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Odd, looks like we took in less money through the 80's (and most tax cuts)... but hey, if the 1% spend more - shit is right on track with the tea baggers!
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"""The economic benefits of ERTA were summarized by President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers in 1994: "It is undeniable that the sharp reduction in taxes in the early 1980s was a strong impetus to economic growth." Unfortunately, the Council could not bring itself to acknowledge the counterproductive effects high marginal tax rates can have upon taxpayer behavior and tax avoidance activities."""I'm not a dinosaur, I'm a crocodile. I've seen dinosaurs come and go and I'm left unimpressed.Comment
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Or we could look at that and say, it took TWO tax increases to reverse the damage or 8 years before they could balance out things and give us a surplus.
Why do they/you ignore the other 4 years? AFTER the increases, when we know the results?
However they ignored the record deficit it created. So in a way, the Gov spending money to cover its ass 'one way or another' seems to pave the way for economic recovery by those standards. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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lets go back in history a little
June 6th, Revenue Act of 1932 passed, the largest peacetime tax increase in the nation's history to that date
raised top tax rates from 25% to 63%
reduced personal exemptions from $1,500 to $1,000 for single persons
reduced personal exemptions from $3,500 to $2,500 for married couples
August 30th,1935 Revenue Act (Wealth Tax Act ) passed.
Increased the surtax rate on individual incomes over $50,000, the estate tax on individual estates over $40,000 and graduated steeply taxes on individual incomes over $1 million until the rate was 75% in excess of $5 million.
Decreased the small corporation tax rate to 12% while increasing the corporate tax, on incomes above $15,000 to 15%.
Some excess profits over 10% were taxed at a 6% rate and in excess of 15% at a 12% rate.
It was years after this that the Great Depression ended, lets learn from history, raising taxes doesn't workCarbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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Are you trying to say that raising taxes created the Great Depression or that lowering it got us out? Because neither is true.
What about all the other times tax rates were way higher? Easily half of the last decades taxes were higher than the peak they hit and we didn't drop into a depression, economy didn't fail, business didn't stop doing business and the world didn't end.
If you want the facts..
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfa....cfm?Docid=200
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All taxes are regressive but some are necessary to provide legitimate public services.
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No, raising the taxes didn't help get us out of it
they don't get that, With the recent change in power, business will be more likely to consider it safe to expand, invest and more importantly hire. I figure the new congress gets into office in January and by April there will be a lowering of the unemployment rate by at least 2 full pointsLast edited by Vendzilla; 11-06-2010, 06:27 PM.Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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Raising taxes at the worst point in our Countries history to that extreme of a rate from what it was, was stupid along with many other things they tried.... which is not what is happening today.
We aren't talking about Corporate taxes, which aren't being adjusted and in some cases have been reduced already and plans to reduce them more.
Reversing the bush tax cuts is personal taxes.
The plan is to lower unemployment, which is slowly happening already with the addition of new jobs and the economy showing signs of growth all over the place. The rep's being in power, with no power - isn't going to spark anything that isn't already happening.Last edited by TheDoc; 11-06-2010, 06:27 PM. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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We were on a gold standard until 1971 so printing money was not an option like it is now. If money was needed taxes went up. We were also a creditor nation. We were lending money to other countries and not borrowing like now. Also, our actual tax rate is not entirely accurate because we are taxed through inflation now more so than ever. $1 in 2010 was worth $0.18 in 1970. There was also WWI and WWII to pay for and the US largely funded the rebuilding of Europe after WWII.
The bottom line is the problems we face now were not in any way caused by tax cuts nor was Great Depression 1.0 and anyone saying so is misinformed.The best ePassporte replacement I have found: OKPAYComment
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Don't forget the fed reserve and all the jazz that goes with that.
Knowing what the tax rates were pre 71 almost makes the gold standard sound scary. Yeah more real wealth, lower inflation but damn if they let anyone keep it.
True, none of the problems we have today or then were due to tax cuts... however, todays tax cuts are adding to problems with the way things currently operate. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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Last I heard the rate in July was 9.7 and had hit 9.2% in Sept and held it in Oct, even though we added 150k jobs. 150k added is a net gain, but in the ratio of millions of jobs lost overall, it's a tiny gain. But that doesn't mean it isn't good. %'s really make no difference (most of those jobs will never return) we've dropped this year either way and increased jobs... not bad at all.
edit: went and looked, it is 9.6 - either way, point was it has dropped and net jobs have gone up. It's not huge, but anyone expecting it to be at this point, when some jobs are gone forever, would be crazy.Last edited by TheDoc; 11-06-2010, 06:58 PM. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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It's crazy government math is what it is. They announce positive sounding numbers to get headlines and then revise them down later when no one is paying attention to the old numbers and only focused on the new numbers. It's also not an accident that unemployment has not hit 10% yet. It's not palatable to have double digit unemployment so they fudge the numbers down. Shadow Stats puts real unemployment well over 20%: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate...loyment-chartsThe best ePassporte replacement I have found: OKPAYComment
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I really don't keep up with the %'s much... I'm sure the numbers are much higher than the gov projects though.
For me, jobs going up or down, really don't tell me how good things are doing. Jobs really are the last thing to return in big economic downturns, so even looking at this year or from our peak to now - is truly too short of a period of time.
