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Comments on: Try It, You’ll Like It https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/02/02/try-it-youll-like-it/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/02/02/try-it-youll-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-50995 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:07:03 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=12996#comment-50995 In reply to Badtux.

Obama and his economic team are a total disaster. They are shorting the country.

I guess they require a re-run of the 1930s to figure out how wrong they are, because nothing else seems to get through the surface of the bubble.

Of all of the problems I had doing business in California, taxes didn’t even rise to noise level. I would have loved to pay massive taxes, because it would have meant that I was making huge bucks. San Diego county was a much bigger PITA than the state or the Feds, because the whackos who got elected would change the fricking rules. I didn’t really care all that much what the rules were, only that they stayed consistent, so I could factor them into bids.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/02/02/try-it-youll-like-it/comment-page-1/#comment-50994 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:38:30 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=12996#comment-50994 To say that I am unhappy about the extent to which President Obama has disappeared into a Washington Bubble Universe in which unicorns are real, cotton candy grows on trees, 0% Treasury rates are crowding out private investment, and the printing press was never invented, is an understatement. The primary method of our political discourse has become to baldly state nonsense as if it were handed down from God Himself, with no data allowed to interfere with this “truth”, and Obama, with all the spine of a jellyfish, has proven himself inadequate to the task of challenging this “common wisdom” such as “tax cuts create jobs” that is, in fact, utter balderdash with absolutely no factual basis. Taxes account for under 2% of the expenses of the average business, thanks to the fact that businesses are allowed to deduct all of their expenses from their pretax income (unlike us peons who must pay taxes on all our expenses other than a few deductions oh so generously casually tossed our way like doubloons tossed from a Mardi Gras float), and they simply are not a factor and all Obama is doing by passing yet more tax cuts is further knee-capping a budget already gutted by the Bush tax cuts — tax cuts which he is, inexplicably, also keeping, yet more Republican economic policy which he is adopting as his own.

I did not vote for Obama in the November election believing that he was going to be a liberal. I had repeatedly pointed out to his liberal supporters during the primary that their man was not a liberal, there wasn’t a single liberal policy proposal anywhere on his web site, it was all conservative twiddling around the margins kind of stuff, not the sort of bold things that they were hoping for. I figured, however, that Obama was at least non-delusional, which could not be said for John McCain, and that is the best we could expect. Apparently, however, I was wrong about even that.

– Badtux the Tailfeather-knotted Penguin
.-= last blog ..Spoon! =-.

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