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Title: Will tea partiers protest the $858 billion tax deal?
Source: AJC
URL Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker ... /?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker
Published: Dec 10, 2010
Author: Cynthia Tucker
Post Date: 2010-12-10 16:52:41 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 65152
Comments: 104

During the election season, tea party activists declared deficit-reduction one of their primary goals. The nation is swimming in red ink, they noted, posing a huge burden for generations to come. So I’m waiting for those tea party activists to mount a huge protest over the tax deal between President Obama and Republicans. It is expected to cost $858 billion over ten years.

Where’s that tea party protest? Are they headed to Washington to denounce the deal, as they did repeatedly with the health care plan — which will lower the deficit over ten years?

Yes, there are other things in the deal besides tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. But extending the tax cuts for all Americans for two years cost $675.2 billion. Extending them for the richest Americans — along with generous cuts to the estate tax — will cost about $50 billion over two years. Are the tea partiers at all concerned about that?

Then were the ethanol subsidies, which most reasonable people agree are a spectacular waste of government resources — a giveaway to corn farmers. But farm state legislators wanted ethanol subsides included in the package, and they are there.

Any day now, I’m sure, tea partiers will gather on the Mall to protest this big addition to the national deficit. Any of you have your bags packed for the party?

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#1. To: go65 (#0)

Will tea partiers protest the $858 billion tax deal?

Of course.

Any OTHER stupid questions?

Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2010-12-10   16:55:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#0)

Will tea partiers protest the $858 billion tax deal?

Nah, they are too busy celebrating:

Boehner and company OWNED Owe-bama last night.

Badeye posted on 2010-12-07 11:56:56 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

and

Must be killing you this morning to learn Owe-bama agrees with me, not you.

Have a nice day....(laughing)

Badeye posted on 2010-12-07 10:09:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

the first deal the GOP leadership strikes with Obama is to add nearly $900 billion to the deficit over two years.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   16:57:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)

Of course.

Great, keep us posted as to where we can find these protests, OK?


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   16:57:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: go65 (#2)

the first deal the GOP leadership strikes with Obama is to add nearly $900 billion to the deficit over two years.

The only thing that adds to the deficit is spending. The extension to the unemployment insurance Obama insisted on does not amount to additional $900 billion than they politicians were already planning on spending.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-10   16:59:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: jwpegler (#4)

The only thing that adds to the deficit is spending.

Lowering taxes adds to the deficit.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   17:10:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: go65 (#5)

Lowering taxes adds to the deficit.

You can't have a deficit if you don't spend money.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-10   17:13:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: jwpegler (#6)

You can't have a deficit if you don't spend money.

Fair enough, but if you lower taxes without cutting spending, you increase the deficit, as this bill will do by $858 billion over 2 years.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   17:18:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: go65 (#7) (Edited)

but if you lower taxes without cutting spending, you increase the deficit

Yes, so they need to cut spending.

Again, if Obama were smart he would dump his own deficit commission's report right into Boehner's lap and tell him to pass it.

The commission's recommendations further cuts margin tax rates (to a top rate of 23% for individuals and 25% for businesses) while closing tax loop holes. They also cut a bunch of spending, but not enough.

I'm starting to think that Obama is smart enough to do it. We'll see.

If the GOP were smart, they would agree to implement it and add more spending cuts, especially to Obamacare.

Then we would have change that I can believe in.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-10   18:16:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: go65 (#0)

Where’s that tea party protest?

From Rush to Free Republic.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

WhiteSands  posted on  2010-12-10   21:16:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: go65 (#7)

but if you lower taxes...

Income taxes won't be lowered go, they just won't be raised.

without cutting spending, you increase the deficit, as this bill will do by $858 billion over 2 years.

Then cut spending. Spending causes deficits. Period.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   22:11:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Wood_Chopper (#10)

Income taxes won't be lowered go, they just won't be raised.

Part of the deal includes a cut of 2% in the SS payroll tax along with various other tax credits.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   22:14:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: jwpegler (#8)

Yes, so they need to cut spending.

Except that Ireland showed that if you cut spending in a recession, the end result is further economic stagnation, meaning lower tax revenues, meaning right back to where you started.

How many times has California cut spending in the last couple of years? Is it helping?

I'm all for cutting spending once the economy is growing, just not now.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   22:15:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: go65 (#11)

Part of the deal includes a cut of 2% in the SS payroll tax along with various other tax credits.

Fuck all the bullshit, OK go? Be honest, OK?

When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   22:21:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: go65 (#12) (Edited)

Except that Ireland showed that if you cut spending in a recession, the end result is further economic stagnation, meaning lower tax revenues, meaning right back to where you started.

How many times has California cut spending in the last couple of years? Is it helping?

I'm all for cutting spending once the economy is growing, just not now.

It's because the parasites sucked enough to finally kill their host, and now that the host is dying and can't provide more blood, the parasites are demanding more, and will cut their demand for blood "once the host is growing, just not now."

It's kinda like, "The beatings will increase until moral improves".

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   22:28:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: go65 (#14) (Edited)

Have you seen the news? Tax revenues down everywhere. Governments in trouble. States going bankrupt.

Know why? Because it happened FIRST to the taxpayers who fund the state, at the hands of the state. The fucking HOST was killed by their parasite go. THAT'S why governments are dying. They destroyed their host.

THEY KILLED THEIR HOSTS GO.

And now all they, and YOU, want is more blood from the dead hosts, but "just until things get better."

