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Ian62

(604 posts)
17. What is the new tax rate on Carried Interest?
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 12:11 PM
Jan 2013

I support drastic reductions in military spending and Corporate welfare.

I support better living standards for the poor and middle classes.

I support better job prospects for all Americans.

I support addressing the balance between record Corporate profits and 40 year lows in real median wages and rapidly increasing poverty. The trend needs reversing - dramatically.

I support social mobility. America has one of the worst records of social mobility anywhere in the developed world.
http://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf See chart on page 187

I support wealth creation and a wide distribution of that wealth.

I support a thriving middle class.

I am against pre-emptive war. I advocate a Jeffersonian foreign policy.

I support making Healthcare in America more efficient and affordable.

I am against the farcical prohibition of drugs which costs US taxpayers $200bn a year and massively increases criminality, corruption and violence on the streets. And it creates more hard drug addicts.

I am against the class warfare justice system. The poor can get 20 years jail time for minor drugs possession. When was the last time you heard of a Wall St banker getting jailed for snorting cocaine?

I am against the banks being above the law.
I am in favor of reinstating Glass-Steagal and the big banks getting broken up.
I believe the banks should be prosecuted for their frauds and money laundering and top execs should get long stretches of hard jail time for their crimes.

I am against large multinationals getting tax breaks, when small and medium businesses do not. There should be a level playing field.

I am against Oligarchies.

I support drastic Campaign Finance Reform.
I support getting money out of politics.
I am against the system of lobbying and the revolving door between government, lobbyists and big business.

These are some of the things I support and are against.

What do you support?











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