tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post7583190511337885428..comments2024-01-28T03:23:39.580-08:00Comments on Late in the Day: Tuesday roundupBarney Quickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-19156680265222346102018-10-23T17:00:07.163-07:002018-10-23T17:00:07.163-07:00Taxes aren’t voluntary Taxes aren’t voluntary Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-21119271001167026342018-10-23T15:29:14.005-07:002018-10-23T15:29:14.005-07:00Now it's time to whip-out your at gunpoint BS....Now it's time to whip-out your at gunpoint BS.Mr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-35203492105356703632018-10-23T13:44:03.951-07:002018-10-23T13:44:03.951-07:00And your comment "we all pay taxes" is a...And your comment "we all pay taxes" is at least as lazy. Of course, and no one's disputing that some degree of taxation is necessary. But if we had the size and scope of government we had prior to the 20th century, we wouldn't have to be taxes anywhere as much as we are, or as much as Democrats would like to tax us.Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-46007375644058731422018-10-23T13:41:46.849-07:002018-10-23T13:41:46.849-07:00He may have some career accomplishments at the Fed...He may have some career accomplishments at the Federal Reserve, but he's showing here that he's capable if being quite infantile. For one thing, there is nothing wrong with being rich. One's income or assets ought not to have anything to do with how much they're taxed. And the phrase "don't like government" is so sweeping as to be meaningless. He's being intellectually lazy, avoiding going into any look at what kind of government or how much government these "rich people" might be talking about. to be fair, maybe he's never read any Locke or Burke or Madison. Ditto the shit about "good government." He needs to stop it. Of course, every city, state and nations needs roads paved. Bit if he's talking about redistribution or "social insurance," he ought to have the balls to say so. And "don't like taxes." Who does like having their money seized at gunpoint? Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-31337759507211542932018-10-23T13:22:31.781-07:002018-10-23T13:22:31.781-07:00Paul Voelker, former Fed Chairman under Carter &am...Paul Voelker, former Fed Chairman under Carter & Reagan says we're headed towards plutocracy: "“There is no force on earth that can stand up effectively, year after year, against the thousands of individuals and hundreds of millions of dollars in the Washington swamp aimed at influencing the legislative and electoral process...” <br /><br />“The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy,” he told me. “We’ve got an enormous number of enormously rich people that have convinced themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart and constructive. And they don’t like government, and they don’t like to pay taxes.” Washington, when he arrived, “was a city filled with bureaucrats,” he said. “It didn’t make them bad.” At the time, civil servants — like his father, the township manager of Teaneck, N.J. — were respected. “I grew up in a world in which good government was a good term,” he said.<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/dealbook/paul-volcker-federal-reserve.htmlMr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-52136110937691607152018-10-23T13:12:56.047-07:002018-10-23T13:12:56.047-07:00We all pay taxes dude, so your cop-out is bull poo...We all pay taxes dude, so your cop-out is bull poopie.Mr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-21472118247169436922018-10-23T12:47:39.398-07:002018-10-23T12:47:39.398-07:00But really, spelling out the uses isn't necess...But really, spelling out the uses isn't necessary. What a person or an organization does with his, her or its money is no one else's business. The money does not belong to the government.Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-87414712604468736282018-10-23T12:44:35.410-07:002018-10-23T12:44:35.410-07:00That's one - very small - use.
In fact, the ...That's one - very small - use. <br /><br />In fact, the first time I ever heard of Dan Quayle, much less knew anything about him, was when I met him in person at his campaign office in Indy when he was running for Senate. We presented him with a check from the Indiana Chapter of the American Metal Stamping Association. Organizations, like individuals, have reasons to prefer certain candidates over others. <br /><br />But there are other uses, such as research and development, developing new products, investing in capital equipment, hiring people, paying dividends to stockholders.Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-13158283553729951192018-10-23T12:21:03.295-07:002018-10-23T12:21:03.295-07:00Productive uses like contributing to PACs to work ...Productive uses like contributing to PACs to work their will with all their mullah?Mr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-52172492368439114842018-10-23T11:37:30.471-07:002018-10-23T11:37:30.471-07:00So you continually say. More bull shit.So you continually say. More bull shit.Mr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-77556561991343400172018-10-23T11:14:54.251-07:002018-10-23T11:14:54.251-07:00Having money forcibly taken from then that they...Having money forcibly taken from then that they'd otherwise put to productive and profitable use certainly holds them back.Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-3198798129745109592018-10-23T11:14:09.218-07:002018-10-23T11:14:09.218-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Barney Quickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691587302177294439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513645860996121165.post-6965495550248202052018-10-23T10:35:00.209-07:002018-10-23T10:35:00.209-07:00The caravan will help Trump build his wall so much...The caravan will help Trump build his wall so much that I wonder whether he isn't behind it somehow. The announcement of the roll back of trans might be designed as well to provoke more outrageous protest over something most Americans find rather absurd. There ain't gonna be a blue wave. Of nothing else it's all so confusing that the meddlers may be succeeding again. Gonna be an interesting couple of years. Oh, the market, one of Donnie's major bragging points, is down 1.4% this morning over bad news from 3M and Caterpiller. Big deficit increase over Corp tax cuts too great a price to pay as they will always continue to whine about something holdi.g them back.Mr. Dingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14012432470112143051noreply@blogger.com