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DarrinS
03-15-2010, 03:14 PM
By way of analogy, this is what the Dems are doing to America with their health care bill.

Reconciliation at 38 seconds into video.

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boutons_deux
03-15-2010, 03:26 PM
scare monger, go fuck yourself, you ignorant fuck

Spurminator
03-15-2010, 03:31 PM
It's funny because Democrats hate America and they're shoving health care down our throats etc.

Darrin
03-15-2010, 03:32 PM
This is nonsense. It is used all the time. Bush tax-cuts deficit neutral? Didn't think so.

Spurminator
03-15-2010, 03:36 PM
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Bartleby
03-15-2010, 03:45 PM
Can I play, too?





By way of analogy, this is how the Dems will get their health care bill passed:

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jack sommerset
03-15-2010, 04:23 PM
scare monger, go fuck yourself, you ignorant fuck

No numbnuts. Scaring people is Obama's thing. Remember the old if you don't pass stimulus now or else speech. We passed his pork bill and we got "or else". He does not talk about that anymore.

With 85 percent of the people covered, he is telling the people of our great nation that people will die if we don't pass his health care scam. More scare tactics.

clambake
03-15-2010, 04:31 PM
well, at least you admit to being scared.

boutons_deux
03-15-2010, 04:55 PM
"Scaring people is Obama's thing"

People don't need to be scared about medical bankruptcies, 10%+/year premium hikes skimmed off their salaries, losing their insurance with losing their jobs, etc, etc. They know all that's TRUE.

Not scare-mongering lies like "my baby" and "death panels" and "taking over health care" and "socialism".

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 05:00 PM
This is nonsense. It is used all the time. Bush tax-cuts deficit neutral? Didn't think so.
You're right, federal revenues rose with the Bush tax cuts.

ElNono
03-15-2010, 05:43 PM
You're right, federal revenues rose with the Bush tax cuts.

That's an old spin, yoni: http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/supply-side_spin.html

You need to come up with new material...

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 05:49 PM
That's an old spin, yoni: http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/supply-side_spin.html

You need to come up with new material...
My think tank says your think tank is wrong...

Ten Myths About the Bush Tax Cuts (http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/Ten-Myths-About-the-Bush-Tax-Cuts)

clambake
03-15-2010, 05:54 PM
heritage lol

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 05:59 PM
heritage lol
The report is detailed an sourced...I'm sorry you have an inability to critically examine the information they provide.

ElNono
03-15-2010, 06:26 PM
My think tank says your think tank is wrong...

Factcheck.org is not a think thank...

Furthermore, the article you linked does not debunk the notion that revenues would have been indeed higher without the cuts... (Myth #2)

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 06:32 PM
Factcheck.org is not a think thank...

Furthermore, the article you linked does not debunk the notion that revenues would have been indeed higher without the cuts... (Myth #2)
You didn't read.

ElNono
03-15-2010, 06:35 PM
You didn't read.

I did read. Quote relevant part?

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 06:44 PM
I did read. Quote relevant part?

The difference is even more dramatic with the pro-growth 2003 tax cuts. The CBO calculated that the post-March 2003 tax cuts would lower 2006 revenues by $75 billion, yet 2006 revenues came in $47 billion above the pre-tax cut baseline released in March 2003. This is not a coincidence. Tax cuts clearly played a significant role in the economy's performing better than expected and recovering much of the lost revenue.

The inference in the response to Myth #2 is this, revenue would have been lower without the tax cuts ergo, the tax cuts increased revenue. Unfortunately, not enough to offset spending.

Of course, you also need to consider that capital gains tax revenues more than doubled when Bush cut the rate by half, from 20% to 10% (Myth #4).

Bottom line...the Bush Tax Cuts raised federal revenue.

ElNono
03-15-2010, 06:58 PM
The inference in the response to Myth #2 is this, revenue would have been lower without the tax cuts ergo, the tax cuts increased revenue. Unfortunately, not enough to offset spending.

Of course, you also need to consider that capital gains tax revenues more than doubled when Bush cut the rate by half, from 20% to 10% (Myth #4).

Bottom line...the Bush Tax Cuts raised federal revenue.

Looks like the one that didn't read was you. From Factcheck:

“Federal revenue is lower today than it would have been without the tax cuts,” Alan D. Viard of the conservative American Enterprise Institute told the Washington Post last October. Viard, who worked in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis and the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush, told FactCheck.org that “nobody can absolutely prove that.” Proof would require time travel and a reversal of tax policy. “But among economists, there’s no dispute.”

