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tax cuts don’t always reduce tax revenue. But CBO always say that b/c they don’t use dynamic scoring.

as reagan [art laffer] showed, there is a non-linear relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. lower taxes can absolutely mean more revenue.

like selling shoes for $300 generate revenue of $3 million [10,000 pairs]. Will reducing the price to $250 reduce revenue generated? Lowering the price sells more pairs! If 12,500 pairs are sold at $250 that’s 3.125 million.

Any one of us would have 3 felonies for this. They’d bury us under the supermax prison in El Salvador.

oh it’s research grants.... thanks

Why are universities getting hundreds of millions of our tax dollars?

masterful set up by Trump. They weren’t going to
a) take the blame on a shut-down
b) let Trump’s pick for OMB run the money

So, Trump get his win

my eyes! Help!!

Let’s gooooo!

NO IRS
NO INCOME TAX

Let’s hope Trump has some kind of serious move away from taxes on income.

What are the categories of things that would have Trump say that [if it’s not a ruse?]

The most popular theory is that the CIA did it. What would be worse?

Going forward, every president will face prison from the other party when his term ends.

Does that include this thread? LOL

Congratulations FReeper FRiend

US Attorney General Paxton....i hope

Timeto file charges against Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, ...

A retail sales tax sounds better that an income tax… tax stuff once only instead of over and over… no taxes on income not even FICA, economic security is national security.

Our constitutional republic is the worst system of government- except for all the rest. Our system is the least bad …

Got questions about a retail sales tax? It’s the least bad system to fund a government.

How about we ask UK for a few billion for our border

Where does electricity come from % wise?

This is me just guessing:
1% wind
5% hydro
20% natural gas
74% coal

Where is the electricity going to come from?

This thread should be bigly important.

In the same way it takes will power to beat cancer or heart disease or glaucoma.

So what is so unreasonable about saying that will power is lacking in people who can’t quit an addiction?

Is it unreasonable to say will power is lacking in people who aren't cured of a disease yet? If they'd just get some will power they'd cure it.

Hitchens is not saying addiction dies does not exist, he is objecting to the idea of calling it physical disease or “allergy of the body”.

I disagree on both parts. He is implying that addiction does not exist, that addicts lack the will power to stop and that said lack of will power is the sole source of the problem. Luckily, he is not an addict [neither am I but I have known a number of them closely.]

I stand by my assertion - Hitchens is ignorant. The fundamental problem in discussing the issue is that those who have not had experience with the issue or lived through a loved one suffering from addiction are simply ignorant. They're not being intentionally vicious, they just don't understand.

That's true.

Having seen addiction run its course it’s pretty clear that it’s a neurological issue.

Hitchens is an ignorant snob in this video.

Does Hitchens think that a lack of willpower is what has people drink until they lose their job, their home, their family and frequently their life? Does he think they willingly put drinking above their children and spouse?