Wait wait wait wait wait. Now that your guy is out of office, your guy that added more to the national debt than all of the other Presidents combined, now you care about deficits?
I mean, it seems kind of strange that you didn't care about them when we were spending millions on tunnels for turtles to cross the roads, or when we were spending millions on road signs to advertise that the road work was part of the stimulus, or when we were spending millions on figuring out why fat guys are more likely to have erectile dysfunction. You didn't retweet Vox or Mother Jones or DailyKos complaints about all the money we spent to help prepare lesbians to adopt, or to pay college students to keep a journal of how much pot they smoke and how much malt liquor they drink. You were even silent about paying for "socially conscious" puppet shows and for funding a study on the evolution of waterfowl genitalia.
But now that taking less from your fellow Americans' paychecks in taxes may increase the debt it becomes important to you?
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jpx7 (11-30-2017)
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jpx7 (11-30-2017)
57 - anything you like about the tax bill?
This is perversely punitive. It's a minuscule drop-in-the-bucket to the federal budget, but will meaningfully burden a great many folks simply trying to improve their skills or advance important scholarship. It will keep good students from becoming better students; skilled workers from gaining more skills; it will send brighter folks to better-funded opportunities abroad; it will send public-good research, conducted largely by graduate students in public and private-non-profit research institutions, into the private-for-profit hands of corporate research institutions. It will significantly impinge upon or endanger the quality of life of many of my colleagues. And personally, it may make pursuing doctoral studies after I finish my masters program financially infeasible.
And this isn't about "subsidizing" people's education. One of the most damaging measures is the proposal to tax waived tuition, which simply is not income and should not be taxed as such. Graduate student income—teaching salaries, stipends, et cetera—are already taxed. This is anti-pedagogic score-settling.
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To be fair - You are getting something for free that has value. From a tax/accounting perspective that would fall under the definition of 'income'. Its just a matter of whether or not that form of income should be taxed.
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Save the speech about how reality actually functions and impinges on people's everyday lives. Got it.
And with all that smarm and self-satisfied trumpeting of your bootstraps, you still didn't even answer my question as much as side-step it.
Let me put it this way: if you have the market the way you want it, and yet there is simply not enough employment for the number of citizens living amongst that marketplace, what do you propose doing for/with them?
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"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
.@SenAngusKing on tax reform process "The Bangor City Council wouldn't amend the leash law with this process."
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Your world philosophy doesn't even allow you to imagine what's possible, and that's quite sad. In your "equal outcome" philosophy, you can only think about how we can subsidize the lack of progress of people.
However, in an economy that is not strangled by needless regulation, wealth is created and growth is had. When this happens, more jobs are created out of necessity, not out of pity. As new technologies and products emerge, new opportunities are created. If we adapt, we will grow. If you're not growing, you're dying.
Even today, technology has advanced so rapidly, that your premise would seem to stand that there aren't enough jobs for people. And yet, here we are, with more Americans working than in the history of the country. This is not an accident. This is because we have created wealth. And we have grown. And people were needed to accelerate that. We would do so much faster if it weren't for our ridiculous tax and regulatory system.
So, I reject your question as even a possibility.
I do not believe we should hire someone to dig a hole, and then hire someone to fill that hole. Do you?
Sturg channeling Schumpeter.