For me, the day we can say the average wage across the Country has increased is the day we can celebrate a true positive change for the Countries economy. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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yes, there was gains, but we are still losing jobs
The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 419,351 in the week ending Oct. 30, an increase of 10,881 from the previous week. There were 482,612 initial claims in the comparable week in 2009
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/e...ta20101516.htm
Just a slower pace, so forgive me if I dont get all excitedCarbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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If it wasnt for taxes that paid for the gov funds given for the creation of the net. Most here wouldnt have worry about being in a higher bracket .Comment
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when you learn what the un-employment rate actually means let me know. You do realize that umeployment rate could actually go up to 10% but we could add 250,000 jobs in the same month. We could lose jobs and the unemployment rate could actually go down in the same month also.
Some dude working at MCdonald's lsoes his job but he for whatever reason doesn't file for unemployment, guess what, he doesn't get counted as unemployed. An unemployed guy that wasn't getting unemplyment gets a job has ZERO efect on the unemployment figure. WHY? Because he wasn't counted as being unempoyed in the first place.
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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It's also worth mentioning that US manufacturing output blew past the UK in 1890 and we never looked back. In fact 1870s and 1880s we experienced our fastest economic growth rates ever.
1865 to 1900 is referred to as the Gilded Age and this economic boom time is what made America America. During this time there were a number of short recessions, 1 depression and huge numbers of banks and railroads went bankrupt. This was a time with no government bailouts of anyone and no Federal Reserve and not only did we recover quickly we had our greatest time of real economic growth ever. Oh, did I mention there was also no income tax during this time?
Now governments prevent the liquidation of malinvestment under the guise of helping us and in reality prolong the agony and worsen the problem.Last edited by Ethersync; 11-06-2010, 07:32 PM.The best ePassporte replacement I have found: OKPAYComment
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Cali Gold rush: 1848–1855 - Overall Gold rush lasted almost 100 years, from early 1800's to early 1900's.
Mad fraud took place, fake gold/money was a huge issue, bank bonds failed and people lost everything they had/owned including property, no standard of trade, one bank/person wouldn't take another persons/banks note, lots of issues took place during these times. Besides getting shot in the street for looking at a man wrong.Last edited by TheDoc; 11-06-2010, 07:36 PM. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
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It was America's gold rush that sparked that economic boom. It was the same situation before the big rush, and people weren't sitting pretty or being taxed. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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Did I read right ??? Title is about BUSH taxes, right ... ? Just checking ....
.. but he did send you a " stimulus " check of 600.00 or so ? ( added to the deficit ).CLAIM: "The tax relief you passed is working."
STATUS: The tax cuts have drained resources from domestic programs utilized by middle-class families. The Bush tax cuts for the richest 1 percent of Americans this year alone will cost $148 billion. "That is twice as much as the government will spend on job training, $6.2 billion; college Pell grants, $12 billion; public housing, $6.3 billion; low-income rental subsidies, $19 billion; child care, $4.8 billion; insurance for low-income children, $5.2 billion; low-income energy assistance, $1.8 billion; meals for shut-ins, $180 million; and welfare, $16.9 billion." [UFE, 4/7/04; Detroit News, 9/29/04
Didn't hear the baggers and fiscally responsable conservatives complain on this board ...I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !
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That's hard to say... with today's standards it would be a mess. But back then when banks did get regulated and a standard exchange was made, it greatly helped.
We had taxes back then, sales and others...including income, just income went on and off, so yes in some ways they did help.Last edited by TheDoc; 11-06-2010, 08:07 PM. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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There was a tax of 3% only on income over $20,000 (modern equivalent) in 1861 to pay for the Civil War. The rate changed slightly a year later and it ended altogether in 1866. So, yes for only the first year of the date range I gave there was an income tax of between 0% and 5% depending on income. Then in 1894 there was a 2% tax on income over ~$80,000 (modern equivalent) after the panic of 1893. The panic of 1893 was largely, if not entirely, caused by the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which was an attempt by the US government to inflate the value of silver since the market was flooded with it, and the McKinley Tariff which put a near 50% import tax on good brought into the US. The huge supply of newly printed silver notes were used by people to exchange for gold notes causing the US government to run out of gold. Then the shit hit the fan until, I believe it was, JP Morgan bailed out the US Government with a gold loan. So, I misspoke when I said the government did not try to do stupid shit back then. They did in the 1890s, but thankfully they were limited in the damage they could do unlike now.The best ePassporte replacement I have found: OKPAYComment
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Nixon's declaratory devaluation of the dollar, twice, started this long term inflation that is sill with us today. This was done for reason of a large war debt, the war in Vietnam. And now there is a new war debt, that of Iraq and Afghanistan, and history is repeating itself.Comment
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I'm not a dinosaur, I'm a crocodile. I've seen dinosaurs come and go and I'm left unimpressed.Comment
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What?
Go read some freakin history man, wow... the gold rush created a huge movement of people, it created an entire new economy of people buying everything they needed, new banks/cities created, more people with time to invent, money to buy supplies, it created new technology, new wealth, new business... this all sparked investments in companies, bonds, which exploded in growth with industrial growth and a ton of other crap. It funded/created the need for the railway system across the Country, which laid out communication's across the Country. The 1800's industrial growth, spiked, after the main gold rush. Gold supplied our eco during the 1800's, it rebuilt us, the rush's helped greatly in tons of ways - and bad in many as well.
Bah... just the fact that it moved people, is reason alone.
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Rasing or Lowering Taaxes is Not the issue we should be looking at. It is all the stupid spending, bad programs, Political people on Both sides.Comment
Hell, California was not even a state until a couple years into the Gold Rush. There were gold rushes all over the world during this time and before and after this time. Anyways, what's your point?
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