A nation running on borrowed capital and maybe borrowed time. When are they going to realize that if you want invasions, wars, enhanced security, world-wide military bases, stupid 3,000 mile fences, and an empire, you’re going to have to pay for it with higher taxes.
Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is the ‘Most Dangerous Organization in World History’Outlandish? Well, no. “The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.”
The Republican party does seem to be focusing on creating a dictatorship. Trump thinks anything he signs is something imposed immediately. He disparages any Judge that gets in the way, apparently not understanding our government is based on laws and three branches of government. He does what any incipient dictator does and starts cutting and controlling information sources within the government. He and his rat pack try to limit information to the media. The Trump family and his rat pack stand to profit directly from the things they do in government. It’s similar to Turkey where the dictator is consolidating power. In not too many years we could look like Russia where exercising one’s first amendment rights lands you in prison or dead.
@Inventor. You are confusing correlation and causation. There is no proof that one thing (tax rates) caused another (tax receipts). I know ambiguity is not easily tolerated, but it more accurately describes many states of information. State changes in information demonstrates beyond any shadow of a doubt that our world operates in a nonlinear way. I’ll break it down for you. If you know what “A” is, for example, you first have to know “B” in order to know “C” Sensitivity to initial conditions is another way of looking at the problem.
Federal rates and tax receipts are part of an enormous non linear system. You cannot know causality with any precision. I would argue in this case that a smaller system, like a small state, for example would give us a better illustration of the causal relationship between tax rates and receipts. Like Kansas, for example. Or Massachusetts.
Republican congress is totally out of control when it comes to spending. But it is how they cut that will hurt the middle class. They’ll give more to the rich and cut off help to the poor. Cut taxes and increase spending. Just as they always do.
Gypsy8 about 7 years ago
A nation running on borrowed capital and maybe borrowed time. When are they going to realize that if you want invasions, wars, enhanced security, world-wide military bases, stupid 3,000 mile fences, and an empire, you’re going to have to pay for it with higher taxes.
Radish the wordsmith about 7 years ago
The Republican congress, they hate government anyway.
walfishj about 7 years ago
Radish is right; the rules on what happens when you don’t pass a budget favor the alt-right.
Radish the wordsmith about 7 years ago
Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is the ‘Most Dangerous Organization in World History’Outlandish? Well, no. “The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.”
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 7 years ago
The Republican party does seem to be focusing on creating a dictatorship. Trump thinks anything he signs is something imposed immediately. He disparages any Judge that gets in the way, apparently not understanding our government is based on laws and three branches of government. He does what any incipient dictator does and starts cutting and controlling information sources within the government. He and his rat pack try to limit information to the media. The Trump family and his rat pack stand to profit directly from the things they do in government. It’s similar to Turkey where the dictator is consolidating power. In not too many years we could look like Russia where exercising one’s first amendment rights lands you in prison or dead.
superposition about 7 years ago
Both parties fail us time and time again but we don’t see it for some reason and think that the “other” party will fix it after the next election.
twclix about 7 years ago
@Inventor. You are confusing correlation and causation. There is no proof that one thing (tax rates) caused another (tax receipts). I know ambiguity is not easily tolerated, but it more accurately describes many states of information. State changes in information demonstrates beyond any shadow of a doubt that our world operates in a nonlinear way. I’ll break it down for you. If you know what “A” is, for example, you first have to know “B” in order to know “C” Sensitivity to initial conditions is another way of looking at the problem.
Federal rates and tax receipts are part of an enormous non linear system. You cannot know causality with any precision. I would argue in this case that a smaller system, like a small state, for example would give us a better illustration of the causal relationship between tax rates and receipts. Like Kansas, for example. Or Massachusetts.
Dave Ferro about 7 years ago
Yeah, don’t cut spending, or anything like that…
Mr. Blawt about 7 years ago
Republican congress is totally out of control when it comes to spending. But it is how they cut that will hurt the middle class. They’ll give more to the rich and cut off help to the poor. Cut taxes and increase spending. Just as they always do.