Bring It On, Mr. President!

GOPUSA ^ | July 7, 2003 | Doug Patton

[Night Hides Not]

Although I don't play tennis, all I can say is (as regards to your list):

Game--Set--Match!!!

[judgeandjury]

"Bring 'em on!"

A phrase that would make Teddy Roosevelt smile.

[AdamSelene235]

Bush has cut more taxes than Reagan

In constant or inflated dollars?

[Southack]

Certainly he's done it in inflated Dollars, but I'm not certain if he's done it for all tax brackets in constant real Dollars.

But consider that a family of four today who makes $40,000 per year now pays a grand total of only $45 (yup, just fourty-five Dollars) in federal income taxes.

So for the $40k/year and below crowd, Bush clearly wins over Reagan even in constant Dollars.

Reagan didn't get the dividend tax cut that Bush got, either, much less the estate tax cut.

Not bad for being in office only 2.5 years...

[Ed_in_NJ]

Absolutely! Least we can do is 'tip the fedora' appropriately!

[AdamSelene235]

Certainly he's done it in inflated Dollars, but I'm not certain if he's done it for all tax brackets in constant real Dollars.

No, is the Bush cut bigger than the Reagan cut in constant dollars?

But consider that a family of four today who makes $40,000 per year now pays a grand total of only $45 (yup, just fourty-five Dollars) in federal income taxes

In much of the country a family of four would be homeless on $40,000.

[Southack]

"In much of the country a family of four would be homeless on $40,000."

$40k/year might be tight in a few of America's hyper-urban areas, but rural Americans can live like kings on that level of income. Even after taxes, that's almost $3k per month take-home pay. $1k per month will get you a $150k house, and $2k per month can feed and clothe a family of 4 with enough left over for the occassional Disney World vacation.

...at least, it will if you don't live in an over-regulated, over-taxed, high-demand hyper-urban area.

You have to pay **more** to get yourself those sorts of lifelong hassles!

[Southack]

"No, is the Bush cut bigger than the Reagan cut in constant dollars?"

Are we including Reagan's 1986 income tax raises in the Reform Act, or just counting his tax cuts?

[Bush2000]

Screw the lily livered pu**ies who scream, oh the President can't talk like that. It's because of President's who did not talk like that as the reason forthe current state of tension and terrorism.

They want everything candy-coated.

[AdamSelene235]

don't live in an over-regulated, over-taxed, high-demand hyper-urban area.

Jobs are the result of collaborative human activity. Urban areas have more varied collaborative activity between humans than rural areas. This is why there are more jobs there.

Which is bigger in constant dollars, Reagan's cut or Bush's?

[AdamSelene235]

Are we including Reagan's 1986 income tax raises in the Reform Act, or just counting his tax cuts?

Just the latter unless you want to count deficit spending in Bush's cuts.

[Southack]

"Jobs are the result of collaborative human activity. Urban areas have more varied collaborative activity between humans than rural areas. This is why there are more jobs there."

That was true for a brief period of history, perhaps even still is true today, though it won't always be so, and wasn't so from ancient times through the Roman Empire and until Henry Ford introduced mass production circa 1903.

Now we've got the internet, where more than 100,000 Americans already make their entire yearly income on-line at eBay, and another 100,000 make it online with small publications, and more than a million day traders make it online with eSchwab, Scottrade, and Ameritrade, among other such online activities, much less some number of online reporters, writers, programmers, and web masters/hosts.

Perhaps it's too soon to write off the benefits of urban population density today, but the handwriting is on the wall. We'll return once again to an era where there are more jobs available **outside** the hyper-urban areas than within.

Ernest Hemingway didn't have to live in New York back then, and neither do we today.

The urban century has come and gone (almost).

[AdamSelene235]

That was true for a brief period of history, perhaps even still is true today, though it won't always be so,

I agree. But I wasn't talking about tommorrow or a thousand years ago, I was talking about today.

You are as slippery as an eel in a bucket of oil.

[Southack]

I don't have the constant Dollar comparisons, but I would still give Reagan the edge as the biggest real-Dollar tax-cutter so far if I had to guess, though no doubt Bush's 2nd income tax cut and dividend + estate tax cut will make it a close race.

Now that's my kind of competition!

[AdamSelene235]

Something is better than nothing. And a little patience goes a long way.

But too much patience doesn't go anywhere at all.

[Southack]

Well said.

[varon]

"Bring 'em on!"

With that one little phrase, President George W. Bush has set liberals clucking their tongues like they haven't clucked since Ronald Reagan called the former Soviet Union an evil empire.

The liberals aren't just upset about the remark as it pertains to the Iraqi terrorists but they are afraid it pertains to them as well :-)

[Alas Babylon!]

No, in reality that's not it at all. They HATE Bush. They want to regain control of the government. They are out of power, and they blame Bush (actually, we can thank Clinton, but the dems won't say that). So... Whatever it takes.

Consider the dem talking points over the last three years... "He lacks gravitas"; "He stole the election"; "Selected, not Elected"; "What did he know, and when did he know it?"; the Axis of Evil speech; the Air Force One photos; "Why doesn't he go before the UN?"; Daschle's phony outrage in the well of the Senate; "Why won't he wait for the inspectors to finish?"; "The war is a quagmire"; The carrier landing; "He lied about WMD"; and now, He said "Bring it on." So, like all the other attempts to smear and show false outrage, this one will fail, but next week, next month, there'll be another....

[mathluv]

I liked hearing Gen Tommy Franks repeat it in his farewell address.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Rats probably don't like "Bring It On" 'cause it reminds everyone that they're always yelling "Take It Off!"