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“Tax breaks did work well. Lie-berals don’t understand how letting people keep the money they earn benefits everyone.”
It worked out well for the so called job creators. Seeing as how most of the jobs (if any) the aforementioned creators created were in China rather than the US, the tax breaks didn’t work out so well for the rest of the country.
In addition to unemployment among returning vets being higher than the national average here are some additional thoughts. Vets filing for their benefits are experiencing waiting times exceeding 250 days. In larger cities like New York and LA, waiting times exceed a year. Those benefits include medical support for people who have lost limbs, hearing, vision, etc. Support for soldiers with PTSD and other psychological damage is even worse. Suicide rates among veterans is one to two a day depending on what source you use. Homelessness and divorce among veterans is high as a group. Families, spouses and children, of soldiers killed in action often have to hire a lawyer at their own expense to get benefits. I read an open letter by a young man who is dying from injuries received in Iraq. ^ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/ ^ I read it at a different site than the one I link here, however, I saw scathing comments criticizing this young man who was angry at being sent to a war for which he didn’t sign up. They said he was a volunteer and therefore had no right to complain. This young man gave his youth, his flesh, and will soon die because he was sent to a war of choice and he is angry. The young man who wrote this recent letter had wanted to fight in Afghanistan where his President told him our enemies waited. He says he’d have no complaints if he had been injured there, but… Read the letter. Then… Write a letter to your Senators, your representatives, and your President. Tell them our neighbors who went overseas to fight for their nation, for their neighbors, and for the man standing beside them, deserve better. They fought for us, they need US to fight for them. Respectfully, C.
It has come to my attention that King of Me, a regular commentator on GC has been made invisible. If you go to his profile page, you’ll see he posted on this very cartoon just 25 minutes before I started writing this note and his words have not only been censored, they’ve been silenced. While many of you may not have agreed with his opinions, but I never saw him be vulgar or anymore acerbic than many commentators on these boards. If he violated a TOS agreement rule, that’s legitimate, but if he was made invisible because of his comment, it is a violation of free speech and could happen to ANY of us. Consider writing to GC to find out why he was made invisible and let them know how you feel about such practices. This cartoon is about Veterans who died for our Constitutional rights. I would like to know why a person gets banned. Not only so I can avoid breaking rules, but so I can know that an injustice has not been done. If anyone knows WHY King of Me was banned, you can email me at sanesaint@hotmail.com King of Me, if you read this, I’d love to hear from you as well. You have moments of snarkiness, but you’re good people. Respectfully, C.
Republicans blocked the publication of the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) report in September. The report showed that lowering tax rates for the wealthiest Americans had no effect on economic growth or job creation and increased the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us.
The CRS report, by researcher Thomas Hungerford, concluded:
The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth. The reduction in the top tax rates appears to be uncorrelated with saving, investment, and productivity growth. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie. However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution. As measured by IRS data, the share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession. At the same time, the average tax rate paid by the top 0.1% fell from over 50% in 1945 to about 25% in 2009. Tax policy could have a relation to how the economic pie is sliced—lower top tax rates may be associated with greater income disparities.
C., You might include sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and others besides neighbors. My Great nephew has finally found work, but will lose it as our Governor is privatizing his position in September. (It may cost more, but it will give the Guv another thing to pass on to his financial supporters.)
“Look at Reagan’s tax cuts and the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy.” . I saw my pay go down, taxes go up and my neighborhood go into rapid decline because of Reagan’s policies.
Link to report http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf
Summary was on HP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/congressional-research-service_n_2059156.html
Link to NY Times original story http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/business/questions-raised-on-withdrawal-of-congressional-research-services-report-on-tax-rates.html?ref=business&_r=2&
“Look at Reagan’s tax cuts and the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy.”
The greatest peacetime expansion occurred under Clinton.
As a result of the fallacies of deficit spending, the “Tax Simplification Act” of 1986 was one of the biggest tax increases in history. And we still ended his administration with great debt.
There’s a reason why that time in history spawned the “me generation”. During Reagan’s administration, middle class started its disappearing act. Sharper Image and Rolex did well. So did K Mart. Most “middle of the road” department stores went under. Marketing advisors during that time told us business owners to either appeal to ultra-cheap or ultra-chic, because there would be no middle market.
Sorry to say they were correct in their predictions.
A couple of weeks ago the nytimes website said that I had read all of the free stories that I was allowed. They said to subscribe if I wanted to read more.
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ConserveGov said, 2 months ago
Maybe Barry’s Jobs Council can help……..What’s that Czar’s name again?
braindead08 said, 2 months ago
^ Or maybe we should just give some more tax breaks to Romney and the other Job Creators. You know, it’s worked so well in the past.
Ms. Ima said, 2 months ago
Tax breaks did work well. Lie-berals don’t understand how letting people keep the money they earn benefits everyone.
Jase99 said, 2 months ago
“Tax breaks did work well. Lie-berals don’t understand how letting people keep the money they earn benefits everyone.”
