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No to the Flat Tax, Gold Standard and Other Stale Ideas
National Review ^ | 02/19/2013 | James Pethokoukis

Posted on 02/22/2013 7:41:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/22/2013 7:41:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
And this crap is why I don't plan to vote for a Republican again. They've completely sold their principles. Free enterprise, free markets, competition, and choice -- those are all fine things, just so long as you approach them the same way the Radical Democrats would.

I'm done.

2 posted on 02/22/2013 7:47:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bring back US jobs.

Cut the federal budget.

The thing is it is all of those things. We cut off spending at the federal level, but then we export jobs to China.

No. Bring back US jobs now.


3 posted on 02/22/2013 7:52:15 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a great idea!

Let’s just create this entity that no one can oversee that will just TELL US how much money is in circulation by either printing it on paper or making a data entry in a database.

Then we’ll have all the money we need!


4 posted on 02/22/2013 7:54:54 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

RE: Bring back US jobs now.

Easier said than done... how do we do it?


5 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"It would be problematic to transition to a flat tax"

Only for the government programs/giveaways.

I earnd $100 and gov't took $80 ... OK .. done. And I don't "file for an income tax return"

That's problematic?

Not to me


Don't know enough about gold to comment


A BBA should not be an A, but an annual plan based on what money THERE IS.


Even a child's lemonade stand does all that ... oh wait ... yeah ... that's right ... it's illegal for a child to sell lemonade without permission

6 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:45 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Today, the top marginal tax rate is 40 percent, and inflation is 2 percent.

The inflation rate is total B.S. If you don't drive, eat or have health care maybe you could keep you output to 2% more than you spent last year.

7 posted on 02/22/2013 8:03:53 AM PST by Starstruck (I need a 30 round magazine because liberal whine gives me a buzz.)
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We need a party based on American manufacturing.

Now.

We need to return American manufacturing and do it quickly. We are selling out America’s future.

We need laws, which encourage American manufacturing. And American exports.

Both parties are sold out.

Either we get a party for American trade. Or we start one.

Soon.


8 posted on 02/22/2013 8:06:19 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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RE: . If you don’t drive, eat or have health care maybe you could keep you output to 2% more than you spent last year.

Also, if you (if you’re single) or your kids (if you are married) don’t have to go to college...


9 posted on 02/22/2013 8:07:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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RE: We need laws, which encourage American manufacturing. And American exports.

Let’s take computers and smart phones for instance... how do you encourage companies like Apple and the makers of the Android to manufacture them in the USA, given that we can’t compete with Asia on wages?


10 posted on 02/22/2013 8:09:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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“and inflation is 2 percent.”

Where, on Mars?


11 posted on 02/22/2013 8:13:59 AM PST by ScottfromNJ
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I don’t know, but what we are currently doing is simply selling everything in the plane before it crashes.

That is not a plan.

Not at all a plan. We need to stop sending American businesses overseas.

Now.

That is the first thing. We need to stop sending American businesses overseas. Period.

Then we need to start bringing US businesses home.

First of all though, we need to stop the damage from getting any worse.

GOP. Anyone?


12 posted on 02/22/2013 8:16:29 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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RE: We need to stop sending American businesses overseas.

For businesses to stop sending manufacturing jobs overseas, they have to be convinced that manufacturing things here is more cost effective than profitable than manufacturing it elsewhere.

That’s just the way things are.

Whatever it is, you’re not going to compete on wages alone. There has to be other components that will attract businesses to manufacture here.


13 posted on 02/22/2013 8:19:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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RE: “and inflation is 2 percent.”

Where, on Mars?

_________________

I didn’t know the Bureau of Labor and Statistics hire people on the red planet.... :)


14 posted on 02/22/2013 8:21:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Yeah... Screw stuff with a 3000+ year history of actually working...

/sarc


15 posted on 02/22/2013 8:24:00 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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Ownership of their business is a big one, which is not talked about nearly enough.

When you own an American business, you own it. Depending on which state you settle in, your boss can be somewhat meddlesome, but still you own it.

In China and virtually every foreign country, you own 49% and can be booted out at some time.

That day is approaching.

We need our own business base back.

Start by encouraging US businesses with law changes.

Our laws should ENCOURAGE business growth in America. Not chase businesses away.

Other than that, I leave the topic open for discussion, but we are going about it wrong at this point.

Now we really, truly need to get our focus once again on repatriation of US businesses.


16 posted on 02/22/2013 8:24:57 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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The Gold Standard didn’t cause the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve did.

Quote from Ben Bernanke:

“Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again. “

Don’t know if these people are lying or are stupid.


17 posted on 02/22/2013 8:31:57 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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All distractions from the real question of the day - are we to be free or are we to subject ourselves to an ever harsher Federaly tyranny.

They don’t dare have that discussion.


18 posted on 02/22/2013 8:51:40 AM PST by DManA
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To: knarf

If bringing back the gold standard will hamstring the fed I don’t see anything wrong with that. It will also hamstring the corrupt losers who are spending us into bankruptcy.


19 posted on 02/22/2013 9:17:48 AM PST by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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You replace all forms of income tax (including business) with tariffs on foreign goods....and American manufacturing returns. Worked well for our economy for the first 140 yrs of its existence. And, we also end trillions of dollars in trade deficits.....that wealth returning to our shores would eliminate the need for income taxes.


20 posted on 02/22/2013 9:22:16 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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