Fuuuuuuuck.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   22:43:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: jwpegler (#4)

The only thing that adds to the deficit is spending. The extension to the unemployment insurance Obama insisted on does not amount to additional $900 billion than they politicians were already planning on spending.

That's a half truth.

The other half is is decreased income.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-10   22:44:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Wood_Chopper (#13)

When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

It could be either or, and/or both.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-10   22:51:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: lucysmom (#16) (Edited)

That's a half truth.

The other half is is decreased income.

That's wrong lucy.

It is possible have zero income and still not have a deficit, yet impossible to spend and never have the possibility of a deficit.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   22:56:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: lucysmom (#17)

(me) When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

(lucysmom)It could be either or, and/or both.

Really????

Next time someone comes after you for not meeting your bills, tell them to take your boss to court because he's not paying you enough, and he owes them the money.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   23:05:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Wood_Chopper (#13)

When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

Government isn't supposed to balance it's budget, it's supposed to backstop the economy when there's a recession, and run a surplus when there's an expansion.

We had that right until a massive tax cut and spending spree during an expansion in the early 2000's


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-10   23:09:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: go65 (#20) (Edited)

Government isn't supposed to balance it's budget, it's supposed to backstop the economy

wrong. In order to do so, it would HAVE to control the economy, and it can't.

It can only fuck it up.

When are you going to learn that?

Any reply to my #15?????

And you didn't answer the question posed in #13: When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   23:11:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: lucysmom (#18)

(W_C to lucysmom) It is possible have zero income and still not have a deficit, yet impossible to spend and never have the possibility of a deficit.

Did I hurt your head?

Try it this way: You can have zero income with zero spending, and NEVER have a deficit but you can't spend with zero income and NOT HAVE a deficit.

It ain't income that causes deficits, it's spending.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-10   23:37:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Wood_Chopper (#22)

It ain't income that causes deficits, it's spending.

it's spending more than income. simple math.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-11   9:28:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Wood_Chopper (#21)

wrong. In order to do so, it would HAVE to control the economy, and it can't.

Whoever said it had to control the economy? The government did a pretty good job, through fiscal policy, of moderating the impacts of recessions for more than 60 years - until Conservatives drove through massive tax cuts and spending hikes during an expansion.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-11   9:29:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Wood_Chopper (#15)

Have you seen the news? Tax revenues down everywhere. Governments in trouble. States going bankrupt.

Know why? Because it happened FIRST to the taxpayers who fund the state, at the hands of the state. The fucking HOST was killed by their parasite go. THAT'S why governments are dying. They destroyed their host.

Virginia just ran a surplus, many other states aren't experiencing the problems of Texas and California.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-11   9:30:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: go65 (#0)

Fuck the TP'ers.

We just lost the White House without an election.

And that speech bu obama last week will live infamy for it's blatant cognitive dissonance.

Blaming the victim. Blessing the Hostage Takers.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-12-11   10:36:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Wood_Chopper (#22)

Did I hurt your head?

Try it this way: You can have zero income with zero spending, and NEVER have a deficit but you can't spend with zero income and NOT HAVE a deficit.

It ain't income that causes deficits, it's spending.

So what?

How are you going to apply that to real life in the 21st century?

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   11:10:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Wood_Chopper (#21)

And you didn't answer the question posed in #13: When you can't meet your bills at the end of the month, is it because you spent too much, or because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you isn't paying you enough?

Pullman Strike 1894.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   11:20:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Wood_Chopper (#21) (Edited)

And the sheep will bleat their submission, Seeing the others as fools, Not knowing nor even caring, They've become no more than tools.

...because that evil rich cocksucker that provided a job for you ...

Spoken like a tool.

"When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty."

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   11:31:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: go65 (#12) (Edited)

Except that Ireland showed that if you cut spending in a recession, the end result is further economic stagnation, meaning lower tax revenues, meaning right back to where you started.

Ireland's troubles are very similar to ours. Their crash was caused by reckless borrowing and lending. Irish households have the second highest debt burden in the world. The government ran up a huge debt because of their profligate spending. Ireland's credit rating has plummeted. They have no choice but to cut spending.

The only thing that has temporarily saved us is that the dollar is still the world's reserve currency. That won't last long unless the U.S. government cuts spending as well.

How many times has California cut spending in the last couple of years? Is it helping?

They haven't cut spending enough. Their taxes are too high. Businesses are fleeing the state. California needs to shut down all non-essential programs, departments, and services, fire half of the bureaucracy, replace the lavish pensions for the remaining bureaucrats with 401Ks, and cut their income tax rates in half. Otherwise, they will continue to lose businesses to Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, Texas and China.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-11   13:34:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: lucysmom (#16) (Edited)

The other half is is decreased income.

Utter bullshit.

When Clinton left office, federal spending was about 19% of GDP. When Bush left office it was 22.5% of GDP. Today, it's 25% of GDP. If something isn't done it will be 28% of GDP in the next few years.

Since the end of WWII, federal spending has averaged 20% of GDP and tax revenues have averaged 18% of revenue. Tax revenues under Bush were only slightly less than average at 17.6%.

These are called FACTS.

The problem is spending. PERIOD.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-11   13:48:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: jwpegler (#30)

Otherwise, they will continue to lose businesses to Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, Texas and China.

Nevada has no income tax; not for individuals and not for corporations. Why did you leave Nevada off your short list?

