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Biden: "Raising taxes, studies show, will not slow the economy at all..will make it function better"
Ovation Eddie Two ^ | 6/4/21 | Joe Biden

Posted on 04/05/2021 5:08:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

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To: crz
I can not understand why states will not move for secession

I've been asking that question for 25 years.

81 posted on 04/06/2021 4:45:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cgbg

The Laffer curve is just common sense.


82 posted on 04/06/2021 4:46:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: napscoordinator
Most states couldn’t survive without federal help. Alabama and Mississippi would become Haiti in no time.

Oh BS. What poppycock.

83 posted on 04/06/2021 4:48:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Eleutheria5

If you really want to raise federal revenue, promote DOMESTIC industry and stimulate the economy then raise import tariffs. Everything else is BS.


84 posted on 04/06/2021 4:51:05 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Come on. Without the federal money sent to those states, they wouldn’t make it. Seriously they take more federal money then any states. You know that.


85 posted on 04/06/2021 5:31:03 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: octex

Well he’s as solid as a rock but only dumber.


86 posted on 04/06/2021 6:21:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: Eleutheria5

Eat more donuts, it will make you more buoyant.


87 posted on 04/06/2021 6:22:50 AM PDT by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Please show the proof that raising taxes will stimulate the economy. It does not.

Your whole statement of this is based on some business owners making stupid decisions based on avoiding taxes. That is not the norm. By the way, we are not talking about a 90% tax rate here. Big difference from 28%.

And I can tell you from experience that most business owners are concerned about profit from being a member of many, many business organizations that discuss these issues constantly.

If a business owner does not understand that they should only invest in assets and/or people that add value to their business they will not be in business long.

I understand the situation very well and I do not base my assumptions on poor decisions by a small percentage of business owners.

I am done discussing this with you so please have a good day.


88 posted on 04/06/2021 6:34:13 AM PDT by Pendergast (We need Trump to form the “America First” party.)
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To: Flick Lives

Exactly.

Wow, I spent $400 on items I didn’t need but I save $100!

Yes, some people will make stupid decisions. But that is not the norm. Especially with people who are invested in a business and depend on the business being profitable to feed their families.


89 posted on 04/06/2021 6:39:07 AM PDT by Pendergast (We need Trump to form the “America First” party.)
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To: napscoordinator
Oh BS. That is not the way it works. After secession in this example Alabama becomes a free independent nation capable of making laws and collecting taxes anyway it sees fit. It is fresh a start, get it?

They may want to reduce welfare to minimum WHICH THEY CAN DO IF THE ARE FREE OF THE USA. They may want to cease immigration WHICH THEY CAN DO IF THE ARE FREE OF THE USA. Get it????

90 posted on 04/06/2021 6:45:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yep by skimming profits for Bizarro MAGA aka The Great Society


91 posted on 04/06/2021 7:08:35 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Pendergast

A lot businesses fail, especially new ones, because
they spend too much on shiny new objects that
look good and make the owner(s) feel good that end
up on the auction block for pennies on the dollar

Customer service and attentiveness is where so many fail, i see a
local black Franchisee with a good national
brand premium priced food product (spiral ham) have some of their
family as begrudging staff. they are polite they just don’t do the
schmoozing/upselling they need to do to really prosper IMO


92 posted on 04/06/2021 7:20:42 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: PeterPrinciple

“The problem is that most business don’t have to worry about higher taxes. They are not making any money.”

You’ll have to pardon my ignorance in this area, but are these the same businesses that supposedly power the economy as entrapenuers as they didn’t have the working capital to be taxed as much as they were before they got nailed with the new taxes due to the size of their initial attempt?

Risk can be destructive also. And with the weaken economy we currently have with nothing but paper to supply the power to it, isn’t that an open invitation to destroy the market while the fictitious DOW and NASDAC numbers are highly overinflated? Clinton mislead the people with the DOW and fanny and freddie to inflate the economy on paper and actually did more harm than good. It was the economy, stupid. Or at that time, just stupid.

wy69


93 posted on 04/06/2021 7:20:50 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Phil DiBasquette

Exactly. Well said.

The whole idea that raising taxes stimulates the economy is a pipe dream.

I admit, I’ve know some business owners that do not make decisions or manage people well. And, as you state, they won’t be in business long.

When faced with rising taxes, MOST businesses will NOT increase their spending as has been postulated.


94 posted on 04/06/2021 7:29:18 AM PDT by Pendergast (We need Trump to form the “America First” party.)
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To: Eleutheria5

At that time, I was still in school.
I joined USAF in 1970, a’s nd could not vote till I was 21.


95 posted on 04/06/2021 8:21:20 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: PeterPrinciple

I am not just going to buy equipment to get a Sec 179 deduction. It doesn’t make sense. I will raise prices to offset the higher taxes immediately.


96 posted on 04/06/2021 2:52:03 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: central_va

No I don’t. What businesses in Mississippi will stay? Not that they have much. Can they provide education in Mississippi which is the worst in the country. You need a serious reality check.

https://www.asumag.com/research/top-10s/article/21122683/the-least-educated-states-in-the-usa


97 posted on 04/06/2021 3:00:19 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: napscoordinator
What an idiot. Buffoon. What business would stay in Israel? What business would stay in Sweden? They have about the same population as Alabama and a SMALLER GDP. Go away you fool.

So tell me does the Federal boot that you lick taste good?

98 posted on 04/06/2021 6:54:44 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: napscoordinator

When the welfare gets eliminated by the state after they become part of the new republic, the worthless will scatter or starve.

And we all know which ethnic group that is.

So your summation is not only that, an opinion, but it is also arrogant.


99 posted on 04/06/2021 10:14:53 PM PDT by crz
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To: central_va

I could make Mississippi one of the the richest nations on earth in three short years.

Matter of fact, if all the red states were to split, a few of the Canadian areas would split away from the Queerbeckers and join the New Republic.

Next, the boy will claim that N and S Dakota have nothing to offer.


100 posted on 04/06/2021 10:25:45 PM PDT by crz
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