January 11, 201313 yr 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.
January 11, 201313 yr Active Members Not a good idea. A level national income tax will work much better. Best regards, RA1
January 11, 201313 yr Active Members Why not do away with taxes altogether and just mint a handful of those trillion dollar coins every year? Use as needed.
January 12, 201313 yr Active Members Aren't we doing that now? Except for the doing away with taxes bit. Best regards, RA1
January 12, 201313 yr 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...
January 12, 201313 yr When has there not been economic hardship? Or any of the other tag-ends of paranoiac nonsense that make up Revelations?
January 12, 201313 yr 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>
January 12, 201313 yr Active Members 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
January 12, 201313 yr 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.
January 12, 201313 yr Active Members I hope that we are not arguing but simply trying to find common ground. Best regards, RA1
January 12, 201313 yr 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.
January 14, 201313 yr Active Members 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.
January 14, 201313 yr Active Members Typical Republican solution once gain: tax the lower and middle classes in favor of government welfare to Big Business and The Wealth Class.
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