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    "title": "Raise These Taxes On The Rich",
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    "created": "2012-11-20 02:51:59 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>[C]all for an end to the deductibility of mortgage interest above $500,000.\u00c2\u00a0 The burden of paying this new tax would mostly fall on people who live in high cost \u00e2\u0080\u009cBlue\u00e2\u0080\u009d states and other wealthy swells who live in districts that voted overwhelmingly for Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 The next order of business would be to reinstate\u00c2\u00a0 the excess profits tax on the \u00c2\u00a0Hollywood\u00e2\u0080\u0099s movie and entertainment industry.\u00c2\u00a0 Make the Democrats defend Kim Kardashian over local small business people.\u00c2\u00a0 Continue with the theme of excess profits taxes and go after another unpopular sector of American society: lawyers.\u00c2\u00a0 Tax contingency fees for legal judgments over $10 million and force Democrats to defend their rich lawyer allies. Finally, end the deductibility of local and state taxes so that the vast majority of Americans in lower tax states are not forced to subsidize the reckless and profligate spending of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cBlue\u00e2\u0080\u009d state politicians and public employee unions.\u00c2\u00a0 If they want to persist with bankrupting their states, that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fine, but the rest of us don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t need to help fund it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I mean, if you really want to hit the rich, hit the ones that are your political opponents, right?  Cia <em><a href=\"http://conservativetopten.com/?p=3248\">Waging A Scorched Earth Political War Over the Fiscal Cliff | Alan Charles Itzkoff \u00e2\u0080\u0093 the Conservative Top 10</a></em>.</p>\n"
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