Posted on 10/30/2011 4:43:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Thank you mark, glad you liked it. I appreciate it.
Pray for America
I accused no one. It was hinted with tacit approval that somebody was browsing the Internet using a neighbor's wireless connection without the neighbor's permaission. I merely pointed out that IF that person was using the neighbor's connection without permission, then that is theft. What I stated is the absolute truth. But I guess I should have expected the hysterical responses I am reading.
By the way, theft is still theft even if the thief is a long time Freeper.
If you think I’m offended by that, I’m not. I don’t care who else said it, because they were right to say it.
But if you want to trade Democrat barbs, then you’ll make a great Democrat by voting what is best for you, rather than what is best for the country. Or you could just go on down to OWS and hang out with others of like mind.
Isn’t it productive to slam each other, rather than to stick to the issue? Yeah, I think so too.
Sheesh.
Guess we’d better get a room so we can be hysterical together, eh?
Are you sure you don’t want to back Perry? If you have a few minutes, take a look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4gz97Y9W8
Then tell me what he was drinking.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/10/22/why-republicans-will-never-address-obama%e2%80%99s-crimes/
Certainly very animated at the very least.
There are many problems with both Perry and Newt’s tax plan.
The various flat tax plans are an attempt to hijack the reform movement without actually reforming the tax code in a substantive fashion.
Both plans are “what do I need to say to get votes” plan rather then “what do we need to do to fix the tax code” plan.
Neither broaden the tax base thus leaving the current system of payers and payees in play for future political exploitation.
They keep in place the corrupt practice of playing favorites in the tax code by still granting special exemptions. This is the greatest flaw in the Flat Tax plans. They leave in the politically popular exemptions to pander to certain voter blocks. It the best example of where the Flat Tax plans are not serious attempts to address the fundamental problems in the tax code but a political gimmick designed to rejuvenate flagging campaigns.
The Flat Tax maintains the current focus on taxing income instead of consumption thus punishing the producers at the expense of the users.
It leaves in place the current ability for trust funds and the massively wealthy to avoid paying any tax by structuring their payouts in forms other then income.
It does nothing to tap the underground off the books economy.
So while the Flat Tax is an improvement over the current system, it is merely tinkering with the existing tax code while leaving in place the same corrupt, flawed foundation.
Of the various tax plans, Cain’s 9-9-9 is the much better plan
Seems you have more in common with OWS then you do with Freepers Bob.
I don’t think he was drunk. He looked animated, happy and enjoying himself.
I don’t want to join the dems jumping on any Republican candidate. The remarks at youtube look like that to me.
I like Cain, Bachmann and Perry. Newt, not so much, but I’m willing to forgive certain things if he mea culpa’s. Romney is my last choice.
My first choice announced she wasn’t running....
I’m with you — I don’t want to jump on any of our potential nominees. I certainly hope he wasn’t drunk, but that’s the way it came across to me, but that’s only because I have only seen him be stiff, measured, and restrained in every other video I have seen him. There is definitely nothing wrong with being happy, animated, and enjoying himself.
I listened to him today on C-SPAN, and he sounded good. He is a slow talker, and that means he is starting behind the curve for most of the nation in terms of getting a fair shake. (The same way someone with a strong Boston or New York accent would be starting behind the curve.) But when he has time to articulate his thoughts, in a natural manner, as opposed to reading from his cue cards, he doesn’t do so bad. I just wish he could be more natural and respond off the top of his head. I really don’t want another 4 years of teleprompter.
I would make one change, to replace the corporate INCOME tax with a Gross Receipts tax. That would eliminate the need to calculate a TAXABLE INCOME for corporations, which should remove a large temptation to tinker with the definition of expense and income. That by itself would help keep the IRS smaller (or whatever would replace the IRS, because taxes don't pay themselves.)
Isn’t it productive to slam each other, rather than to stick to the issue? Yeah, I think so too.
Buzz off Bertha.
Isn’t it productive to slam each other, rather than to stick to the issue? Yeah, I think so too.
Buzz off Bertha.
They should be, bray, but are libs ever in favor of removing any taxes? Not in my memory.
Perry did well. He explained his tax plan and all of wallace’s attacks. Wallace is a FNS Rhino.
“Since you brought it up when my daughter and I get together we do a Bevis and Butthead routine that is simply priceless!!”
You should put it on you tube or somewhere so we can laugh and enjoy!
huh huh huh Not in this lifetime.
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