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leftist yes, liberal, maybe.
You sound like a typical leftist liberal.
leftist yes, liberal, maybe.
typical? no way.
you ARE a fraud
If Rand can cut his budget 20%, so can everyone else.
ok, which 20% do you and Ayn Randers want to cut?
Take a look at Rand's budget, he cuts all over the place with specifics, including military cuts. The federal budget is 25% of GDP, in 1912 it was only 1.75% of GDP back when we had real economic growth.
"we had real economic growth."
from 1946 - 1970. Pauls hated taxes, personal and corporate, were MUCH HIGHER than now, and UNIONS were much stronger, growth in wealth was broad-based, not just the 1%.
lol quick little mention
different year, same show.By SCOTT WONG | 1/30/12 11:27 PM EST Updated: 1/31/12 10:34 AM EST
Sen. Rand Paul made a big show of it: He called a news conference and unveiled a Publishers Clearinghouse-size check for $500,000, the amount of unspent office funds he was returning to the U.S. Treasury after his first year in office.
Just doing his part to reduce the deficit, right? But Paul (R-Ky.) isn’t special — virtually every senator returns a few bucks to the treasury each year from their office budget — and some have become pretty aggressive about showing their fiscal for ude.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72184.html
0% income tax from 1815 to 1912, the greatest economic growth in the history of the world happened at that time.
Nice. He found a couple of nickels under the couch for this month's payment on the new Beamer.
You really are advocating going back to the gilded age? Really?
Nevermind that the first income tax was in reaction to the civil war ie 1860s.
You are one ignorant fool that is for certain.
Corporations had much less power than they do today.
I thought the income tax was levied to make up for lost tax money from alcohol sales in the buildup to Prohibition. LOL wanting to take America back to the times of slavery, of complete squalor in the cities, poverty of the workers, and ridiculous rates of alcoholism.
It needs to be cut back to 18% of GDP, or smaller. How we get to I think is less important than cutting to that level.
Reign in the social welfare programs. Have actual punitive fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal help. Require people on social welfare to take these jobs, or not get benefits.
This will only help on part of the social spending.
Let the military veto parts of its budget. If it doesn't want something, they can tell congress NO. Don't but that.
Look at regulations, and remove all agenda based legislation that cannot be proven to be good measures.
Respect the 10th amendment. Turn over more control of decisions to the states, and shrink the size of agencies in the federal level that the states can candle.
Just a few thoughts off the top of my head.
First ins uted to pay for the war in 1862. It was declared uncons utional in 1895 but was on and off for various reason up until then. In 1913 the 16th amendment was passed allowing for it. Funny how Randians are pro Cons ution like Christians are pro Bible.
Bull . Look up the Sherman Act. Again you demonstrated ignorance. Here are some names to look up: JD Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and JP Morgan. Then of course there are the RR barons. That would be the oil trust, steel trust, banking trust, and transportation trusts respectively.
Ever heard of Ted Roosevelt? What was he known for?
Are you even American because this is all stuff they teach you three times in history courses around the 4th, 7th, and 10th grades. Maybe I just have a tremendous memory but FFS that is a sad commentary.
BS. Today national markets are controlled by only a few corps:
soda; Coke and Pepsi
beer; Miller, Bud, and Coor
auto; GM. Chrysler, Ford
burgers; McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys
health care; 6 insurance companies control the entire market
banks; JP Morgan, Wells, Bank of America, US Bank
media; the 5 corps that own ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX control over 90% of the market
The use of the oversized novelty check is comical.
Rand Paul: Style (albeit bad style) > Substance
One man controlled the steel, oil and banking markets respectively. At least we have multiple firms competing in markets. Before the early 20th century corporations could and did form trusts. The problem is that we are going back to such a paradigm.
I distinctly get the impression that you are not American.
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