Guest EXPAT Posted January 11, 2013 Posted January 11, 2013 http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/01/11/16466568-jindal-wants-to-scrap-income-corporate-taxes?lite Bobby Jindal wants to eliminate all income and corporate taxes in Louisiana. And he wants to pay for it by raising sales tax. So in this case you are taxed on what you pay not on what you earn. Guess who that will benefit the most? And who will suffer the most? This is a horrible idea of all horrible ideas. Quote
Members RA1 Posted January 11, 2013 Members Posted January 11, 2013 Not a good idea. A level national income tax will work much better. Best regards, RA1 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted January 11, 2013 Members Posted January 11, 2013 Why not do away with taxes altogether and just mint a handful of those trillion dollar coins every year? Use as needed. Quote
Members RA1 Posted January 12, 2013 Members Posted January 12, 2013 Aren't we doing that now? Except for the doing away with taxes bit. Best regards, RA1 Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted January 12, 2013 Posted January 12, 2013 One of the Biblical accounts of the end of the days is economic hardship.. Is Amagedon near? Are we able to come up with a new economic theory to prevent another crisis? I do hope so... Quote
AdamSmith Posted January 12, 2013 Posted January 12, 2013 When has there not been economic hardship? Or any of the other tag-ends of paranoiac nonsense that make up Revelations? Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted January 12, 2013 Posted January 12, 2013 True that's a very good philosophical question... <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="AdamSmith" data-cid="74128" data-time="1358002113"><p> When has there not been economic hardship? Or any of the other tag-ends of paranoiac nonsense that make up Revelations?</p></blockquote> Quote
Members RA1 Posted January 12, 2013 Members Posted January 12, 2013 When has there not been economic hardship? Or any of the other tag-ends of paranoiac nonsense that make up Revelations? One has to have "desperate" hopes, doesn't one? IF there is not after life via re-incarnation or from religious fervor, then likely most everything is "nonsense" but I do not think you are completely so inclined or one would hope. However, what you believe or think is none of my business. Which is "anti-Republican", isn't it? Best regards, RA1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted January 12, 2013 Posted January 12, 2013 Well, really? I find more than enough purpose to go on, to try to be good and do good, just in the here and now. This needs a book, not just a 3-liner, but then there are plenty of books about it already (needless to say I don't mean those of Dawkins and the rest of the atheist-evangelical rabble). Natural life does not feel to me so small or terrible or bleak that I need an afterlife to make it not nonsense. Stevens wrote a poem to the effect that if (as) life is finite, and there is no afterlife, that makes the life we do have all the more -- infinitely more -- precious for it. I wish we had more of life span, but that is not quite the same thing. In any event I have enough reverence for the reality principle (most days!) not to project that wish onto the screen we call the hereafter. Now I have frightened myself and must go dig out my old copy of The Courage to Be. Quote
Members RA1 Posted January 12, 2013 Members Posted January 12, 2013 I hope that we are not arguing but simply trying to find common ground. Best regards, RA1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted January 12, 2013 Posted January 12, 2013 Not at all! As MsGuy has had to remind me more than once, if I am arguing with anybody on this topic, it is with myself. Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted January 14, 2013 Members Posted January 14, 2013 I'm with that Smith guy. I don't need an afterlife to make this one meaningful or to coerce me to virtuosity as I live it. To base the central tenet of one's life on fear says a lot about the believer and the belief IMO. Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted January 14, 2013 Members Posted January 14, 2013 Typical Republican solution once gain: tax the lower and middle classes in favor of government welfare to Big Business and The Wealth Class. Quote
