Rush is Right - Again, Rushonomics 101

2. he's right about u.s. oil companies not setting opec prices, but wrong about domestic pricing. american oil co's price by zipcode. if you live in a tourist area, you pay higher prices.

No news here. Everything is more expensive in tourist areas. Name something that isn't.

Back in the 50's & 60's my parents owned a motel on the Alabama Gulf Coast. There was only one grocery store in the area. Everything had two prices...tourist's prices and local prices.

This nation needs a lesson in economics, so Rush gives a simple one: tax cuts create wealth...(details and audio)

Rush teaches a caller named Jerry - who likes the Daschle plan - about simple economics...(details)

Listen and read the links at the bottom of the pages....under (details) and Rush's Total Stack of Stuff (supporting documents).... if you are a subscriber.

He may be deaf but all his other senses are in top condition. Good Luck with the ear surgery, hear ya soon, Merry Christmas

Heck, I don't think allows his being deaf to be detriment for him.... hones his already formidable other senses!..He kicks clymer..... I do wish him well on his operation though!

Eliminate corporate taxes altogether,

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Look, you may think you can raise taxes on corporations and stick it to them. You may even be willing to sit on a couch with that measly unemployment check instead of having a job and real income. But I have news for you: corporations recoup those high taxes by passing the costs on to you. They may not get back everything, but they are able to recoup a lot of it,

A little contradiction there: He first claims the poor corporations are sending all THEIR money to the government then says they simply collect it from you...so where's their tax burden?....Somehow magically they'll correspondingly lower their prices?....what would be their point of the tax cut then? If they can simply raise their prices to pay taxes (hint: they can't) then they should be able to raise their prices to expand the business....Just having more money is not reason enough to hire more people or expand your business....
First of all, in the revenue neutral world of taxes, if (as corporations and lockstep, brain washed GOPers wished) corporate taxes were eliminated they would only be "eliminated" on corporations. The former corporate tax burden would then be shifted directly to the individual. If I purchase a NEW Ford, I might pay, among other government mandated regulations, their income tax. If I purchase a USED Ford I won't. If you eliminate their (corporate taxes) I will pay EVERYONES (corporate) tax through my (now increased) individual taxes.

It would be a major tax shift. There is no evidence to indicate nor any guarantee that any corporation would pass on price or any other concessions to the now overburdened tax payer.

I say we should tax ONLY corporations and eliminate the individual income tax...then watch the CEO's running for the halls of Congress begging for tax cuts on taxes they simply pass on to the consumer (pass on to the consumer. Yea,right).

I have a business and I'll tell you if I get a (business) tax cut you ain't getting anything from me...call me greedy if you want but it's my effort, my money and I, NOT YOU, pay my taxes.......

AS long as RUSH is banging the DRUM for GW and his next REAL agenda for the country and the health of his "Presidency"...the folks like RUSH explaining basic economics and the liberal spin HAS to be done daily and championed by folks like us.

Sorry GW doesn't have time to play Cowboy and Clintons...but our country is facing tough times...and REAL leaders will lead the people and the country they love forward to help all Americans.

My fantasy of putting Bill Clinton in an institution for the criminally insane will never come true...BUT if we allow the Dems and the economy to STRENGTHEN Hillary's arguments that GW is rotten for the country's domestic agenda...we will have BIGGER problems in the future.

the complaint of roger hedgecock, a conservative radio talk host, who led boycotts several years ago, and myself, concerns for example, the price of gasoline in los angeles vs las vegas.

i'm not the first person to notice that if you drive over to las vegas, where most people fly into and take a taxi to a hotel and casino, the price of gas is 20 or 30 cents below the west coast.

do they have oil wells there? nada. do they have refineries there? nada.

the oil wells and refineries are over in los angeles. they truck the gas in from los angeles, which costs money. yet, their gas is cheaper.

why? the west coast is a tourist driving area. people fly in, but they rent autos and drive up and down the coast. i live 5 miles from the 5 freeway. i would never buy gasoline over near the ocean, around the 5; it costs 20 cents more than where i live.

these inequities were amply discussed on the roger hedgecock show, especially 2 or 3 years ago. then, the price of a barrel of oil had dropped below $12.00 on the international market. at that time gasoline in san diego was about $2.00 per gallon. meanwhile, gasoline in atlanta georgia, according to people on the radio who called in to roger, was $.90. so, san diego was really being gouged. as people remarked sarcastically, "they have all of those oil wells and refineries in atlanta". yeah, right.

all of the shills on fr whose relatives work for oil companies will proceed to denounce this reply. bye.

see my reply #56. thanks. ken.