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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (211006)	12/9/2012 1:38:22 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541921

<<Krugman on This Week with Stephanopolis pretty much admits to being extreme. Someone made the point that 17% of the democrats are extreme Liberals to which Krugman chimed in chuckling that he spends a lot of time talking to extreme liberals. If he can be honest enough to admit it - you should too. >> 16% of the population are one standard deviation above the mean of the Stanford Binet IQ bell curve too. I think you will find Krugman in that population. Einstein was pretty extreme too as was Keynes.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (211006)	12/9/2012 1:59:01 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541921

<<I agree completely that the rich should be taxed more - but every single person that I listened to on Sunday talk shows said that isn't enough - and it's NOT. >> It could be if you raised them enough-lol.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (211006)	12/9/2012 3:17:45 PM
From: JohnM	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541921

Someone made the point that 17% of the democrats are extreme Liberals to which Krugman chimed in chuckling that he spends a lot of time talking to extreme liberals. That sounds like a George Will comment and the classic Krugman response to a Will comment. I wouldn't make any more of it than that. At any rate, Steve, your claim is that Krugman is an "extreme" economist and no one pays attention to him. But you've never countered the citations note in wikipedia. Which is far from an extreme. Nor the general comments that he is a very influential economist.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (211006)	12/9/2012 3:23:12 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541921

.I agree completely that the rich should be taxed more - but every single person that I listened to on Sunday talk shows said that isn't enough - and it's NOT. In reading an article on the net this am about a possible compromise between the WH and Congressional Reps it mentioned the top tax rate going to 37% instead of the current 35% vs the Obama desired 39% as a workable compromise. My only thought was, WTH, we just had a very public example in this last election of a high income earner paying15%, so please cut out the BS about 37% vs 39% vs 35%.