It worked out well for the so called job creators. Seeing as how most of the jobs (if any) the aforementioned creators created were in China rather than the US, the tax breaks didn’t work out so well for the rest of the country.
Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago
In addition to unemployment among returning vets being higher than the national average here are some additional thoughts.
Vets filing for their benefits are experiencing waiting times exceeding 250 days. In larger cities like New York and LA, waiting times exceed a year.
Those benefits include medical support for people who have lost limbs, hearing, vision, etc. Support for soldiers with PTSD and other psychological damage is even worse.
Suicide rates among veterans is one to two a day depending on what source you use.
Homelessness and divorce among veterans is high as a group.
Families, spouses and children, of soldiers killed in action often have to hire a lawyer at their own expense to get benefits.
I read an open letter by a young man who is dying from injuries received in Iraq.
^
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/
^
I read it at a different site than the one I link here, however, I saw scathing comments criticizing this young man who was angry at being sent to a war for which he didn’t sign up. They said he was a volunteer and therefore had no right to complain. This young man gave his youth, his flesh, and will soon die because he was sent to a war of choice and he is angry.
The young man who wrote this recent letter had wanted to fight in Afghanistan where his President told him our enemies waited. He says he’d have no complaints if he had been injured there, but…
Read the letter.
Then…
Write a letter to your Senators, your representatives, and your President. Tell them our neighbors who went overseas to fight for their nation, for their neighbors, and for the man standing beside them, deserve better. They fought for us, they need US to fight for them.
Respectfully,
C.
Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago
It has come to my attention that King of Me, a regular commentator on GC has been made invisible. If you go to his profile page, you’ll see he posted on this very cartoon just 25 minutes before I started writing this note and his words have not only been censored, they’ve been silenced.
While many of you may not have agreed with his opinions, but I never saw him be vulgar or anymore acerbic than many commentators on these boards. If he violated a TOS agreement rule, that’s legitimate, but if he was made invisible because of his comment, it is a violation of free speech and could happen to ANY of us.
Consider writing to GC to find out why he was made invisible and let them know how you feel about such practices.
This cartoon is about Veterans who died for our Constitutional rights. I would like to know why a person gets banned. Not only so I can avoid breaking rules, but so I can know that an injustice has not been done.
If anyone knows WHY King of Me was banned, you can email me at sanesaint@hotmail.com
King of Me, if you read this, I’d love to hear from you as well. You have moments of snarkiness, but you’re good people.
Respectfully,
C.
Nantucket19 said, 2 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Republicans blocked the publication of the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) report in September. The report showed that lowering tax rates for the wealthiest Americans had no effect on economic growth or job creation and increased the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us.
The CRS report, by researcher Thomas Hungerford, concluded:
The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth. The reduction in the top tax rates appears to be uncorrelated with saving, investment, and productivity growth. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie.
However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution. As measured by IRS data, the share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession. At the same time, the average tax rate paid by the top 0.1% fell from over 50% in 1945 to about 25% in 2009. Tax policy could have a relation to how the economic pie is sliced—lower top tax rates may be associated with greater income disparities.
Nantucket19 said, 2 months ago
@ScottPM
Reagan reversed the tax cuts because the deficit EXPLODED.
D PB said, 2 months ago
@Nantucket19
Just curious, if it wasn’t published how did you get the data and quotes?
Is it available on the interwebz? Link please.
Justice22 said, 2 months ago
@Respectful Troll
C.,
You might include sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and others besides neighbors. My Great nephew has finally found work, but will lose it as our Governor is privatizing his position in September. (It may cost more, but it will give the Guv another thing to pass on to his financial supporters.)
Justice22 said, 2 months ago
@ScottPM
“Look at Reagan’s tax cuts and the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy.”
.
I saw my pay go down, taxes go up and my neighborhood go into rapid decline because of Reagan’s policies.
Nantucket19 said, 2 months ago
@D PB
Link to report
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf
Summary was on HP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/congressional-research-service_n_2059156.html
Link to NY Times original story
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/business/questions-raised-on-withdrawal-of-congressional-research-services-report-on-tax-rates.html?ref=business&_r=2&
I Play One On TV said, 2 months ago
@Respectful Troll
Well put. Thanks.
I Play One On TV said, 2 months ago
@ScottPM
“Look at Reagan’s tax cuts and the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy.”
The greatest peacetime expansion occurred under Clinton.
As a result of the fallacies of deficit spending, the “Tax Simplification Act” of 1986 was one of the biggest tax increases in history. And we still ended his administration with great debt.
There’s a reason why that time in history spawned the “me generation”. During Reagan’s administration, middle class started its disappearing act. Sharper Image and Rolex did well. So did K Mart. Most “middle of the road” department stores went under. Marketing advisors during that time told us business owners to either appeal to ultra-cheap or ultra-chic, because there would be no middle market.
Sorry to say they were correct in their predictions.
Rockngolfer said, 2 months ago
@Nantucket19
A couple of weeks ago the nytimes website said that I had read all of the free stories that I was allowed.
They said to subscribe if I wanted to read more.