http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for bozemankidd. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/6444776094355948922/?src=hsr#822564 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:19:36 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/6444776094355948922/?src=hsrs#822564 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/6444776094355948922/?src=hsrs#822564 I couldn't be happier about being wrong about the number of electoral votes. Perhaps Karl Rove actually has made the transition from political operative to semi-objective political commentator. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#819575 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:09 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#819575 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#819575 "Actually the answer here is no, these do not drive the economy. They push a driven economy higher." I'd have to disagree with that. They don't solely drive the economy, but consumer spending accounts for 70% of economic growth, and a great many of these consumers are economically middle-class or below. I obviously understand that the economy is also grown by investment and productivity gains f http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#818213 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:51:50 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818213 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818213 I'd suggest that you are not necessarily incorrect in thinking that "Obama's modest tax increase on people earning more than $250,000 per year, or his modest increases on capital gains, or his tax breaks (really credits) for low income people" are not, in and of themselves, going to tank the economy. But what is missing from that basic calculus is the most important equation of all: The affect http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#818108 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:42:02 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818108 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818108 wkgdyw, thanks for your thoughtful reply. We'll definitely see within a year or so if I've been fooled, given what the polls seem to show now. 1, I suspect I'm much younger than you, as I wasn't paying taxes when Clinton was elected in 1992. I also suppose, in the same way you don't buy that Obama will tax that little, I don't buy that he'll spend that much, given the economy and the defici... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsr#818091 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:02:59 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsrs#818091 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsrs#818091 it ate the last half of my comment. never mind. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsr#818090 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:01:57 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsrs#818090 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/4933485464139708730/?src=hsrs#818090 >> "small-town folk," who apparently "make our country tick." These comments exemplify everything that is so despicable about her party, and they are at the core of conservative Republicanism. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#818085 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:53:26 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818085 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818085 just a couple quick things: 1 - As you point out, Obama's tax plan isn't that bad, as currently stated. Problem is, nobody believes that the current portrayal reflects the probable reality. $250k gets you into the top 10% of wage earners. How are 10% of taxpayers going to pay for the massive spending he has also promised? 1.6 Trillion (52% of the entire 2008 budget) for Health Care alone? http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#818041 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:34 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818041 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818041 Wifey, thank you for commenting! $1500 is in fact a lot more. But relatively speaking, and especially considering what we'll hopefully get in return out of the macroeconomy, you are right, it is not much. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsr#818007 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:20:26 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818007 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/7225988570032613119/?src=hsrs#818007 All of this leaves me wondering why writers like Kemp and Ferrara, and McCain, et al (to quote Reagan, "there you go again," guys!), think that the answer to all of our problems is, yet again, tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. It's like they've been labotomized. It's because the GOP has lost sight of anything resembling a pragmatic economic philosophy in favor of staying in power at all costs. An http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/8038350645995885135/?src=hsr#733321 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:27:29 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/8038350645995885135/?src=hsrs#733321 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/bozemankidd/8038350645995885135/?src=hsrs#733321 Obviously you didn't fail. I feel that you need to also add that you wrote a mighty fine successful Comment that is being published and which law journal it's being published in. Sorry, but you're still writing despite your denial of it.