JackDuggan

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BTW - excuse the bad spelling, please - no excuse, I know, but I am multi tasking :)

Reply to And Here Comes the Tax Increases in Politics PolMach Forums

economics 101 - utilize fiscal policy during depressions (do you still think we are not headed for one?) and spend - hopefully on things that will bear fruit down the road and not to increase the spread between the haves and have nots - we are making the Guilded Age look gentle here. Monetary policy we helpful when this was "only" a mild recession. We ran out of room there back when the Fed last met. The past 8 years have seen the squandering of this naitons capability an

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All this just points to the ridiculous notion that business should provide for employee medical coverage. Talk about unintended consequences

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I have no problem with rolling back the W administrations tax cuts to those making >250k/yr. Those monies would not be spent by the folks in that bracket anyway and the treasury needs to come back into balance after 8 years of fiscal tomfoolery. Prime the pump with spending this year and likely again for at least part of next year, but after that be in a position to eliminate the tax breaks and get serious about cutting the pork. Sure this will be d