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Deficits will start to get manageable when we get back to Clinton years level of tax rates. And the income will increase as we reduce unemployment. And the tax laws are simplified, hopefully to get rid of loopholes. Stimulus anyone? Infrastructure spending? We must replace the current Congress, I agree. You know the family can make more income also as well as cut back to suggest an appropriate corollary.
The GOP has presented us with out of touch crackpots. And Obama is the most conservative Dem president we have had since, oddly, Carter. Carter did nothing Keynesian and let the banks set the high interest rate. He did nothing about unemployment. If you can ignore the propaganda from the right wing both Carter and Obama are fiscal conservative in application of monetary policy. If someone tells you that Obama is a radical liberal, he really is incorrect.
We need to start a "new deal" of infrastructure spending, educational reform and aid and stiff financial regulations that does not allow fraud. Bring in more taxes from loophole eradication and higher rates for the top 1% that group has most of the extra wealth that is not in the system to tax anyway. I say do away with loopholes. But I am speaking of financial loopholes. There should be a tax for taking jobs and money offshore and a rebate for building jobs in the US. It is all very simple if we can get rid of present congress.
- Agreed. Easier said than done, unfortunately.locustsloth
- It would seem that the first step is getting corporate money out of the elections.locustsloth
- If you throw out the old guys before doing that, you'll just end up with a Congress full of corporate shillslocustsloth
- Absolutely. Might be good in theory, but will it happen? Doubt it. *sigh********
- A more perplexing problem is how to do away with the emotional rhetoric in campaigns,locustsloth
- Goes back to what we agreed on yesterday locustsloth. Get the leeches and psuedo symbiotic organisms out of it!********
- convince people to vote with their minds rather than their hearts, which are easily swayed with the right (mostly disingenuous) wordslocustsloth
- wordslocustsloth
- Emotional rhetoric for sure! It all comes down to money. All of this religious, gay marriage, vote change doesn't = squat.********
- I couldn't agree more with you. VOTE WITH YOUR MIND NOT YOUR HEART!!********
- This is what a lot of the OSW is about, just represent yourselves better and have a clearer message.********
- Sadly, I think it probably started as a publicity stunt and just grew.********
- If this comment makes me a troll, well I'm unsure what to say, BTW.********
- And I'm a hypocrite for using Google products. Start with the fucking Google Empire. Moving money offshore!********