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You are one of those angry people chomsky is referring to. I'm not sure you are aware of that. That's why I bothered to point it out. Your anger is perhaps justified, but it is also leading you to lose touch with reality, as evidenced by irrational remarks, such as the one I quote here.

I never said that. I left that possibility open for you to decide..

Ya hoo! Will Trump's 1 billion be enough however to pay for the medical costs of 350 million. Gee I hope so.

Wait minute, wait a G.D. minute. This clown is not President yet. Wait until at least friday afternoon on Jan. 20, 2017 to start being sold out. (You don't need to Gird Your Loins until approximately 2 pm on Jan 20th.)

Knowing what he will sellout on is trivial -- here is a list of 76 things, there are probably a bunch more, you should be girding your loins against. :D https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/here-are-76-of-donald-trumps-many-campaign-promises/ I think I, now...

Gird your loins for a complete sellout. :D

Bing, Bong BOINGggggg!

I guess you didn't notice that revenues also increased after tax increases.:D Did you know that the economy was in an intentionally induced recession when Reagan took office. Did you know that the great amount of Keynesian stimulus , i.e., domestic government spending, helped bring us out of...

I'm just curious, and you don't have to answer of course, But how much time have you spent outside the U.S. and what countries have you spent more than a month in besides the U.S.?

this is a point we have never disagreed on despite your insistence that we have. What we have always disagreed on is the cause of the revenue increase. I would point out that after the drastic Reagan tax cuts -- and can you believe the man had the nerve to raise the tax rate in the lowest...

I certainly can't argue with that, and while I can't speak for Zzzz1 either, I'm sure he'd agree as well. I am certainly not an expert on economics in Saudi Arabia, so if Reaganomics hasn't reached there yet, I am not going to be surprised. In fact if you get word that it is headed their way...

No one has ever questioned that massive borrowing and spending stimulates an economy and results in revenue increases. If that is what your friends at the Cato institute are trying to prove, they may be wasting our time. Stay tuned, because I am quite sure you'll get to experience tax cuts...

That's correct for the recent figure I believe. I used, however, figures from 2011 and 1996 to illustrate that it is possible to have a relatively high GDP and yet a lot of poverty. But Saudi Arabia , as I mentioned in an edit, is probably the best example. For comparison, the poverty level...

If you will permit me to answer for Zzzz1, Brazil in 1996 and 2011, relatively speaking. But perhaps the most glaring example would be Saudi Arabia which has a GDP/capita in the top rank but nearly 20% of its people live in abject poverty. So it is possible. Giving the benefit of a doubt to...

'You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.' We can't converse intelligently, nor profitably, on these particular topics, I'm afraid. You'll have to study economics a bit more. Here are a few good books I can recommend , having read them all myself. 'Keynes- Hayek, the...

A delicious thought just crossed my mind. Melania (is that her name?) parroted Michelle Obama's speech word for word; therefore, why not add some humor to the inauguration and start a family tradition at the same time. The Donald's inaugural address can be a word for word reading of Reagan's...

A jobs program aimed at say building infrastructure is partly a long range investment, it also reduces federal spending elsewhere in the budget, and results in demand stimulus. This would be very much an application of Keynesian economics. But it must not be overdone; this kind of stimulus...

Luis, don't lose sight of the fact that the United States is not a democracy at the Federal level. Only half of one branch of government is elected democratically, the U.S. Senate. The House, the constitutionally, most powerful, government body, would be elected democratically were it not for...

Donald Trump has modeled his campaign so far on Ronald Reagan's. He even adopted Reagan's campaign slogan word for word, without giving Reagan credit of course. I fully expect him to model his administration and economic policies on Reagan's as well. He may eventually be referred to as Reagan...

I would have been happy to vote for Webb in the election just over had he both run for president and had a chance of being elected. Most of the people calling themselves 'libertarians' today have political philosophies very different from what libertarians have traditionally stood for. Chomsky...