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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (39244)12/4/2009 8:46:42 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Hey, Geoff!

I SUPPORT some of those ideas.

For example the Flat Tax.

(Have supported it for DECADES now.)

But, your ability to write down some ideas for change *now* doesn't change the point that I made earlier --- that the specific video link you posted was rather LIGHT ON SPECIFIC DETAILS OR POLICY PROPOSALS.

'Cause, it was. It didn't actually have any as far as I could tell, (but the RHETORIC was stirring). That was the point I made.

One other small point though....

If you want to 'suspend the payroll tax' until 'things get better'... just what the heck do you think that will do to federal BORROWING and the DEFICIT?

Ain't you a'gin those things too?

(And, could you PLEASE define exactly how 'until things get better' is going to be MEASURED. Do you want to wait until job growth comes back, or until the rate of labor utilization rises to 'historic norms' or something like that? You might be waiting a decade or more you know... and the deficit in the meanwhile would have turned our country into the second coming of the Weimar Republic.)

But... Flat Tax? I've there probably longer then SI has been around!

And, 'lack of federal oversight' in derivative markets and such? I've strongly OPPOSED that for more then a decade --- ever since Dodd and Lieberman and a handful of others (Greenspan included) pushed it through!
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