[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Impressive display of a low IQ.

Every white guy in the south is a redneck? Even I didn't know that.

[Libloather]

If it wasn't for white southerners, George W. Bush would have no chance of getting elected.

Weren't there a WHOLE lot more red states than blue ones when Altoast2000 lost?

[BlackElk]

What a maroon the author must be. He claims that Southern white men have been dragging down America from the beginning. Imagine the shame we have borne for having such backward rednecks as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe (all Virginians) and Andrew Jackson as five of our first seven presidents. It is not unlike the embarassment of having had Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart as military leaders.

[sully777]

Here's your sign http://www.billengvall.com/content/about.html

[muir_redwoods]

As a Northern male, Let me comment if you will.

Who is this bigoted nitwit? Southern males have always been dragging this country down? You mean like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry?

Of course there is Jimmy Carter....

[Chieftain]

I reckon' this ole boy needs a good old fashioned country ass wuppin'!

[Caipirabob]

Note to the author:

Son,

Jus' thought y'all'd lahk to know...

[Ghengis]

There is a football commentator on WTVN radio (Munch Bishop) on Ohio State game days. He is proud of his leftist political views. Yet he will smugly throw slurs at those he disagrees with as though his views are simply common sense.

Yesterday, as OSU prepared to face North Carolina State, he opened his show with this statement amongst a few others:
"I hope the Hatfields and McCoys have put their muskets away."
"I question the intelligence of anyone south of the Mason-Dixon line."
"I wonder why it took the north 4 years to win the Civil War."

I know that controversy sells in broadcasting, but bigotry toward rural, southern, Appalachian heritage goes on unchecked. Of course when a person of this culture may come unglued and punch one of these guys' lights out, they say their point is proven. But they'll never raise a peep while Al Franken and union goons go about, attacking innocent people.

[SouthTexas]

I thought it was ridiculous that Viet Nam was the center piece of the campaign, now this fool wants to take it back to the 1800s. Guess he figures the President is responsible for slavery too.

s

[ThreePuttinDude]

More on Mark Gilbert

Crank theory on tax cuts

Tools Subscribe to this paper Larger / Smaller Text

Monday, June 23, 2003

Dear Editor:

I live in Augusta, Ga., and the Augusta Chronicle recently ran one of your editorials entitled "Tax Cuts Warranted." In your editorial, you claimed that under Reagan, tax cuts boosted tax revenues. This is completely false. Here are the statistics from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's annual historical tables (1987):

Year Tax Collections in Constant (adjusted for inflation) 1987 dollars

1981 $766.6 billion

1982 $738.2 billion Reagan's tax cuts go in effect here.

1983 $684.3 billion Revenue from corporate income tax fell so drastically that Reagan agreed to a corporate

tax hike here. Remember his "revenue enhancement" as a euphemism for a tax increase?

1984 $730.4 billion

1985 $776.1 billion

It took five years for the tax collections to equal what they were before Reagan cut taxes, and this is when the tax revenue base is naturally increasing with the increase in the GDP which occurs every year, unless there is a recession. Economists are in near unanimous agreement that supply-side theory has been proven false. In fact, there is not a single supply-side wing in any college economics department in the United States.

It's a crank theory, popular with politicians who think they can promise us the moon and the stars.

Mark Gelbart,

Augusta, Ga.

[shezza]

I've written a novel entitled Talk Radio. I'm still looking for a publisher.

Really??? I'm surprised. Usually publishers JUMP at this kind of revisionist "history" agenda-dumping.

[Awgie]

Hey, you biased, bigoted, prejudiced, nit-wit. Do you not have any clue how cliched, hackneyed and trite you are as an author.

Your sophomoric prose deserves no better audience than the one you'll find at your local Barnes and Noble "Open Mic" night.

You need to spend a little more time at "Starbucks" honing your skill...but in the meantime don't give up your day job.

[sweetliberty]

[M Kehoe]

Poor Mark Gelbart, he was born with his head up his a$$.

5.56mm

[weegee]

The North "may" have given up slavery by 1800 but they kept racism alive for centuries afterwards.

[afnamvet]

About the author Mark Gelbart: I've written a novel entitled Talk Radio. I'm still looking for a publisher.

Is it written on an etch- a- sketch?

[madison10]

The posted article is full o'poop.

Thank God, & I mean that sincerely, the Southerners voted for President Bush. Hope they do so again!

[Poohbah]

Mark Gelbart is an (_0_)

[Smokin' Joe]

Don't get me wrong. I live in the south,

Lives in the south but not from the South. I already have heard plenty, thanks. Another carpetbagger come to roost.

[ApesForEvolution]

Yeah, we need more Communist RAT trash and less solid Americans.../s

I hope this guy doesn't play in the woods with an antler hat during deer season...