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Mike, great post. Can’t wait till we can get together for a few beers sometime! I’m interested to see a leftist response to this.

Thanks Jen. I had heard that, but didn’t have a source. Anyway, the text itself passes the common sense test.

Scott: When we get together which of us will pay?

Jen’s link on the refute has so many holes it would take a book to cover all of them. But just food for thought: I’m pretty sure #1 is a gang banger living off his baby mama, #2 is and illegal which is why 6, 7, and 8 can’t get a decent wage. #3 is a college kid who spent 5 years to get a degree in womyns studies and now works at starbucks and #4 is a guy who injured himself slightly on his 3rd day of work doing something stupid and now makes 80% of his wages on disability and continues to work that angle even though he could train for other things or do different jobs. #10 is either Al Gore or the Kennedys.

Mortgage lenders don’t stay in business long if their goal is to get people to default. The brokers don’t buy there loans.

No mention of the government passing a minimum wage increase to throw # 5 and 6 into higher tax bracket since #10 took his trophy wife (or carbon credit scheme) and loot to Fiji and doesn’t pay taxes.

No mention of local government soaking the rich by raising property taxes and gas taxes since they need to continue to give goodies to #1 through 4 to have them continue to vote Democrat.

No mention of how #2’s many uninsured car crashes has increased the other’s rates.

No mention of how #1’s many babies were covered by the schip program and now your health insurance premium is going through the roof.

No mention of #3’s parents who had to refinance their house to put the lad through the liberal college and now have to bail him out of jail in Berkeley because he threw a rock into the USMC recruiting station.

These are just a few of the holes. The basic premise of the whole thing is still correct. If you think you can make the rich pay unbelievable taxes, they will take their ball and go home to save for another day when the promise of profit is better. It is not for love of mankind that the Kansas beef farmer provides the NY strip steak to the consumer in Manhattan, but his self centered interest of profit.

The last time our country paid its bills on time and with cash was back when Clinton was President.
Since then it has just gone on our national credit card. Our current economic policy is to print more money and spend our way out of debt.

“The last time our country paid its bills on time and with cash was back when Clinton was President.”

That really isn’t true. We had a balanced budget for a couple of years due to the economy and tax structure that Reagan/Bush handed him but it was mostly accounting smoke and mirrors because the money Social Security was lending the govt wasn’t being counted as a deficit. Take away the money Social Security was lending to the treasury and we would have still be running a deficit. And I noticed no great rush to call bonds in order to use that surplus to reduce interest on the debt either. What we SHOULD have done with that surplus is to retire debt by calling in bonds.

Adding halfacarafe’s comment to the tax example would add even more meat to this great post Mike…..

Actually, John Ryan had a useful comment that captures the logic of electing the Democrats. “Geoerge Bush spent with abandon, so we have to try something new. What’s new is Obama and Hillary. Yes, they promise to spend a lot more than even Bush, but we don’t care. Bush has discredited the Republican Party and we have to try something new, so there.” The University of the United States is now teaching a class called “Logic for Dummies”. When the bill comes due, it will not be only the rich who will pay it.

How does this compare to the Conservative policy of just putting it all on the credit card and handing it to our children?

Steve,

The CONSERVATIVE policy is cut government, taxes, and pay all the bills. The Repulican “reach across the isle” policy of President Bush has been “cut taxes” (which increase revenue and grow the economy) but allow every leftist domestic policy to go through and break the piggy pank.

Conservatism is not the current Republican party. The RNC seems to just be the DNC in slow motion.

Leftist policy is tax, tax, confiscate, tax and wonder why all the producers and “rich” have gone away.

Re: “The CONSERVATIVE policy is cut government, taxes, and pay all the bills”

Name the last (Conservative) Republican President who has done that.

Re: “Leftist policy is tax, tax, confiscate, tax and wonder why all the producers and “rich” have gone away.”

And Rightest policy is borrow, borrow, borrow, borrow and wonder why all the future generations are paying taxes to pay back the Chinese Central Bank.

“Name the last (Conservative) Republican President who has done that.”

Out of the very mouths of Democrat scaremongers the answer would be BUSH!

Name me one Democrat who proposes doing MORE in this dept?