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Post by magellan on Dec 21, 2014 19:40:59 GMT
A Sam Adams quote that is pertinent. Except that we have a president that appears to want to be the Sovereign and a progressive at the same time. Although, it has been my experience that progressives tend toward dictatorial oligarchies which is close to Royal Progression. It's good beer too As David Horowitz is one to know, his motto is: www.frontpagemag.com/
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 12, 2015 0:45:26 GMT
The American ambassador marched in the Rally. Why would the USA waste money sending someone to this? We already provide the bulk of the money and manpower for the world in regards to fighting these nut jobs. NO sense spending good money after bad is there? On this one I don't fault anyone at all.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 12, 2015 10:11:38 GMT
The American ambassador marched in the Rally. Why would the USA waste money sending someone to this? We already provide the bulk of the money and manpower for the world in regards to fighting these nut jobs. NO sense spending good money after bad is there? On this one I don't fault anyone at all. It's a perception thing Sig. You have an occasion where both the leader of the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli prime minister link arms with other major western heads of state and the US just has a grace and favor Ambassador there, who lives there anyway. Had it led to a Democratic fund raiser the President would have been there. There will be some who have had their suspicion confirmed by this lack of support that the President is actually not in favor of free speech on this particular subject. Someone dropped the ball in the White House PR department as the absence will be remembered.
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Post by walnut on Jan 14, 2015 0:18:33 GMT
The Paris rally would have been a little too "real" for this president, who has never yet even acknowledged that our enemy are the islamists. If you can't call them by name, you will never beat them - Perma-war. I am not even 100% sure I know which side he fights for.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 20, 2015 4:37:11 GMT
finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-middle-class-unlucky-185106667.htmlAt this stage in Obama's presidency, ambitious tax proposals to soak the rich are the political equivalent of desert rain dances—sometimes impressive, often well-meaning, always doomed, and essentially ceremonial. The administration's latest tax-modification ritual would raise taxes on wealthy estates and large banks to pay for larger tax breaks for middle-class households, particularly those with two working parents and kids. The plan is Piketty-lite, skimming the wealth of the 1 percent to redistribute among the incomes of poorer workers.
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Post by scpg02 on Jan 20, 2015 5:27:43 GMT
Pitty the family farmer.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 21, 2015 12:05:49 GMT
Family farms are a threat, as they are independent and do not normally rely on anything from the government. The independent are an anathema to socialism and all possible means of removing that independence can be expected to be taken by the socialist bureaucracy.
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Post by nonentropic on Jan 21, 2015 17:45:17 GMT
The left has consistently attempted to socialize the agriculture sector with subsidies and the constrains on the resultant surpluses.
NZ removed theses subsides nearly 20 years ago, it built a stunningly successful non Orwellian farming community where success and failure are allowed. The incredible US farming community is hobbled by the subsidies and constraints imposed by silly lobbies for so called "help".
Lets not even discuss the EU model where the agricultural community are largely public servants with all the trappings of triplicate and insane rules.
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Post by scpg02 on Jan 21, 2015 19:59:47 GMT
The left has consistently attempted to socialize the agriculture sector with subsidies and the constrains on the resultant surpluses. NZ removed theses subsides nearly 20 years ago, it built a stunningly successful non Orwellian farming community where success and failure are allowed. The incredible US farming community is hobbled by the subsidies and constraints imposed by silly lobbies for so called "help". Lets not even discuss the EU model where the agricultural community are largely public servants with all the trappings of triplicate and insane rules. Getting rid of the sugar and corn lobby might be good but it will never happen.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 23, 2015 4:37:03 GMT
Code: This surprises you?
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 23, 2015 12:12:18 GMT
I am 100% in favor of reforming our tax code. I am even for ditching the entire thing and starting from scratch. But I certainly do not think stripping the 529 college saving plans of an important exemption is the way to do it.
Raising the taxes on capital gains is not the way to do it either. Mr. Obama needs to start with capping spending. Then work on the tax code. A good start would be on corporate taxes which are some of the highest in the world.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 23, 2015 12:23:16 GMT
It is the same as taking $500Billion from medicare to pay for people to get health insurance The Democrats still all stood and cheered and clapped for that too.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 23, 2015 16:39:57 GMT
I am 100% in favor of reforming our tax code. I am even for ditching the entire thing and starting from scratch. But I certainly do not think stripping the 529 college saving plans of an important exemption is the way to do it. Raising the taxes on capital gains is not the way to do it either. Mr. Obama needs to start with capping spending. Then work on the tax code. A good start would be on corporate taxes which are some of the highest in the world. Corp taxes highest in the world? Yes and no Glenn. The corp EFFECTIVE tax rate is amongst the lowest in the world. That is why the percentage of corp taxes in regards to federal revenue is at its lowest level in 70 years, while corp profits are at record levels. You have to dig a bit deeper to find the truth, in regards to corp taxes.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 24, 2015 3:28:00 GMT
Code: This surprises you? Sig, Yes it does, but now I'm not sure if I'm stupid or too nice or just stupid. My wife and I have put money into the Washington State GET program for 14 years now. www.get.wa.gov/ Sometimes it hurt but we've never missed a payment. I'm waiting to hear back from my two senators and my Representative. President Obama's rational for eliminating the 526 is that only rich people use it. He is 100% wrong. I am not rich, by any stretch of the imagination. But we have started a 526 for each of our Grand kids. Prob won't be a lot of money, but it will be something for them when it is time for them to go to college. What President Obama doesn't understand, or chooses not to understand, is that families do this. Not just the parents, but looking at families as a whole.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 24, 2015 3:31:39 GMT
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