By: Jennifer
What Del said. As danilex rightly notes, the tax code is a political document. A good part of the reason we have such pushback against raising rates on higher incomes is thanks to a calculated move...
View ArticleBy: Mnemosyne
@WereBear: Well, that sounds fun. :-/ I’m always a little amazed when in-laws feel empowered to start openly criticizing the rest of the family. As far as I’m concerned, my job as an in-law is to...
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The last time I talked to my dad while he was still my dad, he called me after a TV program that had broadcast Beethoven’s Ninth. With both of us as huge fans, we had a long talk. The music seemed to...
View ArticleBy: burnspbesq
@MikeJ: : Incrementalism is not unseriousness. Perhaps not, but what were currently seeing isn’t incrementalism, it’s infinitesimalism.
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@Lojasmo: Apparently, Dr. van Winkle, it has escaped your notice that the magnitude of the problem has grown somewhat since 2000. Or perhaps your math skills have atrophied to the point where you can...
View ArticleBy: Juju
@Lurking Canadian: That also happens to me on my iPhone. I can look at comments numbering 130-160. If larger, it crashes and sends me to home screen. I just don’t look at comment threads that are...
View ArticleBy: Del
@burnspbesq: So tell us, how long would it take? And, while you’re at it, please also tell us why it matters if we take 10, 20, or even 100 years to do so? Is the Country worried it’s not going to have...
View ArticleBy: Joel
@Paul: I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case. There’s a permanent whining class in this country.
View ArticleBy: Ruckus
@burnspbesq: So what if it takes a long time to reduce it? Sure the interest gets expensive but we are borrowing at pretty low rates right now. Why is it that you want a regressive tax to fix a not...
View ArticleBy: Bruce S
Let’s be clear that the $113 billion that raising the Medicare eligibility age “saves” (as a Federal line item), actually INCREASES aggregate health care costs as % of GDP, in addition to increasing...
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@WereBear: In my experience, a death in the family can bring out the very worst in people. My mother died, my daughter died, my father-in-law died, my mother-in-law’s mother died, all relatively...
View ArticleBy: Chuck Butcher
@burnspbesq: A VAT system? People already don’t have enough money to buy the shit that creates jobs and you propose a remedy of making it more expensive? It is nothing more than a sales tax that...
View ArticleBy: Chuck Butcher
Maybe a rocket scientist like burnsie can explain to me the logic in making me pay 6% for the priviledge of having paper to wipe my ass with and trading $100M is free and clear unless you bother to...
View ArticleBy: Lojasmo
@burnspbesq: Yes. Grown somewhat is an adequate assessment. This does not mean that any solution besides a VAT is unserious. Thanks for you input, lawyer.
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