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How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Bill in NC - 12-06-2008
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/economy/tully_vat.fortune/index.htm
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Gutenberg - 12-06-2008
That is so NOT going to happen. It's political suicide.
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - mattkime - 12-06-2008
left pocket or right pocket?
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - karsen - 12-06-2008
Like we need to complicate our tax system even more.
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Doc - 12-06-2008
All it'll take to derail that is one right-winger standing up on the floor of Congress and calling it "the French tax."
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - swampy - 12-06-2008
Has Congress ever considered cutting spending?
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Ted King - 12-07-2008
swampy wrote:
Has Congress ever considered cutting spending?
There was this time when some congresspersons tried to stop a big new expenditure, but the proponents lied about the necessity for it and what its eventual costs would be, so the opponents of this big new expenditure were outvoted. And then there was a war.
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Mac1337 - 12-07-2008
Next time you are in Paris and pay $5 for a can of Coke remember VAT and their wacky tax system. There is a segment of people who for some reason are constantly fantasizing about making America look more like Europe. Form cars, to houses, to price of gas and now this.
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - mattkime - 12-07-2008
>>Next time you are in Paris and pay $5 for a can of Coke remember VAT and their wacky tax system.
And their efficient health care system?
Re: How we'll be paying for the bailouts - Wags - 12-07-2008
Dakota wrote:
Next time you are in Paris and pay $5 for a can of Coke remember VAT and their wacky tax system. There is a segment of people who for some reason are constantly fantasizing about making America look more like Europe. Form cars, to houses, to price of gas and now this.
Yes, heaven forbid! Next thing you know they'll make us have universal health care and access to higher education. Those dreadful Euros and their wacky tax. Cheeze whiz was good enough for my pop and its good enough for me. Of course, we should subsidize the necessities, like Coke, because, my God, $5 for a can! One can, and not even supersized? The horror! I suppose we'll have to start measuring them in liters, too. Humiliating. Next thing, we'll have to spell it litre. Like, that's so totally unAmerican. (but maybe not Pepsi because they're a little socialisty).