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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (204584)10/10/2012 4:11:09 PM
From: Jeff Hayden  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541457
 
My argument was and is, that if you cut enough deductions you get to the point of being revenue neutral. You say you can't - I say if you include all income groups it can easily be done.
I agree with Metacomet. Take all the space and time you need and prove it. Should be easy, right?



To: Steve Lokness who wrote (204584)10/10/2012 4:23:42 PM
From: Alex MG  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541457
 
okay, so you agree with Romney we can slash fed income taxes by 20% on the top 1% and across the board even though the top 1-5% are currently enjoying their lowest taxes in 50 plus years and the top income bracket continues to grab more of the piece of the pie

and you can do it without raising more taxes on lower and middle income people while middle class earnings have stagnated or gone lower for about 40 years now

and we can do all this and still spend an additional $2trillion on the war machine

we can do all this and not cut social security or medicare

please give us a few details on the magic beans you are brewing and drinking



To: Steve Lokness who wrote (204584)10/10/2012 11:30:34 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541457
 
<<It's the Krugmans of the world who believe in magic beans - not me. >.

The mistake you are making is that Krugman (and Stiglitz) are seeing a dimension above the rest of us.

What Krugman sees it what Einstein, Russel, Whitehead, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac and Newton, saw that the rest of us don't see.

Deep abstractions.

Only a few people it the world can see to a certain depth of abstraction. Krugman is one of those!