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• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • That's not true. The tax cuts primarily when to the people who actually pay taxes. This upper 2 percent is that group.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • Well, when you give people money, yes, you must rely on trust of business. The governement will never be able to completely create this false world of 100 percent government guaranteed trust, and in many cases it actually makes things worse.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • IF we compare the Busha and Obama deficits, there is no comparison, obama is the bigger borrower. SO what's your point?

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • There are other alternatives besides obamacare or NO. You people just don't listen to the alternatives.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • It achieves that gain due to creative accounting meant to game the CBO. THe CBO has to evaluate the bill as it stands. They don't count potential cost overruns, or pieces of the bill peeled off into separate bills. The CBO posts huge caveats at the beginning and end of that report.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • You might pay a higher percentage in taxes, but I'm sure that the benefits you receive are much higher as a percentage of your income also. Bill gates might drive on the public roads, but his taxes pay for the building of more roads than he alone could possibly drive on.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • That supreme court decision had nothing to do with campaign donations. It was about whether or not a corporation (in this case a non profit corporate entity) had the right to produce a movie expressing an opinion too close to election time.

• Best. Graph. Ever. (Modified)

  Thu Mar 4, 2010
  • Republicans aren't libertarians. This graph is amazingly misleading. I don't recall a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit. That projection for the healthcare bill is also misleading as most of the costs won't occur for a few more years.