It must be that he is talking economics.
18 small business tax breaks. Complete BS.
18 small business tax breaks. Complete BS.
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He does look uncomfy, but I still choose him over Mittens“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”Comment
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Zero tax increases, not cut any essential programs, not increase revenue from the middle class,increase military spending by 2 trillion and continue tax cuts costing 5 trillion as a means of handling the deficit. You really think that math works minte? He will run up the debt faster than Obama ever did, find ways to have his cronies profit from it and leave the middle class holding the bag. Exactly the same way he did it when he busted out businesses at Bain...on a much larger scale.
I'm not thrilled by Obama but if you think Romney would be good for our nation you are either having your ability to reason clouded by the lure of a tax cut, or you are more gullible than I imagined. He is trying to buy off voters with tax cuts the same way he bought off execs at kb toys before milking it for good credit and forcing it into closing.Last edited by Relentless; 10-03-2012, 05:52 PM.Comment
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The last time someone bought votes with tax cuts, he lead us into an unfunded war of choice and turned a surplus into a depression.Comment
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You are not paying attention to the debate. You are clearly to clouded by your own opinions.
I am watching.so I will keep this short.
What Obama has done these last 4 years has not worked.
What Romney is selling might not work either. But I know that what Obama proposes *again* has failed. I also know that many small businessmen are united in the fact they have lost confidence in this administration and with that, are holding back on investing any further in their business.You might not be as anonymous as you think you are.Comment
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If you are listening to what Romney is saying, and you understand simple math... What he promises, can not happen, as a matter of basic arithmetic.. So what would happen has nothing to do with what he is claiming. He may as well say he will send everyone a check for 3 million dollars. It also isn't true, but it is no less untrue than the other nonsense he is saying.Last edited by Relentless; 10-03-2012, 06:03 PM.Comment
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Obama looks like he is gonna vote for Romney!Comment
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the candidate i liked before the debates is willing!!you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..Comment
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He didn't say 'minte's health care costs' he said health care costs overall. Since it is a statement that can be verified its easy to find out if his statement is true. The same way you started this thread about something that epitome linked fact about. The problem with Romney is that his statements about the future are patently false... But you need to use math to notice ;)Last edited by Relentless; 10-03-2012, 06:12 PM.Comment
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Relentless. I have a degree in mechanical engineering. I have forgotten more about math than you will ever know.
I am not interested in Obama's or Romney's fuzzy math. Everyone realizes it's at best speculative. It's about confidence in a leader. Obama has lost that confidence among people who own businesses and actually hire people.
I believe that Romney is doing well in the debate and his polling will show it tomorrow.You might not be as anonymous as you think you are.Comment
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That's nice..but how many more beyond YOU do you pay for. What is the demographics of the group you employ? Are they all young healthy bucks... Or are there some young ladies of child-bearing years? Or do you discriminate and not hire older workers that are more likely to need some type of longterm care..You might not be as anonymous as you think you are.Comment
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In the end does it matter who won the debate or who will win the white house?
Unless winning the election comes with the ability to jettison the current house and senate and start over nothing will change or be drastically different.Comment
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Well the company I devote my time to full-time is Canadian so none of that matters. I am a contractor however and there are two of us and I pay for the both of us. Until ObamaCare passed I was declined coverage whenever I would apply ... pre-existing conditions.
My last "real" job was VP of an insurance brokerage in the top 5% nationwide. Insurance costs were a consideration but we certainly didn't obsess over them... just a cost of doing business. Our group coverage was one of the things I oversaw and it wasn't as bad as most try to make it out to be. Employer contribution worked out to about $350/mo per head.
Edit: The group coverage was an HMO. On my own I pay $237 for 80/20 coverage with $1,000 out of pocket annual deductible and a $4,000 annual cap on out of pocket costs. Prescriptions for $4 for generics, $30 brand.Last edited by epitome; 10-03-2012, 06:40 PM.Comment
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Very funny, It wasn't even a debate
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Minte,
If businesses all did what you say yours does, we would not be in the predicament we are in... You do understand most non-union businesses do not provide 70% of the premiums for a worthwhile health care plan right? Laws are in place to protect people from a government, corporation or individual who does NOT do the kinds of things your company does according to your posts. Insisting on regulating insurance, taxation, occupational safety and everything else as if the rest of the country was doing what you claim your company is doing would be short sighted at best... Or disastrous at worst.
This debate was A big win for mitt, if he didn't win tonight he was probably done. He won by dodging his own record, saying things that aren't true and not getting called on it by Obama. All sadly good traits for a modern politician, and horrible indicators of where our country is headed under either of these two candidates.Last edited by Relentless; 10-03-2012, 08:10 PM.Comment
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I have degrees as well. Ironically nobody needs more than an elementary education to do the calculations necessary to be fully aware Romney is lying to them.
Cutting taxes for people over 250K, while not cutting things designed to bolster the middle class (like mortgage interest deductions), not increasing the debt, not changing SS or Med for anyone currently old enough to be using them, not cutting key programs like food stamps, adding 2 trillion to the military... If that could be done even a 2nd grader could understand the basic math and all he has to do is explain the details to get 100% of the vote. Unfortunately lying about it being possible is not sufficient, especially when his entire track record is one of lying to execs and employees for the purpose of running up massive amounts of debt, bleeding them for his own profit and then busting them out at the end with no regard for the jobs lost, companies bankrupted or people impacted.
