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| corky52 | Oct 22 2004, 07:13 PM Post #1 |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...corporate_taxes More tax cuts and GWB trys to hide them, wonder why GWB isn't proud of these give aways? Where are the spending cuts to go with them? |
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| pentax | Oct 22 2004, 07:16 PM Post #2 |
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136 billion for businesses etc........ is he worried he might not be around to sign it soon? |
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| olstuf | Oct 22 2004, 08:04 PM Post #3 |
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Big business moguls don't watch television. Poor people do. Perhaps he didn't think people would be interested. I wonder who he will pardon on his last day in office? Nominations anyone? |
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| cmoehle | Oct 22 2004, 08:20 PM Post #4 |
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Nothing especially wrong with corporations. They are quite democratic in ownership, though sometimes too democratic to where individual stockholders have nothing to say and CEOs and minions run as they see fit. Darn, I was enjoying getting away from election politics until I realized the above parallels it. |
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| teryt | Oct 23 2004, 01:03 PM Post #5 |
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Thanks Chris. The idea often put forth is that corporations & business are just nameless, faceless entities, with no social conscience whatsoever. Therefore, they must be bad, and out to screw society with greed. Actually, they are the engine that drives the economy & are made up of people just like us. Businesses certainly does bad things, just like the people that make them up. I can say that in my MBA studies, it is repleat with ethics & corporate conscience studies. We study many corporations who are doing their best to be good stewards. In fact, in order to compete in the long-run you have to be. Again, what hits the news is those that get caught doing stupid & dishonest things - that don't take care of the big picture & go for what they justify as a short term gain. |
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| tomdrobin | Oct 24 2004, 09:15 PM Post #6 |
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To the best of my recollection, "business" is the gang that hires people and pays them for their work. It is in our best interest to make business in the USA an attractive venture. Or should we tax and regulate them until they leave? Talk about killing the goose that layed the golden eggs. |
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| teryt | Oct 24 2004, 11:29 PM Post #7 |
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Yes, and the biggest share of those employers is small business - like me & my wife. |
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| cmoehle | Oct 25 2004, 05:11 AM Post #8 |
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To be more accurate, it's not small businesses but corporations. Personally, I feel this type of tax cut, supply-side, is preferred over small individual income tax cuts, demand-side, but it receives little fanfare because it doesn't pander to the populace. Still liberal unless matched with fiscally responsible spending cuts. |
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| teryt | Oct 25 2004, 10:44 AM Post #9 |
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And I think this is a key part of where we disagree. I still maintain that most all tax cuts are a good thing, and are not liberal. I guess it's because in my definition of "liberal," a key component is growing government, and tax cuts slow that growth. And yes, I know all about Bush's gov. growing, but we're talking about tax cuts. If I had my way, we'd return to a day when the fed only took care of the basics, and had zero debt. (I may entertain some very basic gov. safety nets for extreme situations - but that may be like allowing the proverbial camel's nose inthe tent.) |
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| cmoehle | Oct 25 2004, 11:58 AM Post #10 |
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Tery "I guess it's because in my definition of "liberal," a key component is growing government, and tax cuts slow that growth. And yes, I know all about Bush's gov. growing, but we're talking about tax cuts." But the fact is Bush has pushed tax cuts while spending liberally. That is not in any way whatsoever fiscal responsibility. It's irresponsible in a way not even liberals would be. Study economic theory. There is demand-side, giving breaks to consumers, trickle up, long considered liberal. There is demand-side, giving breaks to producers, trickle down, dreamed up under Reagan; but even his economic advisers abandoned that as voodoo economics. Bush has with the new corporate tax cuts finally moved from demand- to supply-side, but he's arrived at the dock a decade or more late. As Friedman, as conservative as it gets, says tax cuts without spending cuts misses the boat. We won't get back to the basics of limited government until people vote these fools out. |
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| brewster | Oct 25 2004, 12:05 PM Post #11 |
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No, you can't have Ralph...
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| teryt | Oct 25 2004, 12:28 PM Post #12 |
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Understood Chris, but I'll still take tax cuts over nothing! |
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| corky52 | Oct 25 2004, 12:31 PM Post #13 |
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teryt, What are you going to say when money costs you 12%? Think of your credit cards at 39%, still thinking happy thoughts? |
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| teryt | Oct 25 2004, 12:42 PM Post #14 |
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How else can I say it? Govenment just has a propensity to grow & raise taxes. I'm against both. (And besides, I have no debt, so - so what!) Yes, for the umteenth time: I want spending cut, but in leu (sp?) of that, I'll take the cuts - then spending will likely have to drop (granted, if they don't borrow more). |
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| cmoehle | Oct 25 2004, 05:09 PM Post #15 |
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Tery "but I'll still take tax cuts over nothing!" What Corky is arguing is what happens when the foreign investors Bush's spending depends on demand payment? You might well end up with nothing. Tery "I'll take the cuts - then spending will likely have to drop (granted, if they don't borrow more)." You just countered your own false assumption. Tax cuts for today's voters paid for by stealing from their children. Bruce, not sure Ralph could help here. |
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