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Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to... by aczerepinski on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:35PM (#20664909)
The alternative is to not do the tax cuts.
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Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to... by megaremote on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:08PM (#20665564)
Or target the tax cuts at the poor who will spend it on goods and services.
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Re:Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to... by sokoloff on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:49PM (#20665705)
44% of people already don't pay any federal income tax. I wouldn't call it a tax cut to give someone already paying zero (or less) an even greater share of the treasury.
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