MJ, I explained the 'causality' quite clearly, sorry you didn't understand or follow it.
I am sorry you do not know where the surplus to Social Security and Medicare are consumed. The tax cuts do not work, we have had them for years now and we are currently worst off now than before. Tax cuts doing war time is fiscally irresponsible. You need to PAY for wars! You raise taxes and ask the citizens to sacrifice for the war effort and for the troops. Bush and the Republicans did the exact opposite! On Oct 9, 5:11 pm, "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VT Sean Lewis > This can be fixed, but because of irresponsible fiscal policies by > the Bush and Republican Party it will be painful to reverse. > MJ > The problem is you fail to provide causality. Most of the > economic problems TODAY are rooted in the interventionist > policies that were enacted decades ago and subsequently > manipulated endlessly SINCE then -- but then that is the > problem with "planning". > > VT Sean Lewis > Sunset the tax cuts, the US government needs the cash. > MJ > Tax rates, of course, are not zero sum. > People do not behave the SAME way when circumstances > change. Consider Gasoline prices ... INCREASING prices > will result in less consumption ... and subsequently, lower > profits. The SAME occurs with tax rates. Tax someone 95% > and he will seek to employ his money/time elsewhere. Now > you LOST that 15% or 35% or whatever you were previously > stealing. > > There is SOME rate at which RETURN is maximized -- it > is much LOWER than currently exacted. > > VT Sean Lewis > Cut ALL US Budgets by 1/4 of the deficit. (example if > the deficit (on and off budget) is 10% cut all budgets > by 2.5% for 4 years. Based this on the previous years deficit > not projected deficit. If the Deficit is higher than 25% do it > for 1/8 or eight years. > > MJ > The Budget should be slashed by far more than the "Deficit" > which can be anything from NEGATIVE to POSITIVE. > > VT Sean Lewis > Means test Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid until the US > Budget has a surplus to pay back the loans from these agencies. > MJ > What "loans"? Where is it you imagine Government is going > to "invest" (really invest and NOT the Orwellian crap) these > taxes collected? > > These travesties should be ABOLISHED ... Savings should be > tax free (providing the incentive to do so). That, in itself, would > help on all sorts of levels. Similarly, with Government OUT of > health care, the prices can get BACK to their reasonable levels > that PRECEDED these interventions. > > VT Sean Lewis > Give significant tax breaks to US corporations that bring back > exported jobs to the US that increase the net jobs within the US > for that Corporation. > MJ > How does one "export" a Job? Whose "jobs" are being exported? > Companies have left the US due to the regulatory burden and > the silliness of the so-called judiciary system/process. > > VT Sean Lewis > Raise the Alternative Minimum Tax to exclude tax payers making > less than $75,000 and step ladder it to $125,000. > > This is a quick and dirty explanation, but if this is not done the > economic slowdown will accelerate. > MJ > Instead of your planning that cannot plan ... Government spending > should be GUTTED, Taxes should be SLASHED and the regulatory > burdens lifted. > > Regard$, > --MJ > > I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and > yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish > to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his > back. -- Leo Tolstoy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