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   16:38:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: jwpegler (#30)

They have no choice but to cut spending.

True, because unlike us they can't devalue their currency.

But they also propped up their banks, unlike Iceland, and now Iceland is doing far better.

They haven't cut spending enough. Their taxes are too high. Businesses are fleeing the state. California needs to shut down all non-essential programs, departments, and services, fire half of the bureaucracy, replace the lavish pensions for the remaining bureaucrats with 401Ks, and cut their income tax rates in half. Otherwise, they will continue to lose businesses to Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, Texas and China.

Point being that cutting spending in a recession depresses the economy, leading to further reductions in tax revenue.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-11   19:01:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: lucysmom (#27)

So what?

How are you going to apply that to real life in the 21st century?

Like I did at my house. When my income dropped, I cut my spending.

Unlike me, the government can extort more money from people, at the threat of prison time, with a stoke of a pen and a vote, with morons like you cheering them on.

Problem is, the well has run dry. The more they demand, the less people there are that can pay, so they demand more of those that can pay, until those individuals who can pay are driven into the category of those who can't pay.

And in the end, YOU lose all those things you wanted others to pay for.

They've killed the golden goose.

And the sheep will bleat their submission,
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.

Burma Shave.

Wood_Chopper  posted on  2010-12-11   20:43:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Wood_Chopper (#34)

They've killed the golden goose.

The golden goose, my friend, was the middle class and it wasn't the government that killed it.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   21:29:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Wood_Chopper (#19)

Next time someone comes after you for not meeting your bills, tell them to take your boss to court because he's not paying you enough, and he owes them the money.

If my employer is having financial troubles he can lay me off or cut my hours and its all too bad, so sad.

If my utility company is having financial troubles even if its due to bad investments, he can raise my rates. Same for my insurance company.

My doctor and/or dentist needs (wants) more income, they raise their fees.

We accept that every business has the right to make a profit and ask for more money, and we expect that the consumer either finds a cheaper source to meet his needs, pays a higher price, or does without. But for the consumer who is also the employee, where does he turn when the landlord wants more rent, the price of gas goes up, and his employer cuts his hours, and his child fell off his bike, and broke his arm?

The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. CIA World Factbook

I don't know how long one can persist in blaming 80% of the population for not keeping up. Maybe after 35 years its time to consider that maybe the problem isn't individual failure, but that it is systemic.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-11   23:22:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: go65 (#5)

Lowering taxes adds to the deficit.

Typical nonsense from someone who doesn't know SHIT about economics.

Do some research on the Laffer Curve, before you make yourself look any more stupid...

Liberal morons NEVER understand money...

Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2010-12-12   0:14:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Capitalist Eric (#37)

Do some research on the Laffer Curve, before you make yourself look any more stupid...

The Laffer Curve is exactly that, a curve.

At some points on the curve lower taxes increases revenue, at some points it decreases revenue. If you are on the left side of the cuve, lowering taxes adds to the deficit.

Meanwhile:


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-12   0:38:17 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: lucysmom (#32)

Why did you leave Nevada off your short list?

Over the last couple of decades, Los Vegas was one of the fastest growing cities in the country. But it was mostly the result of uneducated, unskilled people moving into the state to take menial jobs in the tourist industry.

Nevada doesn't have a strong skill base to support the high tech companies that are moving out of California. The states I mentioned do.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-12   9:10:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: go65 (#33)

Point being that cutting spending in a recession depresses the economy, leading to further reductions in tax revenue.

No, the point is that California has not cut spending enough. They didn't cut taxes at all. That's why they businesses are fleeing the state.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-12   9:17:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: jwpegler (#39)

Nevada doesn't have a strong skill base to support the high tech companies that are moving out of California. The states I mentioned do.

With such a favorable tax situation, and the difference between housing costs in California and Nevada, why don't companies move to Nevada and bring their employees with them?

Nevada's high school dropout rate has increased 21% since 2002 and now has a 51% graduation rate, so the local skill thing ain't likely to improve anytime soon.

Oregon ranks 14th in the "State Business Tax Climate Index" while Nevada ranks 4th.

www.taxfoundation.org/research/topic/52.html

Once upon a time Casinos were considered good employers providing well paying jobs, however working conditions and real wages have been declining since the 80s.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-12   12:33:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: jwpegler (#40)

No, the point is that California has not cut spending enough. They didn't cut taxes at all. That's why they businesses are fleeing the state.

Around here, a lot of businesses just disappeared with the bursting of the dot com bubble. Judging from the number of commercial spaces still vacant 10 years later, we have never recovered from that.

Where I live, median income was $89,276 while the average home price was $786,232 and property taxes $5,816 (2007). (Thanks to prop 13 I paid a little over a thousand dollars on a property valued at $1.4 million - worth about half that now)

My guess is that the price of real estate has a lot more to do with people leaving the state than taxes.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-12   13:13:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: lucysmom (#41) (Edited)

With such a favorable tax situation, and the difference between housing costs in California and Nevada, why don't companies move to Nevada and bring their employees with them?

I already gave you one reason -- a skilled work force. Nevada's workforce is largely unskilled.

A second reason is Nevada's reputation (gambling and brothels). A lot of companies don't want to be associated with this, which is why Delaware leads in incorporations over Nevada even though they have very similar corporate privacy laws.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-12   15:37:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: lucysmom (#41) (Edited)

Nevada's high school dropout rate has increased 21% since 2002 and now has a 51% graduation rate, so the local skill thing ain't likely to improve anytime soon.

