Re: Drill Now for oil

In article <b058246d-3929-4056-81b7-d7c4a4774203
@q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, kensmith@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Jun 23, 8:17 pm, krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <2eca08fe-3af4-4169-ac83-
c72f56082...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kensm...@xxxxxxxxx
says...



On Jun 23, 3:46 pm, krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <588f95a8-acda-4c1f-91ad-
c64c9583a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dagmargoodb...@xxxxxxxxx
says...

On Jun 22, 12:11 pm, JeffM <jef...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
Vote Democrat... it's good for the consulting biz.

Never mind that The Left's *Tax and spend*
is preferable to The New Right's *Borrow and spend*.

Agreed, reluctantly, because it's reduced to "tax
and borrow and spend" in practice.

Better still: don't borrow & don't spend so much.

But if you're going to spend it, you should collect it,
otherwise it's just a hidden tax, due later with interest.

Disagree. If you kill the golden goose... We are on the negative
slope of the Laffer curve, so increased taxes mean *less* revenue to

It has been discredited for over years now.

Like hell! Of course the weenies don't like simple facts of life.

Republicans who have drunk the Kool-aid simply refuse to see that one
of their pet ideas has been disproved by facts on the ground. They
are in the ballroom of the Titanic and are chanting "there is no
iceberg, there is no iceberg" with their fingers in there ears.

Nice metaphors. Meaningless and wrong, but nice anyway.

It isn't taxes it is nonproductive spending that is the long term drag
on the economy.

Nonsense. Taxes on businesses kill growth, which strangles the
economy. If you want to compete in the world, drop *ALL* taxes on
business. There wouldn't be enough people to fill all the jobs.

But if you want to eliminate welfare (both the street corner bum
type and the corn growing type), I'm all for it.

--
Keith
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