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About the last comic….. @Ionizer Won’t fly, no matter how hard you push. If CNN et al. had info Bush was responsible for those deaths, we’d have heard nothing else since 9/11. They’re silent, so there’s nothing there. ______________________________________________ I guess you don’t watch the news… Bush was informed there would be an attempt made by an airplane flying into a building and he ignored it… you never heard of this? ….. Really? Never?… What rock were you living under all these years?…. We’re still hearing about that one… maybe not on Republican National News (Fox) but its been around a long time. So yes it flys very well.
The rich are the job creators. Raising their taxes from the current rate of 0% – 13% will cause them to take all their money out of the US, put it in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and lay off the 80% of US workers they are currently still employing. Besides, they are only earning about 50% of the total national income, so there’s nothing to tax, even taxing them at 100% of their un-tax-sheltered income would only raise about 0.0001% of the total deficit.
To get the economy moving again, there should be absolutely no taxes on anyone making more than $10 million a year, plus massive government handouts. (Fortunately, every president since Reagan has seen that this is true, and has made sure the US is heading in this direction.)
If you look at Factual reports over the last 50 years , unemployment goes up when there are tax cuts and down when there are tax hikes. I know fox tells you otherwise but its true. It was George Bush (sr) who called Reagan’s ‘Trickle Down Theory’ “Voodoo Economics” then they bribed him with the VP job and he promptly changed his stance on Economics, Abortion and other things.
Irony is dead… Michael is so over the top that I would have thought everybody notices it, but I guess he has to put little “sarcasm” tags around his posts from now on…
Hmmm… Let’s look at this from a nutritional point of view… They are literally “Fat Cats”, so there is some good eating on them, but it might not be healthy. Also all this whiskey and cigars might have made them carcinogenic. On the other hand their trophy-wifes eat healthy and work out a lot. So I suggest we eat these first and use the Fat Cats as desert only…
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.
So you get rid of the rich, the people who own companies that we work for, and guess what , there go even more jobs out the window. you voted him in people, now deal with it. lmao…it’s nice down here in Costa Rica.
Raising taxes creates jobs? In what universe? The threat of rising taxes is driving business out of the country. Bush was trying to get the nomination for running when he called reality ‘voodoo economics’ when in fact the restructuring of the tax laws allowing people to keep more of what they earned created jobs and economic prosperity around the world. The end of the so called ‘voodoo economics’ is causing high unemployment and deficits. Ending tax collection for a year would effectively double people’s spending ability and allow the economy to mushroom.
Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson’s considerable talent.
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mikefive said, 6 months ago
Tidbits for a titanic monster.
dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
Oh, man, even for Lisa LImbot this is “rich”!
Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago
About the last comic…..
@Ionizer
Won’t fly, no matter how hard you push. If CNN et al. had info Bush was responsible for those deaths, we’d have heard nothing else since 9/11. They’re silent, so there’s nothing there.
______________________________________________
I guess you don’t watch the news… Bush was informed there would be an attempt made by an airplane flying into a building and he ignored it… you never heard of this? ….. Really? Never?… What rock were you living under all these years?…. We’re still hearing about that one… maybe not on Republican National News (Fox) but its been around a long time. So yes it flys very well.
Michael wme said, 6 months ago
The rich are the job creators. Raising their taxes from the current rate of 0% – 13% will cause them to take all their money out of the US, put it in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and lay off the 80% of US workers they are currently still employing. Besides, they are only earning about 50% of the total national income, so there’s nothing to tax, even taxing them at 100% of their un-tax-sheltered income would only raise about 0.0001% of the total deficit.
To get the economy moving again, there should be absolutely no taxes on anyone making more than $10 million a year, plus massive government handouts.
(Fortunately, every president since Reagan has seen that this is true, and has made sure the US is heading in this direction.)
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago
@Michael wme
If you look at Factual reports over the last 50 years , unemployment goes up when there are tax cuts and down when there are tax hikes. I know fox tells you otherwise but its true. It was George Bush (sr) who called Reagan’s ‘Trickle Down Theory’ “Voodoo Economics” then they bribed him with the VP job and he promptly changed his stance on Economics, Abortion and other things.
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
Irony is dead… Michael is so over the top that I would have thought everybody notices it, but I guess he has to put little “sarcasm” tags around his posts from now on…
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
@Radish
Hmmm… Let’s look at this from a nutritional point of view… They are literally “Fat Cats”, so there is some good eating on them, but it might not be healthy. Also all this whiskey and cigars might have made them carcinogenic. On the other hand their trophy-wifes eat healthy and work out a lot. So I suggest we eat these first and use the Fat Cats as desert only…
mikefive said, 6 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
You really must look out for michael’s satire.
dapperdan61
said, 6 months 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 said, 6 months ago
Notice the monster says “appetizers”…who do you think is the main course?
Respectful Troll said, 6 months 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.
russell5419 said, 6 months ago
So you get rid of the rich, the people who own companies that we work for, and guess what , there go even more jobs out the window. you voted him in people, now deal with it. lmao…it’s nice down here in Costa Rica.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
Raising taxes creates jobs? In what universe? The threat of rising taxes is driving business out of the country. Bush was trying to get the nomination for running when he called reality ‘voodoo economics’ when in fact the restructuring of the tax laws allowing people to keep more of what they earned created jobs and economic prosperity around the world. The end of the so called ‘voodoo economics’ is causing high unemployment and deficits. Ending tax collection for a year would effectively double people’s spending ability and allow the economy to mushroom.
Robert Landers said, 6 months ago
@mikefive
At least this time he was obvious about it!!