This is well worth a minute or two of everyone's time:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

On Aug 23, 8:58*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
This is well worth a minute or two of everyone's time:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

A good start might be to either increase everyone's tax bill by 50
percent or a combination of tax hikes and reduced spending.
From what I hear in this newsgroup most could handle increased taxes.

On Aug 23, 7:58*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
This is well worth a minute or two of everyone's time:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

WOW.....you guys ARE ****ed !!! Too much of the " You first....AFTER
me " bull****, like most Americans I've ever met exhibit.

They had better re-estimate the Tax Base for the rich quickly. Maybe
if those like Warren Buffet, and Mitt Romney STOP being allowed to "
hide " money offshore, the country " may " recover.

Greed shall be thy downfall !!!!

If I lived there, I'd be looking to move,.......... quickly !!!!!!

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:38:55 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

The guy who created the video did not intend it to be a
political/partisan message, and that was not my intent in posting it
either. I view it as a realistic problem statement, one that has no
easy answers but should get us all thinking.

Raising taxes is not a slam dunk solution either, not with the economy
in the doldrums. The time for that came and went. The one sure way
to create another great depression is to suddenly cut back on
government spending and raise taxes.

It was a most enlightening vid. But, I expect the liberals will continue to believe, or at least
pretend to believe, that simply taxing the rich more would solve all our problems.

====

We need to get people out of this political mind set. The budget
deficit and it's related issues are not going to be solved with
simplistic political sloganeering.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:37:49 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:38:55 -0400, JohnH
wrote:

The guy who created the video did not intend it to be a
political/partisan message, and that was not my intent in posting it
either. I view it as a realistic problem statement, one that has no
easy answers but should get us all thinking.

Raising taxes is not a slam dunk solution either, not with the economy
in the doldrums. The time for that came and went. The one sure way
to create another great depression is to suddenly cut back on
government spending and raise taxes.

It was a most enlightening vid. But, I expect the liberals will continue to believe, or at least
pretend to believe, that simply taxing the rich more would solve all our problems.

====

We need to get people out of this political mind set. The budget
deficit and it's related issues are not going to be solved with
simplistic political sloganeering.

It is going to be solved by the simplistic stopping of spending.

On 8/25/2012 10:47 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:15:15 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

Yeah, we should make the poor taxed more to support the U.S........

Anyone making the median income probably does not pay any income tax.
They are certainly in the low single digits.
Everyone should be paying more


Harry doesn't think rich people belong in government.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/..._feinstein.php

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:47:24 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:15:15 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

Yeah, we should make the poor taxed more to support the U.S........

Anyone making the median income probably does not pay any income tax.
They are certainly in the low single digits.
Everyone should be paying more

===

We'll have to if the government maintains its current spend rate, and
there is no sign of that coming down right away. Otherwise the debt
load will get top heavy and topple. That's what always happens. The
Fed can go on and print more money but it will become worthless for
international trade, and eventually worthless here also. There's a
good chance we'll be in World War III by then so there will be plenty
of excuses to impose austerity measures like rationing, sell Liberty
Bonds, etc.

Fasten your seat belts.

On 8/23/2012 11:06 PM, *e#c wrote:
On Aug 23, 7:58 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
This is well worth a minute or two of everyone's time:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

WOW.....you guys ARE ****ed !!! Too much of the " You first....AFTER
me " bull****, like most Americans I've ever met exhibit.

They had better re-estimate the Tax Base for the rich quickly. Maybe
if those like Warren Buffet, and Mitt Romney STOP being allowed to "
hide " money offshore, the country " may " recover.


I recently saw a tv commercial that was criticizing Romney for only
paying 14% income tax. It didn't make sense to me, the poor fellow paid
$2,800,000 dollars in taxes to the federal government. I paid about
$13,000 and I get all the same benefits he gets!

That poor sucker.

He paid 215 times more than me!

It's just not fair.


Mikek