en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1463204 Comments by jyalai http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2012/02/22/surprise-higher-tax-rates-yield-lower-revenue/#IDComment299313558 Doesn't this prove the point. Revenues went up. We reduced the percent of GDP being taken in taxes and received more revenue. We should reduce the percent of GDP going toward taxes until we do not see an increase in revenue. Then we know we have reached the laffer curve's equilibrium point. Of course increasing GDP is more than just reducing tax rates. We need to also reduce the burden of government regulation on business to increase GDP. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:26:09 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2012/02/22/surprise-higher-tax-rates-yield-lower-revenue/#IDComment299313558 http://biggovernment.com/dmitchell/2012/01/31/new-congressional-budget-office-numbers-once-again-show-that-modest-spending-restraint-would-eliminate-red-ink/#IDComment280090539 That means in ten years, we start reducing the debt. Sorry. Too late. When Greece defaults we can shrug our shoulders and say too bad. When we default, the party is over!! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:35:49 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/dmitchell/2012/01/31/new-congressional-budget-office-numbers-once-again-show-that-modest-spending-restraint-would-eliminate-red-ink/#IDComment280090539 http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2012/01/22/can-the-establishment-pick-another-candidate-no/#IDComment272533157 I don't think McCain ever read the trilogy. Otherwise, he would know that the hobbits saved middle earth. He stands there uttering flowery prose like Denethor, while the rest of us are fighting for his kingdom. We are looking around for Aragorn and he hasn't shown up yet. It looks like the hobbits are going to have to save the earth once again. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:27:56 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2012/01/22/can-the-establishment-pick-another-candidate-no/#IDComment272533157 http://biggovernment.com/eagtv/2012/01/23/judge-orders-bailout-of-union-dominated-school-district/#IDComment272451814 The state legislature should take the $3.2 mil from the judiciary's budget. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:24:42 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/eagtv/2012/01/23/judge-orders-bailout-of-union-dominated-school-district/#IDComment272451814 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/05/10/indiana-sets-pace-for-sweeping-education-reform/#IDComment150823771 We need to continue to push public schools back to local control. Get the states out of it. If a community wants to provide public education for its constituency, great! But don't expect the State government to underwrite every educational desire of the larger community. The public education system has proved that the quality of education decreases and the price of education increases when the state and federal government gets involved. Wed, 11 May 2011 00:11:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/05/10/indiana-sets-pace-for-sweeping-education-reform/#IDComment150823771 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/05/10/indiana-sets-pace-for-sweeping-education-reform/#IDComment150822951 I agee that we need to look at how it is applied. The one thing I look at to see whether a politician truly understands freedom in education is how they treat home schoolers. If the law restricts home schooling then it is just another attempt of the statist to use the socialistic-athiestic public education system to consolidate power into themselves. If the law is written in such a way that affirms the parents right to direct their own children's education, then it is a better law. Wed, 11 May 2011 00:07:27 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/05/10/indiana-sets-pace-for-sweeping-education-reform/#IDComment150822951 http://biggovernment.com/sgrammatico/2011/02/06/obama-war-room-health-snare/#IDComment126472872 The only flaw in this peice is that Obama is going to fight this thing to the end. He is a dyed in the wool Marxist and will not give up the ghost. He would rather be a one term president. He knows someone else will just step up to push the agenda further after he is gone. He will say a lot of confusing stuff, but he will not give up his agenda. Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:03:42 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/sgrammatico/2011/02/06/obama-war-room-health-snare/#IDComment126472872 http://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2011/02/06/rousseau-revolutions-and-egypt/#IDComment126344913 The French revolution was the fruit of secular humanism. The American Revolution was the fruit of Biblical Christianity. The difference between these two revolutions reside in the spiritual realm. We who fight now to preserve an America that created the "Greatest Generation" are fighting a spiritual war between the adherents of secular humanism such as Marx, Voltaire, Rosseau, Dewey, Gramscii, Lenin, Stalin, Bertrand Russell, etc and a Biblical worldview once held in esteem by such authors as Tocqueville. The irony is that most people desiring that past America don't have a Biblical worldview themselves. They pine for the fruit, but reject the tree. Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:38:50 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/tdelbeccaro/2011/02/06/rousseau-revolutions-and-egypt/#IDComment126344913 http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/02/03/shouldnt-high-school-ap-students-learn-about-government-failure-too/#IDComment125854436 The decline of America is directly related to the public education of our children. You get what you teach. Homeschool your kids. Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:33:44 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/02/03/shouldnt-high-school-ap-students-learn-about-government-failure-too/#IDComment125854436 http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/02/03/shouldnt-high-school-ap-students-learn-about-government-failure-too/#IDComment125854227 American Lit is the same way. You read about existentialists like Emily Dickenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau; whatever pleased the Fabian Socialists. But you would never read about one the most prolific and popular lyricists and writers of the 1800s like Fannie Crosby or Charles Wesley. I wonder why? Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:31:58 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bmattox/2011/02/03/shouldnt-high-school-ap-students-learn-about-government-failure-too/#IDComment125854227 http://biggovernment.com/ssorbo/2010/09/26/back-to-school-part-two/#IDComment101212599 "The public education system is needed for many reasons." Could you point to a few? Everyone of our greatest American leaders in the 19th Century was home schooled. It is kind of poignant how socialism became such a foundation of our nation, after the public education system was introduced (by the socialist John Dewey, no less). How did America survive before public education? Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:11:57 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ssorbo/2010/09/26/back-to-school-part-two/#IDComment101212599 http://biggovernment.com/ssorbo/2010/09/26/back-to-school-part-two/#IDComment101211638 Vouchers are a step toward parental control. I agree that ultimately, vouchers do not remove governmental control from the ability of parents to control their children's education. However, it is a helpful step in putting more control back into the hands of the parent. I would first urge parents to home school if at all possible. If home schooling is not a viable option, then vouchers are better than the alternative. Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:04:03 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ssorbo/2010/09/26/back-to-school-part-two/#IDComment101211638 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/07/21/bad-news-teachers-unions-every-parent-is-an-education-expert/#IDComment87876072 Study after study has shown that the most important factor in the successful education of a child is parent involvement; Not degrees, licenses, certifications, or pomposity, but parents who know their children and actively work on their learning environment. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:44:24 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/07/21/bad-news-teachers-unions-every-parent-is-an-education-expert/#IDComment87876072