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    Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

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    Gary, would it be ok to you if you personally could not pay that tax, but, by doing so, one kid would starve to death somewhere in Africa?

    Would that be worth 1% of your income?

    I'll answer this one. I'll let 1000 African kids starve to death before I pay 1% more in taxes.

    Don't have kids if you can't feed them.

    Well, your people fcuked them already...

    Just be a good brit and help make the world a better place. Free from poor people...

    Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

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    I don't understand how the dems can make working people love taxes this much.

    Will America have to go broke before Americans realize that big gov't is not that good of an idea?

    Gary, in what universe do you live? We are already broke. People are losing their houses because they can't afford to make their payment. Our economy is plunging into what some are saying is a new depression. And your main man W's tax cuts are not doing anything to help it, in fact, some might say they are one of the causes of it...

    Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

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    The reason I posted this is because it isn't a tax on Americans to help Americans. It is a global tax on America to MANDATE a minimum level of aid to other countries. Not only that, it is a HUGE increase over what we are already giving. This is an example of what we will get if Obama is elected.

    Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.'s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the "Millennium Development Goals," this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

    A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.

    But, Gary, America has been screwing other countries since the fall of the British Empire...

    Most of these people need aid because capitalists in this country fcuked their country's economy.

    Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

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    I'll take a jab at this. I think they've been successful at selling it to working Americans because there is tangible evidence - they feel the pinch every payday, while the benefits of those taxes they pay are intangible or impossible for the average worker to see or feel. Combine it with the ongoing rhetoric of wasteful spending and Americans become disgruntled and disenfranchised with the money they are handing over to Uncle Sam.

    Two candidates, Mike Huckabee and Mike Gravel have proposed a Fair Tax system that I think has a lot of potential. I understand the punitive feel that workers get when our paychecks are reduced from how much we work...and the more we work, we pay more. I'm all for a tax system which is linked to consumption rather than productivity.

    What I don't get is why won't the people, instead of complaining they are paying too much taxes, demand public services to be better. I am not talking about socialist ####### like universal healthcare. I am talking about basic sh!t, like bridges not collapsing while people are crossing them. Minnesota was all tax cuts before that happened, 5 days later that douche Pawlenty increased taxes to help rebuild the bridge...

    Tax cuts are targeted to the top 1% earners, not to the middle class.

    Obama Poised to Extend His Streak Over Clinton

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    WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama appeared poised to continue his winning streak on Tuesday evening, as the television news networks and The Associated Press projected that he would win the Virginia Democratic primary, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    The polls closed in Virginia at 7 p.m. and returns were just starting to come in.

    On the Republican side, Senator John McCain was locked in a competitive race with Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, for Virginia’s vote.

    Maryland and the District of Columbia are also holding primaries for both parties, and the polls there close at 8 p.m.

    Voters on both the Democratic and Republican sides cited the economy as the biggest issue. Among the Republicans, Senator John McCain was seeking to counter recent victories by Mr. Huckabee. Even though Mr. Huckabee is highly unlikely to secure the nomination, he has said he will remain in the race until Mr. McCain gains enough delegates to lock it in.

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