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	<title>Comments on: Gov. Perdue: Georgia Can&#8217;t Afford Supply-Side Economics During The Recession</title>
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		<title>By: TAMER</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thank you. Beatifull Archile !<br />
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		<title>By: Don't Be A Jackass</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don't Be A Jackass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In response to NOLIESPLEASE (21) who wrote:

&lt;em&gt;&quot;I hear somolia has the lowest tax rates in the world...$0.00.&lt;/em&gt;

That figure is not true.   In Somolia, direct taxes are imposed on income and profits, when officials can collect them. Tax rates on wages and salaries ranged from 0% to &lt;strong&gt;18.9%&lt;/strong&gt;. Income from trade and the professions was taxed at rates of &lt;strong&gt;up to 35&lt;/strong&gt;%. Indirect taxes are imposed on imports, exports, mortgages, vehicle registration, sugar, alcohol, and a number of other goods and services. In 2003, Somolia&#039;s sales tax rate was 10%. 

Source: http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Somalia.html

NOLIESPLEASE, You are welcome for the correction.  Next time please try not to tell a lie and base your argument on facts instead of hearsay.  It just makes you look ignorant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to NOLIESPLEASE (21) who wrote:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I hear somolia has the lowest tax rates in the world&#8230;$0.00.</em></p>
<p>That figure is not true.   In Somolia, direct taxes are imposed on income and profits, when officials can collect them. Tax rates on wages and salaries ranged from 0% to <strong>18.9%</strong>. Income from trade and the professions was taxed at rates of <strong>up to 35</strong>%. Indirect taxes are imposed on imports, exports, mortgages, vehicle registration, sugar, alcohol, and a number of other goods and services. In 2003, Somolia&#8217;s sales tax rate was 10%. </p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Somalia.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Somalia.html</a></p>
<p>NOLIESPLEASE, You are welcome for the correction.  Next time please try not to tell a lie and base your argument on facts instead of hearsay.  It just makes you look ignorant.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5641235', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Don't Be A Jackass</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don't Be A Jackass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John F. Kennedy once said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;A rising tide lifts all boats.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Unfortunatly the &quot;tide&quot; that he was refering to in his analogy for the economy has now become a tidal wave of socialism that will capsize and sink the all of the &quot;boats&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John F. Kennedy once said <strong>&#8220;A rising tide lifts all boats.&#8221;</strong> Unfortunatly the &#8220;tide&#8221; that he was refering to in his analogy for the economy has now become a tidal wave of socialism that will capsize and sink the all of the &#8220;boats&#8221;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5641165', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Robert M.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Indeed, supply-side tax cuts tilted towards big business and the wealthy are anti-stimulative during a deep recession, and do not lead to appreciable gains in revenue for cash-starved budgets.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

When are these lies going to be recognized as lies concealed behind some slight-of-economic-formula-hand and die?

Reducing taxes does not stimulate economic activity. Economic activity is stimulated by the opportunity to make a decent product or provide a decent service that people want to buy at a price that yields a decent profit causes people to start a business. But it is up to the jobs that are created to actually stimulate the economy.

People who have needs AND money to spend expands the economy.

Paper profits on Wall Street derivatives are no indication of economic growth.

Just look at the recent bailouts; questionable Wall Street practices and products are a drain on the economy, and everyone who made a profit on Wall Street over the last 10 years should be charged a surtax to repay the Public Treasury for the harm they caused.

Reducing capital gains taxes encourages idleness in the midst of the ranks of the wealthy, and idle minds that create schemes leading to troubles for the rest of us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Indeed, supply-side tax cuts tilted towards big business and the wealthy are anti-stimulative during a deep recession, and do not lead to appreciable gains in revenue for cash-starved budgets.</p></blockquote>
<p>When are these lies going to be recognized as lies concealed behind some slight-of-economic-formula-hand and die?</p>
<p>Reducing taxes does not stimulate economic activity. Economic activity is stimulated by the opportunity to make a decent product or provide a decent service that people want to buy at a price that yields a decent profit causes people to start a business. But it is up to the jobs that are created to actually stimulate the economy.</p>
<p>People who have needs AND money to spend expands the economy.</p>
<p>Paper profits on Wall Street derivatives are no indication of economic growth.</p>
<p>Just look at the recent bailouts; questionable Wall Street practices and products are a drain on the economy, and everyone who made a profit on Wall Street over the last 10 years should be charged a surtax to repay the Public Treasury for the harm they caused.</p>
<p>Reducing capital gains taxes encourages idleness in the midst of the ranks of the wealthy, and idle minds that create schemes leading to troubles for the rest of us.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637957', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: CParis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t this the same republitard who organized a prayer virgil at the state capitol to pray for rain?

