can't wait for the democrats to campaign on raising taxes in 2018
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We should do no taxes entirely, I heard Anarcho-Capitalism only leads to good things.
Really though there needs to be a 'topics to reagan' game like there is Hitler, GOPers bring him up without fail and misquote his acts and policies at the same time.
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Regan had his faults ( I mentioned it one of the biggest ones in my last post) but he is brought up because his tax plan did just as it was supposed to do, spur the economy, and bring in record tax revenue to the feds.
Funny you bring this, up would you have been one of the ones screaming like chicken little at the end of the war that everything was going to come to a hault since the war dollars were going to stop flowing to the private sector?????
They did effect our economy, greatly in fact. Its why we have Obama care now and partially why we have such expensive health care. Due to the high taxation employers wishing to attract the best talent had to offer non income / nontaxable incentives like more and more elaborate health care insurance plans, retirement plans and other "fringe benefits" These benefits allowed them to "PAY"people more than their competition and lower the business TAX bill in the process.
We were the ONLY UNDAMAGED major manufacturing economy in the world after WWII, Our manufacturing technology and efficiency had improved dramatically in the WWII years. This status and now a "super power" had most of the world banking in the USA, and allowed our dollar to become supreme around the world a defacto world reserve currency (partially why oil is traded in dollars only). This lead to a massive surge in wealth investment in the USA, and our dollar and our economy leading the way for 40 years. When your nearly the only game in town your tax structure is not as important, thats not the case any longer........
I love how "yall" love to cut the human nature element out of these situations, people can and DO change their behavior based on many many things, from a national "effort" in a large scale multi front war to new peace time tax policy, to how much the garbage service costs every month.....Last edited by mrsleeve; 12-21-2017, 11:08 AM.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
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all of you happy about the tax cuts are a bunch of fucking goldfish. they made the corporate and high earner tax cuts permanent. but they made the tax cuts for us only 8 yrs. just like they did during bush where as soon as trump (holy shit not a second term) or another republican is out of office. by then democrats will probably have their cycle of power and have to deal with blowback of the tax cuts expiring, there by making republicans look good and "right" about democrats raising taxes.
its all a wheel of bullshit where long term the government will keep fucking the middle class its all just changes where the money goes, up or down.Comment
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I agree with you on that, point for sure
that said keeping the corporate permanent allows business to actually plan on something and make long term investments and plans based on that. Stability in that portion of the plan is very good for businesses and keeps us competitive with other other western economies, something we have not been in some time on this front.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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lets see how many of the corporations are actually going to bring jobs BACK.... we'll see...Simon
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Many have been doing just that for the last 5-8 years..... Caterpillar is one of the biggest ones bringing back lots of production here due to quality and reliability issues with Chinese built components even with US based QA/QC people on site....The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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Many have been doing just that for the last 5-8 years..... Caterpillar is one of the biggest ones bringing back lots of production here due to quality and reliability issues with Chinese built components even with US based QA/QC people on site....The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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this is a good start
“There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place”
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@sleeve
so they didnt need this tax cut...
@gwb
"“If the President signs the bill before Christmas, employees will receive the bonus over the holidays,” the company said in a statement."
Im pretty sure he isnt signing it until the new year due to PAYGOSimon
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Although Greenspan helped "soft land" a recession early in his career at the Fed... he also helped to severely worsen one at the tail end of his career as well.
Don't hold Greenspan (or any other Rand disciples) as gospel. You have to take each situation on it's principles/conditions/merits and not make absolute statements when it comes to government policy. Sometimes Right wing philosophy is the best course of action... and sometimes Left wing philosophy is.
But nobody thinks like that anymore. Who wants to use their brain when they can blindly follow one party or another. Makes staying informed so much easier and less time consuming.
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these huge monopolish corporations have so much just sitting in the bank though. taxing them higher is promoting them to invest into research and development, hiring more workforce, and to be more charitable. all in the name of paying less taxes. the money they have is not being utilized in the economy, its just sitting in the bank where its used to gamble in the market.Comment
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First I lol'd
! I predict more of this type of behavior in the upcoming years.
Then I..., and finally I :(
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