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The American people don't seem to care much about this kind of data.
Poll: Americans Favor Jobs Plan, Taxing Rich
http://www.talkradionews.com/news/2011/9/21/poll-americans-favor-jobs-plan-taxing-rich.html
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 At 10:21AM | Benny Martinez President Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans as a method of paying for the American Jobs Act has gained some considerable support from the American public, according to recent poll figures. A new poll released by Gallup found that seven in ten Americans favor increasing taxes on corporations by eliminating tax loopholes. Additionally, 66 percent also favor proposed tax rate increases on individuals earning more than $200,000 and families earning more than $250,000. Among conservative voters, 53 percent agree on eliminating corporate tax deductions while just 41 percent favor tax hikes on individual and household incomes. Comparatively, nearly 86 percent of Democrats and those leaning to the left favor hiked taxes on both entities. Additionally, poll figures found that Americans generally approve of the President’s jobs plan. Most notably, a proposal that would provide tax cuts for small businesses , which includes incentives to hire workers, garnered wide bipartisan support with Republican and Democratic voters, 84 and 87 percent, respectively. Results are based on telephone interviews conducted between Sept. 15-18 with a random sample of 1,004 adults over the age of 18. There's that same 33%-66% split that we see all the time. Still sure Obama is going to lose the 2012 election? Is there any question who the outlier-fringe thinkers are? |
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US Hikers Released
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Personally I am shocked and appalled that the US didn't do more to get them freed sooner. I mean they were just hikers.
They always charge interlopers with spying. They usually let them go. How do we know what the U.S. did to get them freed? I know that I'm not privy to what negotiations take place behind doors. I doubt that any of the general public is. Besides, what kind of treaty arrangements do we have with Iran. Any at all? what "more" should the U.S. have been doing? |
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,,and maybe they are right,, and maybe they arent,,,only time will tell....
It seems to work fine for the militaries of a whole bunch of countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation_and_military_service I counted 41. Hopefully, America isn't so "exceptional" that what works for much of the rest of the world won't work here. |
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so folks who want to cut government spending don't care about this country??? I'm sure they care about the country. They just don't seem to care about most of the people who live in the country.
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Government is not a business and it should not be run like a business. The first priority for a business is effficiency and profits. The best way to insure that Government can serve no purpose but to enrich the already rich is to strive for efficiency and "profit". Efficiency in Government kills jobs in the overall economy. That's obvious. A Government that strives for efficiency is one that seeks maximum wealth production with minumum resource expense. Translation: Make more money with less human input. More money with fewer employed people. That's where the right has pushed our Government. How's that working out for us, so far?
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More misleading data if you're interested in fairness in taxation. (It talks only about Federal Income Taxes). Go back to the Ezra Klein graph I've posted repeatedly. It shows an ever so slightly progressive bias to our tax structure based on all taxes paid (not just Federal Income Taxes).
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Biggest Applause Line
Edited by
artlo
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Tue 09/13/11 09:05 AM
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Just highlighting why you seem to approve of society allowing nature to have its way with disease and pestilence while standing by and doing nothing. That is your position, isn't it? Or, was this just a Biology lesson? How does it apply to the issue at hand? That we shouldn't be creating "chaos" by disrupting the natural course of disease by offering health assistance to people? By just letting them die? That's what got the cheers. It's a point of view. It's good for us to know who stands where on issues like this.
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Congrats to Ron Paul
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One thing I learned from reading John Pursig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance many years ago is that even a man who is a certifiable lunatic can have brilliant and profound insights into some things.
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Biggest Applause Line
Edited by
artlo
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Tue 09/13/11 08:31 AM
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Seakolony wrote:
diseases are also living matter....by interfering in that order you create an imbalance to the natural order....creating mass chaos......but yes it is the destiny that people die from disease the plague was defeated.....cancer has been around as long as species has and after the plague came aids.....we have west nile virus......again disease will come we won't defeat it......it won't happen the more we cure the worse and harder they because nature wishes it to be that way..... |
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Biggest Applause Line
Edited by
artlo
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Tue 09/13/11 07:54 AM
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More indication of how Tea Partiers think.
