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Bad Dems!

Posted by linkmeister on 30 January 2012, 2:58 pm

Class warfare! Whitehouse boiled down the proposal into one line: “If your income is over 1 million, multiply it by 0.3, and if that number is bigger than you’d otherwise be paying, pay that.” That’s how he describes the bill he’s introducing in the Senate this week. It has the advantage of being simple, doesn’t …

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