Fools!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t this the same republitard who organized a prayer virgil at the state capitol to pray for rain?</p>
<p>Fools!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637921', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bluebayou2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;NoRantingTommy Says: 
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I wish Atlanta could secede from GA. It is an island of progress in a sea of stupidity.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Not so, Tommy.  Everyone in the rest of the state knows all too well that Atlanta is the economic engine of the state, witness the large bank here about to go under because of its gambles on your Real Estate.  And we aren&#039;t raving with the stupid either.

For that matter, Perdue. not from Atlanta or environs, gets a lot of grief when, in fact, all along he has been more moderate and sane and rational than those idiots in the State legislature, a large number of whom hail from those infamous Atlanta suburbs, which have put the patent on conservative.  After all, where is the Newt&#039;s original stomping grounds?
 Perdue never has wanted to disavow the stimulus money. Our problem is that the Democratic party is a weak sister in the state with no viable charismatic leadership with the result that we end up with an overwhelmingly rigidly right state legislature falling all over itself to undo rational programs and policies:  like allowing billboard companies to raze trees for a nominal fee and erect those god-awful billboards, as if we didn&#039;t have enough already.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>NoRantingTommy Says:<br />
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I wish Atlanta could secede from GA. It is an island of progress in a sea of stupidity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not so, Tommy.  Everyone in the rest of the state knows all too well that Atlanta is the economic engine of the state, witness the large bank here about to go under because of its gambles on your Real Estate.  And we aren&#8217;t raving with the stupid either.</p>
<p>For that matter, Perdue. not from Atlanta or environs, gets a lot of grief when, in fact, all along he has been more moderate and sane and rational than those idiots in the State legislature, a large number of whom hail from those infamous Atlanta suburbs, which have put the patent on conservative.  After all, where is the Newt&#8217;s original stomping grounds?<br />
 Perdue never has wanted to disavow the stimulus money. Our problem is that the Democratic party is a weak sister in the state with no viable charismatic leadership with the result that we end up with an overwhelmingly rigidly right state legislature falling all over itself to undo rational programs and policies:  like allowing billboard companies to raze trees for a nominal fee and erect those god-awful billboards, as if we didn&#8217;t have enough already.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637919', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Terran1212</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re a georgia blog and we are just getting a kick out of this and the reaction of local Republicans:

http://ugaliberal.blogspot.com/2009/05/governor-perdue-left-wing-republican.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re a georgia blog and we are just getting a kick out of this and the reaction of local Republicans:</p>
<p><a href="http://ugaliberal.blogspot.com/2009/05/governor-perdue-left-wing-republican.html" rel="nofollow">http://ugaliberal.blogspot.com/2009/05/governor-perdue-left-wing-republican.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637521', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: NOLIESPLEASE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hear somolia has the lowest tax rates in the world...$0.00. 

I am wondering when people in the US will start pointing to Somolia as the pre-eminant example of how well our lives would be if we we&#039;re not burdened with taxes or regulations for that matter. 

I&#039;m sure the repugs would like to see a nation without taxes. So when is  a reporter going to ask a repug that question???? 

HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD WE PAY???? HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD THE WEATHTY PAY???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear somolia has the lowest tax rates in the world&#8230;$0.00. </p>
<p>I am wondering when people in the US will start pointing to Somolia as the pre-eminant example of how well our lives would be if we we&#8217;re not burdened with taxes or regulations for that matter. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure the repugs would like to see a nation without taxes. So when is  a reporter going to ask a repug that question???? </p>
<p>HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD WE PAY???? HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD THE WEATHTY PAY???<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637512', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: davidwaters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>During these very tough economic times, it&#039;s important to remember that we already have it so good in this country relative to many people around the world living in developing countries.  I think that the U.S. should do more address global poverty for strategic and humanitarian purposes.  The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.

