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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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I believe that the theory of "trickle down economics" has been disproven time and time again over the last 27 years...
Man conservatives are so f***ing stupid sometimes!
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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"I believe that the theory of "trickle down economics" has been disproven time and time again over the last 27 years... "
I believe you're wrong, skippy. Ask any economist worth his salt - we're STILL enjoying the benefits of Reaganomics. Well, at least those of us who were smart enough to work hard, take advantage of the economy, study the free market system and work the stock market. For those losers who are still waiting for the government to assist and enable them at every turn, yes, I'd say the system is not working. Or more correctly - THEY'RE not working. You get what you settle for.
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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My name is NOT Skippy, and you are wrong.
Most employers will pay the minimum the market will bear. You give thew rich tax cuts, you also see the work force shrinking as the CEOs try to expand profits even more. The disparity of monetary gain between the average CEO and the average hourly worker is the widest it has ever been. In the meantime 50 million Americans have no insurance.
This is what has been proven during the past 7 years, during Reagan's presidency, to a lesser extent Poppy Bush's and Bill Clinton's (oh, yes! Clinton was drinking the Kool-Aid too. NAFTA and GATT are but a couple of Republican-backed bad ideas that passed with his support.).
Apparently you are wed to the idea that there is a free market solution for every problem. Laissez-faire economics is social Darwinism and IT NEVER WORKS. For the party that espouses to be the party of the "true Christians," this is appalling to me (Jesus would be appalled, as well. Re: Matthew 25).
I want my country back!
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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"I want my country back!"
Gosh, Jif, it never went anywhere. Shut your mouth and open your eyes for a change. We're still the freest, we're still the strongest, we're still the wealthiest and we're still the most benevolent nation on Earth. Laissez-faire economics is the ONLY thing that works. It made the U.S. what it is, and the U.S. in turn is slowly bringing the rest of the world up to its standards. Where would Japan and Germany - two countries devastated by war - be today if they didn't have the economic model and the financial assistance the U.S. provided them? Where would Korea be? Where would China and India be? The Middle East? ANY country wise enough to wake up, pull themselves into the 20th century and follow our lead?
Anyone who has not heeded the call and cooperated with the U.S. is STILL mired in squalor: Cuba... Myanmar.... Iran... North Korea...
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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Japan and Germany govern their economies more than we do. We have deregulated our trade so much that our middle- and working-class jobs are being sucked to India and China at breakneck speed. Many factories still in America are filled with illegal aliens because this administration (and every previous administration going back to Reagan) has turned a blind eye to the enforcement of penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
When was the last time YOU had to look for a new job?
Do you want more of that? Because that is CLEARLY what is happening.
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blinkers1 year, 9 months ago
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Very accurate, Will1313. The saint personifies a hopeless combination of ignorance and arrogance, good only for assembling a vast collection of "bad" votes, on Propeller.
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GWHayduke1 year, 9 months ago
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Raiderwall1 year, 9 months ago
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The economy is consumer driven. You put money into the pockets of poor and middle-class people and they'll buy the things they need. You put money into the hands of the rich and they'll sit on it, or perhaps buy that summer home.
Businesses respond to the demands of the consumer, not the other way around.
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Obaku1 year, 9 months ago
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Yes, in fact you ARE that stupid.
The "losers' the government is assisting include ADM, Tyson, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, LockheedMartin, GoldmanSachs and Citigroup. Seems to be working well for their executives, not quite as well for their stockholders - and not at all for the rest of American citizens, regardless of what political clique they side with.
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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Much of that is in taxes for social services and maintaining infrastructure. Still, mass transportation is a more acceptable - and a more accepted - form of transportation. Many Europeans do not mind this because they see the benefit to the collective society.
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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"Still, mass transportation is a more acceptable - and a more accepted - form of transportation."
I couldn't agree more, peterpan! That's why I use public transportation to get to my office every day - and have been since 1998. I also reward my employees with incentives if they do the same. 8 out of my 26 employees use public transportation to get into work, I'm proud to say.
