Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[SnoodGator]

Is this the right place? Where are the Gators?

[AugustWest]

you're outnumbered by vols.

[SnoodGator]

Only on these boards!

[puterbac]

WTF are my buttons?

And what can be modified about the look?

[billy bob bocephus]

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[aTm]

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[Professor Tiger]

Nice to see you back, Tone. You and Hack are the Vol missionaries to the Pac NW.

How much ransom did they have to pay for the Somali pirates to release you?

[puterbac]

I said all this after the damn Philly Debate with the PAH...

Obama’s spray-on hair of fiscal policy

If you loved leisure suits and Prohibition, the president’s budget plan will be groovy

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... #pagebreak

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It has become increasingly obvious that to balance America’s national budget, we must cut spending and optimize tax revenues. The challenge is to find the tax rate that will best yield the necessary revenue. Consider these obvious scenarios: A tax rate of zero percent would yield zero in revenues, while a tax rate of 100 percent would also yield zero in revenues because no one would work for nothing. Americans aren’t stupid. Clearly, then, simply increasing tax rates will not always increase revenues.

This economic reality spares no political party. When Democratic President Kennedy and Republican Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush reduced income tax rates, total tax revenues coming into the Treasury increased because, as JFK explained, “a rising tide lifts all boats.” When Democratic Presidents Carter and Clinton and Republican President George H.W. Bush raised income tax rates, total tax revenues fell. The same holds true for other types of taxes. Reagan’s capital-gains tax increase reduced revenues, while tax-rate reductions instated by Mr. Carter, Mr. Clinton and George W. Bush yielded increased revenues.

Economics 101 students have long understood this concept. In fact, even John Maynard Keynes himself, the Democrats’ high economic priest of big government, acknowledged that “taxation may be so high as to defeat its object.” In a 2008 presidential debate, when candidate Barack Obama was presented with these undeniable facts and asked why he would possibly still favor nearly doubling the capital gains tax rate, he replied, “… for purposes of fairness.”

[10ac]

Filled up yesterday for 87 bucks. Fuckin' Bush...

[bluetick]

Park that guzzler and save some gas for the rest of us.

10ac,

Hello

[sardis]

So this guy is comparing right wing Chritianity with right wing Islamists?

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/1 ... cs/?hpt=C2

[bluetick]

Islamic fundamentalist doesn't necessarily mean islamofacist.

[Jungle Rat]

110 Members!

HI TALENT!!!!

[Toemeesleather]

check, is this on?

[billy bob bocephus]

thanks, aTm - youse ok for a kay-det

[bluetick]

Nobody wants to discuss the voucher system being pushed as a replacement for Medicare. Interesting.

Personally, I wish dems would quit dem-onizing the idea (see what I did there?). This could finally be the shove everybody needs to eat right and exercise and to quit smoking in the run-up to their golden years. Otherwise, elderly who are thick and smoking will likely need to do a reverse mortgage to finance their private health plan....that favors their private health provider as the beneficiary (sorry kids).

Yessiree - 4 pages of medical questions followed by a couple pages of estate and property pre-appraisals. Turning 65 will be a relief for some, and an absolute nightmare for others. No real winners, just different shades of how much you'll have to surrender nest-egg-wise to stay alive.

okay - the real winners will be private healthcare and the pols who are in bed with them...but you knew that already

[sardis]

At least tick is progressing out of the denial stage and into acceptance that medicare can't continue the way it is...

[puterbac]

Half of households pay no income tax...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_ ... s_no_taxes

GALLUP: 43% say tax level 'about right'...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/147152/Ameri ... -High.aspx



And this is a problem. Half the people have no skin in the game, so wtf do they care about spending or taxes?

[puterbac]

Backs up talent...

NBC scales back royal wedding coverage 'because William and Kate are so boring'...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... oring.html

[10ac]

You're going to have to step it up, puter, this is where I get all my news.