davediode, you gotta be kidding me when you assert that swedes health care is free, man that is just clueless. There are nine inputs into...
I was reading some more for the hell of it, and it is quite striking really how we are about to elect this moron Obama and his 'change you can...
jonbig, you are still hung up on the top 20% getting roughly equal benefits (while they basically pay for all of it) per person. But why...
"PPP is a good measure, and I regard 20% as a good bit lower. It was much lower at the peak of their crisis in 1994 when the welfare state had...
jon, if the guy in Iraq had any brains at all, his SGLI is at $500K. His wife also gets other benefits, and his kids can use his GI bill
about Sweden, PPP is a good measure, and I regard 20% as a good bit lower. It was much lower at the peak of their crisis in 1994 when the...
... The real question is: How does government provide a helping hand without making it a lifestyle?... or something like that... Get a...
If thats true then could I assume that every time rates were raised (even only a little) on the upper class that an economic slow down followed?...
Some seem not to care about inequality at all. Do you really not care when someone in your own country can not afford health care and a place to...
it fell during nixon, Carter did it at the cost of high taxes, a gutted military, and a shitty economy. It went up during Clinton I, down...
Doesn't anybody remember Carter? That was the last time we had full liberal control. Clinton got a conservative congress and a historic stock...
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I'm the one spouting off? Maybe, but you are too...did you even read this whole doc? You linked me to a 123 page document, and its a good one. As...
Democrats and liberals claim that humans for some reason don't react to tax rates, the data says otherwise....
Alan Blinder weighs in on what happens when cap gains are treated as income (the $1=$1 scenario I suggested): "BUT would taxing capital gains like...
posted again for emphasis Overall, tax payments exceeded government spending received for the top two quintiles of income, resulting in a net...
it looks like mav88's questions were answered. Thats good. I had no questions, and no nobody here has provided any effective counter...
You need to stop fixating on the Federal income tax. 'Total tax burden' is the salient issue here. if you wish to play that game, then you...
"One question though are you saying that in the end the middle class pay less taxes on a percentage basis than the rich?" I didnt say it, the...
I'm not concerned about the poor so much as the middle class. You say the income doesnt transfer to them. did you not see the chart? what you are...
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