What are YOU doing, skippy? Still gassing up your SUV or your van and driving everywhere? Thought so. Still buying bottled water and not recycling your plastics? Thought so.
You Libs talk a good game - always screaming about how "everyone needs to conserve....", "businesses should stop polluting...", "the rich are getting richer..." But when it comes to actually altering YOUR lifestyle....
(crickets....)
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I take a bus to work. I do recycle. I don't own an SUV.
You assume an awful lot about me. But I could care less what you think.
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progressive-bum1 year, 9 months ago
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Really??? The true environmental cost of burning a gallon of gas is closer to $20. And that's what gasoline should be selling for. That would get the SU-f*cking-Vs off the road as well as the "studs" who drive jacked-up trucks due to their small weenies.
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tanglang1 year, 9 months ago
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Why would any of you think that? Did you ask her if he goes hunting? Or does he go hiking, caving or does he just like mudding? Why should a man have to justify buying a big truck? Or anything for that matter. The last time I checked, this was a free nation.
Say, my girl drives a 2007 Chevy 3500HD with a 6" lift. Wanna guess why she drives it? I'll give you a hint, she doesn't have a weenie so you can rule that out.
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spkguy1 year, 9 months ago
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Resolved Question.....
Why "Trickle down economics" can't work.?
How can the trickle down economic plan favored by republicans possibly work, when so many manufacturing jobs are heading south of the border?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Because the owners of the companies dont invest that extra money into their companies. They line their pockets with it. If you want to truly stimulate the economy then you need to give tax breaks to the lower-middle class. They are the people that are going to spend money to make their lives better. Then the economy will trickle up because with the more money going into the companys they will hire more people.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200...
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bigG1 year, 9 months ago
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"If you want to truly stimulate the economy then you need to give tax breaks to the lower-middle class."
Good one spkguy. I have always wondered why the obvious isn't done, or more importantly why a lot of so-called "conservatives"(I call them Reps) don't see that.
If that were done, then the amount of the "entitlements" could be lowered with little or no ill effect on anyone.
And yes, if you want to spur the economy in the short term, great big tax cuts for the wealthy won't do it. That takes way to long to create an effect, if it creates one at all.
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tanglang1 year, 9 months ago
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So just because he drives a truck you know for a fact that he has a small weenie? Tessy, that is insane. You are stereotyping to an outrageous level.
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IanFraigun1 year, 9 months ago
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And pray tell what are those benefits we are enjoying. Jobs going overseas, wages of the middle class not even keeping up with inflation. Highly skilled and trained professionals flipping hamburgers or stocking shelves because those are the only jobs being created. The country in debt more than it could pay of reasonably in the next 50 years. The rich getting richer while everyone else suffers. A recession starting because of the greed and lack of regulation of the financial industry since Reagan and those republicans who followed work to eliminate all those nasty regulations. Problem is the regulations were what kept us on an even keel and avoided the excess of Enron, the dotcom bubble, and the subprime mortgage problems.
Yeah they were wonderful times, if you we born wealthy or had the luck of a Bill Gates to fall into the right industry where you could create your own wealth. Everyone just doesn't matter do they?
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StarLord1 year, 9 months ago
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False. In the extremely prosperous country of Australia (my homeland), we economics students are taught more of "third way" economics (as regards governmental policy) than Reagonomics. Further, Third Way economics (as practiced by the Hawke and Keating Governments) has made Australia so prosperous that we will probably weather the American economic collapse with only a minor recession - if any.
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quackpot1 year, 9 months ago
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yep - much better to transfer the tab to the children and grandchildren of the middle class (via deficit spending and loss of currency value) while giving the ultra-rich even more. Just HOW GREEDY can one be?
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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"yep - much better to transfer the tab to the children and grandchildren of the middle class (via deficit spending and loss of currency value)"
Well, it'll give them something to work for. Nobody gets a free ride, smokepot.
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GWHayduke1 year, 9 months ago
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You obviously dont have children (thank God) and dont understand responsible spending. Otherwise you would probably have a problem passing on your own personal debt.
