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| HoosierLars | Jun 8 2009, 08:36 PM Post #16 |
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Brum, Ron Paul supporters will argue that poorly managed companies will fail, and that a free enterprise system will outperform government run programs almost all of the time. What do you do when a government program eventually fails? What are we going to do when medicare and SS run out of money? It appears that the EU is moving back a bit toward the right, and I don't think we need to move any farther to the left. That's why there's almost no chance I will be voting for Democrats in 2010 and 2012. I think that makes me an "anti-Democrat" partisan hack. |
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| Mr Gray | Jun 8 2009, 09:15 PM Post #17 |
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this is true brum, however the MAJOR difference is that they aren't playing with taxpayer dollars....or at least they aren't until the government shows up forcing the taxpayer to bail them out. Anyway, when private business fails as it is supposed to, that is the risk the owners & shareholders voluntarily took...when the government makes jackass moves with our money, we were involuntarily duped. |
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| brumdog44 | Jun 8 2009, 09:21 PM Post #18 |
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Lars -- You can be anti-Democrat without be a partisan hack. My problem with you is that I feel you call out the democratic party and give the GOP a free pass. I don't have a problem with letting poorly run businesses fall. But the precedent has been set...and it was a bipartisan effort in getting the bailout in place. Right now I am not confident that a DNC or GOP administration/congress will not make the same mistake again. Whenever a 'vital' corporation comes with hat in hand to the government, I feel that they'll leave with a hatful of money. Side unrelated topic: why is it that income tax is always the tax of conversation while sales tax seems to get a pass? In the past twenty-five years, I believe the sales tax in Indiana has risen from 5% to 7%....a 40% increase. And with inflation, that's truly an even greater increase than 40% in adjusted dollars. If income tax did that, there would be a national revolt. Edited by brumdog44, Jun 8 2009, 09:24 PM.
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| Mr Gray | Jun 8 2009, 09:29 PM Post #19 |
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Hey brum...this one's for you :fuckyou: SALES TAX. I won't disagree with you on the idea that the RNC/DNC might make the same mistakes again, specifically regarding bailouts unless we have REAL campaign finance reform. As long as they know who "finds their lost remote", they will continue to pay them back with our money. The democrats just tend to want to punish innovation/hard work and reward the opposite more than the republicans IMO. |
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| HoosierLars | Jun 8 2009, 09:43 PM Post #20 |
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I think bg will agree that I was pretty tough on McCain. Also, I've had plenty of bad things to say about Bush, and how the Republicans did a poor job of governing from 2001-2004. I was thinking about that recently, and realized that 9/11 dominated the agenda from 2001 to 2004, the year when Democrats won back the Senate. During that same time period, we suffered through a stock market crash, that also took the focus off cutting the federal budget. And of course it's a fact that many republicans thought they could keep their jobs by increasing spending. I think Obama's stunning rush to increase socialism has surprised you, and we might tend to agree more on the issues leading up to the 2010 election cycle. I will vote for Paul or his successor in 2012 if he has a real chance of winning and the republican candidate is another moderate like McCain. |
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| boilergrad01 | Jun 8 2009, 10:08 PM Post #21 |
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Lars, The Republicans lost the congress in 2006. The country lost faith in the Bush administration in late 2005. The republicans lost their way during the Bush years and that enabled the 2008 election and the Obama administration. The American have little faith in Washington right now for good reason. Both parties are dominated by selfish power hungry nuts that do not care about the best interest of the republic only about winning elections. Local state and federal politicians do not do what they believe in or what they think is best for the country only what is best to keep the power. They raise money running for office then put the left over cash into a PAC and slowly siphen the money back to themselves. A house member makes around $171,000 a year but if they stay up there 10 years they have a net worth over 1million. They right books and siphen money from the pacs they create from winning elections. They then get big business to donate to the pacs and in return create wealth out of the position. Bottum line both parties have moral challenges and few in either party have what is best for the nation at heart. |
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| IUCOLTFAN | Jun 9 2009, 03:26 PM Post #22 |
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Its actually pretty simple..........LET THEM GO BANKRUPT! Telling you that companies are "to big to fail" is just a way to scare you into watching them line their buddies pockets. |
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| IUCOLTFAN | Jun 9 2009, 03:30 PM Post #23 |
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Every time you get a raise, the income tax does go up. |
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| brumdog44 | Jun 9 2009, 07:16 PM Post #24 |
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If you are talking about teacher pay, that's not true. Increase in teacher salary has not kept up with inflation or state economic growth, therefor keeping the tax rate at 5% should produce more of an increase in state funds than does an increase in teacher salary....and by a wide margin. |
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| brumdog44 | Jun 9 2009, 07:31 PM Post #25 |
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aaron -- this is not meant as a defense to taxing health benefits, just meant to show that both parties seem to be more of the same. You do know that Reagan floated the same idea back in 1984, don't you? The idea he floated was taxing insurance benefits over $2100, a plan that seems to be similar to DNC's plan of taxing money over a certain benefit amount. |
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| Mr Gray | Jun 9 2009, 08:23 PM Post #26 |
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yes, I am aware of Reagan's plan in 84'. To be honest with you, if our taxation was a little more under control and fair, I wouldn't even be against taxing health benefits as income....in our current state, however, it is just another tax that I think should be unnecessary. |
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| IUCOLTFAN | Jun 10 2009, 12:47 PM Post #27 |
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Isnt that the same plan that Hillary proposed and Obama pissed all over it during the campaign? |
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| brumdog44 | Jun 10 2009, 09:08 PM Post #28 |
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Could be....when Hillary opens her mouth, I usually turn the channel. |
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| hoosierinhogville | Jun 10 2009, 09:37 PM Post #29 |
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Funny...so did Bill. |
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| brumdog44 | Jun 10 2009, 10:23 PM Post #30 |
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Actually, if she had opened her mouth once in a while around him, he wouldn't have looked for another one. |
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