Posted on 03/04/2011 5:24:26 PM PST by sickoflibs
If you realize both parties in Washington think that our money is theirs and you trust them to do the wrong thing, this list is for you.
If you think there is a Santa Claus who is going to get elected in Washington and cut your taxes, spend a few trillion and that will jump-start the economy, this list is not for you.
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The Austrian School’s Commandments plus :From : link
1) You cannot spend your way out of a recession
2) You cannot regulate the economy into oblivion and expect it to function
3) You cannot tax people and businesses to the point of near slavery and expect them to keep producing
4) You cannot create an abundance of money out of thin air without making all that paper worthless
5) The government cannot make up for rising unemployment by just hiring all the out of work people to be bureaucrats or send them unemployment checks forever
6) You cannot live beyond your means indefinitely
7) The economy must actually produce something others are willing to buy
8) Every government bureaucrat should keep the following motto in mind when attempting to influence the economy: “First, do no harm!”
9) Central bank-supported fractional reserve banking is an economically distorting, ethically questionable activity. In particular, no government should ever do anything to save any bank from the full consequences of a bank run, no matter what the short-term consequences.
10) Gold is God’s money.
Add mine:
1) Businesses don't hire workers just because of demand for products or services, they hire because it makes them money. Sorry to have to state the obvious.
2) Government spending without taxing is still redistribution
3) Taking one man's money and giving it to another is not a job.
4) Paul Krugman and Bernake have been wrong about everything, as well as the other best and brightest Keynesian's who have been fixing our economy for over a decade.
5) Republicans in the minority (esp out of the White House) act like Republicans,
My hope is to die owing the IRS as much as possible.
People are going to start voting with their feet, and Arizona and points South are very attractive to escape the Socialists who've destroyed every major city that they control, and every State.
Leave an "estate" and they'll get it after you're gone. Remember that thing about "death and taxes"?
The problem is that the leftdolts who caused the problem are moving, too - and recreating the problem here...
"This works out to insufficient ongoing disclosure information for more than $2 trillion of the $3 trillion in outstanding bonds," says Peter Schmitt, chief executive of DPC of Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Contrast this with the intrusive and onerous burden government places on private, publicly-held companies to provide detailed information every year to investors, or face serious sanction.
It isn't too much to ask, is it, for governments that issue munis to give financial reports, independently audited and meeting GAAP, for the benefit of their investors? I mean, it's the same thing governments mandate private companies do, "to protect the public interest." Right?
That's because Tennessee has an obnoxious sales tax.
It's not enough. If we can save public sector union jobs you should pay 15%, that is called ‘shared sacrifice’ on MSNBC :)
Me too. Course it's been 9 percent of nothing for quite some time.
However, California’s state treasurer, Bill Lockyer, says the idea of states going bankrupt is ludicrous.
Let us unionize, the TPU, tax payer union, an annual fee for representation.
Hmmm....State Sales taxes listed below; hint....one of the states has ZERO Income Tax, to go along with the below-identified State Sales Tax... can you guess which one?
CA 8.25
ILLINOIS 6.25
INDIANA 7.0
NEW JERSEY 7.0
TENNESSEE 7.0
The last time a US state defaulted on it debt was in 1933, when Arkansas stiffed $146 million worth of bondholders. That time has come again, because taxpayers will either flee — as Jimmy John has — or stay, fight, and strike.
As farmer Setten said, “Politicians only understand the language of bombs and bullets.
Ohh......Booo Hooo!
"Educators" in academia have been sticking it to people for decades. Tuition rates have been going up every year at twice, or even three times, the rate of inflation!
Every year, "educators" give themselves huge pay raises. All we see are more "McStudies" degrees, more "diversity", more two-tier prices (one for whites, one for everyone else), and more liberal indoctrination from every college and university.
I swear, the only colleges and universities these days that seem like they are worth a damn are the Christian ones: Trinity Life, Nyack, Liberty, Wheaton, Regent, New England Bible, John Wesley, etc.
...and Hillsdale, I think. I nothing about it personally, but everything I read makes it sound terrific.
They just take their disease from one state they screwed up to another state they try to screw up with the same voting pattern....no cure for stupid....
Hillsdale does not take any federal money, so the feds cannot tell them what they have to teach...No students that take fed money can get into the school...they are one of the best...
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