$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During these very tough economic times, it&#8217;s important to remember that we already have it so good in this country relative to many people around the world living in developing countries.  I think that the U.S. should do more address global poverty for strategic and humanitarian purposes.  The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:</p>
<p>$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.</p>
<p>$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637489', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Gabe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gabe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cutting taxes for the well-off is the old horse-and-sparrow theory of finance.  You know, if you feed enough oats to the horse, there&#039;ll be some left over for the sparrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cutting taxes for the well-off is the old horse-and-sparrow theory of finance.  You know, if you feed enough oats to the horse, there&#8217;ll be some left over for the sparrow.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637352', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: misscoleopteramolly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637283</link>
		<dc:creator>misscoleopteramolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d like to point out to ThinkProgress that there are TWO Governor Perdues in this country, and when I first saw the headline, I thought this item was about our governor here in North Carolina (and wondering why she was talking about Georgia).

Of course, OUR Governor Perdue is a Democrat, always supported the federal recovery package, and has been working her butt off to make sure North Carolina gets the most bang out of our share of it.  And she hasn&#039;t been a hypocrite.

Still -- if you put &quot;Gov. Perdue&quot; in a headline, could you qualify it with a &quot;Sonny&quot; or a &quot;Bev&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to point out to ThinkProgress that there are TWO Governor Perdues in this country, and when I first saw the headline, I thought this item was about our governor here in North Carolina (and wondering why she was talking about Georgia).</p>
<p>Of course, OUR Governor Perdue is a Democrat, always supported the federal recovery package, and has been working her butt off to make sure North Carolina gets the most bang out of our share of it.  And she hasn&#8217;t been a hypocrite.</p>
<p>Still &#8212; if you put &#8220;Gov. Perdue&#8221; in a headline, could you qualify it with a &#8220;Sonny&#8221; or a &#8220;Bev&#8221;?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637283', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637284</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>muncien

HERE is a fact. Revenues DROPPED after Rayguns tax cut. HERE is a fact even Bushs own economic adivors like Mainkew and his other tax cuts enthusiasts admit that tax cuts do not even PAY FOR THEMSELVES much less increase revenue. It IS a fact that the economy boomed and had the longest peacetime expanision in HISTORY after the tax increase on the wealthy in 93 it is NOT a fact that this was due solely to the high tech bubble. Perhaps YOU should stop putting up YOUR opinion as FACT.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>muncien</p>
<p>HERE is a fact. Revenues DROPPED after Rayguns tax cut. HERE is a fact even Bushs own economic adivors like Mainkew and his other tax cuts enthusiasts admit that tax cuts do not even PAY FOR THEMSELVES much less increase revenue. It IS a fact that the economy boomed and had the longest peacetime expanision in HISTORY after the tax increase on the wealthy in 93 it is NOT a fact that this was due solely to the high tech bubble. Perhaps YOU should stop putting up YOUR opinion as FACT.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637284', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chris LeJeune</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637244</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris LeJeune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The GOP economic plan has two main problems.  According to their logic:

1.  If we get rid of taxes altogether, the economy will be perfect.

2.  If this actually worked, the economy would be wonderful right now.  Bush&#039;s tax cuts have not yet expired and Obama hasn&#039;t raised any.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The GOP economic plan has two main problems.  According to their logic:</p>
<p>1.  If we get rid of taxes altogether, the economy will be perfect.</p>
<p>2.  If this actually worked, the economy would be wonderful right now.  Bush&#8217;s tax cuts have not yet expired and Obama hasn&#8217;t raised any.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637244', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: muncien</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637242</link>
		<dc:creator>muncien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;supply-side tax cuts tilted towards big business and the wealthy are anti-stimulative during a deep recession, and do not lead to appreciable gains in revenue for cash-starved budgets.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