Irrelevant to this specific discussion on where California companies are relocating, but very relevant in a more macro sense when discussing the rotten performance of America's government monopoly schools and their negative impact our future in general.

What is relevant to attracting California's high tech firms are: A.) a great business climate and B.) world class talent.

How do you seed world class talent? One way is by having a world class research university, which attracts top global talent and spins off technology firms. Silicon Valley was seeded by Stanford University, which is a private university. Specifically, Silicon Valley was seeded by Standford graduates who created Hewlett Packard -- an evil corporation. LOL. Another way is by having a really smart guy who starts a tiny company and grows it into a really big company over the years. That company gives smart people the experiences they need to leave and create their own startups. That's the evil capitalist Bill Gates model in Seattle. Bonus the evil capitalist uses the money he made growing a huge company to seed a world class research university (like Gates and Paul Allen did in bringing world class bio-technology talent to the University of Washington).

In either case, there has to be a center of gravity that creates some dynamic around them.

Nevada creates a dynamic of gambling and hookers. In good times, those may be growth industries but they don't produce anything of lasting value that can be exportable (except for maybe sex slavery). In bad times, they wind up in the ditch because their business is 100% based on people's disposable income.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-12   15:45:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: jwpegler (#43)

I already gave you one reason -- a skilled work force. Nevada's workforce is largely unskilled.

The reason companies don't move to Nevada and bring their skilled workforce with them is because Nevada doesn't have a skilled workforce?

A second reason is Nevada's reputation (gambling and brothels). A lot of companies don't want to be associated with this, which is why Delaware leads in incorporations over Nevada even though they have very similar corporate privacy laws.

Delaware has a franchise tax, Nevada does not.

I know that Delaware was a favorite with banks because it didn't have usury laws.

Companies like Silicon Graphics may be incorporated in Delaware, but located in California.

I do agree that Nevada does have an undercurrent of sleaze. Declining wages paid by Casinos with few worker protections have become a drag on the state. The Casinos depend to a large extent on tourism for income, and a transient population from which to draw employees.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-12   20:55:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: jwpegler (#44)

Specifically, Silicon Valley was seeded by Standford graduates who created Hewlett Packard -- an evil corporation. LOL.

Actually it was Frederick Terman, the Cold War, the creation of Stanford Industrial Park, research grants from the DoD and the CIA that made Stanford and Silicon Valley.

HP had a reputation as THE place to work in this area for decades because it treated employees decently. In return, HP enjoyed immense loyalty from its employees and respect in communities where they were located. Carly Fiorina changed that.

...the evil capitalist...blah, blah, blah

Oh grow up!

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-12   21:32:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: lucysmom, jwpegler (#46)

You are both wrong.

The "gulch" was a direct result of our inability to have "heavy lift", so we had to make things smaller and lighter. My father was involved in the lift side as an engineer for many years.

NASA Ames was the center of this effort, which is just across the highway from the gulch.

Shockley, (the inventor of the transistor), helped Fairchild and others to develop REAL "solid state" electronics for this purpose. Which were silicone based.

Hence the gulch was born and when the computer came of age it was off to the races in the gulch.

I know because I was there for a large part of it. In fact I was involved until the US gooberment started their VHLSI program and installed high level security on the industry participants.

Which is a real pain in the ass, and makes everything harder for everyone involved. (Been there done that.) No more money for the extra hassle so F it.

So I shook the silicone from my sandals and headed north.

Now TRY to tell me that I'm wrong you ignorant bitch.

Poor lucy

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-12   23:46:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Mad Dog (#47) (Edited)

History of Silicon Valley:

In 1909, Charles Herrold started the first radio station in the United States with regularly scheduled programming in San Jose.

Later that year, Stanford University graduate Cyril Elwell purchased the U.S. patents for Poulsen arc radio transmission technology and founded the Federal Telegraph Corporation (FTC) in Palo Alto.

In 1935, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated in electrical engineering from Stanford University. The company originated in a garage in nearby Palo Alto during a fellowship they had with a past professor, Frederick Terman at Stanford.

On and on and on...

This was long before there was any Cold War or transistor.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   15:55:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: go65 (#38)

At some points on the curve lower taxes increases revenue, at some points it decreases revenue. If you are on the left side of the cuve, lowering taxes adds to the deficit.

Very good.

We're on the RIGHT side of the curve.

Let's clear up a couple misconceptions on tax cuts BY TERRY SAVAGE SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Nov 16, 2010 05:26PM

Share E-Mail Print It's income tax day -- the day of reckoning. Fortunes are spent trying to understand the tax code and file documents that accurately reflect taxes owed while attempting to legally minimize the amount that must be paid.

In 2002, taxpayers spent an estimated 5.8 billion hours complying with the federal income tax code, according to the Tax Foundation. The total estimated cost of compliance was over $194 billion. That's equivalent to a 20.4-cent surcharge for every $1 in taxes collected!

The agony of filing a tax return is a subject for psychiatrists and punsters, as well as politicians. Albert Einstein famously said: "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." And he died in 1955, before it got really complicated.

But it's not only the challenges of complying with the tax code that are misunderstood by so many. The real confusion arises over the impact of income taxes on generating tax revenues.

Challenging tax assumptions

At first glance, it seems logical to assume that if you raise tax rates, you'll increase revenues. And that if you cut tax rates, revenues will fall. But history clearly shows those assumptions are faulty. And if you put politics aside to look at the numbers, you can see that tax cuts actually increased revenues throughout the 20th century.

