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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
First, we are not Canadians. I don't mean that in a bad way, but their largest exports or trading partner is us. The majority of their economy is based on natural resources/business sold to us. Meaning, they just had to cut back on spending while their GDP grew because of their largest trading partner, us. Second, we have 10x the population of Canada and don't have a trading partner comparatively. So using them as a model is like comparing grapes to watermelons.
Anyway, you still want to talk about cuts and Government spending. Why don't we start with farm subsidies.
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You hit it right that they are not the same, but the general idea is the same. We spend more than we take in and raising taxes is something they did during the depression and it didn't work. Closing the tax loop holes is a good idea, but raising the over all tax rate for those making over 250k I don't see that helping the economy. If the loop holes stay in place, it's not going to bring in that much, but I'm more in favor of cutting government waste first.
Subsidies are a great place to start, Corn for methanol is ridiculous.
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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
think about that