I say tax the SOB’s that keep sending US jobs overseas. Far too often I get a CSR in another country who can barely speak English much less understand how to help me. Reward those businesses that keep jobs here & penalize those that keep outsourcing our good paying jobs.
There’s a rather eclectic comic named Emo Phillips. He did a bit in the 80’s when Japan owned a lot of US debt. In it, he suggests we’ve nothing to worry about. One day the Japanese will come and say they’d like their money. We’ll say we don’t have it. They’ll ask what did you do with it. We’ll say, we bought all of these nuclear missiles. The Japanese will then say, ok, don’t worry about it, we’ll talk to you later.There’s a reason the monster is a dragon.We have a deficit. We owe most of the money to China. China doesn’t want our money as much as they want our coal, gas, food, and technology. As long as we provide value, money is not as important. There is so many things we can do, here’s one, a quote from Wiki about Gold mined on public lands in Nevada." Many of Nevada’s gold mines are located on public land, but the mining companies pay no royalties to the US government. Fighting efforts to have the gold mining industry pay royalties for mining on public land, the local community commission in Elko County, Nevada said that royalties would force mining companies to cut jobs and move elsewhere.3 In response, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) said the no royalty program is a “rip-off and doesn’t make sense any more,” and if it was changed, “could provide $300 to 400 million in revenue to the US government.“"Most of the minerals, trees, and resources harvested from public lands are done so at a fraction of the cost of the same items harvested from private lands or imported from overseas. Closing loopholes, increasing penalties for noncompliance to regulations, and aggressive enforcement of existing regulations would save additional millions, even billions. We have several commentators on these forums who know much more about this than me and have put forth good ideas in the past despite attacks from people who aggressively defend positions without links or explanation.An insult is rarely informative.If the deficit is Godzilla, we can survive it. It may do a lot of damage, but we have the technology and manpower to stand against whatever is thrown at us. All we need to do is face it with unity and resolve.Respectfully,C.
When Reagan took office, the National Debt was less than $1 trillion. When he left office, it was over $5 trillion. Unemployment was 15-25% depending where you were living. If you were in the military manufacturing, you did pretty good. Remember that there are over 2,000 Abrams tanks (now being retrofitted) setting in the California desert that the military didn;t want then nor do they want them now, purchased when Reagan was president. The unemployment rate was manipulated as 6 months unemployment was the max length of time a person could draw, military were counted as employed and discharged military could not draw unemployment. My paycheck kept getting smaller in spite of pay increases. Reagan was the perpetrator of the largest “stimulus” in history.
Fact 1: We owe most of our public debt, to ourselves here at home.(well, the bankers and 1% holding the tab.)
Fact 2: The greatest economic boom, and growth in national infrastructure and wealth, and reduction in income disparity, occurred when personal income taxes were at the highest rates, ever.
Bilateral support for stupid economic policies, like deregulation of the “financial industry”, caused the problem, and it will take true bipartisan “bite the bullet” and admission of guilt and responsible actions, that will “rescue” us.
The hardest part of dealing “irony” out to arch conservatives is, they’ve already been hitting themselves in the head with an iron hammer for far too long.
You do know,of course you don’t, that the rich pay more in taxes as a percentage than they make. What that means is the top 10% make 40 precent of all income each year, but pay more than 40 percent of all the income taxes. Hence they are paying more than their fair share.
no one is talking about getting rid of the rich, no one is talking about eating the rich. what we’re talkking about is fairness in taxation. the uber-wealthy pay less in taxes than everyone else.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
Oh, man, even for Lisa LImbot this is “rich”!
Dapperdan61 Premium Member over 11 years ago
I say tax the SOB’s that keep sending US jobs overseas. Far too often I get a CSR in another country who can barely speak English much less understand how to help me. Reward those businesses that keep jobs here & penalize those that keep outsourcing our good paying jobs.
bam925 over 11 years ago
Notice the monster says “appetizers”…who do you think is the main course?