John F. Kennedy proposed major tax cuts in 1963, and in February 1964, after his assassination, the top tax rate was cut to 70 percent from 91 percent. Tax revenues nearly doubled in the next four years. After Ronald Reagan cut taxes in the mid-1980s (and those tax cuts were phased in over a period of years), revenues grew to $1.2 trillion from $900 billion.

In fact, Kennedy recognized the phenomenon that the government can get more revenues by cutting taxes in this famous statement: "An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. ... In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates now."

If tax cuts have worked to increase revenues, why, then, has our country run such huge deficits- The answer lies on the spending side. There has never in the last 50 years been a year of lower federal tax revenues than the previous year. And there has never been a year of lower spending. The gap grows when spending outpaces revenues. That's a fact understood by every family facing a budget.

Another misperception is that tax cuts benefit the rich. Since the "rich" pay more in taxes, they do receive more benefits from a tax cut. But that's not to say the rich don't pay their fair share -- and an even greater share when rates drop. After the Kennedy tax cuts, the proportion of taxes collected from those in the top brackets surged. The same results came from the Reagan tax cuts. In 1981, the top 10 percent of taxpayers paid 48 percent of the taxes collected. But after the Reagan tax cuts were fully phased in, the same top 10 percent of taxpayers paid a 57 percent share of taxes collected.

The reasons are logical. In the top brackets, people have a choice of working more or working less. If every extra dollar they earn is taxed at a high rate, they simply decide it's not worth it to work the extra hours -- or make the extra investments to expand their businesses.

The United States is the best place on earth to live (pardon the chauvinism), so very few people leave to avoid taxes. But when rates get too high, people do resort to other measures, things like tax shelters and an underground cash economy, all of which distort the efficiency of our economic system. It's far better to have a reasonable and lower tax rate, which history has shown will bring in greater tax revenues.

Spending restraint

Then all we need is some restraint on spending to balance our budget.

Today, on April 15, Income Tax Day, our tax code has become so complex that even the IRS can't give consistent answers to tax questions. This year, Americans worked until April 11 -- Tax Freedom Day -- to pay all their federal, state and local taxes. There must be a better system.

The federal income tax was in its infancy when Will Rogers, who died in 1935, said: "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has!" Now, that's a Savage Truth.

Thanks for playing, go56. And yes, I spelled your sig this way, because you're ass-backwards on everything else, it seemed apt.

Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2010-12-13   16:42:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: jwpegler (#48) (Edited)

Silicon Valley or the "gulch" as those who live and work there call it, is famous for it's SILICON based advanced electronics development and production.

I CHALLENGE you to show me ANYWHERE the gulch was called the "silicon valley" before Shockely's invention of the transistor in 1956.

But YOU CANNOT because there was no such thing anywhere in the world until 1956 when "solid state" circuits, (the point contact transistor) was INVENTED.

Was there a basic aggregation of some electronics firms including HP before 1956? Yes, there certainly was.

BUT it was NOT the "SILICON VALLEY", how could it be? Because there was no such thing as a silicon based circuit until 1956.

So there was a place that had some concentration of electronics firms in the Sunnyvale area "long before any cold War or transistor", but IT WAS NOT THE SILICON Valley.

Get it?

"The Birth of "Silicon" Valley

With a series of inventions, all made from "silicon," semiconductor at AT&T Bell Laboratory in 1947, Integrated Circuit (IC) at Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View in 1958, and the first microprocessor named 4004-chip at Intel in 1971, the Computer Revolution broke out and went on. By then, several big companies such as General Electric, Ford Philco and IBM established their facilities in Palo Alto and other neighboring cities such as Mountain View and San Jose. The phrase Silicon Valley was coined by journalist Don C. Hoefler in 1971 in a series of articles for ELECTRONIC NEWS, a weekly industry tabloid."

www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kenken/svhis.htm< /a>

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   17:05:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: jwpegler (#48)

Btw;

Unless a person cites the sources of their information that they claim as fact, no serious minded person will ever believe them.

It's easy to do, and really required as SOP, if you are a serious person.

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   17:11:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Capitalist Eric (#49)

We're on the RIGHT side of the curve.

sorry, nothing in your post made that argument.

In 2002, taxpayers spent an estimated 5.8 billion hours complying with the federal income tax code, according to the Tax Foundation. The total estimated cost of compliance was over $194 billion. That's equivalent to a 20.4-cent surcharge for every $1 in taxes collected!

You are preaching to the choir, I've been an advocate of scraping all income and corporate taxes and replacing them with a national sales tax since Dick Lugar ran for president on the national sales tax in 1988.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-13   17:14:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Capitalist Eric (#49)

just as an FYI:

"[F]ederal taxes are very considerably lower by every measure since Obama became president." Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to President Reagan and Treasury Department economist under George H.W. Bush

http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/18/tea-party-ignorant-taxes-opinions-columnists-bruce- bartlett_2.html


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-13   17:17:30 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Mad Dog (#50) (Edited)

BUT it was NOT the "SILICON VALLEY", how could it be? Because there was no such thing as a silicon based circuit until 1956.

