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We've been in a recession since 2001, some call that a Depression

A tiny little tax cut for the middle class and a gigantic tax break for the rich isn't going to help us. What will help is an increase in taxes for the oil corporations and the super rich oil robber barons.

There They Go Again

America is going through another Republican ruled economic cycle since 2000 ( actually since the Reagan years ) have already cut tax's and ran up a national dept and trade deficit of biblical proportions. They fond an excuse to go to war again to feed the military industrial/intelligence complex. A payroll wagon in the trillions of dollars. The rich just keep on getting richer instead of being the well to do to create jobs here. They will only take the tax cuts an invest it in other countries that promote slave labor with no environmental laws. When the unemployment rate ticks up the Republicans have the audacity to claim that tax cuts will let the rich invest to create more jobs when history shows that the Clinton Administration in the 90's raised taxes on the rich. That kept the national debt down allowing the Federal Reserve Board to keep interest rates low. The rest was history in that America experienced the best economic boom in post war history.

Regards James Daher —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.24.11.171 (talk) 19:45, 18 January 2008 (UTC)