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False! Bipartisan complicity plans destroying America's social contract. Yearend double-dealing left tough issues for 2013.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public pensions, and other benefits are on the chopping block for elimination. A decade from now they may be entirely gone.
The Times and other media scoundrels conceal hard truths. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Ordinary people are scammed.
High income earners have clever lawyers and accountants. Loopholes let them manipulate the tax code advantageously. They pay much less than headline numbers. Others pay it fully.
Decades earlier progressive taxes don't exist. Bipartisan complicity changed nothing. America's top 2% got off easy. Ordinary people are hit hardest. So are those most disadvantaged.
Instead of full and accurate disclosure, The Times turned truth on its head. Planned income inequality will be greater than ever. Progressive policies don't exist.
Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley once said: "We don't pay taxes. Only little people pay" them. Ahead they'll pay a greater proportion than ever. It's the American way.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed .
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