The discussion was NOT about how Silicon Valley got it's name. The discussion was how Silicon Valley started. It stated and grew because of Standford University. Standford University was its center of gravity. That was the original point being made.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   17:35:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: Capitalist Eric (#49)

In 2002, taxpayers spent an estimated 5.8 billion hours complying with the federal income tax code, according to the Tax Foundation. The total estimated cost of compliance was over $194 billion. That's equivalent to a 20.4-cent surcharge for every $1 in taxes collected!

It's closer to $500 billion today. That's enough to run GM, Ford, and several other companies combined. It's money that it completely wasted. It's a big reason (along with mindless regulations) that companies are moving jobs offshore.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   17:39:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: jwpegler (#54)

That's exactly my point.

There was NO SUCH THING AS "SILICON VALLEY" until after 1956.

Hell, the name "SILICON VALLEY" wasn't even used until 1971.

If you want to talk about the Sunnyvale/Mountain View/Palo Alto /San Jose' geographical area before solid state electronics, say THAT.

Get a grip.

Different WORDS mean different things.

You are obviously NOT a hard science person.

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   17:45:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: jwpegler (#54)

The discussion was NOT about how Silicon Valley got it's name. The discussion was how Silicon Valley started. It stated and grew because of Standford University. Standford University was its center of gravity. That was the original point being made.

You got that wrong too, so I wouldn't press the point if I were you.

WTF do you do for a living?

NOT "electronics" I'd wager.

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   17:48:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: jwpegler (#55)

I wouldn't doubt it.

I noticed a lot of replies after my last post... I presume go56 is trying to do his schtick, "war is peace, ignorance is knowledge, stupidity is (liberal) intelligence," yeah?

Feh.

Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2010-12-13   19:12:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Mad Dog (#57) (Edited)

WTF do you do for a living?

I'm in the computer industry in Seattle. I fly to the valley all of the time.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   20:25:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: jwpegler (#59)

I'm in the computer industry in Seattle.

I lived in Moses Lake, Washington for about a year, 68/69, then moved to LA for awhile, just about the time when the Manson family went on their killing spree.

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Jo Dee Messina

Murron  posted on  2010-12-13   20:40:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: Murron (#60)

Moses Lake is way on the other side of the mountains from me. I've driven past it a couple of times on the way to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Microsoft and Google both have huge data centers close to Moses Lake in Quincy because they get really cheap electricity off of the Columbia River.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   20:53:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: jwpegler (#61)

Moses lake was like being on another planet, lots of flat prarie land, and those spooky tumble weeds that piled up against our doors...

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Jo Dee Messina

Murron  posted on  2010-12-13   20:58:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: Murron (#62)

Did you ever see a concert at the Gorge at George?


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   21:04:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: jwpegler (#63)

Did you ever see a concert at the Gorge at George?

I've never heard of, or don't remember 'Gorge at George, I'm sorry. I never got to know too much about the area, but we attended a BJ Thomas concert in Walla Walla.

I remember Crystal Lake (teen hangout), and the feeling I was in Mexico, not very many white, or black folk, mostly Mexicans. I looked up a couple of fella's I met there all those years ago and found them, but I decided not to contact them because they may be married and the wives woudn't like that...lol

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Jo Dee Messina

Murron  posted on  2010-12-13   21:12:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: Murron (#64)

I remember Crystal Lake (teen hangout), and the feeling I was in Mexico, not very many white, or black folk, mostly Mexicans.

Yeah, it's a big agricultural area.

Gorge at George (about a 30 minute drive from Moses Lake):


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-13   21:21:12 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: jwpegler (#65)

Oh yes, there is one other thing I do remember that would be part of history from that area, you could probably find it online.

I was one of the first to climb aboard, and tour the 1969 Boeing 747, right off the assembly line...lol

This area is well known for it's Hangers, tho I don't think the Air Force uses the place much anymore.

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Jo Dee Messina

Murron  posted on  2010-12-13   21:52:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: jwpegler (#59)

WTF do you do for a living?

I'm in the computer industry in Seattle. I fly to the valley all of the time.

LOL!

So WHAT? LOL!

Dude I'm not some bimbo you met in an airport bar.

WHAT do you DO for a living?

Let me guess, software geek eh?

Because IF you had any background in HARDWARE, you'd know that wishing does NOT make it go.

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   22:06:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: jwpegler (#59)

Your tag line, ""It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange"

Is a REAL hoot! It is EXACTLY BASS ACKWARDS WRONG!

Because without the rule of LAW, the rule that your hero the messiah "king" obammy has been busy DESTROYING for the last two years, means that the "law" then means exactly what your little rapist hero says that it does not.

That "law" is exactly what the "big men" in the culture say it means, when there is no rule of LAW.

Only a FOOL would not understand that simple FACT, (I'm talking about Assange here, but you do yourself no good when you quote such DRIVEL).

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-13   22:19:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: All (#37)

To: go65

Lowering taxes adds to the deficit.

This stupid shilling obamunist ballsack is STILL here??

I sure don't miss the insipid "posts" like the above from the bozoed assclown.....but I have to wonder why anyone with half a brain still engages this laughable tool.....

Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. No more need for famous Dwarfisms due to his journey to the land of irrelevance:):)....until his banning I'll leave the Jerxism up... To: e_type_jag (#1) "I hate that you're off the plantation" 9-03-2010 Sheets Jerx .........(Why Fred???why the hate???....was it because my left Vibram sole made a lasting imprint on your face as I stepped over your constantly prone body and hopped the plantation wall .....:):)

e_type_jag  posted on  2010-12-13   23:51:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#70. To: e_type_jag (#69)

LOL!