It doesn't take a mechanical engineer, or all my years of schooling to figure that out.Last edited by Relentless; 10-03-2012, 08:26 PM.Comment
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http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/24/smal...uts/index.html
You should read a little bit more and listen better
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Please stop showing facts. They contradict this alternative world Obama they have created.http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/24/smal...uts/index.html
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Maybe you should do the same.. This is from that article.http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/24/smal...uts/index.html
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Many are renewals of tax breaks that already existed. Others are expansions of previous breaks. And every time a measure gets renewed, the Obama administration is counting it as yet another tax cutYou might not be as anonymous as you think you are.Comment
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/f...teps-1.4072614
"OBAMA: "Gov. Romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut -- on top of the extension of the Bush tax cuts, that's another trillion dollars -- and $2 trillion in additional military spending that the military hasn't asked for. That's $8 trillion. How we pay for that, reduce the deficit, and make the investments that we need to make, without dumping those costs onto middle-class Americans, I think is one of the central questions of this campaign."
THE FACTS: Obama's claim that Romney wants to cut taxes by $5 trillion doesn't add up. Presumably, Obama was talking about the effect of Romney's tax plan over 10 years, which is common in Washington. But Obama's math doesn't take into account Romney's entire plan.
Romney proposes to reduce income tax rates by 20 percent and eliminate the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. The Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group, says that would reduce federal tax revenues by $465 billion in 2015, which would add up to about $5 trillion over 10 years.
However, Romney says he wants to pay for the tax cuts by reducing or eliminating tax credits, deductions and exemptions. The goal is a simpler tax code that raises the same amount of money as the current system but does it in a more efficient manner.
The knock on Romney's plan, which Obama accurately cited, is that Romney has refused to say which tax breaks he would eliminate to pay for the lower rates."
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The $5 trillion figure comes from the fact that Romney has proposed to cut tax rates by 20 percent and eliminate the estate tax and alternative minimum tax. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that would reduce tax revenue by nearly $500 billion in 2015, or about $5 trillion over 10 years.
Romney says he will make completely unspecified cuts to programs, close unnamed loopholes and end unidentified tax breaks to make it revenue neutral. Obama rightly pointed out that if you ended every loophole for people earning 250K or more, you can't get close to enough revenue to balance the equation. Therefore, Romney's claim that he will do this without burdening the middle class or raising the deficit is a patently false lie.
In simple math that would be: 5 trillion minus X where X can not include an increase in debt or any additional burden on the middle class.
We can not solve for X because Romney inexplicably plans to keep X a secret until after the election, but there is no X other than divine intervention that would fit.
Obama rightly pointed out it is in fact 5 trillion less revenue, and Romney can counter any time he wants by clearly identifying X for us. Until he does, he owns the 5 trillion in lost revenue he has promised and gets no credit for X which he has failed to solve. Obama did say some disingenuous things last night for sure, but this was not one of them.Last edited by Relentless; 10-04-2012, 07:26 AM.Comment
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if they actually let all the candidates running for president and not just "the two" (bullshit) parties speak the debates would be worth watching.Comment
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"OBAMA: "Independent studies looking at this said the only way to meet Gov. Romney's pledge of not ... adding to the deficit is by burdening middle-class families. The average middle-class family with children would pay about $2,000 more."
THE FACTS: That's just one scenario. Obama's claim relies on a study by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group. The study, however, is more nuanced than Obama indicated.
The study concludes it would be impossible for Romney to meet all of his stated goals without shifting some of the tax burden from people who make more than $200,000 to people who make less.
In one scenario, the study says, Romney's proposal could result in a $2,000 tax increase for families who make less than $200,000 and have children.
Romney says his plan wouldn't raise taxes on anyone, and his campaign points to several studies by conservative think tanks that dispute the Tax Policy Center's findings. Most of the conservative studies argue that Romney's tax plan would stimulate economic growth, generating additional tax revenue without shifting any of the tax burden to the middle class. Congress, however, doesn't use those kinds of projections when it estimates the effect of tax legislation."
If simpler tax legistlation stimulates growth, (which it always does), then tax revenues to the government will rise due to more people paying more income taxes.
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Ahh yes, if we just grow the economy by a massive amount and call that X then it all makes sense. We should use that for all of our planning personally.
Why don't you borrow a million dollars you have no ability to repay on the theory that you will do 'something unspecified' with it to grow your personal finances by enough to repay it.
South Park summarized that theory as
1 - Collect Underpants
2 - ???
3 - Profit!
That is not the kind of economic policy I'd expect from any intelligent conservative.
Even the right leaning Washington post has said the counter-analysis is bogus
you can read more from them hereIn the debate, Romney countered that ?six other studies? have found that not to be the case, but he?s wrong about that. Those studies actually do not provide much evidence that Romney?s proposal--as sketchy as it is--would be revenue neutral without making unrealistic assumptions.
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