Quit Picking on the Republicans

Danbones

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Well, we don't have memes to tell us what to think Cliffy.
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Unlike YOU we have to figure that stuff out for our selves.
 

JLM

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Oh Fcuk!
 

Hoid

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the stubborn truth is that the period of highest personal income taxes in America coincided with the period of greatest growth.
 

Curious Cdn

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the stubborn truth is that the period of highest personal income taxes in America coincided with the period of greatest growth.
it was easy back when North America had no competitors in the word, Germany and Japan were rubble. Britain was spent and still on rations. China was a peasant culture locked in the aftermath of revolution. Europe was rubble. Korea was being pounded to rubble. Mexico and Latin America were all third world. The Near East was still locked in the Middle Ages. Africa was one continuous basket case. The Soviet Union was so backwards in so many ways that they couldn't feed themselves.

It sure flatters one's performance when there is no one on the globe to compete with you. Now, North America workers are competing directly against Chinese peasants.
 

Hoid

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You make a good point, but it doesn't negate the fact that this growth occurred at a time of high taxation - proving at the very least that the two things are not mutually exclusive.
 

Curious Cdn

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You make a good point, but it doesn't negate the fact that this growth occurred at a time of high taxation - proving at the very least that the two things are not mutually exclusive.
Money was worth a whole lot more, back then. Still, the wild disparity that you see now would have been unacceptable to those who grew up in the Great Depression.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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it was easy back when North America had no competitors in the word, Germany and Japan were rubble. Britain was spent and still on rations. China was a peasant culture locked in the aftermath of revolution. Europe was rubble. Korea was being pounded to rubble. Mexico and Latin America were all third world. The Near East was still locked in the Middle Ages. Africa was one continuous basket case. The Soviet Union was so backwards in so many ways that they couldn't feed themselves.
It sure flatters one's performance when there is no one on the globe to compete with you. Now, North America workers are competing directly against Chinese peasants.
Sigh. Money invested has a multiplier factor of 1.4-1.7. Money in circulation has a multiplier factor of 5-6.

Rich people don't "create jawbs!" Middle-class people spending their money do.

There's a reason why every country with a healthy economy has a large, prosperous middle class.
 

Curious Cdn

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Sigh. Money invested has a multiplier factor of 1.4-1.7. Money in circulation has a multiplier factor of 5-6.
Rich people don't "create jawbs!" Middle-class people spending their money do.
There's a reason why every country with a healthy economy has a large, prosperous middle class.
The Middle Class goes hand-in-hand with participatory democracy. and if the Middle Class fizzles and dies, the other goes with it. I feel like I'm watching that happen, right now.
 

JLM

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the stubborn truth is that the period of highest personal income taxes in America coincided with the period of greatest growth.


WTF else would you expect? The human animal is the only member on the planet who has money!
 

JLM

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Sigh. Money invested has a multiplier factor of 1.4-1.7. Money in circulation has a multiplier factor of 5-6.

Rich people don't "create jawbs!" Middle-class people spending their money do.

There's a reason why every country with a healthy economy has a large, prosperous middle class.


Good to know...……………………….the guys building Rolls Royces don't have a job!