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2017-12-06 Home Front: Politix

Economist Larry Summers predicts 10,000 will die per year due to tax reform

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Summers, a top official in both the Clinton and Obama administrations,

Talk about damning with faint praise!
Since one of the principles of Environmentalism is that there are too many people, this is good, right?

Also, do we get to vote on who gets it?

Posted by SteveS 2017-12-06 00:31|| 2017-12-06 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 And obamacare?

Posted by newc 2017-12-06 00:44|| 2017-12-06 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 If they are going to die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.

Oh wait... socialism does that.

Well carry on then!

Posted by DarthVader 2017-12-06 01:15|| 2017-12-06 01:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Taxes kill me every year.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-06 02:24|| 2017-12-06 02:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this guy a pathologist all of a sudden? Do us a favor, Larry - go fuck yourself and go cost Harvard another $18 billion.

Posted by Raj 2017-12-06 03:29|| 2017-12-06 03:29|| Front Page Top

#6 That's the guy who was thrown from Harvard for saying men and women are different?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-06 03:55|| 2017-12-06 03:55|| Front Page Top

#7 That's him, in all his glory.

Posted by Raj 2017-12-06 04:00|| 2017-12-06 04:00|| Front Page Top

#8 My mistake - he only cost Harvard $1.8 billion, not $18 billion. Carry on...

Posted by Raj 2017-12-06 04:02|| 2017-12-06 04:02|| Front Page Top

#9 If those who die are die-hard leftists pained at the thought that the Makers are keeping more of their money, then I hope the number is woefully under-estimated.

Posted by Ptah 2017-12-06 08:12|| 2017-12-06 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 We'd all live forever if only we were taxed enough.

Posted by regular joe 2017-12-06 08:22|| 2017-12-06 08:22|| Front Page Top

#11 If the Donks passed this tax bill, they'd all be high-fiving each and calling it a victory. The MSM would put this in their echo chamber and report about how cmpassionate the Donks are and how many lives they have saved.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-06 16:36|| 2017-12-06 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 DC is not a swamp, it is a hive of the mentally ill.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-12-06 18:57|| 2017-12-06 18:57|| Front Page Top

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