The goat told me that I was honored to be the only person that she had ever put on ignore!

She might not have put it quite that way.

;^)

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Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-14   1:15:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#71. To: jwpegler, Capitalist Eric (#55)

In 2002, taxpayers spent an estimated 5.8 billion hours complying with the federal income tax code, according to the Tax Foundation. The total estimated cost of compliance was over $194 billion. That's equivalent to a 20.4-cent surcharge for every $1 in taxes collected!

It's closer to $500 billion today. That's enough to run GM, Ford, and several other companies combined. It's money that it completely wasted. It's a big reason (along with mindless regulations) that companies are moving jobs offshore.

That is a goofy argument.

This past year I've spent more time waiting for Sears contractors to show up and repair my water heater then I have in the past 10 years preparing income taxes (don't buy a Sears waterheater!).

I spend far more time navigating automated phone systems and on hold annually than preparing income taxes (I would love it if some one did a study on how much time and money was wasted on that for business and individuals).

I pray daily to be spared the necessity of contacting my internet provider!

I gave Comcast three shots at hooking up my cable, more time wasted waiting than I spent on taxes last year. (Astound got it done the first time)

Come to think of it, the private sector ain't all that efficient.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   9:52:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: jwpegler (#59)

I'm in the computer industry in Seattle. I fly to the valley all of the time.

I was born in San Francisco and lived and worked in Silicon Valley most of my life.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   9:55:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#73. To: Mad Dog, lucysmom (#67) (Edited)

You are two of the dumbest and more stubborn people I have ever met. I need to stop wasting my time talking to you.

Silicon Valley Historical Society

The phenomenon known since the 1970s as Silicon Valley can be traced to origins in the 1890s when Leland Stanford established a university at Palo Alto...

Pioneer professors, especially in the sciences and engineering, took Senator Stanford’s cue and collaborated with nearby industries from the outset...

Palo Alto became an early test bed for radio experiment. Later it became the locale for development of continuous-wave transmission powered by arc generators...

At Standford university, Fred Terman was firmly entrenched as the leading U.S. academic man in radio engineering. Even before becoming Electrical Engineering department head in 1937, Terman encouraged his students to start businesses...

The Hewlett Packard Story (From the film "Silicon Valley: 110 year Renaissance"):

In 1935, two Standford Graduates...

Silicon Valley is there because of Standford University. It's first big growth company was Hewlett Packard, which was formed by two Standard Graduates in 1935. Without Standford University, there would be no Silicon Valley. This is common knowledge, yet you two deny it. It's madding. I am going to stop talking to both of you because you are idiots.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-14   11:51:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: lucysmom (#71)

This past year I've spent more time waiting for Sears contractors to show up and repair my water heater then I have in the past 10 years preparing income taxes

Because you don't have job.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-14   12:03:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#75. To: jwpegler (#73)

At Standford university, Fred Terman was firmly entrenched as the leading U.S. academic man in radio engineering. Even before becoming Electrical Engineering department head in 1937, Terman encouraged his students to start businesses...

If you look at my earlier past, I mentioned Fred Terman, who is, BTW, known as the father of Silicon Valley.

It's first big growth company was Hewlett Packard, which was formed by two Standard Graduates in 1935. Without Standford University, there would be no Silicon Valley.

Without Fred Terman there would be no HP.

Without Fred Terman Stanford would not have played the role it did in the development of Silicon Valley - in fact Stanford itself might not be the world class University it is today.

This is common knowledge, yet you two deny it. It's madding. I am going to stop talking to both of you because you are idiots.

It must be really tough to be the keeper of all knowledge common and not be recognized for the central role you play.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   13:16:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: jwpegler (#74)

Because you don't have job.

Sears doesn't care how much money I loose waiting for their repairmen.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   13:18:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: lucysmom (#75) (Edited)

If you look at my earlier past, I mentioned Fred Terman, who is, BTW, known as the father of Silicon Valley.

Here is what you said:

it was Frederick Terman, the Cold War, the creation of Stanford Industrial Park, research grants from the DoD and the CIA that made Stanford and Silicon Valley.

Untrue. Standford University seeded Silicon Valley staring in the 1890s. Hewlett Packard was Standford's first major success story in the 1930s. Yes, Terman (a Standford Professor) was an early part of this. This all started a long time before there was a Cold War, DOD, or CIA.

Standford University was the center of gravity that created Silicon Valley.

If you are going to "google" your answers, you should probably make some attempt to put what you find in context before you respond.


"It's very important to remember the law is not simply what powerful people would want others to believe it is." -- Julian Assange

jwpegler  posted on  2010-12-14   16:08:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#78. To: lucysmom (#71) (Edited)

This past year I've spent more time waiting for Sears contractors to show up and repair my water heater then I have in the past 10 years preparing income taxes (don't buy a Sears waterheater!).

i've gotten to a point where thanks to sites like applianceguru.com and http://forum.appliancepartspros.com/ i can find the answer to just about any appliance related problem and fix it myself. I've now repaired my dishwasher once (before replacing it), and my refrigerator 3 times in 8 years.


On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.

go65  posted on  2010-12-14   16:18:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#79. To: jwpegler (#77)

If you are going to "google" your answers, you should probably make some attempt to put what you find in context before you respond.

www.google.com/search?hl=...=&oq=Fred+Terman&gs_rfai=

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   16:49:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#80. To: go65 (#78)

i've gotten to a point where thanks to sites like applianceguru.com and http://forum.appliancepartspros.com/ i can find the answer to just about any appliance related problem and fix it myself. I've now repaired my dishwasher once (before replacing it), and my refrigerator 3 times in 8 years.