chazandru over 11 years ago
There’s a rather eclectic comic named Emo Phillips. He did a bit in the 80’s when Japan owned a lot of US debt. In it, he suggests we’ve nothing to worry about. One day the Japanese will come and say they’d like their money. We’ll say we don’t have it. They’ll ask what did you do with it. We’ll say, we bought all of these nuclear missiles. The Japanese will then say, ok, don’t worry about it, we’ll talk to you later.There’s a reason the monster is a dragon.We have a deficit. We owe most of the money to China. China doesn’t want our money as much as they want our coal, gas, food, and technology. As long as we provide value, money is not as important. There is so many things we can do, here’s one, a quote from Wiki about Gold mined on public lands in Nevada." Many of Nevada’s gold mines are located on public land, but the mining companies pay no royalties to the US government. Fighting efforts to have the gold mining industry pay royalties for mining on public land, the local community commission in Elko County, Nevada said that royalties would force mining companies to cut jobs and move elsewhere.3 In response, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) said the no royalty program is a “rip-off and doesn’t make sense any more,” and if it was changed, “could provide $300 to 400 million in revenue to the US government.“"Most of the minerals, trees, and resources harvested from public lands are done so at a fraction of the cost of the same items harvested from private lands or imported from overseas. Closing loopholes, increasing penalties for noncompliance to regulations, and aggressive enforcement of existing regulations would save additional millions, even billions. We have several commentators on these forums who know much more about this than me and have put forth good ideas in the past despite attacks from people who aggressively defend positions without links or explanation.An insult is rarely informative.If the deficit is Godzilla, we can survive it. It may do a lot of damage, but we have the technology and manpower to stand against whatever is thrown at us. All we need to do is face it with unity and resolve.Respectfully,C.
Chillbilly over 11 years ago
If there are fewer rich people in the US after Obama completes his term, I’ll clean Lisa Benson’s trailer in a french maid’s outfit.
frodo1008 over 11 years ago
The US under the Obama administration now has more millionaires than at any time in its history!
Link to a Wall Street Journal article stating this:
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/06/22/u-s-has-record-number-of-millionaires/
nanellen over 11 years ago
And they are probably all Democrats in O’s back pocket also working for the government.
lonecat over 11 years ago
The debt is a problem, not a crisis.
Justice22 over 11 years ago
When Reagan took office, the National Debt was less than $1 trillion. When he left office, it was over $5 trillion. Unemployment was 15-25% depending where you were living. If you were in the military manufacturing, you did pretty good. Remember that there are over 2,000 Abrams tanks (now being retrofitted) setting in the California desert that the military didn;t want then nor do they want them now, purchased when Reagan was president. The unemployment rate was manipulated as 6 months unemployment was the max length of time a person could draw, military were counted as employed and discharged military could not draw unemployment. My paycheck kept getting smaller in spite of pay increases. Reagan was the perpetrator of the largest “stimulus” in history.
feverjr Premium Member over 11 years ago
Show me Romney’s taxes for the last 10 years, let’s see who’s getting free stuff.
Uncle Joe Premium Member over 11 years ago
I like the cut of your jib! Anyone who thinks demand created by a strong middle class is what really creates jobs, is a communist moocher.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
Fact 1: We owe most of our public debt, to ourselves here at home.(well, the bankers and 1% holding the tab.)
Fact 2: The greatest economic boom, and growth in national infrastructure and wealth, and reduction in income disparity, occurred when personal income taxes were at the highest rates, ever.
Bilateral support for stupid economic policies, like deregulation of the “financial industry”, caused the problem, and it will take true bipartisan “bite the bullet” and admission of guilt and responsible actions, that will “rescue” us.
oneoldhat over 11 years ago
during reagan went from double digit inflation to 4% and 9%+ unemployment to 5%+ solved the carter recession
Rottiluv over 11 years ago
Tax the corporations to the skin of their teeth, then give them juicy deductions for R&D, factories, and employment in AMERICA.
There you go, problem solved. They don’t want to pay the heavy taxes, they have to provide jobs here.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
The hardest part of dealing “irony” out to arch conservatives is, they’ve already been hitting themselves in the head with an iron hammer for far too long.
archimedeslives over 11 years ago
You do know,of course you don’t, that the rich pay more in taxes as a percentage than they make. What that means is the top 10% make 40 precent of all income each year, but pay more than 40 percent of all the income taxes. Hence they are paying more than their fair share.
rini1946 over 11 years ago
no they are gone remember congress and the senate are all millionaires so they will be last to go
dannysixpack over 11 years ago
no one is talking about getting rid of the rich, no one is talking about eating the rich. what we’re talkking about is fairness in taxation. the uber-wealthy pay less in taxes than everyone else.