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12 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - About Those Gas Prices · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - About Those Gas Prices · 2 replies · +1 points
But you haven't cited a single piece of evidence to support this.
12 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Budget Funds Actua... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Budget Funds Actua... · 1 reply · +1 points
I think you misspelled "necessarily" here. You seem to be suggesting that cutting taxes is the only way to raise revenue, which is just silly.
13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Budget Funds Actua... · 0 replies · +2 points
Say I'm a billionaire hedge fund manager who pays an effective tax rate of 15% on my absurdly enormous income. Why not raise that rate to something comparable to what a public school teacher pays, like 35%?
Personally, I'm in favor of adding a few more brackets to the top end, and raising the top marginal rate back to 50% or so -- still well short of the 90% it was in the boom times of the 50s and early 60s.
13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Budget Funds Actua... · 1 reply · 0 points
13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Budget Funds Actua... · 2 replies · 0 points
False. Taxes for the wealthy are at extremely low levels, historically speaking, and there's no reason they couldn't be raised -- except that the wealthy have an inordinate amount of influence on policy-makers, not least because they count those policy makers as members of their own class.
13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Young Democrat The... · 0 replies · +1 points
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13 years ago @ Carolina Review Daily - The Young Democrat The... · 2 replies · +1 points
I think you're missing the point here: "That presupposes first that there is a defined trajectory in history and second that this trajectory is on the side of the good" -- yes, exactly, because the YD argument is doing just that: defining a trajectory in history, with liberals on the side of freedom and progress, and conservatives on the side of fear, regression and reaction.