Although rambling on about "no free rides" and having "something to work for", you blindly fail to recognize that you are supporting what you claim to despise.
You are getting a free ride with your idiotic 'stimulus plan'- hey everyone, FREE MONEY - and war that will be paid for for decades into the future.
Dont hear you complaining about that, Mr. French.
We spent our way into this & its the American way to spend our way out.
We dont need INCOME...this is Reaganomics!
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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"Tell that to the Paris Hilton class."
The Hilton's earned and/or inherited their money. They can do whatever they want with it - it's really none of your business.
And Paris Hilton has no class, but that's another post.
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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What makes you think they aren't?
High-profile company, earns millions and millions per year, in the public spotlight... I doubt they'd take the risk of shirking their taxes.
Let's take stock: The Hilton Company pays taxes, provides a service, provides jobs to thousands of people who in turn pay taxes, spend their own money which stimulates the economy....
What business is this of yours how they spend their money?
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
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Again, Ath-hole, what makes you think the Hilton organization is only paying 15% of their earnings in taxes? What proof do you have? Link, please.
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quackpot1 year, 9 months ago
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Oh so you approve of the Bush policy of allowing the Hiltons a BIG tax break that the rest of us (and our children) will need to pay?
DUMB DUMB DUMB
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StarLord1 year, 9 months ago
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Fool. The government debt exacerbated by Bush's financial irresponsibility must be paid (and paid for) by someone - either now, or into the future. Looking at it the other way, how happy would you be if you had to pay higher taxes to fund your grandparents' high lifestyles (funded by irresponsible tax cuts)?
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Obaku1 year, 9 months ago
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He is going to borrow it from China, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, just like last year, and the year before, and the year before...
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IanFraigun1 year, 9 months ago
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And you think borrowing to increase spending is such a good thing. Right now this country is almost totally owned by China which would not happen if taxes were at a level to pay for the expenditures being made.
Only way we will ever get out of this debt and control by foreign governments is to tax our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren for the next 5 generations by increasing amounts to only pay down that debt.
If you listened to Bush back in 1999/2000 that is exactly what he planned and is doing so well. Put the country so deep in debt it cannot afford any programs and spending to help the average or poor individuals and he did that by giving all that money to the handfull of wealthy.
Give me taxes that pay for the services I demand at least I would not pass the 'free lunch' debt on to future generations which my parents and grandparents did not do to me.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 9 months ago
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"Tax cuts BOOST economic activity and INCREASE revenues at ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT!!!!"
"...under normal conditions, tax cuts do not wholly pay for themselves."
"I think it's unusual for a tax cut to completely offset the revenue loss..."
These are quotes from a recent interview that Ben Bernenke, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank, gave to the Boston Globe. I suppose you are going to claim that the foremost economist in our country is "friggin' stupid" too.
Voodoo economics have been disproven over and over again, yet there are some who persist in this fairy tale.
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pongping1 year, 9 months ago
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Didn't that Lib president, Reagen, go along with tax increases, at least twice?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/opinion/08KRU... see the 3rd paragraph
As well, I recall President Bush, Sr. saying "read my lips, no new taxes" and what did he go along with?
These were Republican presidents. I am not debating right or wrong. I just take issue that it is only Libs who do certain things. You don't seem to have paid attention to what has been going on in this country.
Vote Ron Paul if you want NO taxes.
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IcCaRus1 year, 9 months ago
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you meaN vote huckabee if you want a theocracy.....
theocracy... hows that workin' for iran? um, no thanks!
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tanglang1 year, 9 months ago
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Icarus, I would like you to explain why you think Huckabee would, or could make this great nation a theocracy.
Tessy, reading your post says that you are the nutcase. Look at wht you just typed. Tell me something sweetie, have you been checked for rabies?
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 9 months ago
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Yeah, and we're all doing so well now that I hope you can scare us into not doing anything different..Do you have ANY clue as to what is really happening, or are we all supposed to climb into your imaginary world with you and let things get even worse???
Don't answer..We know you are not of the real world!
We'll treat you like you treat real world problems..
If we close our
eyes maybe you won't be there..
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