Tax cuts can be a sound economic move that spurs growth, says Viard. “But it doesn’t mean that [the cuts] gained revenue."
If the government had reined in spending – as McCain wanted – the senator might have more to brag about. Viard says economists would expect a boost to the economy if tax relief had been matched by spending cuts. When the cuts are deficit-financed (as these are), it’s still possible to have positive growth, he continues, but that’s a different matter from saying there’s a net increase.

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So, there's absolutely no way you can prove cuts actually increased revenue. And the CBO merely calculates estimates, they obviously don't have a magical crystal ball to see the future.

ElNono
03-15-2010, 07:01 PM
Since I see you're too lazy to read the relevant parts:

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the 2001 tax legislation (the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act) would cause government revenues to be 107.7 billion less than they would have been in the absence of the legislation in 2004, 107.4 billion less in 2005 and 135.2 billion less in 2006. The committee's estimates for the effect of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 were that it would reduce otherwise projected revenues by 148.7 billion in 2004, 82.2 billion in 2005 and 20.7 billion in 2006. The JCT makes its comparisons against the Congressional Budget Office's receipts baselines.

The projections were not off the mark. A look at the committee's estimates of total federal revenue including the effects of the 2003 tax legislation versus the actual federal receipts shows that the JCT's projections were higher than actual revenues in 2003 and 2004 and slightly lower than actual receipts in 2005.

Yonivore
03-15-2010, 07:20 PM
Maybe I'll just say it with a picture.


http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/revenue%20growth.jpg

Remove spending from the equation because, well, it's not revenue and -- in your world -- "nets," highly reliant on a spend-easy Congress don't look at raw, gross, receipts.

What explains the simple rise in federal tax receipts after the passage of the 2003 Jobs and Growth Act?

EmptyMan
03-15-2010, 07:56 PM
By way of analogy, this is what the Dems are doing to America with their health care bill.

Reconciliation at 38 seconds into video.

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Oh great. Another youtube. Will not watch.

Please summarize



/douchebag

ElNono
03-15-2010, 08:12 PM
Maybe I'll just say it with a picture.


http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/revenue%20growth.jpg

Remove spending from the equation because, well, it's not revenue and -- in your world -- "nets," highly reliant on a spend-easy Congress don't look at raw, gross, receipts.

What explains the simple rise in federal tax receipts after the passage of the 2003 Jobs and Growth Act?

Because you're either too lazy to read, or your reading comprehension completely fails, this is your same graphics, with the Magenta line showing what the actual projected federal revenues should have been if the tax-cuts would have not been made:

http://i40.tinypic.com/10dytn6.jpg

Again:

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the 2001 tax legislation (the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act) would cause government revenues to be 107.7 billion less than they would have been in the absence of the legislation in 2004, 107.4 billion less in 2005 and 135.2 billion less in 2006. The committee's estimates for the effect of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 were that it would reduce otherwise projected revenues by 148.7 billion in 2004, 82.2 billion in 2005 and 20.7 billion in 2006. The JCT makes its comparisons against the Congressional Budget Office's receipts baselines.

The projections were not off the mark. A look at the committee's estimates of total federal revenue including the effects of the 2003 tax legislation versus the actual federal receipts shows that the JCT's projections were higher than actual revenues in 2003 and 2004 and slightly lower than actual receipts in 2005.

Wild Cobra
03-15-2010, 08:29 PM
What Democrats are about to do to America
It's simple...

They are going to do what they've been doing for decades...

They are going to Fuck America!

--- had to get my thoughts out from the title thread... Now I'll read the posts---

Marcus Bryant
03-15-2010, 08:35 PM
They bare going to Fuck America!

ElNono
03-15-2010, 08:37 PM
lol

Wild Cobra
03-15-2010, 08:42 PM
They bare going to Fuck America!

Opps...

Typo...

Corrected...

PixelPusher
03-15-2010, 08:51 PM
By way of analogy, this is what the Dems are doing to America with their health care bill.

Reconciliation at 38 seconds into video.

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You're siding with Annie Wilkes?

Figures.

PixelPusher
03-15-2010, 08:54 PM
By way of analogy, this is what the Dems are doing to America with their health care bill.

Reconciliation starting at 6.38 seconds into video.

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poor, poor little Ani... :(

George Gervin's Afro
03-15-2010, 10:08 PM
:lmao


this is another stupid thread by darrins