"At CNN’s tea party debate last night, Wolf Blitzer asked elderly crank Ron Paul what ought to be done for an uninsured thirty year old who becomes gravely ill. Paul said freedom was all about taking risks, which brought applause from the GOP audience, because they love freedom, but apparently aren’t too keen on sick poor people. “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Blitzer asked. Tea partiers screamed “Yeah!” and cheered before Paul could answer again:" http://blog.chron.com/partisangridlock/2011/09/tea-party-audience-uninsured-sick-people-should-die/ |
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Congrats to Ron Paul
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. . . BUT, Paul was absolutely correct when he said, "This whole idea that the whole Muslim world is responsible for this and they're attacking us because we're free and prosperous is just not true". For this he was booed by the "exceptionalist" republis.
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Congrats to Ron Paul
Edited by
artlo
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Mon 09/12/11 07:54 AM
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The guy has been right about just about everything for his entire career
Yeah. He thinks that whole 1900 Galveston hurricane thing went just swimmingly without any FEMA to help. "The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is to date the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States" (W's hurricane is #2). - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane |
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Congrats to Ron Paul
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"]FYI, RP was elected and reelcted for 10 terms in Congress . . . " in Texas. could be that that stuff just doesn't fly on the national stage.
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Presidents Job Plan...
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Anyway I am gonna be smart and plan on not having it.
Good plan. That means more security for everybody else. |
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Topic:
The Children of Aftermath
Edited by
artlo
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Sun 09/11/11 05:12 PM
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I liked the article. In the same way, people under 45 or so have never lived in a country that didn't worship Ronald Reagan and had public spokesmen trying to indoctrinate them to radical right-wing ideology during their years of political "awareness". They haven't a clue what it was like to
live in the 50s, 60s and even 70s America that worked as designed and prospered before being perverted and twisted by the backward forces. It is probably unreasonable to expect rational thought from those of this age who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated. |
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bush's ranch also had PLENTY of open space, and horses, Actually not. Our man of steel, our intrepid warrior was scared to death of horses.
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Really? It's simple math...........I was born in 1978, which makes me 32 almost 33. So who was in office then? Wait for it.........CARTER.
My bad. You were a mature, politically aware and erudite 2 yr old when Carter left office. |
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Presidents Job Plan...
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I am really curious
There are hundreds of articles out there by non-partisan and governmental sources that explain all this. I've cited them dozens of times. Anybody can Google them and read them. |
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Presidents Job Plan...
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Every time the Fed prints more, the value of the item they are printing becomes less...
That's what's wrong with quantitative easing. It can only be used sparingly for economic stimulus. That's the way the Fed has used it. It has negative side-effects, but it is warranted in emergencies..
100 cents becomes worth only 40 cents... then 20 cents... eventually your dollar can but buy you a piece of worthless candy. It would be wrong to assume that "just printing money" is a routine strategy. It was never even used before the Japanese did it in 2001. Money creation in the America economy has never been accomplished by "just printing money", and it is not even necessarily inflationary. New money is ordinarily created through normal economic activity, when somebody (business, especially) borrows money from the bank. If productivity increases keep up with the growth of the money supply, there is no inflation. That's why Clinton was able to help create an economic boom with no inflation. |
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Presidents Job Plan...
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And liberal entitlements don't cause the debt ratio figures to raise
Of course liberal spending causes debt to go up. Just as "conservative entilements" cause the debt ratio to rise, such as tax breaks for Corporations that have record profits and pay little or no taxes and those $70 screwdrivers and $200 toilet seats and cost-plus contracts that characterize the military. .......I have no illusions to the fact that social security and medicare will be bankrupt and unavailable by the time I reach an age of collection[
I am afraid that you have lots of illusions about Social Security. Medicare will be just fine if it is expanded to cover everybody. ]...but you are fooling yourself if you think Republicans are the only ones responsible here
Unfortunately, Republicans and Democrats have to share the American Government with each other. Of course both kinds of spending contribute to the debt. Who said otherwise? It's just a matter of how much you like the stuff you get for your party's spending. However, It is only Republican obstructionism that prevents the financing of the debt. Unfortunately, that obstructionism also prevents action that would solve the jobs problem, which is what most people are thinking about. |
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