You are of course well aware of the egregious overspending on behalf of Bush and the GOP-led congress, but rather than look to your "leaders" for answers on why they are screwing you you find it simpler to blame it on Hillary. Take my word for it, it wasn’t Hillary who increased pork spending by more then 10X in the last 4 years. It wasn’t Hillary who voted to give Exxon Mobil (who already has $27 billion in cash) another $2.5 billion of your tax dollars. It’s not Hillary who has advocated increasing non-defense discretionary spending at a rate greater than that of the LBJ administration...it was your friends in the Republican majority. You’re getting raped by your so-called "allies" and all you can do is blame Hillary, you morally and intellectually bankrupt buffoon. Here, maybe you should read this:
All you so-called “conservatives” surely know that they don’t come much more conservative than the Cato Institute, at least on fiscal policy. Well the Cato Institute has concluded that George W. Bush and the Republican Congressional Majority has been viciously screwing you, me and every other ordinary American. Don’t take my word for it, read the article yourself, if you have the stomach for it.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa543.pdf
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phil: It’s always a good practice to know what has been said on a blog before opening your mouth and inserting your foot. Other than this particular article, what other article have you read on this blog?
I’d guess none.
So try the search engine, plug in "spending" and see what you get. Then you can come back and fess up that you were uninformed when you wrote the above comment. |
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McQ
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And Phil, why don’t you look back at Hillary’s Senate voting record and check how many times she voted against spending legislation vs. how many times she did. She’s part of the problem bub, just as you are with your uninformed perspective.
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Michelle Malkin, either, of late. Today, she links a story that I’ve linked as well... that suggests we’re in really desperate shape in the oil situation...
Yep.. In another 500 years, even at the current consumption groth rates, we’re gonna run out.
500 years. Gee... we’ve gotta raise taxes and fund pie in the sky ’alternative programs... why, it’d be irresponsible to do else.
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Correction, first line, Insert:
"Phil hasn’t read...." |
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Bithead
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I don’t suppose you noted Exxons record making profits this quarter? |
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Uhh cindy, their job is to generate profits for their stock holders by selling goods and services. If you don’t like how much they’re charging for their product don’t frickin’ buy it. Enough people do that, you won’t be hearing about record profits. The question we never hear asked is if consumers are purchasing more product, margins have increased or a combination of the two. I haven’t seen exxon’s balance sheets but, I suspect that consumption has continued to increase globally, which would account for an increase in profits. |
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I don’t suppose you noted Exxons record making profits this quarter?
No I haven’t, and frankly that has nothing to do with this one way or the other. |
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McQ
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Why doesn’t anyone ever complain about how much Hollywood stars and film studios make?
A 700% profit for Miramax on one film seems to be just dandy, for some reason. |
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Exxon has increased profits by both increasing sales and slight margin expansion. Heaven forbid a well run company make a profit. All of the calls for a windfall profit tax are absurd. I didn’t hear anyone shouting for a subsidy when margins and revenues were falling in the late 1990’s.
I received a research note yesterday about a proposal that’s being floated on a one time tax on oil profits that will be used to fund the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The analyst considered this a positive for the industry because demand will increase because of the subsidy and the cost will be passed through to the consumer. The thought that these taxes somehow punish the oil industry is ridiculous. We all end up paying for it. |
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Profits today are jobs tomorrow, Curt. Businesses do not pay taxes. When you tax a business, regardless of its form, you are taxing the customers directly, and the owners and operators indirectly. |
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Charles D. Quarles
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Anyone ever realize that there is no such thing as ’corporate profits’? I mean, is there some kind of shadow organization there called a corporation? No. There are people who own stock in these companies. And they make money when companies do well. And they spend that money giving us all jobs and income and nice stuff like that. Man, someone really needs to start teaching economics 101 in government high schools these days. Kids have no idea how capitalism works. |
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