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Mon Dec-06-10 04:01 PM
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So what happens a year from now with unemployment and the economy still tanking? |
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So will there be another extension? You really think that would happen?
But the republicans will be running the show (as if they are not now), and all that money will have been tied up forever. Becuase it's now officially permanent.
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:02 PM
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1. Michell might as well start looking for a house in Chicago |
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:08 PM
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2. Unless there is another bubble of some kind the economy |
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isn't going to improve. Energy prices & outsourcing guarantee it. As long as they keep funding those stupid wars and the tribal chiefs they know god damn well that they have to fund the unemployed here.
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Mon Dec-06-10 05:04 PM
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7. It would help if you gave the investor class an incentive to invest. |
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Say, I have an idea. How about we raise taxes so they re-invest their money to avoid paying those taxes each year instead of just pocketing it?
Wow! I'm a fucking genuis. I am shocked nobody ever tried that before....
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:24 PM
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3. Look for the next GOP pipedream and cave in yet again |
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Lather, rinse, repeat.
Clinton suffered the same fate, and he got more GOP programs passed than any Republican President would have dared to try for.
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:29 PM
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:31 PM
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5. So what happens if it improves? |
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Just as silly a question, unless you own a crystal ball.
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Mon Dec-06-10 04:59 PM
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6. You don't need a weather man to knowq which way the wind is blowing |
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there is nothing in this economy to reverse its direction. Nothing.
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Mon Dec-06-10 05:18 PM
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I do.
It's to my business advantage to keep an eye on rates, tonnage, trends, etc.
It actually is the crystal ball as far as being a leading economic indicator.
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Mon Dec-06-10 05:25 PM
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Shipping hasn't been this low in decades....your point?
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Mon Dec-06-10 05:27 PM
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11. It's building a base. |
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Nowhere to go but up.
Unless there is a total economic collapse the likes of which this planet has never seen before.
Don't see that happening, unless we get hit by a comet.
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Mon Dec-06-10 05:06 PM
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8. Has unemployment ever NOT gone *up* in response to a tax cut? |
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Edited on Mon Dec-06-10 05:07 PM by ieoeja
Serious question. Haven't tax cuts ALWAYS started off with investors cashing out rather than re-investing?
Riddle me this, Batman. What is a one word defintion for a tax dodge? Answer: investment!
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