Inacurate...  The cited article used to illustrate the point uses the last two supply-side cuts against only the 1993 tax increases.  But those increases came at a point during the .com boom which exagerated actual wealth and resulted in the .com bust.  Previous tax increases tell a far different story of economic slow down.  Try telling the whole picture here, and refrain from printing opinion as fact.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;supply-side tax cuts tilted towards big business and the wealthy are anti-stimulative during a deep recession, and do not lead to appreciable gains in revenue for cash-starved budgets.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Inacurate&#8230;  The cited article used to illustrate the point uses the last two supply-side cuts against only the 1993 tax increases.  But those increases came at a point during the .com boom which exagerated actual wealth and resulted in the .com bust.  Previous tax increases tell a far different story of economic slow down.  Try telling the whole picture here, and refrain from printing opinion as fact.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637242', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RantingTommy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637230</link>
		<dc:creator>RantingTommy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish Atlanta could secede from GA. It is an island of progress in a sea of stupidity.

Rural GA voters see anything that benefits Atlanta as &quot;helping the darkies&quot; and vote against it. They are too ignorant to realize that Atlanta is Georgia&#039;s only real revenue generator.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish Atlanta could secede from GA. It is an island of progress in a sea of stupidity.</p>
<p>Rural GA voters see anything that benefits Atlanta as &#8220;helping the darkies&#8221; and vote against it. They are too ignorant to realize that Atlanta is Georgia&#8217;s only real revenue generator.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637230', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Druids Dream</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637224</link>
		<dc:creator>Druids Dream</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Perdue show&#039;s he ain&#039;t chicken.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Perdue show&#8217;s he ain&#8217;t chicken.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637224', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tom</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637219</link>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is hope for the republicans!  Thank goodness at least one of them has caught on.

Federal tax burden is relatively low and yet all that most republi-bots can do is tea-bag and complain.  It&#039;s about time someone stated the obvious.  Thank you, Governor Perdue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is hope for the republicans!  Thank goodness at least one of them has caught on.</p>
<p>Federal tax burden is relatively low and yet all that most republi-bots can do is tea-bag and complain.  It&#8217;s about time someone stated the obvious.  Thank you, Governor Perdue.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637219', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: eyeswideopen1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637199</link>
		<dc:creator>eyeswideopen1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has Limbaugh shit on him yet and if so has he apologized yet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has Limbaugh shit on him yet and if so has he apologized yet?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637199', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kassandrasduplex</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/perdue-supply-side/comment-page-1/#comment-5637194</link>
		<dc:creator>kassandrasduplex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This man must not be running for re-election. His conscience is showing...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This man must not be running for re-election. His conscience is showing&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637194', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OT... but, WTF???

&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Planned NYC Military Fly Over Cancelled&lt;/strong&gt;
ABC News - ?38 minutes ago?
By MARK CRUDELE and RICHARD ESPOSITO A military fly-over planned for New York City this morning was cancelled by the Federal Aviation Administration shortly before the plane was set to roar down the Hudson, over the harbor and up to Maine.
&lt;strong&gt;NYC Navy flight canceled 2 weeks after jet panic&lt;/strong&gt; The Associated Press
&lt;strong&gt;Military flight over Hudson River canceled&lt;/strong&gt; Times Herald-Record
Huffington Post - Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg - NJ.com
&lt;strong&gt;all 57 news articles »&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;ncl=d4a_nnFIU_A6oqMMWY1GAT7B3sHfM&amp;topic=n</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OT&#8230; but, WTF???</p>
<p><em><strong>Another Planned NYC Military Fly Over Cancelled</strong><br />
ABC News &#8211; ?38 minutes ago?<br />
By MARK CRUDELE and RICHARD ESPOSITO A military fly-over planned for New York City this morning was cancelled by the Federal Aviation Administration shortly before the plane was set to roar down the Hudson, over the harbor and up to Maine.<br />
<strong>NYC Navy flight canceled 2 weeks after jet panic</strong> The Associated Press<br />
<strong>Military flight over Hudson River canceled</strong> Times Herald-Record<br />
Huffington Post &#8211; Wall Street Journal &#8211; Bloomberg &#8211; NJ.com<br />
<strong>all 57 news articles »</strong></em><br />
<a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;ncl=d4a_nnFIU_A6oqMMWY1GAT7B3sHfM&amp;topic=n" rel="nofollow">http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;ncl=d4a_nnFIU_A6oqMMWY1GAT7B3sHfM&amp;topic=n</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5637183', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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