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Pelosi is at it again. She wants to tax 401K's & other retirement incomes to help illegals. What do you think?

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:

"We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. These new taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'."

What are your thoughts on her proposal?

Update:

I did some more digging. Turns out she tried pushing this before, almost word for word, two years ago. I don't know why she's pushing it again now?

Update 2:

Thanks for all the great comments. I'll leave this one open for a few days.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I'm positively appalled. We, the public, have lost track of what Pelosi, etal, are doing to us while our attention is focused on the elections.

    This surely should be a good sign of what will happen to us if Hillary or Obama are elected. That is their agenda, to tax us to death, penalize our efforts, let our children sacrifice to support illegal aliens, give us a government health-care system so the illegal aliens can get free unhindered health care while we U.S. taxpaying citizens support them.

    You need to post your question on 'elections' to reach as many voters as possible.

    Thank you for the info.

  • 1 decade ago

    My thoughts are the same as always with her....she's an idiot, a communist idiot!

    Glimpse into the Mind of Nancy Pelosi

    Everyone needs to really know this San Francisco witch!!!

    A new leader? Be very concerned! Everyone should read this......

    *It is hard to believe there are American citizens who support her

    theories and can make any sense of what she spins. Take a good hard look

    at what she wants. Take special note of the last paragraph.*

    Nancy Pelosi condemned the new record highs of the stock market as "just

    another example of Bush policies helping the rich get richer".

    "First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded with new

    record low unemployment rates, which only means wealthy employers are

    getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid working class".

    She went on to say "Despite the billions of dollars being spent in Iraq

    our economy is still strong and government tax revenues are at all time

    highs. What this really means is that business is exploiting the war

    effort and working Americans, just to put money in their own pockets".

    When questioned about recent stock market highs she responded "Only the

    rich benefit from these record highs. Working Americans, welfare

    recipients, the unemployed and minorities are not sharing in these obscene

    record highs". "There is no question these windfall profits and

    income created by the Bush administration need to be taxed at 100% rate

    and those dollars redistributed to the poor and working class".

    "Profits from the stock market do not reward the hard work of our working

    class who, by their hard work, are responsible for generating these

    corporate profits that create stock market profits for the rich.

    We in congress will need to address this issue to either tax these profits

    or to control the stock market to prevent this unearned income to flow to

    the rich."

    When asked about the fact that over 80% of all Americans have investments

    in mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K's, and the stock market she

    replied "That may be true, but probably only 5% account for

    90% of all these investment dollars. That's just more "trickle down"

    economics claiming that if a corporation is successful that everyone from

    the CEO to the floor sweeper benefit from higher wages and job security

    which is ridiculous". "How much of this 'trickle down' ever get to the

    unemployed and minorities in our county? None, and that's the tragedy of

    these stock market highs."

    "We democrats are going to address this issue after the election when we

    take control of the congress. We will return to the 60% to 80% tax rates

    on the rich and we will be able to take at least 30% of all current lower

    Federal income tax payers off the roles and increase government income

    substantially. We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in

    our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest."

    When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied "We need

    to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed, and minorities.

    For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our

    country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities.

    Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee

    these people the standard of living they would like to have as

    'Americans'."

    Is this not a Communist talking??!!

  • 1 decade ago

    If we're such a terrorist nation, then why is every Tom, Dick and Harry country coming to us and BEGGING us to save them from their own problems that they create??

    We usually get some country begging us to overthrow their govt and put them in power, then we get criticized for helping them out. I would rather pay to have a giant fence built between here and Mexico, hell better yet we should annex Mexico anyway.

    And by the way Marissa, hows that for us sending billions of dollars overseas and aid and not as much as a thanks from any other country. Get a clue!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She's insane and a discredit to all women who have fought for equality to positions in power. Can't say what should be done

    with people like her. Lets be nice and say vote the B out.

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  • 1 decade ago

    My thoughts on her proposal is that she can shove it.

    We have Americans who have LOST EVERYTHING and are currently living in TENT CITIES because of the predatory lending that went on. I could care less about illegal aliens. I am worried about the US citizens and she as a Representative should be worried about this too...not the people who have no right to be here.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How utterly socialist and Democratic Party of her.

    I didn't at first believe anyone in her position would utter such anti-American nonsense, but it was indeed all over the web. What kind of moron do you have to be to be so against people, so against personal property and personal fortune that you have to espouse a hard marxist line that easily could have been a quote from Stalin, Marx, Mao or Castro?

  • 1 decade ago

    Sickening.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't think illegal immigrants should be granted any social services in the US. Once they become citizens then they should be granted all the privileges our taxes provide.

  • 1 decade ago

    better than the war in Iraq and the war on "terrorism" specially since America is the biggest terrorist country in the world. GO PELOSI! shes doing a good job!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Pelosi belongs on the terrorist watch list she is a threat to sanity and good governance.

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