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To: tejek who wrote (852850)	4/28/2015 1:42:09 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB locogringo TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576180

.... As rioting raged in pockets of Baltimore on Monday evening, a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran stepped between a line of police in riot gear and the rioters and told them to get their butts home. CNN reporter Joe Johns went up and talked with the man who put himself in the line of fire to bring peace to his neighborhood. He initially identified himself as “just a soldier.” “I did 30 years, OK, came out a Master Sergeant. I’ve seen more than all this,” said Robert Valentine. “I’ve been through the riots already. This right here is not relevant. They need to have their butts at home. They need to be in their home units with their families studying and doing something with their life. Not out here protesting about something that is not really about nothing. “They do not respect this young man’s death. You know. Now, mama and daddy lost a child. That could be them. So I’m very pissed,” he added. Johns pressed Valentine on why he chose to come out and confront the rioters. “I love my country. I love my Charm City. I’m an American,” Valentine said. “I’m not black, white, red, yellow or nothing. I am American.” ...... http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/28/i-love-my-country-meet-the-hero-vietnam-vet-who-stood-between-rioters-and-cops/

To: tejek who wrote (852850)	4/28/2015 5:50:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576180

The IRS isn't irrelevant, your argument is. The IRS takes your money. The fact that it can and does do so, doesn't mean your money isn't taken. one example, a postal system that is nearly dysfunctional. To the extent it is so extremely dysfunctional, its more an argument against big government, and for privatization, then it is for the reverse. Yes, because wingers assume that when the private sector has more money they will spend more.....even during recessions. They will spend more, but that's not really the biggest advantage. Investing more is really more the point. But yes they do spend more if they have more during recessions. Of course in recessions they have less, and may be less confident about keeping what they have. So they likely spend less then when there isn't a recession. But given a recession (or a lack of one) people with more money tend to spend more. In some ways tax cuts are a particularly good idea when there is a recession, because then in addition to the supply side benefit you get a stimulus benefit, but getting the timing and size of such fiscal stimulus (or even more so any attempt at stimulus through spending) is rather challenging. And if your going to try to stimulate through tax cuts you have to raise taxes again later (unless they where just generally to high, but then they should be cut whether or not there is a recession). Probably better just to keep them as low and simple as possible, rather then trying to time things.