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I have posted extensively in ET forums on how Reagans supply-side economics which resulted in a dramatic compression of tax rates -- at one point nearly eliminating progressivity in our income tax code -- has been a major factor in wealth redistribution in the U.S.. The effect of Reagan era...

One can dismiss the public behavior of Trump as rude and coarse, and something most off us would rather not be characteristic of our president. For some, this is behavior that would keep them from voting for Mr. Trump. Ms Coulter, however, either does not know of, or is intentionally avoiding...

That's ridiculous. Of course we can. And the way we do that is to study the course of action that brought us to the current state, correct those things we did that produced an unsatisfactory result, and keep those thing that worked well in the past, assuming they are still applicable. When new...

Thank you Java. I want to consider further what you've written Re the libertarian candidate.. I may then be able to respond in some detail. I appreciate your reply.

I guess I would be one of those half-heartedly supporting her. And for the reason you have nicely pointed out. She does represent, to many of us anyway, business as usual when we were hoping for meaningful change. And as we learned, Sanders was not treated fairly by the DNC. Clinton has to...

There was a guy, Lucrum, posting here sometime back. Though I often disagreed with him, he was skilled at witty, clever and humorous put downs. His posts would have me laughing like hell sometimes, even when I was the deserving target of his sharp attacks. We could do with more of that and less...

This has been a divisive and reckless campaign. Not good for any of us. Trump started out on the wrong foot by insulting his colleagues. It's been downhill since. You've made an attempt to be objective, I appreciate that, even when I don't agree.

I don't know enough about Johnson to give him a far hearing. Tell us what you like about his positions. I will listen.

You know I have changed my mind a bit about Hillary. I was a Bernie supporter, as you probably know. I had some strong disagreements with him on an issue or two but overall I was pleased with his positions. And I was against Hillary because I thought it was a very bad idea to have these...

Well Granny off the cliff, and the Romney "murdering" someone was ridiculous political crap. Though it wasn't so ridiculous for people to be shown what happens to companies when a leveraged buyout is used to raid a companies treasury using the companies own money. Huff Post was not talking...

I wasted time looking through this entire thread for one of those emails that seem to have got people all worked up. Did not find a single one. Would like to know what is so interesting about them. I did find an article in Huff Post (posted a link) about what seem to be rather serious...

Speaking of alleged illegal acts: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html :wtf:

This seems to be an unusually well balanced appraisal of the Obama administrations accomplishments: An Opinion Piece from "The Week" Magazine, by Paul Waldman. I have taken the Liberty of adding some underlying to emphasize some major accomplishments achieved despite rather intense partisan...

There is a lot of accurate stuff out there. It takes some time to absorb it. The .gov sites are especially good and there is a lot of detail..

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There are two Trusts. One is the pensions trust which is still in pretty good shape. Currently there is about three trillion in it, but we need an adjustment in the contribution rate to adjust for demographic changes. The Trustees called for a one cent on the dollar adjustment for employers and...

What baffles me Scat is you don't seem to have a clue despite all the correct information being widely available to you via various government websites. Sadly, you are not the only one.

It is a myth that social security is "broken". Don't by into this nonsense please. Healthcare is another story. You can read the Trustees reports on the Web. They are all available to the public.

Assuring the soundness of Social security far into the future is ridiculously simple at this point. We can either raise the contribution cap, increase the contribution rate, or apply some combination. There is a lot of opposition to Social Security coming from Wall Street., so we may do...