Comments on: Updated: Questions to ask Obama and Biden

By: robert timmons

robert timmons — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Hear we are in this house knocking on the door to bankrupty,and i see where AIG one of the biggest insurance Co. got a bail out,and is paying the its top executives $165,000,000 in BONUSES ? Whats with that ?.Insurance Co. have made it vary difacult for the average american to have health insurance,and the goverment is paying them to continue pounding the consumer with more riseing cost.Theres something wrong with the system as is is,not to mention were paying them BIG money to pay outragious wages and bonuses to the vary guys what have beat the little man into the ground like a tent stake.When is it going to STOP ?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:13:18 +0000

Uhh, ok.

By: dario bollacasa

dario bollacasa — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:35:52 +0000

Being an ideologue (see Conservative w/ looking back to the 18th century) is easy: just invoke dogma and hope for the resurrection of Ronald Reagan. Being me is hard: trying to figure out what the world around me is doing and decide on the basis of what is good for the country, not just for the individual (who is out to “shaft” his neighbor, that is me too).
Labeling me a liberal was a gratuitous “slam”, who don’t know me, so how would you know? And patronizing me does not work on me either.
If you wish for a dialogue drop the labels (by the way you labeled yourself).

By: Steve M

Steve M — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:11:00 +0000

Yup, being a conservative is hard. Being a liberal, is easy.

By: dario bollacasa

dario bollacasa — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:38:04 +0000

Steve, this is boring: it ain’t going to happen. Changing the tax laws the way you want is easy? You want the feds to be out of …….. etc. What planet are you from?
BTW, the Republicans/Conservatives compassionate or not, had their chance for 8 eight years and blew it.
Personally I have better ways to expend my energy than on a Sisyphus type quest.

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By: Steve M

Steve M — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:07:04 +0000

@Dario. So it’s the right thing to do, but it’s too hard so we should not do it. Wishful thinking, the page has turned, no going back… I’ve heard all the excuses before.

Changing the tax laws is easy, Congress and state legislatures do it all the time.

In no way do I suggest that we go back to the 18th century, that is a totally false argument.

Push back from CPAs? Sure, they have their own interest in mind, but think about all of the opportunities that they would have to provide good financial advice? That’s thinking forward.

Added – remember, that I want the feds out of the businesses that they are in. That means that the people – the states/state legislatures and local towns/cities – can make the choice to provide entitlements as they wish. I just want the feds out of it totally.

By: dario bollacasa

dario bollacasa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Steve M,
Fair enough, I would be with you if it were feasible/possible. But, I believe it’s wishful thinking. Changing the tax laws on the books is as difficult as to ask for a Constitutional Convention to change the Constitution (that would be an interesting exercise).
Think of the pushback from all who make a living from the current tax code!
One of the “problems” I have with Conservatives is their thought that we can roll back to the 18th century, 10th Amendment and all. Sorry we’re in the 21st.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:40:04 +0000

@Dario: Thanks for your comments, maybe someone will ask McCain those questions, but remember, he is not a conservative.

How about if we agree on a Fair Tax or a Flat Tax? No redistribution at all. No entitlement programs at all. The federal government is only responsible for specific spending as defined in the Constitution. (Preserve, protect and defend the people… all that).

Follow the 10th Amendment.

No spin or double speak right?

By: dario bollacasa

dario bollacasa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:28:40 +0000

I have questions for Mr. McCain:
1. you want to keep the tax breaks to the wealthy, isn’t that redistribution?
2. you want to take the haelth care deductions from businesses and give a credit to the “people”, isn’t that redistribution?

Ant time you take something from somebody and give it somebody else, you are “guilty” of redistribution, wether you are a Democrat or a Republican or, God forbid, a Conservative.

Now spin this around and waffle/doublespeak etc.