"And if I get to the point of filing bankruptcy, the medical bills will be in there, but may or may not be the straw that breaks the camels back." But you're not talking about truly catastrophic care that breaks almost anybody's bank.
The irony of most JU bloggers is that they are willing to make sacrifices such as denying themselves a tax cut as long as the top 2% can hold their wealth close to their vests.
The most generous country in the world in voluntary giving unless, of course, you include the cost of DOD expenditures in keeping the "Peace" globally. Satistically this doesn't hold up when you consider percapita aid and percentages of wealth. A nation that decides to no longer reward hard work & success is a nation that deserves what it gets. We have always done that! It's just too bad you don't include the real plumbers and waitress.
With regards to my "long"--relative--lapses in not commenting it is precisely this glitch where I cannot capture quotes without block and paste on the quick reply blue screen. It is annoying. I followed Doc's advice and deleted forum cookies but it didn't help.
You just love to nitpick. I mentioned that I did not invent redistribution and used in the context of McCain. "Subverting" means just that; the Reagan era definitely undermined a system that was working well.
UDig True, but starters with much lower ERA should be given the respect to finish a game when possible and forget about counting pitches.
"Leveraging of a firm more generally can be a good thing not a bad one though, since it allows firms to undertake investment that is beneficial now, rather than having to wait a few years to try and get together funds from retained earnings to undertake it, by which time it may be too late." Granted, as long as the firm and lender are not of the mindset of "check cashing" businesses.
CharlesCS: I'm old enough to rely on memory, thank you very much. Carter vetoed the congressional move to drop the margin from 70-50%. Reagan moved into make it a reality and then in the mid 80s dropped it to 28%--and regrettably with Democrats help. "YOu are wrong on so many points. First, Reagan did not "redistribute" anything. He took less. Redistribute means to take from those that have, and give to those who dont have (even if they have some, they get more than they had). Second
"So you are basically telling us that you use the word "redistribution" not for the act of redistributing wealth from X to Y but for the act of refraining from doing so?" On the contrary, it is the process of subverting the progressive system that served the nation for decades in order to unleash thievery on the national treasury, thereby reversing distributive value.
"If wealth is not distributed then we will go back to the days of debtor prisons and company towns in which the workers are forever beholden to the company store for their entire lives....coal mining towns from the 19th century anyone?" Great treatise. The trickle down theorists--concerned only for themselves who might accidentally share--did not have Henry Ford in mind who really believed that in the long run sharing pays off.
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"Jill mentioned that they did this at the beginning, going without many things in order to build the business. Why not do the same now in order to not only preserve what you've already built? These aren't strangers we're talking about...they're dedicated employess without whose help you wouldn't be in the position to be enjoying these luxuries in the first place." Why all this personal bullshit? Simply state that employers should show as much loyalty to their workers who are expected to sho
Anytime price controls are lifted businesses go bananas to thaw the freeze. The decade of the 70s were just bad and had to play out--even Volker had a heck of a time and when he finally got it right who but Reagan benefited. BTW, doc, why am I getting the quick reply blue screen? I have to block copy and paste--clicking qouotes doesn't work.
Frankly, I wish both candidates end the talk on tax cuts inasmuch as the current debt-ridden economy will preclude any. If anything taxes will rise to cover all these bailouts.
"It will be interesting to find out next year what the number is but I wouldn't be surprised if it's greater than 50% of the population paid no federal income taxes." especially with McC who wants to double dependent deductions! Yes, Jill, we've come a long way from the grapes of wrath.
"I think it is very disingenuous to suggest that if BO were white it would be 'no contest.'" There you go again--you replied with the same tune on my blog weeks ago. You and most of JU are in denial because you're so pure and vote only on principles.
"I think the case could be made that had Obama been white, he probably wouldn't have won the nomination." Yes, Ferraro thought likewise. BTW, how is it I can't any longer block quotes and get only the quick reply screen?
"essentially argues that if McCain wins, it's only because Republicans are too racist to vote for Obama." Not true: he mentions the panhandle in Florida which is basically Georgia and predominantly white Republicans that could be just enough to give McC the edge--not to mention many white retirees who can't cope with change--white or black. "In reality, I don't think race is much of an issue, certainly not for Republicans. Republicans would have happily (And possibly preferably) voted for
Reconstruction never lived up to its promise of forty acres and a mule.
The much talked about Redistributor in Chief took place in 1981 when Reagan took the progressive tax structure on the wealthy from 70% down to 28%, the inevitable consequence of which simply brought into reality the adage the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The additional bonus was the rise in numerous tax shelters to the point that true earnings were distorted. and to rub it in, investors looked to cheap foreign labor to enrich themselves further. Meanwhile in Washing
Are you telling me that when gas went from 20 cents a gallon to a buck that didn't cause inflation? Get real.
Then why the presupposition of regulation in the first place? Teddy Roosevelt knew that the so-called Trusts were renegades.
True, there's nothing like a sizable down payment on anything bought on credit. But this isn't --excepting the GI Bill--the Fifties.
"When I started working for this company" You are very lucky you landed a job with a company that seems to be a throwback to a time when employee/and/or employer loyalty meant something.
"We aren't all born with the same gifts. Some people of marginal intelligence are suited for little more than low wage manual labor, and no amount of formal schooling is going to change that." Sounding like me here! Congrats!
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