Posted on 11/14/2013 8:38:56 AM PST by Kaslin
So. You are pro-dope and you support increased taxes.
How very liberal of you.
I think every country in the world should turn to “German-born artists” for advice on national economic policies.
Oooh, I’ve been insulted. From some goober who plays with his guns in public.
Oh, wait. I’m wrong. You’re too chicken to even do that.
You start with insults and expected something else in return?
Just like a typical Dem troll...
Nobody will have to work again.
But then where will they get the money to give away?
Hey, if you don’t like my insults, then quit stalking me from thread to thread.
The only “case from the right” is to eliminate all welfare programs (ALL of them) and replace it with a monthly cash benefit, meanwhile firing 90% of the bureaucrats and “workers” in the welfare system.
It would still have to be means-tested to make sure it is only going to the really poor.
You wish, cupcake...
The negative income tax is still a stupid idea though. Might be a good intellectual exercise but that is all.
Which for all intents and purposes is the same thing the article is talking about. A stupid idea is still stupid.
Agreed.
Why not just end all “welfare” programs and let the charities handle it? With more disposable income and a burgeoning marketplace free of idiotic taxation policies, it would require real effort to stay “poor” and in need of help.
I wouldn’t disagree with that. We should also make sure that Operas, orchestras and museums are not “charity” for the charitable tax credit (if not eliminate it outright)
Agreed. I have a deep love for orchestral music having played the Viola since about age 8.
But... The only “funding” from the public for the “Arts” should come from ticket sales and those wishing to set up “Foundations” to support them.
Then again, same for sports teams. My State is currently screwing the public, me included, to the tune of around $500 million for a losing football team’s new stadium.
Billionaire owners and millionaire owners really need your money! lol
But it’s all good there will people selling beer and popcorn for at least 10 days a year at close to minimum wage, doesn’t that make up for the half a billion??
lol
The justifications never cease to make me laugh
If a new stadium made economic sense, they wouldn’t need taxpayers to pay for it. If that were the case these large cities should announce a Sports District that covers the stadiums and little else that would fund them.
Nothing makes a politician more excited about spending your money than the computer simulated view of the field from his new luxury box seats....
millionaire players
d’oh
What’s the lost opportunity cost on half a billion dollars sucked out of the private economy?
Laugh? Makes me wanna reach for my tar bucket and my Wife’s old feather pillows...
With Lambeu field’s last couple of expansions... 100% paid for by the Packers.
As it should be.
I’ve spent decades not liking the Packers. Not gonna change my mind now just because their ownership is doing what they should have been doing all along...
As for my home team Vikings... Really makes me wish I was back in Texas.
I guess Tina Turner was onto something.
This is totally not germane but for some reason it brought back the memory.
I once dreamed of developing/inventing a new power source that would make every home independent of the grid and every car independent of oil. (CPG- Chemical Power Generator)
The result in the dream even surprised me. The oil, gas, battery and electrical industries tried to sue. Associated companies even made older cars run on the water-heater sized power units.
Instead of trying to sell the stuff abroad and get robbed by state owned companies counterfeiting it. I decided to sell the rights to manufacture and sell the technology for 100 years. This was worth many billions in countries like Russia, China, India and others.
In the dream the unit cost $1,900 plus annual “recharge fee” of about $200. As you can see the cost of energy would have been drastically reduced.
The annual recharge fees would mean a massive amount of revenue too. I knew I probably had 5-10 years before the US government took the patent and stuff away or seized it all.
It was a great dream, being the first trillionaire.
I bought about 600 square miles of southern Costa Rica as sovereign territory and started my own country. In exchange I gave them $100 billion, enough to pay off their national debt and eliminate most of their taxes and fund most government from the interest.
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