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Bill O'Reilly Economic idiot.
Bill Oreilly Show ^ | 2/5/16 | self

Posted on 02/05/2016 5:24:49 PM PST by central_va

It's disappointing that a national news commentator is so ignorant of basic economics. Then again this is BOR that I speak off. In a "gotcha" cheap shot attempt BOR tried to get Donald Trump to say taxes need to be raised to help with the deficit.. The Donald, much to his credit, tried to explain and educate that a robust economy will increase revenues dramatically. It is a basic concept that BOR can't seem to understand. Raising taxes actually decreases tax revenues because most economists believe the USA's federal tax rates are on the right side of the laffer curve inflection point. Then again BOR is probably incapable of even grasping what an inflection point actually means.....


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bor; moronic; stupid
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To: central_va

As long as they are a propaganda arm of The Cheap Labor Express I will not watch.

Megan Kelly is very appealing eye candy, but I still don’t watch.


21 posted on 02/05/2016 5:41:10 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: central_va
Good Lord, even I know that if the US dropped the corporate tax rate to 20% our economy would go crazy.

and no, this is not related to the monkey story.

22 posted on 02/05/2016 5:42:46 PM PST by onona (Where are you tonight, my sweet Marie)
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To: central_va

Doubt he is ignorant. He is using viewers ignorance to turn voters away from Trump.


23 posted on 02/05/2016 5:43:13 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: laplata
O’Reilly is a first class Pin Head. And a big Dope.

Yeaah, #1 rated cable news commentator, author of 5 or 6 best selling "Killing personalities" books...multimillionaire....donates more to charity that probably any other T.V. personality....but a pinhead...O.K.

24 posted on 02/05/2016 5:43:17 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes they are scary and why the analysts are all getting spooked.


25 posted on 02/05/2016 5:43:38 PM PST by caww
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To: central_va

In business terms, the US economy is highly leveraged, in that a modest increase in the “top line” e.g. GDP generates a huge (Yuge!) amount of benefit throughout the economy. For example, consider that if a business increases it’s sales its cost of good sold decreases because it can buy materials in higher volumes and labor becomes more efficient. Similarily when the GDP grows, tax receipts at all levels go up, and costs go down. In my area, population has declined but it still takes the same number of firemen, the same number of people to run the courts, etc. Government automatically becomes lean when the economy grows but we’ve been way too long in the opposite mode, where government has expanded to absorb every available dollar (and then some).

This is what Trump explained to O’Bloviator.


26 posted on 02/05/2016 5:44:08 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: heights
I SWEAR, I did NOT reveal the monkey story.

vibrating

27 posted on 02/05/2016 5:45:18 PM PST by onona (Where are you tonight, my sweet Marie)
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To: central_va
I normally don't watch BOR, I haven't for years...

I happened to catch this segment with Trump...

I was completely flabbergasted by his complete idiocy...

He must have been trying to play Trump, because he simply cannot be that stupid...

28 posted on 02/05/2016 5:46:11 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

Oreilly is in the bag for the Cheap Labor Express.


29 posted on 02/05/2016 5:48:13 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Of course they have ‘virgin ears’ that were just simply appalled and offended.

(I think my eyes are going to fly to the moon if I roll them one more time.)


30 posted on 02/05/2016 5:48:22 PM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: central_va
I also learned the MSM whores were lying about “the Donald” saying the F bomb. He only mouthed it.

Amazingly, the MSM is bleeping it out...LOL

31 posted on 02/05/2016 5:50:20 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: central_va

Where was BOR in the Reagan years?


32 posted on 02/05/2016 5:50:43 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Sirius Lee

OMGosh, I LOVE that movie! Funniest ever!!!


33 posted on 02/05/2016 5:51:16 PM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Megan Kelly is very appealing eye candy, but I still don’t watch.”

Well, send her to me! I have a ball gag that will fit her perfectly!


34 posted on 02/05/2016 5:52:40 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: central_va

Yeah, he thinks new laws will improve gas mileage as well.

He used to be a high school teacher. This explains a lot of the problems we are now facing.


35 posted on 02/05/2016 5:53:09 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: central_va

You’re setting a pretty high standard there. O’reilly’s already a master of pontification and bloviating and blathering and interrupting and browbeating. Now you want him to come up to speed on econ 101?


36 posted on 02/05/2016 5:54:02 PM PST by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: central_va
Oreilly is in the bag for the Cheap Labor Express.

BOR is for BOR...

I've always said, if it paid better to be a left wing progressive hysterical libtard...

BOR would make Micheal Moore blush...

That fact he is the # 1 rated cable show, show many Americans are completely clueless...

37 posted on 02/05/2016 5:54:19 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: central_va

O’Reilly has no understanding of economics. I remember when he bitterly lost a bunch on investments and started blathering about nationalizing oil.


38 posted on 02/05/2016 5:54:28 PM PST by sockhead
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To: central_va

I watched the interview and I saw it as O’Reilly trying to get Trump to say what he would cut in order to pay off the debt.

I guess we all see things differently.

I would like welfare,food stamps,and the like cut.

.


39 posted on 02/05/2016 5:54:58 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears
I would like welfare,food stamps,and the like cut.

I'm ok as long as food is limited to bags of rice, apples etc.

40 posted on 02/05/2016 5:56:57 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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