Kaine is trying to triangulate. He wants to try and appeal to everyone.

Problem is, the key words are “pay taxes.” He wants everyone to pay more taxes and that is not the issue. The issue is the spending.

Yes, many more people should have a stake in this country and not be given hand outs as a method to buy their votes and keep them on the ‘reservation.”

But there’s not enough taxes to be had, even at 100%, to fund the type of spending the Democrats and progressives are proposing...and they are doing that with a will with the idea of fundamentally tearing down our free market society and building a command economy on its ashes.

That’s what we have to address...and we’d best be quick about it.

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/crossroads.htm


56 posted on 09/20/2012 12:21:24 PM PDT by Jeff Head ( Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: ctdonath2

How’s life in Fairy Tale Land? La, la, la Blue skies, Free Pie, no need for government because all the People are perfect in Fairy Tale Land.

Hysterical.


57 posted on 09/20/2012 12:21:32 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Totally wrong. It is TAXES which is the most significant impact of government with the people. Spending is too theoretical without the visceral impact of taxation.
58 posted on 09/20/2012 12:24:44 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: KansasGirl

I should stop wasting my time and read the thread before commenting. Your post is almost exactly what I posted.


59 posted on 09/20/2012 12:27:30 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Carry_Okie

You have to admit that the Republicans have playing the chump down to perfection.


60 posted on 09/20/2012 12:30:03 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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