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Feb 7, 2016 08:50:04 #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
A change will do us good.
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Absolutely will Tom....Much needed!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 7, 2016 09:59:17 #
J Anthony
Loc: Connecticut
This is a good example of how most Americans see "price" and "cost" as synonymous, but they are not. The true costs of a fossil-fuel based society is not reflected in it's price. What is called "externalities" in economics is actually the very real social and environmental costs that corporations are not obligated to worry about. These costs are imposed onto societies in the form of environmental degradation, health hazards, taxes, stagnant wages/benefits, and debt. Though it may be a generation or two before we come to our senses, a transition to cleaner and more sustainable energy resources will have to happen, and in the interim the price of fossil-fuels will go up, as the prices of other forms of energy come down. A true balance between prices and costs must be allowed to happen if we ever expect to stabilize or have a genuine merit-based market-economy
Conservatives who try to use higher taxes on gas/oil as political points against Obama are, as usual, being hypocritical. Since taking control of the legislature, Republicans have done everything they can to keep the government/public-sector employees strapped, and refuse to ask the wealthiest among us for any financial sacrifice whatsoever, preferring instead to squeeze the working classes. So Obama does that, and now they pretend they care about the squeeze. I'm sure that the average working conservative does, but the people they put in office certainly don't. The tools they vote for want to run the government like it's a private corporation, yet starve it of revenues at the same time. So most of our tax-dollars go to corporate-welfare and servicing the debt, under Democrats and Republicans. Both parties have sacrificed the poor and the working-classes on the altar of Mammon.
Conservatives who try to use higher taxes on gas/oil as political points against Obama are, as usual, being hypocritical. Since taking control of the legislature, Republicans have done everything they can to keep the government/public-sector employees strapped, and refuse to ask the wealthiest among us for any financial sacrifice whatsoever, preferring instead to squeeze the working classes. So Obama does that, and now they pretend they care about the squeeze. I'm sure that the average working conservative does, but the people they put in office certainly don't. The tools they vote for want to run the government like it's a private corporation, yet starve it of revenues at the same time. So most of our tax-dollars go to corporate-welfare and servicing the debt, under Democrats and Republicans. Both parties have sacrificed the poor and the working-classes on the altar of Mammon.
Feb 7, 2016 14:01:08 #
PeterS wrote:
Didn't I start out by saying that it is better to tax our poor than to tax our wealthy! That was my first sentence Auntie. Where the hell were you educated Auntie? Where ever it was you are making them look very, very bad...
When it is 5:45AM and sleep has not occurred, I lack coherence and, very obviously, should not respond to comments. :oops: :oops:
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Feb 7, 2016 14:28:55 #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
A change will do us good.
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Affirmative. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 8, 2016 06:03:58 #
no propaganda please wrote:
Democrats or RINOs are just the same but with diff... (show quote)
How noble! Unfortunately it's a load of demonic horseschitte!
Feb 8, 2016 10:11:22 #
Coos Bay Tom
Loc: coos bay oregon
Cool Breeze wrote:
Where's the fries?How noble! Unfortunately it's a load of demonic horseschitte!
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Feb 8, 2016 13:13:34 #
AuntiE wrote:
When it is 5:45AM and sleep has not occurred, I lack coherence and, very obviously, should not respond to comments. :oops: :oops:
My goodness, heck I've been up since 5:00am, am I the only one who works anymore?
Explains why we need more taxes though.;)
Feb 8, 2016 17:12:34 #
PeterS wrote:
This is better than taxing the wealthy isn't it? A... (show quote)
The slackers, as you put them, are people that do not want to work for a living and to improve their stature in the community at large. They want to benefit from all people that are working, poor and who ever they are, just to raise their families and to improve their lives. Why should we support any of these type of people?
Feb 8, 2016 17:23:23 #
lindajoy wrote:
Regardless of who proposed it, its BS!!!
We pay enough taxes that are supposedly slated for the very garbage he is using to justify it, give me a break!!
Congress will not approve this..Not election year they won't.....They are too worried they are already out the door and I damn sure hope we, the people, put em ALL out!!
We pay enough taxes that are supposedly slated for the very garbage he is using to justify it, give me a break!!
Congress will not approve this..Not election year they won't.....They are too worried they are already out the door and I damn sure hope we, the people, put em ALL out!!
Well said...Bravo! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Apr 3, 2016 00:43:41 #
PeterS wrote:
It's not who proposed it first--it's whether you can smear obummer with it. Where have you been, I thought you knew better...
Oh, I forgot. My bad. lol
Apr 3, 2016 00:46:22 #
PeterS wrote:
Well you can't but it hasn't stopped a conservative yet...
Yeah, Obama already looks bad enough without Republicans trying to misrepresent their own bullshit establishment ideas as though they were Obama's.
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