Liberals of ET, I would like you to meet Rick

CaptainObvious · Jul 9, 2011

Quote from Maverick74:

No, you don't understand, the price of everything in this country would go sky high and nobody would buy anything. Then we would have to layoff all these workers. The end result would be less jobs and massive inflation. No thanks. I will not support a candidate who wants to impose tariffs period.

And I won't support a candidate that balances the budget on the backs of the working class while those directly responsible for creating the mess in the first place laugh all the way to the bank. Which means I won't be supporting Obama, or any current republican candidate.

Maverick74 · Jul 9, 2011

Quote from CaptainObvious:

And I won't support a candidate that balances the budget on the backs of the working class while those directly responsible for creating the mess in the first place laugh all the way to the bank. Which means I won't be supporting Obama, or any current republican candidate.

Awesome! Tell your wife you are free on election day to do whatever she wants.

LEAPup · Jul 9, 2011

Quote from Maverick74:

Sorry, no can do. Import taxes get passed on to the consumer and is a form of inflation. You would be essentially raising the taxes on the very people you claim you want to cut taxes for. Sorry, not going to work.

I'm all for getting rid of corporate tax loopholes which in theory would raise their taxes but then I would cut the corporate tax rate from 35% down to 15% or 20%, not raise it.

I absolutely do not support class warfare whereby you are taxing the have's to give to the have not's. Nobody wins the class warfare games.

You are actually trying to make our tax system more complicated, I want to reform it and make it simpler. I'm not about picking winners and losers. Our current President has done that and that policy has been a disaster. No thanks.

How about something from history that started the roaring 20's? A pretty simple solution imo.

The Country was in a depression in 1918-1921. President Harding, then followed through by Coolidge, together were able to cut the top tax rate from a stunning 70% to 29% and Coolidge cut government spending by 50%.

Sure, it hurt a little for a little while. However, this sparked the roaring 20's in eighteen months. One of the most prosperous times of the 20th Century...

We would need to bring our troops home, stop being the World's cop, suspend countless worthless govt. programs, stop bailing out the irresponsible, etc.,

I don't for the life of me know why these idiots in government refuse to use history as a guide to end the CURRENT depression ("silent depression" as one poster stated.) I just don't understand.

Lucrum · Jul 9, 2011

Quote from LEAPup:

...I don't for the life of me know why these idiots in government refuse to use history as a guide to end the CURRENT depression ("silent depression" as one poster stated.) I just don't understand.

I'm not much on conspiracies but I occasionally wonder if their apparent colossal stupidity isn't stupidity at all, but intentional.

Hombre · Jul 9, 2011

Quote from LEAPup:

I don't for the life of me know why these idiots in government refuse to use history as a guide to end the CURRENT depression ("silent depression" as one poster stated.) I just don't understand.

I know this one.

They just don't care about anything but their office budget, how to fuck the taxpayers and get bribes legally. That simple.
Now you understand.

AAAintheBeltway · Jul 10, 2011

Quote from Lucrum:

I'm not much on conspiracies but I occasionally wonder if their apparent colossal stupidity isn't stupidity at all, but intentional.

Bingo.

Obama and his crowd want a huge "crisis" that they can use to scare people so badly that they go along with a huge lurch into socialism, just like FDR did.

LEAPup · Jul 10, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Bingo.

Obama and his crowd want a huge "crisis" that they can use to scare people so badly that they go along with a huge lurch into socialism, just like FDR did.

I think you nailed it!

CaptainObvious · Jul 10, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Bingo.

Obama and his crowd want a huge "crisis" that they can use to scare people so badly that they go along with a huge lurch into socialism, just like FDR did.

You're right, but I would add that republicans see the benefits as well. Neither party would have anything to campaign about, and at the end of the day that's what our system has become, one loooong campaign.

RCG Trader · Jul 10, 2011

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Bingo.

Obama and his crowd want a huge "crisis" that they can use to scare people so badly that they go along with a huge lurch into socialism, just like FDR did.

Hate to say it AAA, but this is a classic battle tactic. What the election of Obama showed me as a black man is that once you reach a certain level, you are beholden to the same masters, no matter who you are. I have a greater appreciation of why JFK was shot. He knew this, and disobeyed anyway. So a message was sent to all future Presidents. I have stated this before. They began comparing Obama to Kennedy when it became clear that he was likely to win. The masses were none the wiser, the "enlightened" or "illuminated" if you prefer, got it just fine. Obama is a member of the CFR. He wants to live, just like everyone else.

Anyways, create a crisis, then solve it.

Classic psyops.

RCG Trader · Jul 10, 2011

Quote from RCG Trader:

Hate to say it AAA, but this is a classic battle tactic. What the election of Obama showed me as a black man is that once you reach a certain level, you are beholden to the same masters, no matter who you are. I have a greater appreciation of why JFK was shot. He knew this, and disobeyed anyway. So a message was sent to all future Presidents. I have stated this before. They began comparing Obama to Kennedy when it became clear that he was likely to win. The masses were none the wiser, the "enlightened" or "illuminated" if you prefer, got it just fine. Obama is a member of the CFR. He wants to live, just like everyone else.

Anyways, create a crisis, then solve it.

Classic psyops.