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Such a concept is exogenous of the available policy tools that government has at its disposal. If there were a "magic jobs button" i guarantee you that it would have been pressed (repeatedly) by now.
Because it did not address my statement.
The notion that regulation is killing employment opportunities has already been snuffed out. It is obvious to anyone with an objective pair of eyes that our employment shortfall is due to a lack of aggregate demand (which negatively impacts short to medium term investment). If you want to actually address my statement, then by all means go for it. But attempting to interject the notion that pent up supply is a drag on employment (via over-regulation) is nonsense.
You stated: the most efficient way to raise revenue without (pay attention hacks, this is important) negatively impacting economic growth is for the wealthiest of Americans to effectively pay more in taxes.
And again, you did nothing to address my comment, and instead chose to go off on a supply side rant that does not even begin to address the issues facing the U.S. labor markets. If you have no interest in addressing my comment, then please do not waste my time.
If your time is that valuable perhaps you should be doing something other than wasting it on a board like this
or reading his posts.
Just Sayin.........
If he has no desire to address my comment, then it is in fact a waste of my time. Going off on a supply side tangent simply does not suffice.
what I find amusing is how many ne'er do wells and slackers worship BUffett thinking his position is actually based on a desire to help them.
He does this purely to gain more power and influence. You've been played. And he is a class warrior-he represents the uber wealthy who wants to screw over the upper middle class and the somewhat wealthy
And again, you did nothing to address my comment, and instead chose to go off on a supply side rant that does not even begin to address the issues facing the U.S. labor markets. If you have no interest in addressing my comment, then please do not waste my time.
claiming Buffett is of the same class as most of the top one percent is as specious as saying someone who makes 10 Million a year has the same interests as someone making 100K a year even though the 100K and the 10M guy are much closer than most of us in the top one percent are to Buffett. Buffett's demands for more taxation is classwarfare against the moderately wealthy
anyone who thinks those of us making 375K-a few million a year have the same interests as a guy worth several billion and who makes 50-100 Million a year is really living in fantasy land. If you are making one million a year in investment income Obama wants to triple your taxes from around 150K a year to close to 450K a year. someone making a million who has his federal taxes go up 300K is going to have to make major lifestyle changes.
SOmeone making 50-100 Million a year-not so much
remember-the lefties claim that those uber billionaires really are spending only a fraction of what they make
Yeah, I'm sure a guy in his mid-seventies is really interested in gaining power and influence. Probably why he has given billions of dollars to the Gates foundation, also.
Do you ever stop and think about what you are writing, or is it just a knee jerk 'if it's not something I believe it's evil'?
You make 375K -1 million a year? That explains almost everything.
I spelled out pretty clearly a MORE efficient way to raise revenue.
Nonsense. You provided a supply side rant that did not address my original response to the topic. Heroic assumptions combined with partisan subjectivity are in no way a substitute for a valid economic argument.
Wow, try laying off that Kush plant for a while.
Try to stay relevant in a thread for a change.
Wow, try laying off that Kush plant for a while.
If you'd stop insulting him and his alma matter for two seconds, maybe you'd do a double take and realize that the top marginal tax rate is at its lowest rate since the 30s. In general, I'm all for tax cuts whenever possible. In fact, $280 billion of ARRA was in the form of tax cuts. We take in 10 percentage points of GDP less than comparable developed economies.
So stop trolling him.
Oh, and for the record almost all net job creation in the United States from 1980 to 2005 occurred in firms less than five years old. Horse and sparrow theories are unsound. Even Thomas Sowell, the most conservative of conservative economists, doesn't believe in such a thing as trickle down economics.
He laid out a challenge to anyone who could refute his claim that taxing the wealthy is the most efficient way to raise revenue. (Note that word there...)
I took on that challenge and won.
He claims I didn't "address the question," which is weak.
Nobody is even talking about Reaganomics here.
I'm talking about increasing the availability of raw materials. If you guys can't understand how having better access to natural resources might make an economy more vibrant, all I have left are insults, because you're beyond reach.
This isn't even a "right vs left" argument. Natural resources make a nation richer. End of story.
Looking back, your argument is actually dumber than I originally thought. Create "hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs"? The totality of Royal Dutch Shell's employment is 101,000. And that's everybody. Exxon has just above 80,000.
You honestly believe that removing a few paltry regulations in the Gulf and Alaska will employment will create employment to the tune of three new Royal Dutch Shells? Keep dreaming. Oh, and by the way...the vast majority of unemployed in this country are in commercial real estate construction. I'm sure they'd all love being roughnecks on an off-shore platform.
Opening up drilling would improve the overall economy. Job growth would occur in every sector of the economy, just about. I wasn't talking about jobs as roughnecks on an off-shore platform (although those jobs pay very well).
I can't think of a single business in America that isn't directly impacted by the price of energy.
claiming Buffett is of the same class as most of the top one percent is as specious as saying someone who makes 10 Million a year has the same interests as someone making 100K a year even though the 100K and the 10M guy are much closer than most of us in the top one percent are to Buffett. Buffett's demands for more taxation is classwarfare against the moderately wealthy
anyone who thinks those of us making 375K-a few million a year have the same interests as a guy worth several billion and who makes 50-100 Million a year is really living in fantasy land. If you are making one million a year in investment income Obama wants to triple your taxes from around 150K a year to close to 450K a year. someone making a million who has his federal taxes go up 300K is going to have to make major lifestyle changes.
SOmeone making 50-100 Million a year-not so much
remember-the lefties claim that those uber billionaires really are spending only a fraction of what they make
You still spouted off a completely irrelevant "hundreds of thousands" number. Any reduction in domestic oil price would be offset (pretty rapidly) by growing global demand for petroleum, especially considering the time and effort it will take to actually build the infrastructure to extract the oil and physically drill it out. Right now, our domestic consumption is over 4 times the amount of domestic production and growing. I seriously doubt that blindly drilling for more oil at a time when our own domestic production peaked 30 years ago is going to meaningfully affect the deficit in any way. At most, it would be a band-aid on a gaping wound.
Eliminating loopholes in our tax system and updating the brackets to reflect income growth trends? That would be much better. Natural resources are fine and dandy but we aren't sitting on any gold mines.
Drill, baby drill =/= AUTOMATIK JOBZ AND DEFICIT GO BYE BYE YEYYYYY
Don't forget about natural gas. We have more natural gas than we know what to do with.
We haven't even mentioned coal. We have at least a hundred year's worth of coal just waiting to be mined.
You are right that it would take a couple years for everything to gear up, but we have a lot of rigs sitting idle right now that could get to work. If we deregulated American energy, though, it would easily create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Everyone would get rich.
No, what he wants is for a major obama slurper to quit being dishonest and put his money where his mouth is (ie firmly planted on obama's posterior)
It's pretty self-explanatory. Buffet whines about how the rich should pay more, and he can voluntarily give the feds as much extra money as he wants to, but he doesn't really want to do that. If he really wanted to, he would. He just likes to play the benevolent nobleman without having to do anything concrete.
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