Evil lefty Liberal subversive media lies about Bush, the war, the vets, and Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction!!!!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 19:45
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Auraptor: Show me the Federal revenues - adjusted for inflation- which demonstrate that reducing taxes DID "increase revenues". Do it. Then come back to me. And remember: Google is your friend. 
www.marktaw.com/culture_and_media/TheNationalDebt.html
Kirkules: The "Laffer curve" is a theoretical construct. It has never to my knowledge been demonstrated in real life. Can you provide data that shows the "Laffer curve" DID work in some instance, even if outside the USA?
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Always look upstream.
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Quote:Admitting to having biases is the first step toward dealing with them reasonably, and adjusting your views accordingly- bravo!
Originally posted by AURaptor:
My biases aren't ingrained, as you claim, but in fact are learned.
Quote:Big step backwards here though-
I don't call Demcorats liars and communist simply becasue they oppose Republicans, but because they indeed are liars and communist.
Now you see why I (virtually) peed on your foot? You don't seem to bring out the adult in me with these kinds of posts.
Feel better, fellow Browncoat.
Chrisisall
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Auraptor: Show me the Federal revenues - adjusted for inflation- which demonstrate that reducing taxes DID "increase revenues". Do it. Then come back to me. And remember: Google is your friend.
www.marktaw.com/culture_and_media/TheNationalDebt.html
Here's my reply -
Tax revenues in 2006 were 18.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), which is actually above the 20-year, 40-year, and 60-year historical averages.[1] The inflation-adjusted 20 percent tax revenue increase between 2004 and 2006 represents the largest two-year revenue surge since 1965–1967.[2] Claims that Americans are undertaxed by historical standards are patently false.
Some critics of President George W. Bush's tax policies concede that tax revenues exceed the historical average yet assert that revenues are historically low for economies in the fourth year of an expansion. Setting aside that some of these tax policies are partly responsible for that economic expansion, the numbers simply do not support this claim. Comparing tax revenues in the fourth fiscal year after the end of each of the past three recessions shows nearly equal tax revenues of:
18.4 percent of GDP in 1987,
18.5 percent of GDP in 1995, and
18.4 percent of GDP in 2006.[3]
While revenues as a percentage of GDP have not fully returned to pre-recession levels (20.9 percent in 2000), it is now clear that the pre-recession level was a major historical anomaly caused by a temporary stock market bubble.
[1] http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg2001.cfm#_ftn1
[2] http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg2001.cfm#_ftn2
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Auraptor: Think carefully about what you have just posted. Your statement flat contradicts the very point that you're trying to make. So give it some thought. I'm busy but I'll get back to you later.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Auraptor: Think carefully about what you have just posted. Your statement flat contradicts the very point that you're trying to make. So give it some thought. I'm busy but I'll get back to you later.
Nope. It validates my reply. Thanks for playing.
"Hillary tried to get a million dollars for the Woodstock museum. I understand it was a major cultural and pharmaceutical event. I couldn't attend. I was tied up at the time." - John McCain
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Auraptor: Think carefully about what you have just posted. Your statement flat contradicts the very point that you're trying to make.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
...He won't catch it Signy, but it put a big ole' smile on MY face!!!
Chrisisall
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Quote:Told ya.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Nope. It validates my reply. Thanks for playing.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!isall
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Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Kirkules: The "Laffer curve" is a theoretical construct. It has never to my knowledge been demonstrated in real life. Can you provide data that shows the "Laffer curve" DID work in some instance, even if outside the USA?
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I've heard a lot of evidence over the years that shows real world examples. Here's a link to an article by the man himself (Art Laffer). / http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg1765.cfm I've never felt the need to give it much thought, always just thought it is intuitive.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Told ya.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Nope. It validates my reply. Thanks for playing.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!isall
Dunno what your laughing about, it does prove what I was saying.
"Hillary tried to get a million dollars for the Woodstock museum. I understand it was a major cultural and pharmaceutical event. I couldn't attend. I was tied up at the time." - John McCain
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Originally posted by citizen:Quote:Many people outside the US see George Bush as a more dangerous leader than Chavez, so it's hardly a conclusive argument.
Originally posted by Kirkules:
The US is a Republic, not a pure democracy and most like it that way. Pure democracy gets you Hugo Chavez.
Whether the US is a democracy or not depends on how you define 'democracy'. If by democracy you mean the original meaning, that of the system in use in Athens and Plato's warrior kings, then there is no democracy operating in the world today. However the accepted meaning of democracy today is one where the governing party is selected by vote, a definition the US fits in to.
Thanks for letting me know that the US is a democracy. I've been going to the polls all these years just to get the free "I Voted" sticker. Never occurred to me what they were doing behind the curtain.
If the election in Venezuela goes Chavez way you'll be able to enjoy his wacky antics for years to come. Unfortunately in a little more than a year you wont have Bush to kick around anymore.
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