# Anybody else see the U.S. credit rating drop?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802 "2011-08-05T19:12:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802/66 "2011-08-09T09:14:46Z")

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> [@How do you feel about Pepboys](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-feel-about-pepboys/44476/53):
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> Who gave those companies bailouts? The government not the rich people. You actually couldn’t be farther from the truth, you can’t punish a person or company specifically after you bail them out, not only do we not have the right, but it is unconstitutional.
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> Read article 1 section 9 on the limits of congress  
> -No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
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> You can’t just pick a specific group of people and tax the shit out of them. Remember when they talked a bout a 90% tax on the bonus’ they couldn’t do it because not only is it unethical, it is unconstitutional.
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> What do you expect to happen when you bailout a company that has contracts with employees to get bonus’ regardless of performance? the companies will have to pay them.

Yeah I see what you are saying there. but then where is my companies bail out. because of this we lost close to $300,000 in sales in 2008 and maybe another 200,000 in 2009. we down sized and tightened our spending and expansion and no one got raises. Where is our governement hand out. If you are going to say fair treatment for all tax wise there should be fair treatment across the board.

24% of my income means i have to rent. means I am worried I will never own my own home until my parents die and i get theirs. 24% of an income in the millions means that person cant have 2 different summer homes. I think they should feel the same financial strain that the other 75% of america feels

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