social security has nothing to do with the debt and deficit.
i don't own a corporate jet, so i would not have seen my taxes go up.
No, just some people are much deeper thinkers and can see things for what they really are and not just believe what they are told and take it as fact.
effective tax rates have never been lower all across the board for the past 10 years than they have ever been. no matter how much you say otherwise, it doesn't change FACT. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION. NOT YOUR OWN FACTS MY FRIEND....
Uhm, aggregate demand creates jobs; Nothing more, nothing less. If there is demand for a product someone will find a way to make a profit off of it and sell it to the masses... In our situation demand is the problem - supply side is really showing very few issues (record profits, etc). There are times when business is constrained by costs (1975) but this is not one of those times.
UB I agree with you except that SS is related, just not in the way ppl suggest. Contrary to popular belief, our biggest creditor is not China, it is us. The biggest piece of the $14.3T debt is to SS, at $2.67T.
Interesting. Take into account that according to geographic.org, US is rated 33rd in reading scores (lower than Mexico!), our infrastructure is rated 23rd in the world (C'mon, we are the most powerful nation in the world and we get beat by Barbados?) The real enemy is the solvency of our government due to complete fiscal irresponsibility.
you said "you would have been paying more taxes". at no time was the prospect of an across the board tax hike proposed, meaning that as much as you try to walk back your statement, you were still dead wrong.
i don't speak feces. sorry.
fully solvent until 2037. can pay out something like 70% until 2084. i have no doubts it will be there.
not a drag according to the most thorough study conducted on illegal immigration done by the state of texas in 2006. and that just measured how many taxes they paid in versus what services they received. they came out over $400 million ahead, a net boon. and then consider the fact that they added $17 billion to the economy just by being there.
i get plenty of work every fall from "poor people". this year i will be employing a few people myself, and i am as poor as it gets.
awww, poor baby. they're all going to go galt on us? go right ahead. plenty of people right behind them to take their places. that is the beauty of capitalism, everybody is replaceable.
Never said that.
Funny to me most of your political posts are just that.
The answer is not raising the debt ceiling, to loan more money you can't pay back. Also what the government says is solvent could be different the next day.
Spoken like a true liberal, "go ahead and have kids even though you can't raise them, some poor hard working person will pay for them." You are fucking ridiculous.
It is quite obvious your an idiot if you don't think that illegal immigration is not a major drag on our economy.
Yet again another ignorant fucking statement proving you have no clue how business really works. Employees are replaceable this is true, how about you take one of those employees that you think can just step in
i don't know if you have the cranial capacity of a mentally handicapped wombat, but the internet never forgets
i was talking about raising the cap on SS, not about raising the debt ceiling. are you a mentally handicapped wombat? i am curious now.
birth control is not 100% unless you just stop fucking altogether.
i realize that as someone who is quite possibly a mentally-handicapped wombat, you may believe this to be an awesome refutation of the most comprehensive study done to date on the issue, but sadly for you it is not.
so are businesses. do you think that if you quit your job managing the cinnabun at the local mall (a job that even a mentally-handicapped wombat could do, by the way), that no business would replace you or that cinnabun wouldn't franchise someone else?
i bet that cinnabun at the local mall in minot, north dakota was quite the cash cow
Thank you for proving my point, taxes are low right now(compared to Carter) , YET REVENUES ARE STILL AT AN ALL TIME HIGH (Fact). Like I said, $2.2 trillion, the problem is the spending...not lack of revenue.
that's because we have a long term issue here, not a short term one.
Misleading stat. If you look at nominal revenue of course it's going up... The size of the economy is larger, inflation, etc all ensure that nominal revenue is always on an upward trend. If you look at Revenue as a percentage of GDP though, specifically in components you'll find that corporate tax revenue is at all time lows(this graph ends at 2006, which is fine because recession numbers are skewed anyway):
so you are suggestin tax hikes in this climate? sounds good.you said "you would have been paying more taxes". at no time was the prospect of an across the board tax hike proposed, meaning that as much as you try to walk back your statement, you were still dead wrong.
i don't speak feces. sorry.
fully solvent until 2037. can pay out something like 70% until 2084. i have no doubts it will be there.
it can be permanently solvent by simply raising the cap.
and please learn the difference between "here" and "hear"
not a drag according to the most thorough study conducted on illegal immigration done by the state of texas in 2006. and that just measured how many taxes they paid in versus what services they received. they came out over $400 million ahead, a net boon. and then consider the fact that they added $17 billion to the economy just by being there.
welfare and other social programs are like a stitch in time saving nine. you may not be able to see the entirety of the picture, but it would cost more and create more social ills to do away with these programs and just let kids go to bed hungry.
i get plenty of work every fall from "poor people". this year i will be employing a few people myself, and i am as poor as it gets.
you have an incredibly simplistic way of viewing things here. not surprising.
awww, poor baby. they're all going to go galt on us? go right ahead. plenty of people right behind them to take their places. that is the beauty of capitalism, everybody is replaceable.
btw, empirical evidence proves you wrong. tax levels under clinton were higher than they are now, and not everyone threw a hissy fit and shut down to show that big bad government a lesson. so your simpleton argument and idle threats are laughable. watch me laugh at you in emoticon style ---->
where did i suggest that?
Never said that in the context you are using, simply making a ponit to your "Tax the Rich" statements. Taxes are relative, they effect everybody in one way or another.
The debt celing has an effect on Social Security; do you really think that the money that gets paid into SS is not pulled out to fund other projects and studies of the government?
Like I said before, you can take your studies and stick them. There are 3 types of lies, White lie, Bold Face Lie and then Statistics. Illegal immigration studies mean shit because the liberal media and statiticians can manipulate them to the outcome they want most of the time. Plain and simple, the idiots you obviously vote for help perpetuate this lie all in the name of votes. They don't have compassion or whatever they get on television and tell you it is simply a ruse to get the sheeple of this country on there side to get the votes to keep them in their comfort zone.
Sure they would franchise someone else, someone else with money. Do you think for a second the average person with no business expierence could walk in and get the franchise? Go ahead I'll wait............... Hell no!
i presented the ENTIRE POST, full context included.
every study i present is a vast conspiracy, yet your biased opinion shall be worshipped at the altar of truth
so you can piss off and throw a hissy fit about all this "unfair gubbmint taxation" and go earn nothing, rest assured someone will come along and take the job that you went galt on and make the money you could have been making. whether they have money or not, there will be someone to come along and replace you.
