4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

How do you know where he gets his loans from ?

What are the names of Banks that won't loan him money ?

I as well as others have been awake and are smelling the crap that you and the Democrat have and are spewing out at you !

So go on back to Chuckie and Nancy and CNN and who ever else that loves to feed you their talking points as they always are mouthing off crapola that you and your kind love to wallow in !

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

O I C you haven't an answer !

herbie

this is old news, if you have not kept up on it don`t expect me to inform you of it.

John King

I do hope so!

John King

I like everything you have said! Flat tax is an idea do the time to implement and see how it actually works out. If it doesn't work out, we can fix it or eliminate it. Personally, I sense this is why Congress seems to not get things done . . . they reject the idea out of hand yet bother to admit there is a problem and never come up with a plausible solution to the problem. As in the Border issue . . . they admit to the problem at the border yet end up doing nothing but complain when someone in a position to do something does do something. Example of President Trump actually doing something about the border problem! The democrats and democrat socialists seem to want nothing less than Trump defeated and impeached . . . and shoot down anyone that supports him or his policies.

That being said, I'd really like to see more of Christ in my words and deeds here at OPP . . . but I get a bit angry at some and put out a verbal hit on them. I'm no smart guy having only 2 years of college . . . although I've been determined to have a 136 IQ, it just seems to me that there are some here that get their feelings hurt when some point is made they disagree with. To me, it depends on how ones thoughts are presented . . . I tend to read over what I type a few times to insure it states what I think and for spell-check. Many times I copy and paste someones comment to another program . . . and go sentence by sentence to make my point as clear as possible in reference to their comment.

Also, these are just my opinions!

You've done a good job here and would like to see that in myself.

Rose42

2 years of college doesn't mean one isn't smart. I once knew one of the chief engineers on the Lockheed L-1011 - a jumbo jet passenger plane. He'd only had a high school education. Another who only had a high school education ended up owning his own - very lucrative - specialized technical business.

Here's what a college education is for - to get a job interview. The real learning starts once you begin the first job.

Carol Kelly

And year number 12 or 13 and know nothing about Obama, except that he was not born in America, had two social security cards, one from Connecticut a state where he never had residence, and though he said he was against gay marriage was living in one with two borrowed daughters whose real parents were sometimes treated at the WhiteHouse and on Family Trips. If the crooked IRS found no fault with Trump’s or Trump’s families ‘tax returns you can be assured there was no fault to be found, so stop harping on that and let us see your tax returns.

Seth

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Now your talking...A FLAT TAX! A flat tax is a terrible thing just like Representative Democracy, except all the others are much worse. It all depends on who you think creates wealth and money. If you believe wealth is created by people and not the government then you should believe that it is your money and not the governments to redistribute willy-nilly. Democrats believe you didn't build that, that it isn't your money, and it belongs to the government. That's why they have never met a tax they didn't like. Steve Forbes has preached a Flat Tax for years as the fairest tax. I think he believes it should be 17% and kicks in after a person earns about $50,000 per year for a family of four. (I honestly don't remember the specifics). I like the concept because for centuries people have tithed 15% of their income to their church and that seems to be a fair amount. This would force the government to live within its means and provide only necessary and essential services. We went more than 100 years without an income tax except for a brief period during the Civil War. Combine state income tax with federal income tax and all the other fees and surcharges that by any other name are still a tax and you find many people paying 50% of their income toward taxes. Some manage to lower them through tax credits and deductions but 2/3's of tax filers file a short-form (standard deduction). There is also the question of estate taxes and double taxation on corporate dividends that I'm not going to get into at this time. The bottom line is that our current tax code it unwieldy and cumbersome requiring millions of work-hours and billions of dollars to prepare and comply with. We waste about 3% of our GDP on this nonsense when we could be putting that brainpower to far better and more efficient use solving real problems.

Morgan

I'm glad we've cleared up this contention, it happens and I appreciate the things you've said and it is mutual. Maybe all this stuff happening is for us all to reestablish the importance of trust and our word.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Stay on here and you will learn a lot. A thick skin helps. I don't know where you are supposed to go. I have found that most will engage in civil debate, regardless of which side they believe. If they're unwilling, then they don't have anything important to say or just want to be surrounded by those who agree with them.

Morgan

Nope, I'm sorry but Democrats don't believe "you didn't build that" that was part of a comment taken out of context by Obama. What he was saying is that we all don't do it alone, we do it together, from people building it, to people buying it and everyone in between, and it's true. I don't think anyone should be paying 50% to taxes, if it is work, dividends may be another story.

We need to get most of our people working and not just making poverty wages.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Come live in California. The comment I made about "you didn't build that" by Obama wasn't very clear and is constantly taken out of context by others. It wasn't taken out of context by Obama. But the context in which I was referring is that too many people think the Government is the only engine of progress. This is partly true in that we need a legal system that protects a persons' rights, property, and fruits of their labor. That is why we established Patent law in the Constitution.

Morgan

There are always people who abuse or exploit the system and that from the top just as much from the bottom. I believe people, for the most part, want to improve themselves and their social standing. If they do it's a win-win all around.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Carol, to help in clearing up those easily debunkable/refutable Obama conspiracy theories (the steps are all there to do so) I offer the following for your reading pleasure....

http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/bookmarks/fact-checking-and-debunking/the-debunkers-guide-to-obama-conspiracy-theories/