Daily Topics - Friday November 9th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: Stage 4...the cancer stage of a superpower
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It seems that the Republicans gained in the House due to redistricting (I lament that Democrats allowed the gerrymandering by sitting out in 2010 ), in spite of a slightly higher number of votes for Democrats overall. I guess we could use a more objective districting system.
#3
The Republicans didn't gain on the house, they lost a few seats. I agree, though in that, by sitting out, they were allowed free reign to redistrict. They would perhaps lost the house were this not so.
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Easy refutation of the Republican tax lie. A quick google search will reveal that the average profit per worker in the U S is 15000 dollars. So the republicans say that if we raise the to tax rate 3%, they will have to let people go. If you have a business that takes on 450000 dollars profit every year, that would raise your taxes 6000$ from what it its right now. So, say you let someone go, to save the 6000$. You have now deprived yourself of 9000$,(15000-6000) profit. How bad of a business man do you have to be to do that?