Thank you. If I ever have another problem, I'll give that site a look.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson

lucysmom  posted on  2010-12-14   16:58:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#81. To: jwpegler (#73)

LOL!

Boy, you are fence post stupid.

The FACT is that solid state electronics did not even exist until the late 1950's. THAT is when the history of the SILICON VALLEY began.

Which begs another unanswered question, how is that ball less try at an insult and stupid repetition of your stupidity supposed to be an answer to my question of what you specifically do for a living?

Or address the STUPIDITY and INACCURACY of the absolutely BASS ACKWARDS DRIVEL that you use as your tag line?

Focus, focus, FOCUS ...

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   17:11:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#82. To: Mad Dog (#81)

how is that ball less try at an insult

Watch it. Our host is the only balless one around here. Your begging to get banned. If you want to be balless start your own website. I could have. But I started my own Hummer instead!

Boofer After 5  posted on  2010-12-15   17:15:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#83. To: Boofer After 5 (#82)

Piss OFF, you insipid vile retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   17:36:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#84. To: Mad Dog (#83)

Such language!!! Polite society insists on the same civility that the Founding Fathers invented. My, my but you are a vicious brute of a man. I'll bet that you have bulges all over you. BIG bulges. The kind of bulges that makes naughty girls do naughty things.

PS: Boofie goes to bed at 9. At 9:01 I can be a naughty girl too!

Mrs. Boofer Child  posted on  2010-12-15   17:42:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#85. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#84) (Edited)

Mommy!!! Only I get Hummers!!!

This is MY playground. Stop trying to play with MY friends.

Boofer After 5  posted on  2010-12-15   17:45:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#86. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#84)

Did you know Mad Dog was in the navy?

It was a mistake, actually. He heard it was full of semen. A happy error by him, as it turned out.

"I've really enjoyed meeting this community. They are so full of joy," - Sarah Palin to the thousands of cholera victims in Haiti

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-12-15   17:46:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#87. To: Skip Intro (#86)

My Boofie was a sailor full of seamen too. He loved sashaying across the deck and would always look forward to getting into manly ports like San Fran and Key West.

Once on a morning after having a dark knight on the Indian Ocean he saw a Viking sucking a seamen. He got terribly upset at that sight.

Mrs. Boofer Child  posted on  2010-12-15   17:53:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#88. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#84)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   17:58:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#89. To: Mad Dog (#88)

My my aren't you the anxious one! There will be plenty of time for that kind of talk after my Boofie goes to sleep.

I just sent him to the store for some D cell batteries. We'll be digging those good vibrations tonight!

Mrs. Boofer Child  posted on  2010-12-15   18:03:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#90. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#89)

Mommy I am back!!! Please get off of my lap!!!

Top.

Boofer After 5  posted on  2010-12-15   18:07:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#91. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#89)

Did you know Mad Dog is one of Murron's favorite posters? They just don't have that type of high class people there in the hill country.

"I've really enjoyed meeting this community. They are so full of joy," - Sarah Palin to the thousands of cholera victims in Haiti

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-12-15   18:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#92. To: Skip py the drive up window commando boy currently stationed in his mommys basement Intro (#86)

LOL!

Po wittle skippy boy "he" doesn't have any balls!

Your mommy tells the fleet that she reckons they'll drop any day now skippy boy!

We ALL believe that you have it in you to work your way up to fries someday, if you really bear down skippy boy. Well that's what the fleet tells your mommy anyways, that and a dollar makes her so happy, LOL! eh skippy boy?

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   18:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#93. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#89)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   18:09:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#94. To: Mad Dog (#93)

Hey dont talk to my mom that way!!!!

Boofer After 5  posted on  2010-12-15   18:12:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#95. To: Mad Dog (#93)

Hmmm...your needle seems to be stuck. PING me after 9 and let U's see if we cannot remedy that.

Mrs. Boofer Child  posted on  2010-12-15   18:14:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#96. To: Boofer After 5 (#94)

Now Boofie! Is that any way to talk to your new ahem Uncle Mad Dog? Now you apologize and run along. Mommy wants to show Uncle Mad Dog where she hides the Christmas pickle.

Mrs. Boofer Child  posted on  2010-12-15   18:17:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#97. To: Mad Dog (#93)

Sorry Uncle Mad Dog!!!

Boofer After 5  posted on  2010-12-15   18:21:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#98. To: Boofer After 5 (#94)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   19:22:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#99. To: Mrs. Boofer Child (#95)

Pisss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   19:24:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#100. To: Mad Dog, Boofer After 5, All (#98)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

There must have been a house cleaning of faggots and liberal pussies from other sites according to the recent influx of dumb assholes here.

Ibluafartsky  posted on  2010-12-15   19:25:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#101. To: Boofer After 5 (#97)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   19:25:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#102. To: Ibluafartsky (#100)

Yep.

"T'was EVER thus."

Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-12-15   19:28:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#103. To: Ibluafartsky (#100)

Piss OFF, you insipid, vile, retread creep.

What he said.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-12-15   20:48:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#104. To: Fred Mertz (#103)

What he said.

Said, you fookin idiot? Are you hearing things now, fudgepacker?

Ibluafartsky  posted on  2010-12-15   20:49:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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