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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Barry Obamba will inspire a republican revolution ala the Clinton.
You would be electing the most liberal senator in America by voting record,where by non-partisan rankings he had the most liberal and party-line votes in 2007 ( NPR: Obama Ranked Most Liberal Senator in 2007) |
THe CQ survey includes many caveats in their rating system that you fail to mention....take the time and look at the source.
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-Health insurance will be shifted permanently to the realm of the federal government for millions of Americans.
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The 75% of those with health insurance provided by their employer will not be affected....they will not be shifted to the federal government.
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-With Congress it will be safe to assume the Private business sector will somehow be effected, whether by more regulation, or taxes... possibly both, we'll see how that will help the current situation.
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Deregulation sure worked out well for the banking/investment industries.
Taxing business who shift their employment base overseas sounds like a good plan to me. Giving Exon Mobile and the other oil companies another $13 billion in tax cuts (as would happen under McCain's plan) sounds like a bad idea to me.
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-The resurrection of the union, Employee Free Choice Act will get rid of private balloting for unions. It will also tinker with the arbitration process, and affect business by opening the possibility to unionization without proper support. WSJ columnist claims its the biggest pro-union shift since 1935 Wagner Act.
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The Employee Free Choice Act does not mandate the end to private balloting. It does prohibit employers from making it mandatory for employees to attend anti-union meetings.
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-Taxes... Obamba will raise the income, dividends, and capital gains taxes for those in the aforementioned top bracket. How do you think that will affect investment in America, especially new investment? He wants to lift, possibily eliminate the cap on income subject to payroll taxes that fund social security and medicare.
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Obama will end the Bush tax cuts that are sunsetted by law in 2010...and replace them with more targeted tax cuts to the middle class and not the top brackets.
On the increase in the payroll tax, his proposal is to consider a 2% on income over $200,000 starting in 2015.
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-Going Green. Tax and regulation for climate control. I wonder how that could affect businesses and jobs.
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Stimulating green industry produces jobs.
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-On voting, same day registration, I don't really think that is that big of a deal. Awhile back I remember people getting all pissy about Texas shifting their voting zones, apparently to favor the republican party, with Obama and Dem's you could see congressional representation for D.C., presumably all Democrat.
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What I hope we will see is full voting representation in the House for the 500,000 residents of DC.....I guess you support "taxation without representation." There is no intent to give DC a Senator. I dont know you mean by "an all Democratic delegation for DC"...we're talking one Representative who currently has voting rights in committee but not on the floor of the House...and in the current bill in Congress...that one would be offset initially by adding a Representative to Utah, presumably Republican.
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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
I'll add more later
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I'll look forward to it!