post #861
16.05.2010, 08:35
16.05.2010, 08:35
I do not care what statistics exists out there. I do not want to share.Anything with anybody. I want to decide to give, when it feels good tome, not them, or Uncle Sam.
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it's not an issue of sharing... it is simply the cost of living or doing business in the country of your choice. if you can afford to buy your own island, I'm sure (not 100%) you won't have to "share" any of your money.
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it's not an issue of sharing... it is simply the cost of living or doing business in the country of your choice. if you can afford to buy your own island, I'm sure (not 100%) you won't have to "share" any of your money.
post #862
16.05.2010, 08:38
16.05.2010, 08:38
how about you pay for your own "cost of living" and other programs? I pay for mine, so should anyone!! :-)
post #863
16.05.2010, 08:43
16.05.2010, 08:43
how about you pay for your own "cost of living" and other programs? I pay for mine, so should anyone!!
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when you move to that island of yours, you can make up your own rules... considering the size of your family compared to mine, and the amount of time you've lived in this country, I probably already paid and am paying for at least some of your "cost of living".
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when you move to that island of yours, you can make up your own rules... considering the size of your family compared to mine, and the amount of time you've lived in this country, I probably already paid and am paying for at least some of your "cost of living".
post #868
16.05.2010, 14:45
16.05.2010, 14:45
Lie #4: Tax cuts always increase revenue.
Thanks to supply-side snake oil salesman Arthur Laffer and his magical Laffer Curve, conservatives have been peddling this mythsince the age of Reagan. Tax cuts, which GOP doctrine now claims is theuniversal cure-all for surpluses and deficits, male pattern baldnessand erectile dysfunction, are at the center of every Republicaneconomic program. As John McCain put it during the campaign, "tax cuts, starting withKennedy, as we all know, increase revenues." And in February, TexasRepublican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison offered the purest statement of Arthur Laffer's fantasy:
"Every major tax cut we've had in history has created more revenue."
Thanks to supply-side snake oil salesman Arthur Laffer and his magical Laffer Curve, conservatives have been peddling this mythsince the age of Reagan. Tax cuts, which GOP doctrine now claims is theuniversal cure-all for surpluses and deficits, male pattern baldnessand erectile dysfunction, are at the center of every Republicaneconomic program. As John McCain put it during the campaign, "tax cuts, starting withKennedy, as we all know, increase revenues." And in February, TexasRepublican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison offered the purest statement of Arthur Laffer's fantasy:
"Every major tax cut we've had in history has created more revenue."
post #869
16.05.2010, 14:45
16.05.2010, 14:45
As it turns out, not so much. The claim, as ThinkProgress neatly summed it up, is empirically and historically false:
The notion that cutting taxes somehow - magically -increases government revenues is a myth that won't die. "The claim thattax cuts pay for themselves...is contradicted by the historicalrecord," reported the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, whichshowed that revenues grew twice as fast in the 1990s, when taxes wereraised, than in the 1980s, when taxes were cut. FactCheck.org called aclaim like Hutchison's "highly misleading" and stated the obvious factthat "we can't have both lower taxes and fatter government coffers."
The notion that cutting taxes somehow - magically -increases government revenues is a myth that won't die. "The claim thattax cuts pay for themselves...is contradicted by the historicalrecord," reported the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, whichshowed that revenues grew twice as fast in the 1990s, when taxes wereraised, than in the 1980s, when taxes were cut. FactCheck.org called aclaim like Hutchison's "highly misleading" and stated the obvious factthat "we can't have both lower taxes and fatter government coffers."
post #870
16.05.2010, 14:49
16.05.2010, 14:49
Lie #5: The GOP is the party of fiscal discipline.
Back in February, AP reporter and John McCain donut server Liz Sidotiwrote of beaten and battered Republicans trying to find their way backfrom the political wilderness in a piece titled, "GOP tries to restoreimage of fiscal discipline."
Of course, that would constitute a return to a time that never was.Far from the deficit hawks of Republican legend, the modern RepublicanParty from Reagan forward devastated the U.S. treasury, leaving mounting debt and hemorrhaging red ink for as far as the eye can see. As it turns out, U.S. national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan, only to double again under George W. Bush. As this eye-popping chartshows, under recent Republican presidents the debt exploded as apercentage of GDP, interrupted only by the all-too-brief fiscal sanityof the Clinton years.
Back in February, AP reporter and John McCain donut server Liz Sidotiwrote of beaten and battered Republicans trying to find their way backfrom the political wilderness in a piece titled, "GOP tries to restoreimage of fiscal discipline."
Of course, that would constitute a return to a time that never was.Far from the deficit hawks of Republican legend, the modern RepublicanParty from Reagan forward devastated the U.S. treasury, leaving mounting debt and hemorrhaging red ink for as far as the eye can see. As it turns out, U.S. national debt tripled under Ronald Reagan, only to double again under George W. Bush. As this eye-popping chartshows, under recent Republican presidents the debt exploded as apercentage of GDP, interrupted only by the all-too-brief fiscal sanityof the Clinton years.
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