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2015-02-08 Economy

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-08 05:11|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 'Investment' is the regimes code word for more taxes.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-08 07:19|| 2015-02-08 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I would like to see a movement to restrict the budget to the previous years revenue. Revenue goes up, spending can go up; revenue goes down spending goes down.

None of this BS that bases future spending on present planned spending (when is a 5% increase a cut in spending? when you really wanted 10% more)

Posted by AlanC 2015-02-08 08:37|| 2015-02-08 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I would like to see a movement to restrict the budget In ye olden times, that used to be called "Congress"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-08 10:39|| 2015-02-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 'Investment' is the regimes code word for more taxes

To be more accurate, it's a code word for 'spending for political advantage.'

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-08 10:56|| 2015-02-08 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 To be more accurate, it's a code word for 'spending for political advantage.'

To be even more accurate "gaining political advantage by rewarding one's friends."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-08 11:26|| 2015-02-08 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 You left out buying influence with future post-presidential allies.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-08 16:17|| 2015-02-08 16:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, the fine print, err....the unreported details are that the budget includes proposals for $2.0 TRILLION in new taxes, AND a $875 BILLION Deficit.

That's a real whopper. SO with another $2.0 Trillion in taxes, which I do not think our economy can absorb, you have a $875 Billion deficit?

Unbelievable...the Dems will roll out the disabled, and the children, and the crumbling infrastructure (which I thought the stimulus and its shovel ready project BS was supposed to fix) and crumbling schools, and other fluffy bunny imagines to make the mean old Republicans look even more mean and old.

Let me repeat that Gentlemen, $2.0 TRILLION in new taxes AND a $875 BILLION Deficit in spending including the new taxes.

Posted by mystic was my code name 2015-02-08 22:07|| 2015-02-08 22:07|| Front Page Top

#8 OTOH see CHINESE MILITARY FORUM [Rock Solid Politics Blog] END OF DAYS [looms?] FOR [Global Ponzi-based = Current] WORLD ORDER?

VERSUS

* TOPIX, BIGNEWSNETWORK > IS PUTIN/RUSSIA MOVING BACK TO THE GOLD STANDARD?

Iff so, may be the best shot-in-the arm for Russia's economy + Putin's legacy???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-08 22:15|| 2015-02-08 22:15|| Front Page Top

#9 If I were a congress critter, it would be a good chance for some performance art. Have my staffers wheel a giant wood chipper up to the podium. Feed the entire packet in and yield the remainder of my five minutes to Mr Speaker.

Posted by Super Hose 2015-02-08 22:30|| 2015-02-08 22:30|| Front Page Top

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