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Skriven 2008-08-23 05:38:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Joe Schweier
Ärende: politics....
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 JS>>> It's a well known fact that it you raise taxes that it
 JS>>> actually reduces tax revenues... it is a fact... and during

 BK>>  No, it is not. Not even Laffer claimed that. He did say
 BK>> there is
 BK>>  a point beyond which raising taxes reduces revenues, but
 BK>> nowhere
 BK>>  was it given as true under all circumstances.

 JS> it's just a fact... I'm sure that there is a mathimatical
 JS> relationship between tax increases and revenues falling...
 JS> But it is well known...

 It's like so many things that are well known, it's not true.

 JS> The Dems make themselves out to be
 JS> robbin hood... it's laughable...

 No, they don't. But the suggestion is laughable.

 JS>>> that interview when Obama was confronted with that fact he
 JS>>> said he knew that it would reduce the revenues but he was

 BK>>  Did he say he knew that, or did he just accept the
 BK>> assertion?

 JS> Nope... he heard ans accepted the fact and simply stated
 JS> that he understood that revenues would fall and that he
 JS> main point behind the tax increase was to make it "fair"
 JS> between the classes.

 So, it appears he did not "know" that it was so, but accepted
 the statement that it was so. It ain't so. See the tagline.

 OTOH, fair is a good thing.

 JS>>> doing it to make it fair...  He should just cut spending in
 JS>>> other areas and funnle that to the needy...

 BK>>  He has to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay off the Bush
 BK>>  national debt.

 JS> Nope... he just needs to cut spending... That's why I'm a
 JS> conservative... They believe in a hand-up rather than a
 JS> hand-out!!!

 Ha! There has been a lot of welfare spending increases under
 republican administrations. OTOH, Johnson's "Great Society" was
 a jobs based program. The democrats have a long history of
 promoting jobs and job training programs, which have been shot
 down by the conservatives.

 JS>>> such as yourself!!!

 BK>>  You haven't been around very long to turn nasty so
 BK>> quickly.

 JS> Sorry... Did I say that out loud...
 JS> My bad...


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