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  • The U.S. is not just heading towards default, says Ben Stein, we're racing towards it. Our country has simply taken on far too many obligations than we can afford, Stein asserts. We've got to raise taxes and cut expenditures, particularly on unemployment and disability, where there's so much fraud "it's just insane." (video)  [View news story]
    It isn't the PC issue

    Just not a very important issue
    Nov 1 11:07 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The U.S. is not just heading towards default, says Ben Stein, we're racing towards it. Our country has simply taken on far too many obligations than we can afford, Stein asserts. We've got to raise taxes and cut expenditures, particularly on unemployment and disability, where there's so much fraud "it's just insane." (video)  [View news story]
    #6

    There is no sense in wasting time having them attend HS since intelligence is 60% heritable at least and the dye is cast on the environmental variation to a great extent by HS (i.e. there is nothing some people can do to change their lot)

    We may also consider just killing those who can't meet our minimum

    Of course we might need a new dept of eugenics to administer this
    Nov 1 11:06 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • The U.S. is not just heading towards default, says Ben Stein, we're racing towards it. Our country has simply taken on far too many obligations than we can afford, Stein asserts. We've got to raise taxes and cut expenditures, particularly on unemployment and disability, where there's so much fraud "it's just insane." (video)  [View news story]
    I couldn't get past #2

    Teach people about farming? Perhaps we can all go back to making our own clothes and to dig a well in our backyards

    Sounds like a recipe for a modern economy and very competitive globally
    Nov 1 11:02 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • The U.S. is not just heading towards default, says Ben Stein, we're racing towards it. Our country has simply taken on far too many obligations than we can afford, Stein asserts. We've got to raise taxes and cut expenditures, particularly on unemployment and disability, where there's so much fraud "it's just insane." (video)  [View news story]
    It is now OK to just post outright lies

    Federal income tax rates are the same and payroll taxes have been cut during the Obama admin

    Either you are ignorant or a liar
    Nov 1 11:00 PM | 4 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Reagan tax cuts, still controversial 30 years after being signed into law, were highly stimulative, but only because the economic circumstances of the time - high inflation, high tax rates - made it so, Bruce Bartlett writes. Reenacting some version of the tax cuts under today’s conditions - near-zero inflation, low tax rates - would not bring about similar results, he says.  [View news story]
    Actually there is quite a few who are saying the same

    They are just conservatives who are not elected or caught up in this current tea party delusion
    Aug 16 12:17 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Reagan tax cuts, still controversial 30 years after being signed into law, were highly stimulative, but only because the economic circumstances of the time - high inflation, high tax rates - made it so, Bruce Bartlett writes. Reenacting some version of the tax cuts under today’s conditions - near-zero inflation, low tax rates - would not bring about similar results, he says.  [View news story]
    I think they are referring to the 46% that don't pay federal income taxes?

    It was shown that a not insignificant number of those made between 50-75K and even some between 75K-100K

    Story is always more complicated
    Aug 16 12:15 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Reagan tax cuts, still controversial 30 years after being signed into law, were highly stimulative, but only because the economic circumstances of the time - high inflation, high tax rates - made it so, Bruce Bartlett writes. Reenacting some version of the tax cuts under today’s conditions - near-zero inflation, low tax rates - would not bring about similar results, he says.  [View news story]
    fact
    Aug 16 12:12 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • The Reagan tax cuts, still controversial 30 years after being signed into law, were highly stimulative, but only because the economic circumstances of the time - high inflation, high tax rates - made it so, Bruce Bartlett writes. Reenacting some version of the tax cuts under today’s conditions - near-zero inflation, low tax rates - would not bring about similar results, he says.  [View news story]
    Where are you from?

    payroll tax holiday and low marginal rates and more write offs than ever

    And low cap gains
    Aug 16 12:12 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • The Reagan tax cuts, still controversial 30 years after being signed into law, were highly stimulative, but only because the economic circumstances of the time - high inflation, high tax rates - made it so, Bruce Bartlett writes. Reenacting some version of the tax cuts under today’s conditions - near-zero inflation, low tax rates - would not bring about similar results, he says.  [View news story]
    Not sure where you are shopping but you are doing it wrong
    Aug 16 12:11 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • While S&P raters "are the last people whose judgment we should trust," Paul Krugman says the U.S. does have big problems "caused by the rise of an extremist right that is prepared to create repeated crises rather than give an inch on its demands." The big question, he says, is "whether the extremists now blocking any kind of responsible policy can be defeated and marginalized."  [View news story]
    you sound quite accomplished yourself
    Aug 8 05:58 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says it's time for Americans to "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many," and young people must "adjust" to a future with fewer entitlements. Straight talk for a change, or a betrayal?  [View news story]
    they borrowed it too because they wanted stuff but didn't want to pay for it
    Aug 3 07:51 PM | 4 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says it's time for Americans to "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many," and young people must "adjust" to a future with fewer entitlements. Straight talk for a change, or a betrayal?  [View news story]
    right

    talk about screwing us twice

    We pay for the oldsers and nobody pays for us

    thanks Boomers!
    Aug 3 07:50 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • June Payrolls: Abysmal [View article]
    what nonsense
    Jul 9 01:09 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • June Payrolls: Abysmal [View article]
    Yes I am dying with jealously that I am not living in West Virgina and am stuck in San Francisco
    Jul 9 01:07 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • June Payrolls: Abysmal [View article]
    You talk about the government "stealing" and refer to socialism and this drumbeat is starting to annoy me.

    I would be curious to know the rates of people on different forms of social welfare in your neck of the words: Medicaid, general welfare, food stamps, section 8

    Just curious. My sense is places similar to where I live (San Francisco Bay Area) export quite a bit of tax revenue to states and areas like yours.

    But to answer your question I live in San Francisco and I do see an increase in things like food trucks, micro entrepreneurs, farmers markets etc. Lot more people are riding bikes now than ever before. Some people are getting into reusing and refurbishing items for sale. People are also getting into things like urban gardening, keeping chickens and bee keeping

    We are WAY better off I would say than the distant exurban areas without access or proximity to anything
    Jul 9 01:06 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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